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Bronze Award
Malekus. The Last 600.
The Rainforest Lab
Costa Rica
2025
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Entrant Company
BETC HAVAS
Entry Type
Product/Service
Program
Clio Awards 2025
Medium Type
Professional
Medium
Creative Commerce
Category
Partnerships/Co-Creation
The Maleku tribe has been endangered for more than 10 years in Costa Rica. They are the smallest indigenous tribe in the country and their culture is destined to disappear in 15 years because no other Costa Ricans have contact with them besides farmers and miners occupying their territory. Hiqui, a Maleku influencer, battles to keep their culture alive through her content, showing their ancestral way of life, inviting the people to visit them. But more than being part of social media, she wants them to be part of Costa Ricans’ culture. The Rainforest Lab and Hiqui created five products based on the Maleku’s ancestral techniques to use as an invitation to know their culture and visit their tribe. Using Hiqui as the face of the campaign, making sure it didn’t feel as cultural appropriation, but instead as a platform for the Malekus to spread their culture. And we made it, the Maleku culture was impregnated into Costa Rican culture in art, music, tattoos, literature and so much more that even the Costa Rican Government recognized them as Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Credits
Advertising Agency
BETC HAVAS
Sao Paulo
Brand
The Rainforest Lab
San Jose
Advertising Agency
Havas Costa Rica
San Antonio
Advertising Agency
BETC HAVAS
Sao Paulo
Agency Network
Havas Creative
Paris
Holding Company
Havas
Paris
Production Company
Fulfierros
San José
Music/Sound Company
Quiet City Music + Sound
São Paulo
Chief Creative Officer
Josafat Padilla Vega
Havas Costa Rica
Chief Creative Officer
Erh Ray
BETC HAVAS
Founder
Mariana García
The Rainforest Lab
VP Creative Director
Marcelo Bruzzesi
BETC HAVAS
Executive Creative Director
Nelson Moya Alvarado
Havas Costa Rica
Creative Director
Vladimir Badilla Contreras
Havas Costa Rica
Creative Director
Sebastian Quiros Solis
Havas Costa Rica
Creative Director
Juliano Almeida
BETC HAVAS
Creative Director
Luiz Gimenes (Libra)
BETC HAVAS
Creative Director
Flavio Tamashiro
BETC HAVAS
Creative Director
Roberto Morales
Havas Costa Rica
Creative Director
Yeudy Guido Arce
Havas Costa Rica
Creative Director
Luis Valverde Jimenez
Havas Costa Rica
Creative Team
Jose Maria Murillo Ocampo
Havas Costa Rica
Creative Team
Paz Quiros Lopez
Havas Costa Rica
Graphic Designers
Carolina Rojas Carillo, Melissa Rojas Torres, Fiorela Porras Mora, Andres Lopez Chevez, Sophia Meza Cascante, Mattias Leandro Ramirez, Carolina Vela Cartin, Glori Blanco Donato, Jose Campos Monge
Havas Costa Rica
Client Services
Douglas Jimenez DiPalma
Havas Costa Rica
Media
Gabriela Navas Zamora
Havas Costa Rica
Strategy Team
Eduardo Ruiz Mora, Daniel Gonzalez Castro
Havas Costa Rica
Production Director
Ana Paula Casagrande
BETC HAVAS
Agency Producer
Paula Pereira
BETC HAVAS
Editing
Gabriel Aparecido Barbosa
Motion Graphics
Joao Henrique Leao
Music Creatives
Chris Jordao, Darren Solomon
Quiet City Music + Sound
Sound Design Executive Production / Producers / Client Services / Coordination
Xanna D’aguiar, Karina Vadasz
Quiet City Music + Sound
Mixing and Post-production
Leandro Barduzzi, André Melges, Pedro Moura
Quiet City Music + Sound
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