Home Centre - "The Creature"

Leo Burnett Middle East & North Africa

Leo Burnett Middle East & North Africa Dubai, Emirati Arabi

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Marca: Home Centre
Paese: Emirati Arabi

Cliente: Home Centre

Titolo	The Creature
Agenzia	Leo Burnett Middle East & North Africa
Campagna	The Creature
Cliente	Home Centre
Marca	Home Centre
Posted	Febbraio 2024
Settore	Negozi al dettaglio di prossimita'
Slogan	stepdads are the dads who step up
Filosofia	Home Centre's ‘The Creature’: Striking a new conversation in the Middle East 15% of homes in the Middle East are homes that are of mixed families, owing to remarriages. But, women marrying again is seen as a taboo – not many topic about it owing to social and cultural prejudices. And no brand has ever delved into it. The film is the first piece of a bigger campaign that will not only celebrate stepfathers but importantly, talk about the bigger topic of remarriage in the Arab world. It tells the story of a child who goes through the stages of fear, disgust, angst, and confusion against an evil creature who is going to rob him of his mother’s love, the warmth of his home, and everything that he holds dear. But through the course of the film, we see that the child’s views about the monster change over a period of months, and he finally accepts the creature - his stepdad. The film ends with a message – stepdads are the dads who step up. The track behind the film is an original soundtrack, written and composed for this film. Titled “the lighthouse and the boat”, the song is told through the metaphor of a lighthouse and a boat, encompassing the relationship between two people - a stepfather and a son - two worlds apart, trying to fill a missing gap in their life. A song of pain, anxiety, angst, the need for belonging, for connection and love, that we all feel in any deep life-long relationships that we share with someone else. In life, both stepfathers and sons, are the lighthouses to each other as well as the boats to each other, finding their way to each other, amidst the stormy tides and the endless darkness of the sea. The broader initiative has involved a content series by a prominent psychologist – Dr. Saliha Afridi - around the journey of remarriage, news features about the topic, as well as social content to create awareness and drive support for the topic. Home Centre is a leading furniture retailer in the Middle East with a brand purpose of “enabling every home to tell its own unique story”. It focuses on stories in homes across the Middle East that aren’t told. It has spoken about single moms and adoption in the past, and this time, it is tackling the taboo around remarriage and stepfathers. With many homes in the region being homes where women have remarried and stepfathers exist, yet no brand and no media having spoken about this topic, was an gap that needed to be addressed. And Home Centre stepped up.
Tipo di Media	Web Film
Lunghezza	179 seconds
Account Management	Vicky Kriplani
Account Management	Nahla Jaber
Account Management	Maria Jabbour
Managing Director	Sami Saleh
Agency Producer	Shereen Mostafa
Agency Producer	Judy Lamaa
Art Director	Bora Batur
Art Director	Windy Ishak
Advertising Manager	Hassan Khan
Advertising Manager	Abbas Nashrulla
Advertising Manager	Atharv Ruparel
Advertising Manager	Siddarth Sivaprakash
Chief Creative Officer	Kalpesh Patankar
Cinematografia	Aeyaz
Creative Director	Farhan Siddiqui
Post Produzione	Cold-Cutz
Editor	Neda Zag
Director	Tahaab Rais
Casa di Produzione	Prodigious MEA
Music	22ghosts
Music Composer	Seppl Kretz
Music Supervision	Michael Bertoldini
Performance	Tanmay Rishi Shah
Performance	Marwan Massih
Performance	Judy Lamaa
Post Produzione	Optix Middle East
Producer	Ralph Matar
Producer	Myriam Abi Wardeh
Producer	Nour Helou
Producer	Nayla Chacra
Producer	Megan Markel
Producer	George Khalaf
Recording Studio	Magma Music
Sound Designer	Bram Van Bergen
Strategist	Tahaab Rais
Strategist	Aakriti Goel
Strategist	Anna Sadykova
VFX Artist	Eddy Farah
VFX Artist	Rita Mechedjian
VFX Artist	Priyanka Bhatheji
Copywriter	Farhan Siddiqui