Mandela Day
ViacomCBS (now Paramount) came to us with a brief that mattered more than most: create an emotive piece for Mandela Day 2020 that pushed past the once-a-year gesture and asked something bigger - what does it look like to make every day a Mandela Day? Mandela's vision doesn't live in speeches or history books alone; it lives in the small, deliberate acts of kindness South Africans choose every day. That was the throughline for the piece - not a tribute frozen in the past, but a living call to action rooted in his actual words and what they still demand of us now. Building something worthy of that meant treading carefully. Every visual choice, every line of narration, had to answer to the weight of what Mandela actually stood for - not just borrow his name for a lekker thirty seconds. Unite the people. Battle injustice. Dream without apology. That's not a tagline. That's the assignment.
Year
2021
Scope
Offline Editor
Client
Paramount/Viacom
Category
Awareness Campaign
CREDIT LIST
CLIENT: Paramount
CHANNEL: Comedy Central
CC ON-AIR PRODUCER: Carla Bekker
Creative Director: Waldo Buchner
Scriptwriter: Jeanesse "Jae" Martinez
Art Director: Chris Savides
Offline Editor: Jeanesse "Jae" Martinez
Graphic Designer: Chris Savides
Motion Graphic Artist: Waldo Buchner
Sound Mixer: Sudhir Misra








