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2014 American film
First Kiss
Directed byTatia Pilieva
StarringNatalia Bonifacci
Luke Cook
Corby Griesenbeck
Jill Larson
Marianna Palka
Karim Saleh
Ingrid Schram
Nicole Simone
Soko
Elisabetta Tedla
CinematographyAndre Lascaris
Edited byGarret Price
Music bySoko
Release date
  • 10 March 2014 (2014-03-10)
Running time3 min
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

First Kiss is a 2014 American short film directed and produced by Tatia Pilieva. The film has music composed by Soko.

The project was born of PIlieva's collection of photographs of herself and husband cinematographer Andre Lascaris kissing over the years of their relationship. It inspired the idea of capturing first kisses on film, and the idea came to life when Pilieva's friend Melissa Coker, the fashion designer behind WREN, reached out about doing a film short to promote her Fall 2014 collection. Pilieva recruited 20 single friends, dressed in WREN, to meet and kiss for the first time on set as five cameras rolled continuously. Launched online on March 11, 2014, the three-and-a-half-minute short film went viral and as of May 17, 2014, had 59 million views. As of July 27, 2023, the video has over 151.7 million views.

Some backlash emerged when viewers learned the film was a clothing ad, although the company was mentioned in the opening and closing credits. WREN sales increased by almost 14,000 percent.

Cast

References

  1. "First Kiss, il video più virale del momento è… uno spot". tiragraffi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2015-10-24.
  2. "Film captures first kiss of 20 strangers". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
  3. ^ Pilieva, Tatia (2014-03-17). "The Story Behind "First Kiss"". HuffPost. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  4. ^ Koblin, John (2014-03-14). "A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, Unless It's an Ad for a Clothing Company". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  5. Coker, Melissa. "How We Made A Viral Video Of Strangers Kissing And Increased Sales By Nearly 14,000%". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-07-02.
  6. "First Kiss". film-english.com. Retrieved 2015-10-24.
  7. "First Kiss needs to be remade with grotty, normal people". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2015-10-24.

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