Vestergaard

Event film for the United Nations General Assembly

I worked with Outlook Creative and Vestergaard to create a launch video in seven weeks for Vestergaard's Evening Reception at the seventy-eighth United Nations General Assembly.

After distributing a billion PermaNet bed nets, Vestergaard has significantly reduced the spread of malaria in vulnerable communities worldwide. Using footage of net distribution in Uganda and Vestergaard's Vietnam facility, I created three ideas and a treatment. I then wrote the script, voiceover and oversaw the film to completion.

Stop The Clock celebrates the collaboration between Vestergaard, local health authorities and NGOs
in eradicating malaria. Charlize Theron narrated the voiceover and introduced the film at the UN reception.

Manifesto script

The clock ticks,

A child dies every sixty seconds from Malaria.

We endure it as as a fact of life.

But endurance repels change.

Even now, with all the means and tools we have to help those most at risk.

The clock ticks,

The mosquito changes, resists, and finds the world warm where it was once cold.

So, we change and build momentum.

We take a billion steps. Together.

Women, men, from this generation and the next,

Sharing science, skills, and knowledge. 

As partners, businesses, and countries. 

We slow the clock.

By building safer shelters and stronger communities. 

Malaria has no place in our lives.

Because there’s a brighter future beyond the next sixty seconds.

When no one dies of infectious disease!

When we stop the clock on Malaria.