Judge's comments:

Even though there was less to choose from this year, the standard of this piece of work is still incredibly high. A unique and beautifully executed short film that was an easy decision to award the purple to. A lovingly crafted short film that pulls at the heartstrings. The judges were struck by the emotional connection created through the narrative and character performance - all wrapped in a beautifully tactile, storybook-like rendering quality.

Description:

Hospitals United for Sick Kids brings together a national alliance of children’s hospitals, foundations and paediatric services to fund innovative research, equipment, treatments, services, and other projects to help get kids home from hospital sooner. The organisation is the only charity that is for all kids, all diseases, all injuries.

There were three key issues: First, the name 'Curing Homesickness', though emotive, wasn’t widely recognised. Second, with 48,000 registered charities in Australia, corporates were suffering charity fatigue. Third, while effective, 'Mum’s Sause' lacked alternative fundraising avenues.

We needed a rebrand, with a clear, unambiguous name and a new campaign with distinctive brand assets that could really connect. When it came to the campaign, we needed an emotional articulation of the organisation’s core mission: curing homesickness, that isolating, alienating feeling of being far from home. At a practical level, we also needed a simple, ownable brand device that had the flexibility to appear on, and beyond, any co-branded products.