Teenage Dream
Award: Yellow Pencil
Yellow Pencil / Casting / Street Casting / 2022
Award: Graphite Pencil
Graphite Pencil / Entertainment / Scripted Short Form
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Sound Design & Use of Music / Adapted Music
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Entertainment / Use of Talent & Influencers
Award: Shortlist
Shortlist / Film / Health & Wellbeing
To demonstrate how gun violence shatters the carefree innocence of youth, Sandy Hook Promise partnered with a brave team of 11 school shooting survivors to re-record Katy Perry’s famous ode to adolescence, Teenage Dream. Juxtaposed against the teenage survivors, the context of the original upbeat lyrics change and begin to eerily describe their traumatic experiences of gun violence.
What did the judges have to say?
"Smart use of the lyrics from the song, Teenage Dream, to tell a completely different story of the teenagers today. Very compelling and powerful."
Brian Ma, Executive Creative Director, TBWA\Media Arts Lab Shanghai
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