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LIONS BRAND FILM

MY ROLE: Creative Lead

Creative concept and treatment development, storyboard, directing live action, casting, edit, motion graphics, sound design.

2024

The Lions brand film opens the awards show at Cannes Lions, engages audiences on social media, and represents the brand year-round across all platforms.
LIONS | BRAND FILM | 2023
The 2023 film worked because it showed the creative process honestly — thoughtful, painful, uncomfortable. The 2024 brief wanted to rely on that line of thinking: into the chaos, the butting heads, the tension between creatives and decision-makers, agencies and clients, marketing and finance. Humour as a tool for relief.
Live action was the natural evolution: real people, a real workspaces, real frustration. The goal was to strengthen identification and relatability, bringing the viewer closer to the experience. Our vision was to show a creative's entire day, start to finish. Her desk, her team, her boss, her 47 (...and counting) Slack notifications. Is this really the last round of amends? The story is told in a cyclical format tying the evening back to the start.
POST-IT | GREAT IDEAS
The Post-It campaign informed our storytelling and set design — an intimate creative workspace built around a desk.
Apple | The whole working-from-home thing
Drawn from Apple's workplace series — the kind of warmth and self-awareness that makes a struggling team worth watching.
The interplay between live action and on-screen interfaces. Characters built entirely through UI.
OPAL | PRODUCT VIDEO
The motion language from 2023 has a new environment: the live action set design and motion elements interact within one frame.
Screened before awards ceremonies and between talks at the 2024 Cannes Lions festival. Played across the venue throughout the week.

The highest-engagement post on the Cannes Lions Instagram account at the time of release, and the second highest-engagement post in the account's history to date. All engagement entirely organic.
900k views | 20.4k likes | 480 comments | 4,720 shares
It started a very important conversation about the industry's work culture.
The work reached more people than any brand-produced content Lions had published and I'm proud that it made people feel engaged enough to speak up.
The intent was to celebrate the reality of creative work. Many viewers received it that way particularly those at the festival, who live this reality and came to be recognised for it.
But a portion of the broader social audience felt exposed without relief. Experiencing the film as amplifying the struggle rather than acknowledging it. The same honesty that made the 2023 film feel like celebration landed differently without the same arc of resolution.
As Marcus Collins writes in For the Culture, a marketer's primary goal is to influence behaviour. Even when the creative is done right on paper, integration into culture is a key element. Carving out attention is a win, but it's our responsibility to make sure the work lands and resonates. The difference between the two films wasn't the honesty — it was the arc. That understanding now shapes how I approach any work that deals with real human experience.

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