Blink director Dougal Wilson crafts a potentially disastrous brief into an uplifting and emotional joy with his fearless musical treatment of Channel 4’s campaign for the 2016 Rio Paralympics with MPC providing VFX across 144 shots, including extensive crowd replication and creation of the new Rio stadium in CG.

The spot features over 140 disabled cast members from around the planet and is powered by The Sammy Davis Jr track “Yes I Can” re-recorded by a band of disabled musicians assembled for the occasion.

Client: Channel 4
Agency: 4Creative
Director: Dougal Wilson
Production: Blink

VFX: MPC
VFX Executive Producer: Julie Evans
VFX Producer: Hannah Ruddleston
VFX Supervisor: Tom Harding
CG Lead: Graeme Turnball
Line Producer (Bangalore): Deepanjali Singh
VFX Team: Grant White, Andrew Roberts, M. Vijaya Kumar, Rajinikanth R, Rajkumar C., S. Sundaramoorthy, Vinoth Kumar, Venuprasath, Sravan Kumar, Vaishali Awaghade, Daniel Benjamin, Thomas Carrick, Chloe Dawe, Mattias Lullini, Alessandro Granella, Pedrom Dadgostar, David Bryan, Debalina Dasgupta, Suhas Bhat, Yashaswi Salandri, Sindhuja B, Hemanth Anusuri, Elangovan Ganeshan, Ankit Dheraj Toppo, Partha Modal
Colorist: Jean-Clément Soret