Dr Dolittle gets on his high horse

Otters wasting water at ‘bathtime’, beavers chewing down trees, hawks using up too many airmiles, overfishing bears – it’s not just we humans who are wrecking the planet. 

In this campaign, Man vs Otter, created by Rosapark Paris for the organic and sustainable products retailer Greenweez, French comic and environmentalist Nicolas Méryeux jokily chastises critters he meets in the forest for their slack eco-credentials. 

Parodying those who preach green without taking action, the film was directed by Tony Vernagallo through Partizan. Archive footage of animals in their natural habitat was used – and deftly edited by Terency Nury – to minimise disturbing them. 

Gilles Fichteberg, Rosapark co-founder and ECD commented: "Weeks of research were necessary for the documentary filmmakers to find scenes and reactions perfectly adapted to the comedy. We pushed the location scouting to the extreme so that the montage, composed of archival and filmed images, would be as credible as possible and give the impression that all the scenes were shot in the same place.”