Smartypants Pictures / Facing History—
Black History Month TVC
Facing History and Ourselves is an organization that uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. For Black History Month in 2021, Facing History was offered a :30 buy on CBS networks. As a reminder to celebrate Black History Month, not just in February, but all year long, archival footage was paired with audio and dynamic text of a quote by the late John Lewis.
My role was to design and animate all GFX within the video.
“For many years, all of us, black and white, young and old, men and women, Protestant, Catholic, and Jew, all of us, have been trying to hold this house we call America together. The rain may beat on our old house. Call it the house of Memphis. Call it the house of Tennessee, the house of Georgia, the house of New York. Call it the American house. Call it the world house.
We must never, ever leave the house. We must build one house. We must build one family. We must build a house that is strong enough for all of us, as we face history, as we face ourselves.”
— John Lewis
Black History Month TVC for Smartypants Pictures & Facing History
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