In November 2013, Eric Kissack directed a film written by Kevin Tenglin called The Gunfighter. The short film that “takes the Western for an unusual spin and the outcome is just so splendidly amusing,” [Film Shortage: best scripted shorts online] won ‘a few’ awards:
WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film – LA Film Fest
WINNER Audience Award for Best Short Film – Napa Valley Film Festival
WINNER Audience Award for Best Narrative Short – Sidewalk Film Festival
WINNER Jury Award for Best Short Film – Macon Film Festival
WINNER Jury Award for Best Short Film – Hill Country Film Festival
WINNER Jury Award for Best Comedy – LA Shorts
WINNER Jury Award and Audience Award for Best Short Film – Hell’s Half Mile
WINNER Jury Award for Excellence in Short Filmmaking – South Dakota Film Festival
Best of the Fest Selection – Palm Springs Short Fest
Audience Favourite – DC Shorts
Honorable Mention for Best Short Films – Woods Hole Film Festival
Official Selection – Cleveland International Film Fest
Official Selection – Seattle International Film Fest
Official Selection – Traverse City Film Festival
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Colenso BBDO client, DB Breweries, has launched a dry cider. Old Mout dry cider is aimed at blokes.
“Old Mout Hard Cider is a masculine alternative in a category often epitomised by lens flares and colourful pretty packaging,” Colenso noted.
To make the drink work, Colenso BBDO had to get men to adjust their attitudes to cider drinkers. You can see why the Colenso creatives recalled Kissack’s film.
They used it as inspiration for the launch ad…and partnered with Kissack to make it.
Kissack commented, “The Kiwis have spoiled me. They’re so on board with my specific, slightly twisted sense of humour that it was a true pleasure from beginning to end. This is one of those collaborations that worked on every level and I can’t wait for people to see it.”
The sixty second launch spot is followed up by another not so sweet story, and will be supported in other channels.
Credits
Agency: Colenso BBDO
Media: SparkPHD
Production Company: HeLo – Director Eric Kissack