Made for the Cannes Lion of St. Marks Award and—more specifically—for the Lion herself, Colleen DeCourcy.
Here is the video in all its 4K glory (but without Colleen and the very nice British interviewer… You win some, you lose some.):
My huge thanks to Kathy Hepinstall and Abigail Hogue for this. Please watch. https://t.co/CLa2DYEHB6
— DeCourcy (@DeCourcy) June 26, 2022
Fun facts:
We did not understand the assignment. At all. This was supposed to be a ~10 second film saying nice things to go in a three-minute montage. They bent the rules and played our film during Colleen’s seminar instead.
The moral of this story is do not read instructions.
From concept to filming to editing to coloring to scoring, this took two days. It was a very busy two days.
It was 102 degrees out and I felt like I was going to die. I was not even the one in the lion suit. That’s how much we love you, Colleen.
Kathy fell out of the tree.
She’s ok.
It was really hard to get Michael Douglas and Wayne Knight to reprise their roles in the Basic Instinct scene, but Hayes Reed convinced them with his sultry stare.
Script/Voiceover/Lion: the legendary Kathy Hepinstall Parks
Composer: Zach Boyd
Sharon Stone Lion: Hayes Reed
Hands that fluffed the lion: Michael Parks
Film/Edit/Color/Composite: Me