Dubois, who was killed at the Bataclan, wrote the Renault spot “Go Anywhere, Go Everywhere.”
Death may have taken the ad copywriter Fabrice Dubois away from the world, but his professional acumen and creativity has given him rebirth at Epica awards on Tuesday in Berlin.
Fabrice Dubois’s much appreciated Renault ad by Publicis Conseil won gold in the Epica Awards, only to the surprise of the judges that the copywriter is no more.
Dubois’s The Renault spot, titled “Go Anywhere, Go Everywhere,” took top honors in the international award show’s animation category.
But the twist of the fate, Dubois was not alive to cherish this award, which left jury in tears and audience in shock.
Dubois was one of two employees at Publicis Counseil killed in Le Bataclan, the Parisian theater where more than 100 people were held hostage. Four gunmen entered the front of the 1,500-seat theater, dressed all in black and armed with AK-47 rifles, calmly opened fire randomly at patrons who dived for cover on the floor. Eighty-nine people died in the concert hall.
“It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that we learn have won gold in the Epica Awards in category animation film,” Publicis Counseil wrote on its Facebook page.