Epoch’s directors employed meticulous craft to address important issues in work ranging from epic costume dramas to PSAs.

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In Zillow’s “The Journey,” Martin de Thurah crafted Fig's fantastical tale of a girl and her life-size toy friends making a harrowing trip to a new destination, to show the impact on kids of a house move. Production combined a remote shoot in Prague with complex VFX; the resulting spot was reminiscent of a kids’ movie.

At the other end of the scale, new director Bianca Poletti (who made the move from a staff role at Epoch) highlighted the experience of Black and Latinx youth for Planned Parenthood with real authenticity in a series of PSAs that had a small budget but a big message.

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And yet more epic production values were on display in Philippe Tempelman’s “I Bet It My Way” for Betway, which turned the world of betting into a series of Hollywood-style costume drama vignettes.