Apple are pulling on heartstrings this holiday season with their Fuzzy Feelings festive commercial. Together with TBWA\Media Arts Lab and director Luci Aniello, the tech company capture the life of an office worker, who tries to balance her office job with her stop animation passion.
With a hefty roll out of Christmas commercials, Marks and Spencer are covering all bases. From food to clothing and everything in between, the supermarket chain are bringing humour to the slate of festive advert making their way to the screen. From Hannah Waddingham to Dawn French as a fairy ornament, the celebrity cameos are endless in the seasonal shorts.
Bohmenian author Henry Miller said, ”One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” Though we travelled to new places, more to the point, we made new friends, learning new interpretations of place through our shared experiences. As one hopes, the journey was as key as our destinations. Your fam tour correspondent was fortunate enough to sojourn the UK courtesy of travel specialists, the Radisson Hotel Group and United Airlines.
The highly anticipated John Lewis Christmas advert returned to television screens yesterday, 10 November. The Beginner shows a determined skateboarder trying to pick up a few tricks in time for a special arrival. With a new message but the same emotional storyline, the department store is bringing a focus to children in care homes, partnering with Action for Children and Who Cares Scotland.
FOCUS, the Meeting Place for International Production, welcomed a record number of countries to the hybrid edition.
640 UK film and TV productions have gone into production in the last 12 months thanks to the Government's Film and TV Production Restart Scheme. Television series Peaky Blinders, Baptiste (pictured right) for Television, feature films Mothering Sunday, Benediction and A Christmas Number One among productions backed by the scheme.
The line-up for this shootout includes Prettybird, Progress Film Company, Spindle, Ana, Marshall Street Editors, The Network Productions, Groundglass, Adelphoi Music and more. Each 2.5 minute short film will premier live at FOCUS The Meeting Place for International Production in Islington, London on December 3rd at 09:45 GMT. Attendance is free with a delegate pass available here.
