KATHMANDU "BELIEVE IN YOU"

TitleKATHMANDU "BELIEVE IN YOU"
BrandAXA
Product/ServiceINSURANCE AND ASSET MANAGEMENT.
Category A05. Cinematography
Entrant AXA Paris, FRANCE
Idea Creation PUBLICIS CONSEIL Paris, FRANCE
Production CARNIBIRD Paris, FRANCE
Credits
Name Company Position
AXA Group AXA Group Advertiser
Paul Bennett / Juan Herrera / Mya Dawaliby / Ida de Catuelan AXA Group Glbl Brand Dir. / Head of Glbl Advert. / Glbl Brand Advert. Mgr / Glbl Brand Mgr
Publicis Conseil PUBLICIS CONSEIL Advertising Agency
Marcelo Vergara / Steve O’Leary PUBLICIS CONSEIL ECD / WW Creative Director
Pierre Coulier / Emmanuelle Bougueret / Jean-Baptiste Blandin PUBLICIS CONSEIL Copywriter /Art Director / AD Assistant
Gaëtan Bizien, Alexandre Boucher PUBLICIS CONSEIL Motion designers
Magali Bergeroux / Olga Papikian PUBLICIS CONSEIL Global Client Lead / Executive Director
Mathieu Kremer / Camille Serrand, Lou Leproux PUBLICIS CONSEIL Account Director / Account Managers
Anis Bouzitouna / Adeline Blanc PUBLICIS CONSEIL Digital project Manager / Process manager
Alastair Maclean, Richard Sherfey / Clémence Ballu / Stéphanie Jacquin PUBLICIS CONSEIL Strategic Planning / Global digital Director / Channel Planner
Prodigious / Pierre Marcus / Armelle Sudron Prodigious Prouction / CEO Prodigious France / TV producer
Carnibird / Gaetan Legoff / Renaud Jaget Carnibird Production House / Producer / Production director
Douglas Avery / Andrij Parekh / Clement Price-Thomas xx Director / Cinematographer / Set Designer
Lek Chunsuttiwat / Franck Percher / Léa Villain-Barachet Carnibird Art Director / 1st assistant/ Production coordinator
Mathematics /Guillaume Marien Mathematics Postproduction House / Executive Post producer
Vincent Martin, Paul Créhange Mathematics Post producer
Yann Aldabe / Guillaume Nadaud/ Thierry Hoss / Muriel Archambaud Mathematics Line producer / VFX supervisor / Editor / Grading
Charles Mamarot xx Photographer
Fabien Dubois xx Making of and digital Director
Sixième Son, Josette Music Club Sixième Son, Josette Music Club Sound & Music
Pauline de Bastard, Ella Duda/ Vincent Turbé / Jean Ledoux xx Creative project manager / Music composer / Sound Engineer
Boris Jeanne / James François Vacherot Prodigious Sound Producer/ Sound Designer

Brief Explanation

The film was directed by Douglas Avery and photographed by Andrij Parekh (Blue Valentine, The Zookeepers Wife). Together they sought to create something experiential, tactile and immersive. They wanted the camera to be an active part of each scene, to create a quasi-point of view, to foster empathy with Lisa’s character. Douglas explains, “We used wider anamorphic lenses that let us get close to her face, yet still give us context of her environment. We also planned specific motions and actions to create more fluid cuts between time jumps, particularly during her recovery moments”. Andrij continues, “We discussed an impressionistic and subjective camera; we wanted to bring fourth the hallucinatory experience of what we imagined being in that earthquake was like; the visual lens distortions were emblematic of that approach. All was done ‘in camera’ with the shortest depth of field possible using anamorphic lenses to create an evocativesubjective experience."