THE DEAD END

TitleTHE DEAD END
BrandFONDATION FONDAMENTAL
Product/ServiceSCIENTIFIC CO-OPERATIVE FOUNDATION DEDICATED TO COMBATING MENTAL DISEASES
Category B02. Non-profit / Foundation-led Education & Awareness
Entrant SERVICEPLAN HEALTH FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
Idea Creation SERVICEPLAN HEALTH FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
Media Placement SERVICEPLAN FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
PR SERVICEPLAN HEALTH FRANCE Paris, FRANCE
Production BADASS FILMS Paris, FRANCE
Credits
Name Company Position
Alexander SCHILL SERVICEPLAN GERMANY Global Chief Creative Director
Daniel PEREZ SERVICEPLAN FRANCE Chief Creative Officer
Astrid PINON SERVICEPLAN FRANCE Art Director
Damien LEBREUILLY SERVICEPLAN FRANCE Copywriter
Tram-Anh Nguyen NGUYEN SERVICEPLAN FRANCE Art Director
Frank WILLOCQ SERVICEPLAN FRANCE Producer
Blaise IZARD BADASS FILMS Producer

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Every year, depression kills more than 6,000 people in France. Often related to a "depression" or "the blues", depression remains, still today, insufficiently understood, diagnosed and treated. If depression is left untreated, it can take a severe or chronic form and lead to suicide. In order to make an impression, the FondaMental Foundation launched an awareness campaign. The film "The dead end", intend to emphases that depression is a "serious" disease that can have fatal consequences. Straddling comedy and drama, the film shows how patients with obvious pathologies would be treated if their clinical signs were considered as lightly as the signs of depression are sometimes.

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Extract from an interview of the Director : Journalist : "What's the origin story of this work?" Director: "We met with the client and psychiatric doctors from huge hospitals in Paris. We gathered in a room with all these experts and talked about depression. I discovered the huge number of people dying of depression in France - by this, I mean by suicide. (...) we decided to show that depression is a real fucking dangerous disease. Same as a heart attack, as cancer—it's just as dangerous. They wanted (The client) to plant that in everyone's minds. We live in a society where you have to be happy (...) on Facebook, on Instagram (...). It's a society of results (...). I have a certain method with TV ads : Illustrate something serious by using the absurd. Make people laugh, because when they are done laughing, they can relate.