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Agency 4Creative/London
Production Company Serial Pictures
Director Bradford Young | (Director/DP)
Executive Producer Violaine Etienne
Production Company Somesuch
Executive Producer/Managing Director Seth Wilson
Producer Elena Camisa
Edit Company Final Cut/London

Producer Nikki Porter
Editor Amanda James
Assistant Editor Leah Burton
Assistant Editor James Stubbs
Post Production/VFX Time Based Arts
Executive Producer Tom Johnson
Producer Sian Jenkins
Colorist Simone Grattarola

VFX Supervisor Sam Osborne
VFX Supervisor Federico Vanone
Music/Music Supervision Leland Music
Sound Post Production Factory Studios/London
Producer Lucy Spong
Sound Design/Audio Post James Utting
Sound Design/Audio Post Anthony Moore
DP Rina Yang

Production Designer Nathan Von Parker
Casting Director Kharmel Cochrane
VFX Supervisor Bernardo Varela
Music Supervisor Abi Leland
Music Supervisor Toby Williams
Music Arranger/Producer Guy Farley
Campaign Producer/Athlete Casting Louise Oliver
Creative Scott Taylor

Creative Andy Shrubsole
Deputy Executive Creative Director/Creative Eoin McLaughlin
Designer Sarah Jones
Executive Creative Director/Creative Lynsey Atkin
Executive Producer/Athlete Casting Shananne Lane
HP James Turnham
HP Miketta Lane

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With 2012's Meet The Superhumans and 2016's We're The Superhumans, 4Creative not only created a cracking pair of ads, but changed the narrative of how Paralympians were viewed by sports fans; branding the Olympics a mere warm-up to the main event.

Maintaining the high quality, only this time focussing more on the 'human', is this year's Super. Human.; a powerful; montage of athletes that combines wit, willpower and wince-inducing imagery.

Kicking off with a neon-fulled fever-dream from parasport athlete Kadeena Cox, the film goes on to showcase the self-afflicted regimes of Ali Jawad, David Smith, Ellie Simmonds, Jody Cundy, newly crowned Wimbledon Ladies Wheelchair Doubles Champion Jordanne Whiley, Kadeena Cox and Kylie Grimes, shot with brutal intensity by Oscar-nominated cinematographer Bradford Young through Serial Pictures x Somesuch.

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Above: 4Creative's previous Paralympics films.

Backing a stupendous edit from Final Cut's Amanda James - all missed birthdays and burst blisters - is the inspired use of Bugsy Malone banger So You Want To Be A Boxer, this time re-arranged with a vocal performance by British artist Jay Prince.

The mayhem culminates in the cheeky, ingenious endline "To be a Paralympian there’s got to be something wrong with you", taking, in the words of 4Creative’s executive creative director Lynsey Atkin, "a piece of ill-used language, reimagining its intent and putting that power firmly in the hands of our elite athletes.”