Toxic Influence
Wood Pencil / Integrated / Large Enterprise / 2023
Wood Pencil / PR / Digital & Social
Wood Pencil / Casting / Street Casting
Shortlist / Digital / Use of XR
Shortlist / Impact / Campaign Communications
Shortlist / PR / Multi Market
Shortlist / Direction / Long Form
Toxic Influence is an unscripted social experiment that explores and subverts the deepest of emotional bonds – between mothers and their daughters – by using cutting-edge deepfake technology to put the words of toxic influencers into the mouths of mothers. Using the exact words of toxic influencers, it shines a light on the harmful beauty advice that girls are shown daily on social media, which is causing a global self-esteem crisis in billions of girls. The film ends by encouraging parents to be their daughters’ greatest influence and to help them detoxify their feeds. It features real mothers and daughters who have never starred in anything before.