
SQSP
SUPER BOWL 2025
In 2025, I got my second crack at the Super Bowl. This time, we thought why not feature Barry Keoghan riding a donkey through rural Ireland, spreading the good word of Squarespace? The idea was to create a tone like James Joyce meets Monty Python, with Barry presenting beautifully designed websites to local business owners in a bygone time long before laptops existed.
The films were shot in late December on the three shortest days of the year in County Clare, Ireland. And while the towns, rolling hills, stone walls, and the cliffs of Moher gave us our ideal backdrop, it came with some hefty complications. Six-and-a-half hours of daylight per day, torrential rain, hail, a shut down shoot location due to gale force 9 winds—you name it, we had it.
Biscuit’s Steve Rogers masterfully navigated all of these challenges and managed to captured everything on location. The final films feature almost no VFX outside of the flying donkey, of course, and some background/screen replacements. Everyone in the film was authentically Irish, from Barry, to the pub drinkers, to the geese.
Post was a mad dash to the finish line. Editing was done by Rich Orrick and Chris O’Brien at Work Editorial. VFX was helmed by Kevin, and the grade was honed by Damien Vandercruyssen at Harbor. Photography, as always, was captured by our in-house photographer, Craig Reynolds.
This one put the whole team to the test, and everyone rose to the challenge, which made it all the sweeter to share with the world. And now many of us have experienced the unbridled joy of throwing a laptop.
PRESS &
RECOGNITION
NYT, Hollywood Reporter, Today Show, CNN, People, Forbes, Vogue, Esquire, USA Today Ad Meter, Yahoo, The Athletic, Quartz, Fox News, Adweek, LBB, AdAge, Indiewire, Tech Radar, Shots, Muse by Clio, Variety, Campaign Brief, AdAge (2) LBB (3), LBB (4),Shots (2) , The Drum: Ad of the Day, Irish Central Evoke, Nova, Irish Star, Marketing Beat, The Journal, LBB, LBB (2), Adweek, AdAge, Design Rush, Daily Motion, Donegal Daily, Commercials Review, MediaPost, Just Jared
CREDITS
Production: Biscuit Filmworks
Director: Steve Rogers
Founding Partner: Shawn Lacy
Executive Producer: Holly Vega
Producer: Lee Groombridge
Head of Production: Sean Moody
Director of Photography: Daniel Landin
Production Designer: Robin Brown
Costume Designer: Rosa Dias
Makeup Artist: Clare Lambe
Hair Stylist: Orla Carroll
Edit: Work Editorial
Editor: Rich Orrick
Editor: Chris O'Brien (BTS & Teaser)
Cutting Assistant: Joey Tuzzolino
Producer: Victor Medina
Head of Production: Chris Delarenal
Executive Producer: Alejandra Alarcon
Managing Director: Erica Thompson
VFX: KEVIN
Senior Executive Producer / Partner: Sue Troyan
ECD / Partner: Tim Davies
Sr. VFX Producer: Jami Schakel
VFX Coordinator: Julia Cicchinelli
Compositing Lead: Glyn Tebbut
Compositors: Gareth Parr, Ryan Raith, Sam Shiflett, Dan Akers, Susanne Scharping ,Gurvand Tanneau, Paul Downes
Color: Harbor
Senior Colorist: Damien van der Cruyssen
Senior Color Assistants: Joni Brandenburg, Scarlet Thiele
Color Assist: Elizabeth Hickey
Color EP: Nadia Dabibi
Senior Producer, Color: Brad Martin
Producer, Color: Maxwell Hadson
Production Coordinator: Devin Rojas
Illustration: Armando Veve
Represented by Levine/Leavitt
Audio Post: Heard City
Sound Design: Midnight Snack
Managing Partner: Gloria Pitagorsky
Lead Sound Designer & Mixer: Mike Vitacco
Executive Producer: Liana Rosenberg
Senior Producers: B Muñoz, Nick Duvarney
Producer: Dylan Stetson
Assistant Mixers: Oddy Litlabo, Zoltan Monori, Chenoa Tarin, Virginia Wright
Music Supervision: Good Ear Music Supervision
Musical Artist: Chris McMullan
Squarespace In-House Creative Team
Chief Creative Officer: David Lee
Group Creative Director: Mathieu Zarbatany
Creative Director: Alex Thompson
Creative Director: Pepe Hernandez
Creative Producer, Digital: Dianne Kim (Digital & Stills Post)
Head of Production: Erica Kung
Head of Business Affairs: Kiersten Bergstrom-Pavlik
Senior Business Affairs Manager: Madeleine Hale
Design Lead: Matt King
Senior Designer: Ryan Carrel
Designer: Anni Peters, Loli Vaccaro Biernat
Senior Production Designer: Alex Tutelian
Senior Motion Designer: Christina Lu
Staff Photographer: Craig Reynolds
Associate Photographer: Spencer Blake
Senior Retouchers: Sara Barr & Derek Kalisher
Production Designer: Alex Tutelian
My Role: Executive Producer