//Thirteen & Co’s Lester Jones’ powerful film ‘The One’ released on International Women’s Day
//Thirteen & Co director Lester Jones has launched his powerful new film The One on International Women’s Day.
The One is an emotive and elegant art film designed to explore a key issue of our times. It’s a visual discourse inspired by the monumental ‘Me Too’ movement, showing differing visages of female strength, beauty, power and identity that unite to empower and inspire.
The project was devised and created to spread an inspiring message of solidarity, harmony and power at a time when the world needs it, and is aptly being released on March 8th, International Women’s Day 2019.
The film interweaves stylised vision featuring vignettes of female cast members with an emotive and impassioned script with the intricately beautiful track Elevator Song from British artist and composer Keaton Henson who graciously offered his work for use in this project.
All shot on 16mm film in Sydney, with accompanying promotional stills all shot on 35mm film, The One is a message for us all.
For commercial enquiries and Lester’s avails, contact EP Roy De Giorgio – roy@13co.io.
Director and Writer: Lester Jones
Produc4on Collective: //Thirteen & Co
DoP: Campbell Brown
Editor: Lucas Vazquez
Colourist: Fergus Rotherham
Music: Elevator Song by Keaton Henson
Sound Design: Georgia Collins
Sound House: Electric Sheep
Voiceover: Georgia Small
Emily Rotondo
Thanks To:
Kate Stenhouse/Electric Sheep Music, Kult Models, Lemac, Kodak, Canterbury Ice Rink, PCYC Woolloomooloo and LiLle Albion Guest House
21 Comments
Clearly a strategy to drive view count, like last year’s gay BBQ spot from whatsisname. Pick an event or date, make a tangential film, release on said day. We’re all wise to this.
would have been better if the director was female
I like the music track, but it’s clearly ripping off the soundtrack to the Aussie film The Hunter…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELRoOehdolc
From an execution standpoint I think this is really good.
Now follow through and get female directors on your roster.
And ONE of your key creatives is women? Thank you for mansplaining women’s experience to us in a film. Ha!
This is just a mood reel with a poem annnnndddd I fell alseep
Who wrote this piece of marketing dribble?
Seriously?
IWD is the one day where female directors are given the chance to direct.
It’s disappointing to see this chance being handed over to a male.
Classic ad industry move.
Surely this issue was raised in pre?
“This chance being handed over to a male”
Pull your heads out of your collective derrières. This was a passion project by a director, pulled together and executed on a shoe string. Something he believed in, a vision he wanted to bring to life. There was no ‘strategy’ involved, just the wish to make something beautiful. And all you lot can do is bitch that he’s not a woman, because you’re bored on a Friday. These comments exemplify the attitude of this industry in Australia. Cut the tall poppy guys…. cut the tall poppy…
You’re right. It would have been better if they’d done nothing. Step it up a bit, women – you’re allowing this to be produced in your honour. Your silence is complicity.
You’re on the money friend. Give credit where it’s due. This ‘society’ we live in is very sick. Identity politics is all the social(ist)-media generation understand. Getting very tiresome.
I know no more about this project than what is written above. It says it’s art project not a commercial. Yes it appears to be directed by a male. So we complain when males don’t respect females. But now here is a male showing scenes of female empowerment seeking to put an inspiring message out…and everybody still complains and whinges. “Strategy” how horrible would it be for the film’s view count to climb with viewers watching this positivity. What a sad industry we have.
Just chiming in from the other side of the Pacific. Work like this would be celebrated here in San Fran – one of the birth places of gender equality and diversity. Wikipedia has just educated me on “Tall Poppy”. You will never been advocates of great work and compete on the world stage demoting those who try and succeed.
Maybe no one would be pissed off if the film was actually good or indicative of a female experience? No one took issue with Daniel Wolfe’s #bloodnormal and that was because it was a beautifully made, powerful of work that expressed a truth of female experience. Super refreshing female-centric work – directed by a male.
However, this piece feels like a poorly considered collage of women’s faces that #IWD was tacked onto for some PR. And just maybe, would have been better if it was directed by a female director? God forbid.
“And just maybe, would have been better if it was directed by a female director? God forbid.”
Yeah, exactly. An idea that a male director conceived, wrote and directed would have been better if he’d not directed it at all. Do you even notice what you’re saying? Instead of celebrating this film for what it is, you’re more concerned with the director’s gender. How, um, archaic of you.
What did I just watch? No thank you. Use another day to forward your male career. That had nothing to do with IWD
Thanks for all the support!
good job all round , great craft from all depts , nice sentiment , nice cast -blast the tall poppies into weeds .
or just ignore the critics – usually the best option.
I liked this. Thank you for making it.
I feel its time Campaign Brief should consider making people put their name to their comments.