At the Whistler Film Festival you won’t find the usual Hollywood movies. So Dare Vancouver created an ad campaign that tells unexpected stories.

Trailers created for the festival start like predictable Hollywood movies, but take a hard left turn.

This animated spot, created with Tokyoplastic in London, starts like a lovely princess story by Disney, but quickly turns into a scene you’d expect from a movie like Scarface.


Client: Whistler Film Festival

Agency: Dare, Vancouver
Creative Director: Bryan Collins, Rob Sweetman
Copywriter: Mia Thomsett
Art Director: Rob Sweetman
Producer: Mike Hasinoff
Account Supervisor: Tamara Bennett

Production Company: Picasso Pictures, London
Executive Producer: Jane Bolton, Richard Price
Producer: Richard Price
Director: Tokyoplastic
Production Manager: Shiraz Peer Liberman
Concept Artists: Damian Johnston, Jon Beeston
Matte Painters: Nicolas Loudot, Carlos Nieto, Eduardo Bera
Modeller & Texture Artists: Andrew Hickinbottom, Martin Ocheng
Rigger: Mark Tsang
Animators: Janek Lender, Dominic Griffiths, Ricardo David
Generalist: Dorianne Fibleuil
Renderer: Ravinder Sembi
Compositor: Andy Hague

Music/Sound Design: Adelphoi Music, London
Music Producer: Greg Moore
Composer: Jamie Masters
Sound Design: Andrew Sherriff

Sound Mix: Koko Productions
Sound Producer: Steve Lowe
Sound Engineer: Chris Hobbs