2023 Winner

Stella Artois’s “Table Setters,” by Anomaly, used the concept of a ‘table flip’ to show the positive effects of taking a break from work and enjoying a meal together. A woman is working at the dining room table around dinnertime when her partner enters, carrying two glasses of beer. With no place to put them on her cluttered tabletop, she overturns the table. Everything spills off, and when the table lands right side up, a dinner for two is ready for them. After each enjoying a sip of their beer, the partner gets up and flips the table over again; this time, their friends, along with food and beer for everyone, appears. When one of their friends is distracted by his phone, the woman flips his chair over and when he lands, a beer is in his hand. To create these effects, the dinner for the couple was glued to the table and the meal was disguised under the original table top clutter that would fly off when it was overturned. For the table flip, the table was attached to wires hanging from the ceiling. Other effects included using air canons to make objects fly further and lowering actors into the scene by wires. For the friend flip, the actor was strapped into a chair while wires were used to assist with the flip, to ensure the movement was natural while ensuring the actor’s safety when he landed.

Credits

Stella Artois Global:
VP of Global Brands : Richard Oppy
Global VP Stella Artois: Tim Ovadia
Global Marketing Director Stella Artois: Andre Amaral
Director Brand Communications: Shay Bergman
Agency: Anomaly
President/Partner: Candace Borland
ECD/Partner: Dave Douglass
Group Creative Director: Neil Blewett
Group Business Director: Matt Holton
Business Director: Dori Adams
Account Supervisor: Hayley Kleynhans
Account Executive: Madison LeBlanc
Sr. Director of Strategy: Paul Lipson
Director, Business Affairs: Jolette Samuel (she/her)
Agency Producer: Nick Hutcheson
Managing Director: Davud Karbassioun
Executive Producer: Nick Fuller
Producer: Jenni Haberstock
Production: Pulse Films
Director: Sam Pilling
DP: Tom Townend
2nd Unit: Jiri Svorc
PD: Marco Puig
Art Director: Tomas Homolka
1st AD: Julian Richards
2nd AD: David Jancar
SFX: Trick SFX
Stunts: Jan Arnost @Filmka
Movement Choreographer: Lucie Drabkova
Costume: Kate Forbes
Casting: Kharmel Cochrane
MoCo: Justin Pentecost
Edit: Ellie Johnson
Offline Studio: tenthree
Offline EP: Julian Marshall
VFX House: The Mill
VFX: Edward Shires, Gary Driver
VFX Producer: Matthew Squires
VFX EP: Clare Melia
Colour: Matthieu Toullet
Service Company: Unit+Sofa
MD: Martin Sobotka
Producer: Nikola Mohorita
PM: Barbora Wochnerova
Production Coordinator: Karolina Olsanova
Studio: Barrandov Studio a.s.
Music: Shirley Bassey ‘Spinning Wheel’
Music Supervision: SixtyFour Music
Sound Design: Wave Studios NY
Creative Director: Chris Afzal
Audio Producer: Eleni Giannopoulos
BTS: Max Stano Martin Pryca
BTS Editor: Elyse Raphael, Tenthree

Cast:
Ellen Francis & Hicham Louazna
With Sharon Yard, Brandon, Jana Jensikovejjan & Martin Matejcik