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D&AD Annual 2020

The Underdogs
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Country

  • United States

Production Company

  • Smuggler
  • SMUGGLER

Editorial

  • Work

Visual Effects

  • A52

Client

  • Apple

Visual Effects & Post Company

  • a52

Editing Company

  • Work Editorial

Director

  • Mark Molloy

Director of Photography

  • Joost van Gelder

Executive Producer

  • Brian Carmody
  • Patrick Milling-Smith
  • Sue Yeon Ahn

Production Designer

  • JC Molina
  • Mónica Bidault

Editor

  • Neil Smith

Creative Agency

  • Media Arts Lab

Agency Producer

  • Travis Huntington

Creative Director

  • Alan Buchanan

Casting Director

  • Jodi Sonnenberg

Make-up Artist

  • Maripili Senderos

Costume Designer

  • Anna Terrazas

A motley crew of scrappy office employees have just 48 hours to turn a scribble on a napkin into a polished business presentation, to pitch a revolutionary pizza box idea to their intimidating CEO. The good news is they have Mac, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone to help them beat the deadline and escape their grey, Tungsten-lit cubicle maze.

Comment from D&AD Community

  • It’s almost perfectly executed in terms of all the things that put it together, if it’s the casting, the cinematography, the genre, the editing, the production design, the music, the whole thing comes together so beautifully… It’s very important sometimes not to feel the effort of crafting something.

    Adi Halfin, Director, Lief
  • Personally, four works grab me by the collar more than others, on different levels. It's all simple ideas with perfect, simple executions, where the magic happens. Great talent makes complicated things look easy: Hope is Power for the Guardian, Wise Words for Comic Relief, Storm the Court for Reebok and The Underdogs for Apple. These works provoke intimate, related, unexpected emotions, and show great ability in creating narratives. Just perfect. You don't feel there's any extra or missing frames from the story. The craft attached to these projects attends to one of the most significant criteria for an award like D&AD. It moves the industry towards the future, where narratives will catch people's attention, as they have since stories were painted in walls and told around the fire.

    Ricardo Jones, Director, Stink Films London

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