DIVISION named Production Company of the Year at the D&AD Awards for 3rd year in a row

DIVISION has been named Production Company of the Year at the D&AD Awards 2023. DIVISION was awarded a Yellow Pencil, a Graphite Pencil and a Wood Pencil for Virgin Australia ‘Bring on Wonderful’ campaign developed with Special Group.

The remarkable achievement was only made possible by the work and trust of some key collaborators of DIVISION: Special and Virgin Australia who believed in rising director Sanjay De Silva for what became a major film in his career; Pharrell Williams, who gave François Rousselet the opportunity to craft a Black Pencil worthy masterpiece with the animation and VFX wizardry of Electric Theatre Collective, and the scissorhands of Nicolas Larrouquère who edited the video to perfection and the full support of I Am Other, Columbia Records/Sony Music US; Apple, who let François Rousselet populate the film with Mrzyk & Moriceau’s looney characters and creatures masterfully animated/integrated by Mathematic; CRTZ who gave full creative control to Walid Labri to make the best of their challenging budget (he actually did so); Little Simz’ stunning performance captured to perfection by Gabriel Moses and DOP Jake Gabbay; Calvin Klein and Dazed who commissioned Thibaut Grevet’s two landmark photo series; and Virgil Abloh’s friends and collaborators who shared their intimate memories in Mahfuz Sultan & Chloe Wayne Sultan’s VOGUE documentary.

DIVISION thanks the D&AD team for running a tribute video to Valentin Petit who passed away last week. Petit had, in a very short period of time, gained respect for his inspiring creative ideas and maverick directing style. He was in each and every conversation. He will forever be in DIVISION’s minds.