Oscar-nominated directing duo Alan Smith and Adam Foulkes team with the animation crew at Black Kite in London on this charmer for Australian teleco Telstra thru agencies Bear Meets Eagle On Fire and +61.

Set to an arrangenment of the 1983 country/pop song “Islands in the Stream” (written by the Bee Gees and originally sung by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton) the film anchors the launch of the Telestra’s new brand platform “wherever we go”.

Brent Smart, Telstra CMO: “If you want to change how people feel about your brand, you have to change how the brand feels. This work captures the spirit of optimism and promise of partnership that we want the Telstra brand to be all about. We want to show that the biggest brands can also be the most imaginative.”
 
 

 
Client: Telstra

Agency: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire, +61

Production: Riff Raff
Directors: Smith & Foulkes
EP/Producer: Tracey Cooper
PM: Theo Cassels
Character Designer: Chris Martin
Storyboards: Adam Beer

Animation/Post: Black Kite
EP: Julie Evans
Senior Producer: Polly Durrance
Producer: Olivia Donovan
Colorist: George Kyriacou
2D Lead: Guillaume Weiss
Flame: James Belch
Nuke: Itay Greenberg, Matt Hutchins, Sarah Breakwell
Concept / DMP: Jimmy Kiddell, Carlos Nieto
Lead Animator: Conor Ryan, James Brown
Animator: Loay Shaban
CG Rigger: Martin Villert, Chris Gill
CG Lead: Oleg Troy
CG artist: Daniel Moore, Kornel Makarowicz, Andrew Bartholomew, James Hansell, Jim Cullen, Aurelien Lemonnier, David Loh, Luis Yrisarry Labadía, Mark Ardisson, Sophie Langton, Alfie Gunter, Ethan Francis, Gabriela Di Vincenzo, Joel Paulin

Additional Post Production: ALT VFX

Music: Manderley Music
Arranger: Ben Cocks
Producer: Sean Craigie-Atherton
Main Whistler: Andy McKeane
Harmony Whistler: Vanessa Forero
Additional Whistling: Ben Cocks

Sound: Rumble Studios
Lead Sound Designer: Tone Aston
Sound Designer: Daniel William, Renee Park
EP: Michael Gie

Music Supervision: Trailer Media
Music Supervisor: Anton Trailer