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A five-minute short film produced by the Media Design School Auckland has won Best Animated Film at the 2016 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival in San Diego.

FCB helped Vodafone pull off one of its more innovative marketing activations with a high- risk stunt featuring Kiwi drift car ace Mad Mike Whiddett, and the company’s own 4G network director Tony Baird.

Veteran Kiwi TVC director Steve Saussey, formerly of Film Construction (and a copywriter at Mojo Auckland), and now at new Sydney producer Jungle Films, was at the helm of the latest Air NZ safety video, Safety in Hollywood, a blockbuster hailed by many as a masterpiece.

Wellington agency Doublefish has persuaded Once Were Warriors star Temuera Morrison to relive his screen role as wife-beater Jake the Muss to help raise funds for the Women’s Refuge annual appeal, which runs through July.

Julian Dennison, the young star of Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople, takes centre stage in the launch campaign for Bargain Box, a new, super-affordable meal delivery service for families set up by My Food Bag.

Powerade and its local partners Ogilvy NZ, Ikon Communications, and Acumen Republic have launched an Olympic campaign fronted by current Olympic rowing champion Mahé Drysdale.

Auckland creative production agency Augusto is also knee-deep in the Rio Olympics, conceiving and creating a new campaign for Performance Sport New Zealand.

Two Kiwi creatives are said to be behind the new video that some US commentators are saying could spell the end of Donald Trump’s run for the presidency.

Auckland City Mission – with DDB and Track NZ – yesterday debuted The Harsh Reality, a powerful immersive, 360-degree video experience that drops the viewer into a series of confronting vignettes, shot from the perspective of one of Auckland’s homeless.