Bill Spangler | Senior Creative Producer

Director Aaron Duffy at 1st Avenue Machine

Facebook’s largest brand marketing campaign to date

The Hopeful For campaign was shot in 5 countries: Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, India and the United States and was created for use in Facebook Carousel and Canvas ad units.

For Facebook’s Crisis Response team we wanted to feature real stories of people using the Crisis Response tool to help their communities. Shot in both Mexico City and Santa Rosa California.

Director: Peking

Ad unit animations created by Animade London with sound design by Barking Owl for the launch and pre-order of Facebook's Portal device.

ELECTRONIC ARTS - THE SIMS

At the beginning of the pandemic Electronic Arts wanted to recognize the amazing gamers who were using The Sims to cope with lockdown. The spot combines a combination of self shot interviews, game capture footage and social media.

Created in conjunction with 1st Avenue Machine and director Aaron Duffy.

Shot with Prettybird co-founder and director Paul Hunter in conjunction with characters created and animated by Psyop.

The Skype "Things We Can Do" campaign highlights tales of people using Skype technology.

"Finding Donut" follows Russian Pet Detective Valeiry Sugrobov in the streets of Moscow looking for a lost pet named Donut.

This film has won Gold at the London International Advertising Awards for best documentary, awarded an AICP Next award for Product Integration, featured in the SF Indie Fest as well as Clio Shortlist for Direction and Film Technique.

Directed by Peking

Airbnb, the world’s leading community driven hospitality company, unveiled its first ever global marketing campaign -- Views -- to showcase the unique perspectives of Airbnb hosts around the world.

Directed by Alma Har'el through Tool of North America, this production took us around the world in 20 days shooting in Spain, London, Iceland, Thailand and Los Angeles.

Winner of a Bronze Clio for Cinematography for Film Technique.

Shortlist - Use for Original Music - Clio 

2014 Cannes Shortlist

We collaborated with frontline reporters Anna Therese Day and Gianlucca Panella for a story-behind-the-story of their recent trip to Kiribati. Part of the "Things We Can Do" campaign this story was shot entirely on location in New York and Kiribati. "Turning The Tide" explores the global struggle against climate change.

The Power Inside is an interactive social film, presented by Intel and Toshiba, directed by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, starring Harvey Keitel, Analeigh Tipton, and Craig Roberts.

Production included 6 episodes, Behind the Scenes, Trailers and web-films. 

2014 Emmy Nominee for Outstanding New Approaches - Drama Series.

The film has received 4 Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. One in Branded Content, two in Film Craft, and one in Cyber.

Nick Negroponte, founder of the MIT media lab, was the subject of one of our lecture series. This one we took to a whole new level. First we filmed Mr. Negroponte on location at the Boston Public Library and on green screen. Then, we took that footage and made Nick into a holographic lecture, replete with motion graphics and physical set pieces. This lecture was shown to a live audience and ported into a traveling hologram box. 

Interactive Annual 18, Winner, Information Design, “The Phoenix Lecture Series”, Communication Arts – March/April 2012

Cannes Lions, Shortlist, Design Lions, Exhibitions & Live Events, “Classroom of the Future”, University of Phoenix, The Phoenix Lecture Series

Webby Awards, Top 5, Augmented Reality, “The Phoenix Lecture Series” 

FCB West and Ad Council  

Smokey Bear  

Director: Dave Laden  

Production Company: Hungry Man  

Editorial: Lucas Eskin - Cut & Run

Venables Bell & Partners

Director: Psyop

For the December 14th debut of JAMBOX, Pereira & O’Dell collaborated with legendary American and Brazilian artists Snoop Dogg and Marcelo D2 to release the debut of the hip hop single “Obrigado, Brasil” (Portuguese for “Thank You, Brazil”).

Collaboration of the song itself was conducted internationally between Snoop and Marcelo via the JAMBOX Smart Speaker™, utilizing exclusive LIVEAUDIO™ technology.

In "1-800 Contacts" 2016 campaign, Tool of North America and director Benji Weinstein shot 4 spots that focus on the retailer's mobile app.

To support our new lecture series, we created this intro teaser with Giancarlo Esposito, extolling the idea behind the series.