The Power of Ideas
The Newport Beach Film Festival
The Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF) is a non-profit organization on a 20+ year mission to bring the best in international and independent film to Orange County.
Celebrated as a leading lifestyle film festival in the United States, NBFF attracts film entrants from 56 countries around the world. Nearly 60,000 film and food fans to view over 100 feature films, 30 short film programs, and dozens of public and private events featuring more than 60 culinary partners serving up their finest.
NBFF Celebrates the Power of Ideas
In this pro bono festival trailer - featured on ADWEEK - we see two divorcees completely lost in their own pattern of conflict and as a result their young son retreats into his imagination with his toys as props.
A jarring series of events quickly unfolds in the outside world -- all seemingly triggered (albeit unknowingly) by the boy's imagination.
Per director, Johan Stahl: “By grounding the story in an easily relatable reality -- a classic divorce scenario with familiar tropes and gender roles -- it sets the viewer up to quickly see the disparity between the parents’ world and the boy's world, and ultimately, express central themes around imagination, cinematic storytelling, and the theme of this year's Newport Beach Film Festival: ‘The Power of Ideas.’”
CREDITS:
Director - Johan Stahl
EP - Thibaut Estellon
DoP - Shelly Johnson
Producers - Larry Gold, Luigi Rossi
Editor: Erwin Fraterman
Production Company - Reverse
Founder - Thibaut Estellon
Costume Designer: Michelle Thompson
Production Designer: Nora Takacs
1st Asst Camera: Michael Martino
2nd Asst Camera: Gus Bechtold
Loader: Brendan Devanie
DIT: Nate Kalushner
Gaffer: Steve Kagen
SLT: Kyle Allinson
Best Boy Electric: Adam Lenee
Key Grip: Bob Babin
Best Boy Grip: Matt Malsbury
Grip: Seth Cole
Location Sound Mixer: Fernanda Starling
H&MU: Melissa Gwizdowski
FX Makeup: Marcel Banks
Wardrobe Assistant: Alison Holmes
1st Assistant Director: Chuck Henrey
2nd Assistant Director Gus Bechtold
Set Decorator: Sarah Sharp
Prop Master: Caitlin Laingen
Special Effects: Zac Knight
Production Manager: Porcelain Brisbon
Production Coordinator: Matthew Cheaton
jumP Editorial
Editor: Erwin Fraterman
Executive Producer: Therese Hunsberger
Producer: Natasha Sattler
Assistant Editor: Roy Herbert
Assistant Editor: Kristin Yawata
Apprentice Editor: Jill Sarao
Flame Artist: Thom Reimerink
Editorial Intern: Anja Boltz
Editorial Intern: Emily Kaberlein
Ingenuity
VFX Supervisor: Grant Miller
VFX Supervisor: David Lebensfeld
Sr Producer: Kieley Culbertson
VFX Producer: Brigitte Stanovick
VFX Producer: Kymberly Murphy
VFX Coordinator: Robert Cohen
Compositing Coordinator: Ashley Nizich
Compositing Supervisor: Zhe Chong
Compositors: Ben Stommes, Patrick Louie, Krisztian Csanki
CG Coordinator: Anna Harari
FX: Paul Baran, Kevin Pinga
Animations: Lucas Smarker
Layout: Viviana Torrellas
Company 3
Senior Colorist: Stefan Sonnenfeld
Executive Producer: Ashley McKim
Senior Producer: Katie Andrews
Senior Producer: Matt Moran
Juice Studios
Mixer: Scott Burns
Producer: Vanessa Carey
Yessian Music & Sound Design
Executive Producer: David Gold
CCO / Partner: Brian Yessian
Casting - Face In The Crowd Casting
Casting Director: Maryclaire Sweeters
Agency - Garage Team Mazda
CEO - Michael Buttlar
CCO - Erich Funke
CW / AD CD - Melissa Webber
CW CD - Daniel Bremmer
SVP Director Integrated Content - Larry Struber
Account Dir - Cory Sampson
Dir of Proj Management - Elizabeth CarrErnst
Art Producer: Jessica Mirolla
“Quota”
The first in the pro bono series we did for the NBFF is a beautiful and brutal short film “Quota: Who Made the Cut” centers on two beaten-down miners in space suits dangling by ropes from a massive, alien edifice, mining for crystals. Staying on the planet promises a bleak future, and they’re in competition with one another to find a mother lode of the precious substance and earn their way back home.
CREDITS:
Director - Jillian Martin
Executive Producer - Jim Evans
Producers - Larry Edwards, Christophe Faubert, Denny Kennedy
Editor – Erwin Fraterman
Untitled, Inc
General Manager - Larry Edwards
Head of Production - Geoff Campbell
Director of Photography - Robert Dalsey
Assistant Director - Peter Etzweiller
Art Director - Melissa Broker
Writers – Jillian Martin, Robert Dalsey
Camera Operator - David Brickley
Data Manager - Jordan Evans
Wardrobe - Jen Eagen
Wardrobe / Makeup - Elizabeth Meredith
Wardrobe Assistant - CiCi HoggardEffects - Zack Edwards
Drone Pilot - Collin Burgess
Riggers - Joe Makouske, Jonathen Zambella Spencer McBride, Ben Corso
Production Assistants - Lauren Gagnon, Sam Berry, Tyler Ryan
Talent - Nate Scholz, Aion Boyd
Site Representative / Still Photography - Kyle Voles
Special Thanks to Phedon Papamichael
jumP Editorial
Executive Producer – Betsy Beale
Flame Artist – Thom Reimerink
Assistant Editor – Michael Wolfe
Assistant Editor – Kristin Yawata
Method Studios
Lead Flame Artist - Emily Irvine
Flame Artist - Louis Schachte
Senior Producer - Julia Paskert
Art Director - Norris Houk
Motion Graphics Artist - Orey Spear
Head of Production - Ananda Reavis
Executive Producer - Cara Lehr
Company 3
Senior Colorist - Stefan Sonnenfeld
Senior Colorist – Stephen Nakamura
Executive Producer - Ashley McKim
Senior Producer - Katie Andrews
Juice Studios
Mixer - Scott Burns
Producer - Vanessa Carey
Executive Producer - Dawn Redmann
Yessian Music & Sound Design
Creative Director / Composer – Andy Grush
Sound Designers – Jeff Dittenber, Mike Baluha
Executive Producer – David Gold
Senior Producer – Katie Overcash
Music Supervisor – Lars Makie
Head of Production / Partner – Michael Yessian
CCO / Partner – Brian Yessian
Casting: Face In The Crowd Casting
Casting Director - Maryclaire Sweeters
The Garage Team Mazda
Chief Executive Officer - Michael Buttlar
Chief Creative Officer – Erich Funke
SVP Creative Director – Melissa Webber
ACD / Art Director – Zak Masaki
Writers – Jason Tucker / Melissa Webber / Jillian Martin
Senior Producer – Jeff Perino
Management Supervisor, Account – Cory Sampson
Account Coordinator – Brooke Hawley
Results ⟶
Adweek, 25 Best Ads of 2018 “a sci-fi mini-masterpiece” — Adweek ADDY Gold ×2 · ADDY Silver ×3 · One Show Gold – all made pro bono. No budget. Everything donated.