2022 Winner

Public Safety Canada’s “Uncontained” begins with the text “Human trafficking isn’t what you think it is” as a camera zooms in slowly on a standalone shipping container in a dark lot. A male figure opens the doors to reveal the blackness of the interior, which transitions into scenes and quick flashes of a couple’s intimate moments, as Billie Eilish’s “When the party’s over” plays. The images of their good times switch to arguments and make-ups – interspersed with texts being typed such as, “You’ll love her”; “She’s all yours” and “Bring $$$$.” The final scene shows a figure entering the couple’s apartment as the partner directs the woman to face him, and ends with the fact that “Almost 1/3 of victims were trafficked by a current or former intimate partner.”

Credits

Production House: Scouts Honour
Director: Mark Zibert
Producer/EP’s: Simon Dragland & Rita Popielak
Cinematographers: Mark Zibert & Eric Kaskens
Production Designer: Katherine Salnek
Production Manager: Brady MacIsaac
Production Coordinator: Chelsea Strachan
1st AC: Jackson Yeung
Wardrobe Stylist: Kate Day
Key Grip: Burke Goldstein
Gaffer: Sam Lebel-Wong

Editorial/Offline: Outsider Editorial
Executive Producer: Denise Shearer
Editor: Michael Barker
Assistant Editor: Cam Anderson

Online/Special Effects: The Vanity
Executive Producer: Stephanie Pennington
Producer: Katie Methot
Lead VFX Artist: Andrew Farlow
VFX Artists: Adam Silcox-Vanwyk and Kaelem Cahill

Colour: Alter Ego
Senior Colourist - Wade Odlum
Senior Colour Assistant - Erik Bayley
Producer - Spencer Butt

Audio House: Rajakovic Electric
Audio Director and Music Supervisor: Mark Rajakovic
Music: Billie Eilish “when the party’s over”
Producer: Nicole Rajakovic
Sound Design: Vlad Nikolic
Mix: Brian Bernard
Mixed at Signal

Casting: Jigsaw Casting Ltd.
Casting Director: Shasta Lutz

Agency: Banfield Agency
Global Account Director: Kristal Felea
Director of Client Services: Véronique Gravel
Creative Director: Craig Lobban, Timothy Jones
Producer: Koa Padolsky
Strategy Director: Lindsay Gavey
Strategist: Mark Brownlee
Motion Director: Ryan Grevatt
Motion Designers: Brad Doyle, Madison Foran
Senior Writers: Derrick Outram, Sherry McPhail
Senior Designer: Stephen Pollock
Creative Designer: Katrin Emery
Junior Copywriter: Stephanie Heng-Yeoh
Graphic Artist: Greg Rouble
Photographer: Rémi Theriault, House of Common
Translation: Christine Moisan, Aurélie Barbe