'Gay Mountain': Channel 4 Celebrates Homosexual Olympians with Dancing 'Bear'
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Fred Bear and Bearlesque, the U.K.'s premier boylesque troupe, get weird for broadcaster Channel 4, with "Gay Mountain," a song-and-dance sequence, complete with a light-bulb rainbow. The campy performance celebrates the gays who will be skiing and luging in Sochi during this year's Winter Olympics.
Created out of the broadcaster's in-house agency 4Creative, the film is just the latest in advertisers' and agencies' creative efforts to protest against Russian anti-gay laws. Just today, Google posted a rainbow-colored logo above anti-discrimination lines from the Olympics Charter. For Christmas last year, agency Mother in the U.K. sent a set of Russian nesting dolls modeled after famous Gay British icons to the Kremlin and the Russian Embassy in London.
Credits
- Date
- Feb 07, 2014
- Brand :
- Channel 4
- Client :
- Channel 4
- Agency :
- 4Creative
- Executive Creative Director :
- John Allison
- Executive Creative Director :
- Chris Bovill
- Creative Director :
- Alice Tonge
- Creative :
- Emily Churches
- Creative :
- Stevie Rowing-Parker
- Production Company :
- 4Creative
- Director :
- Alice Tonge
- Visual Effects :
- MPC
- Grade :
- George K
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