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