2012 Winners & Shortlists

ABOU ZOUZ

BrandCORNELLI
Product/ServiceICE CREAM
EntrantIMPACT BBDO Beirut, LEBANON
CategoryFoods
Entrant Company:IMPACT BBDO Beirut, LEBANON
Advertising Agency:IMPACT BBDO Beirut, LEBANON
Production Company:FILMWORKS Beirut, LEBANON

Brief Explanation

Based on a purely Lebanese insight, the ad tells the story of Jay-Jay a.k.a. Germanos Germanos, the new Cornelli spokesman. Jav-Jay comes to Lebanon and discovers Cornelli, so he decides to leave the States to settle in Lebanon because a country with no Corneili ice cream in not a country worth living in Along the way, Jay-Jay introduces us to Abou Zouz the taxi driver, the mayor and Samira his cousine's wife. In this copy, Jay-Jay introduces Cornelli to Abou Zouz, the taxi driver. He can’t get enough of it and since he drives a manual car which requires both hands, so he decides to buys a new automatic car just to be able to perfectly enjoy the ice cream. And he liiiiikes it! Cornelli makes a difference, which is why each one of them have changed their habits for it and it's about time everybody else did!

Credits

Name Role
Walid Kanaan Executive Creative Director
Hovsep Guerboyan Art Director
Omar Frangieh Agency Producer
Roula Safi Account Supervisor
Charlie Aoun Producer
Mazen Fayad Director
Serena Chemali Sound Design/Arrangement
Roy Assaf Account Manager