

The first one. Invitations, stage, swag, sponsors. One team, twenty days.
This was the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival, the one Saudi Arabia had been waiting on for years. The pandemic pushed it back, and gathering and travel limits held it until 2021, when it finally opened in Jeddah. The marketing agency Impact BBDO carried the account, and they handed the execution to Vista with full trust. We had a very small team and about twenty days from brief to delivery, so we worked roughly 14 to 16 hours a day to make it. The first brief came in weak, and instead of just running with it we sat with them and consulted toward a far stronger outcome. It was a huge responsibility, and we treated it like one.
Backdrops, repeated-logo walls, lobby branding. Built, installed, taken down.



Totes, notebooks, gift boxes. Merch every guest kept.




Sponsor lanyards and co-branded gift sets, produced for festival partners.

RSIFF 21 · Sponsor Lanyard

RSIFF 21 · Gift Cover

RSIFF 21 · Lanyard Detail
Print finishes and signage close-ups, on-brand from far away and up close.


The invitation cards and folders were the piece we sweated the most, and they landed. The celebrities who received them were genuinely impressed, and some of them showed the invitations off on their own social media, which is the kind of reach you cannot buy. For a first edition with everything riding on the first impression, that mattered.
One team, one look, across every touchpoint a guest could hold. From the invitation in their hand to the lanyard on their chest and the box on their seat, it all came from us.