During the Letter Writing Marathon, people send handwritten letters calling for the liberation of political prisoners from all over the world. To support this initiative, we created a spot where we showed the real effect receiving a large stack of letters has on both prisoners and captors. With a production budget of 0 CZK and a very limited media budget (just under 50 000 CZK) we managed to improve the Marathon website traffic fivefold, resulting in 21 000 people writing a letter of their own.

Entrant: VMLY&R and Creative Embassy
Agency: VMLY&R
Advertiser: Amnesty International
Brand: Amnesty International
Production: Creative Embassy
Chief Creative Officer Miloš Kočí
Copywriter Jaroslav Kratochvíla, Dušan Koutský
Photographer Matúš Tóth
Art Director Alena Srostlíková, Tomáš Bajer
The team: Prokop Motl
Director of Photography Radim Střelka, Filip Kettner, Jakub Myšk
Producer Petr Oplatka, Simona Gregorini, Jana Brožková
Manager Lenka Oršulová
Social Media Planner Tereza Kovandová
Executive Director Ondřej Duka