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awesomenessness is a creative studio founded by Kalle Hellzén, a Swedish-born film director who built and ran the U.S. HQ of the famous fashion/creative collective ACNE. Kalle is known for his visually distinct, offbeat, character-driven comedy work for major players like Nike, Skittles, Burger King, Toyota and Die Antwoord, and has got a great track record of incorporating tech to push the frontier of narrative media. He’s got one foot firmly rooted in Swedish new wave cinema and the other somewhere wholly different: influenced by generative AI, David Hockney, Terry Gilliam and Stanley Kubrick. It’s a fun, colourful and unique approach that immerses the viewer in fantastical realities inhabited by the underdogs and eccentrics that we all root for and, somewhere deep down, fundamentally identify with. His work unapologetically pushes the boundaries of humour until it’s just the right amount of wrong.

Kalle also has had a long career on the agency side, among others at Wieden+Kennedy, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, R/GA and 180 Amsterdam. His boundary pushing creativity and use of innovation have earned him numerous awards and heavy metals, as well as jury duties on major awards shows. His work has been featured in major news outlets like the Guardian, CNN and Reuters. Kalle enjoys oil painting to explore a life beyond screens and cleanse his creative palate.

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Burger King

Burger King

Meet Gunter 'Grill Thrill' Jaeger, a man in tireless pursuit of beef adventure.

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Skittles

Skittles

What do you do when a Skittles colored bear in red adidas sneakers attacks your village? You stab it to death with a pitchfork and rejoice in its offerings

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Alfa Romeo

Alfa Romeo

The sloth is just like an Italian man: only active around beautiful women and fast cars - just like the Alfa Romeo.

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Toyota

Toyota

Great filmmaking 101: a comedy-based interactive Chrome experiment leveraging HTML5, real-time physics, and multi-user socket communication.

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Die Antwoord

Die Antwoord

A Twitter powered adaptive text-to-speech videoclip starring South Africa’s finest.

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HK Foods

HK Foods

You are what you eat. Apparently.

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Smart

Smart

"Those who don't like, don't exist".

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Tele2

Tele2

Some people pay too much for their mobile phone bill. That's monkey stupid.

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Nike

Nike

Get schooled in the art of running and peeing by none other than Paul Tergat. Watch Nike's film and become a pro.

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Citroën

Citroën

Most diesel cars weren't exactly known to be a clean energy alternative; on the contrary, they were literally the hogs of the road. But no more.

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Cadbury

Cadbury

Lesson learned, listen to the locals - you gotta earn that chocolate.

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Jägermeister

Jägermeister

What if Jägermeister turns their well-known slogan "Go Wild!" around? You'll get a topsy-turvy (and quite scary) world: "not Jägermeister"

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