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  • Abbys 2022: Five more industry doyens join the jury chair

    Abbys 2022: Five more industry doyens join the jury chair

    Mumbai: The Abbys award governing council has assembled a power packed jury chair, rounding it out with five more industry veterans. They include Carlton D’Silva, Paresh Chaudhry, Praveen Someshwar, Rajat Ojha and Rekha Nigam, who have joined the jury chair this year.

    House of Awe and Musemakers Marketing Services co-founder Carlton D’Silva

    After a long stint at Hungama, Carlton now oversees the development of Film Marketing in House of Awe and Brand Marketing in Musemakers. Awards won include Cannes Lions, The Abbys, Kyoorius, Olive Crown Awards, New York Ad Festival.

    Value 360 group executive director Paresh Chaudhry

    Paresh heads Value 360, India’s fastest growing and the most awarded PR agency. He was formerly group president and chief brand custodian at RIL. Paresh has judged at the Cannes Lions and Abbys, ET Brand Equity and Sabre Asia. Paresh is the founder president of the Indian Forum of Corporate Communicators (IFCC) 

    HT Media Group MD & CEO Praveen Someshwar

    Someshwar is busy transforming HT into a new-age media group, with digital initiatives and innovation being the driving forces. Under his leadership, HT Media Group is well on course to become a digital first organisation, creating multiple agile business units focusing on new niche domains. Praveen was earlier with Pepsico heading their North and South East Asia businesses.

    Gamitronics CEO Rajat Ojha

    A passionate techie, Ojha has worked at Hungama and currently heads Gamitronics. Awards won include Indie Innovation Award, Casual Connect, Hamburg, Game of the year for Kung Fu Dhamaka Google Maiden Canvas Showcase SFVR Game of The Year.

    Sutradhar Media & Communications director Rekha Nigam

    Rekha has headed language dept in several agencies. She won the Ad Club Campaign of the year for Salaam Bombay and New York Ad festival gold for Ruf n Tuf jeans. She was programming head of Sony Entertainment Television, screenplay and dialogue writer for major Hindi films like “Parineeta” and “Laaga Chunari Mein Daag.”

    Earlier, the  award governing council announced the inclusion of MullenLowe Lintas group chief creative officer and chairman Amer Jaleel, Elephant Design co-founder and director Ashwini Deshpande, Havas chairman and chief creative officer Bobby Pawar, BC Web Wise founder and MD Chaaya Bharadwaj, DDB Mudra Group chief creative officer Rahul Mathew, and Leo Burnett CEO and chief creative officer for South Asia Rajdeepak Das on the Abbys 2022 jury panel. The panel this year also boasts of three international jury chairs namely, Menno Kluin, Aricio Fortes, and Myra Nussbaum, from the global advertising industry, who will be judging the Abbys 2022.

  • IFFI announces international jury comprising eminent filmmakers

    IFFI announces international jury comprising eminent filmmakers

    NEW DELHI: The 51st edition of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), to be held in Goa from 16-24 January, has announced its international jury. The panel comprises eminent filmmakers from across the world, like Pablo Cesar (Argentina) as chairman, Prasanna Vithanage (Sri Lanka), Abu Bakr Shawky (Austria), Priyadarshan (India), and Rubaiyat Hossain (Bangladesh).

    Pablo Cesar is an Argentine filmmaker. He has contributed to the African cinema by making the critically acclaimed films, Equinox, the Garden of the Roses, Los dioses de agua and Aphrodite, the Garden of the Perfumes.

    Prasanna Vithanage is a Sri Lankan filmmaker. He is considered one of the pioneers of the third generation of Sri Lankan cinema. He has directed eight feature films including Death on a Full Moon Day (1997), August Sun (2003), Flowers of the Sky (2008) & With You, Without You (2012). His films have won many prestigious national and international awards and also enjoyed commercial success in his country. In Vithanage’s early theatre work, he translated and produced plays by international writers, adapted works of world literature to film. He has battled against censorship in Sri Lanka and worked as an educator of cinema who has conducted many master classes in the subcontinent for young filmmakers and enthusiasts.

    Abu Bakr Shawkyor ‘A.B.’ Shawky is an Egyptian-Austrian writer and director. His first feature film, Yomeddine, was selected to participate in the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, where it was screened in the main competition section and competed for the Palme d'Or.

    Rubaiyat Hossain is a Bangladeshi film director, writer and producer. She is notable for the films Meherjaan, Under Construction and Made in Bangladesh.

    Priyadarshan is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning over three decades, he has directed more than 95 films in various Indian languages, predominantly in Malayalam and Hindi, while also having done six films in Tamil and two in Telugu.

    A total of 224 films will be screened under different sections at the 51st IFFI, which will be organised in a hybrid format in the wake of the pandemic. Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round, starring actor Mads Mikkelsen, will be the opening film. Japanese historical drama Wife of a Spy, directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, will also have its India premiere at the upcoming nine-day film gala.

  • Cannes jury to have nine members headed by Pedro Almodovar

    Cannes jury to have nine members headed by Pedro Almodovar

    NEW DELHI: The renowned American actor and producer Will Smith and famous French composer Gabriel Yared are among the members of the jury for the 70th Festival de Cannes under the presidency of Spanish director, screenwriter and producer Pedro Almodóvar. The Jury will be made up of eight key figures from the seventh art – cinema – coming from all over the world.

    Four women and four men will thus help Pedro Almodóvar select from among the films in competition. The winners will be announced on 28 May 2017 at the Closing Ceremony, following which the top award Palme d’or will be awarded in the presence of the winning team.

    The other jury members are: German Director, Screenwriter and Producer Maren Ade; American actress and producer Jessica Chastain; Chinese actress and producer Fan Bingbing; French singer, actress, screenwriter and director Agnès Jaoui; South Korean Director, Screenwriter and Producer Park Chan-wook; and Italian Director and Screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino.

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  • Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    MUMBAI  The Awards Governing Council of Goafest 2016 has declared the jury chairs for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations. DDB Mudra chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral will chair the OOH/Ambient Jury of Creative Abby,  J. Walter Thompson  CCO Senthil Kumar will chair the integrated category.  Reliance Broadcast Network  CEO Tarunl Katial will be jury chair for the  branded content category while Madison PR  CEO Paresh Chaudhury will chair the Public Relations category.

    Dabral  has over two decades of experience in advertising industry and has curated many winning campaigns for major local, regional and multinational brands.  He began his career in Lintas and after a brief stint in Mudra Delhi, went on to have an extremely successful stint at Ogilvy Mumbai. He then went on to head Ogilvy in Malaysia and make it one of the top creative offices in the region.   Thereafter, as the chairman and ECD of Ogilvy Singapore, he helped the agency become the hottest agency in the region and the no.1 creative office of the WPP global network. In 2007 he led the agency for it to become the third highest awarded agency in the world at Cannes Lions. He is a prolific winner in most of the regional and international award shows like Cannes, Clio, D & AD, One Show, LIA, Andy Awards, AdFest, Spikes etc,

    Kumar has been celebrated in India and recognized globally for the ability to amplify deep local insights into simple ideas that solve complicated marketing challenges. He has won India’s first and second Film Gold Lions at The Cannes Lions International Festival in 2009.  His ideas have helped build several brands in India including: Levi’s, Nike, Google, Ford, etc. Kumar can be spotted in several creative books under the classifications of writer, creative director, designer, photographer and film maker. His work has risen beyond successful marketing case studies to mine over 100 international creative awards.

    Katial is at the helm of one of India’s youngest media houses and is considered to be one of the most successful executives in the Indian media industry. A stint in adverting followed by over a decade of experience in broadcast with brands like Star and Sony and now Reliance Broadcast, Katial has successfully led high decibel launches of industry tent poles and has always been able to rightly tap the consumer’s pulse. Other significant achievements in Katial’s cap include being voted the NewsCorp Achiever for Asia and being included among the best in the ‘India Today 30 on 30’ list. He was also part of the team that won the first Media Gold at Cannes.

    Chaudhry has over 24 years of brand communication and reputation management experience across industries and key global markets and is also founder president of the “Indian Forum Of  Corporate Communicators” (IFCC).   Chaudhry’s last assignment was as group president -corporate communications, Reliance Industries, prior to which he was head of communications at HUL and communications leader, Unilever South Asia.  From building the corporate brand of Ranbaxy in North America, Europe and India, to aligning regional communication country teams to bring alive ‘the transition to one Unilever brand’ and driving the corporate name change from “HLL” to “HUL”, to putting together systems and processes for effective global (internal and external) communications at RIL, Chaudhry has led communications for many iconic and tentpole campaigns in India.

     

  • Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    Goafest Creative Abby jury chairs announced for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations

    MUMBAI  The Awards Governing Council of Goafest 2016 has declared the jury chairs for Integrated, OOH/Ambient, Branded Content and Public Relations. DDB Mudra chairman and CCO Sonal Dabral will chair the OOH/Ambient Jury of Creative Abby,  J. Walter Thompson  CCO Senthil Kumar will chair the integrated category.  Reliance Broadcast Network  CEO Tarunl Katial will be jury chair for the  branded content category while Madison PR  CEO Paresh Chaudhury will chair the Public Relations category.

    Dabral  has over two decades of experience in advertising industry and has curated many winning campaigns for major local, regional and multinational brands.  He began his career in Lintas and after a brief stint in Mudra Delhi, went on to have an extremely successful stint at Ogilvy Mumbai. He then went on to head Ogilvy in Malaysia and make it one of the top creative offices in the region.   Thereafter, as the chairman and ECD of Ogilvy Singapore, he helped the agency become the hottest agency in the region and the no.1 creative office of the WPP global network. In 2007 he led the agency for it to become the third highest awarded agency in the world at Cannes Lions. He is a prolific winner in most of the regional and international award shows like Cannes, Clio, D & AD, One Show, LIA, Andy Awards, AdFest, Spikes etc,

    Kumar has been celebrated in India and recognized globally for the ability to amplify deep local insights into simple ideas that solve complicated marketing challenges. He has won India’s first and second Film Gold Lions at The Cannes Lions International Festival in 2009.  His ideas have helped build several brands in India including: Levi’s, Nike, Google, Ford, etc. Kumar can be spotted in several creative books under the classifications of writer, creative director, designer, photographer and film maker. His work has risen beyond successful marketing case studies to mine over 100 international creative awards.

    Katial is at the helm of one of India’s youngest media houses and is considered to be one of the most successful executives in the Indian media industry. A stint in adverting followed by over a decade of experience in broadcast with brands like Star and Sony and now Reliance Broadcast, Katial has successfully led high decibel launches of industry tent poles and has always been able to rightly tap the consumer’s pulse. Other significant achievements in Katial’s cap include being voted the NewsCorp Achiever for Asia and being included among the best in the ‘India Today 30 on 30’ list. He was also part of the team that won the first Media Gold at Cannes.

    Chaudhry has over 24 years of brand communication and reputation management experience across industries and key global markets and is also founder president of the “Indian Forum Of  Corporate Communicators” (IFCC).   Chaudhry’s last assignment was as group president -corporate communications, Reliance Industries, prior to which he was head of communications at HUL and communications leader, Unilever South Asia.  From building the corporate brand of Ranbaxy in North America, Europe and India, to aligning regional communication country teams to bring alive ‘the transition to one Unilever brand’ and driving the corporate name change from “HLL” to “HUL”, to putting together systems and processes for effective global (internal and external) communications at RIL, Chaudhry has led communications for many iconic and tentpole campaigns in India.

     

  • Adfest 2016: Dentsu’s Yoshiro Yagi is Design & Print Craft Lotus jury president

    Adfest 2016: Dentsu’s Yoshiro Yagi is Design & Print Craft Lotus jury president

    MUMBAI: Dentsu Inc CD Yoshiro Yagi has been appointed Design Lotus & Print Craft Lotus jury president at Adfest 2016.

     

    “I’m really glad that I can come back to Adfest as the Jury President for Design and Print Craft. I love the different aesthetics that originate in Asia, and I’m very excited about discovering new works created by some of the best designers and art directors in the world,” says Yagi.

     

    Yagi is one of the most internationally awarded art directors in Japan, and perhaps in Asia. After leaving high school temporarily to hone his talents as a rhythmic gymnast, he later discovered his passion for creativity and enrolled at Kyoto University of Art and Design. After graduating, he joined Dentsu in 2001 to start his career as an art director. Since then, he has won over 150 awards including two Grand Prix at Adfest, Best of Design at One Show, and 28 Lions at Cannes.

     

    He has worked for major clients such as East Japan Railway, Panasonic, Honda and Menicon.

     

    “Yoshihiro has an eye for simplicity, but he is also fascinated with mixing and editing different media forms, which is what makes him unique as an art-trained Creative Director. Not only does he understand the principles of good design, but he also knows when to break the rules, which is why he’ll make such an excellent Jury President of Design and Print Craft at Adfest 2016,” adds Adfest president Jimmy Lam.

  • Kyoorius unveils jury for 2015 Design Awards

    Kyoorius unveils jury for 2015 Design Awards

    MUMBAI: Kyoorius has unveiled the jury for the third edition of the Kyoorius Design Awards. The jury sessions will take place from 6-8 August, 2015 at the GD Goenka University in Gurgaon.

     

    The 2015 Kyoorius Design Awards Jury comprise the following:

     

    – Jury Foreman: GBH founder/co-creative director, and D&AD president Mark Bonner 

    – The Brewhouse founder Emilia Bergmans

    – Y&R Malaysia executive creative director Gigi Lee

    – Rice Creative founding partner and creative director Joshua Breidenbach

    – Codesign founding director, creative lead and designer Rajesh Dahiya

    – FITCH chairman and chief creative officer Tim Greenhalgh

    – Eureka Moment Design Company founder director, National Design Committee – ASSOCHAM ’10-’11 chairperson, and Mumbai Chapter – Association of Designers of India president Shanoo Bhatia

     

    This year, the Kyoorius Design Awards received a total of 488 entries across all categories, from independent studios, freelance designers, brand consultancies and agencies all over India, including Alok Nanda and Company, Codesign, Umbrella Design, NH1 Design, Locopopo, Kahani Designworks, RocketscienceLab, FITCH, DDB Mudra, JWT, Ogilvy and Star TV, amongst others.

     

    The Kyoorius Design awards recognize both comprehensive design projects as well as individual components. A specialist jury – selected together with D&AD and composed of the top creatives from across the world – will judge all submitted entries according to the Kyoorius and D&AD awards criteria. 

     

    The jury members will gather to review, discuss and elect the best of the best over three intensive days. The voting is done in private and never by a show of hands.

     

    Additionally, in their continued effort towards providing a truly neutral and ethical platform, the jury sessions will remain open for professionals, media and the community on 6-7 August, along with three jury tours conducted per day.

     

    Kyoorius founder CEO Rajesh Kejriwal said, “With the third edition of the Kyoorius Design Awards, we’re thrilled with the response as well as the range and quality of work submitted. The dynamic mix of international and Indian jury members balance global standards with local context and I’m sure they will have some tough decisions to make next week.”

  • Cannes Lions announces 2015 jury presidents

    Cannes Lions announces 2015 jury presidents

    MUMBAI: The biggest and the boldest festival of creativity, Cannes Lions, has announced the presidents that will lead juries at the 2015 edition of the awards.

     

    Commenting on the appointments, Lions Festivals’ chairman Terry Savage said, “We have always selected the most awarded, respected global creative leaders to guide our juries. This year, it is particularly exciting to see so many women numbered among that elite group. We are looking forward to a time when there is true gender balance in the industry and this will be unremarkable, but in the meantime the female representation is something that we are passionate about.”

     

    The 2015 jury presidents are:

     

    Branded Content & Entertainment Jury President

     

    BBDO Worldwide chief creative officer and BBDO Worldwide North America chairman David Lubars.

     

    Lubars, who has won over 90 Lions, 4 Emmys and over 100 One Show pencils said, “To me, it’s the most exciting part of Cannes Lions right now and maybe the most important.  All these different areas are smashing up against each other really fast; the category helps give context and horizon lines.”

     

    Under his leadership, BBDO is among the most awarded agency networks in the world and is currently ranked number one for creativity in The Gunn Report.

     

    Creative Effectiveness Jury President

     

    Sparkling Brands president and Coca-Cola North America strategic marketing Wendy Clark.

     

    “Creativity and Effectiveness cannot be mutually exclusive outcomes. Creativity fuels compelling storytelling and innovation that, in-turn, fuels positive impact and outcomes for brands. I’m looking forward to reviewing this year’s entries and seeing how our industry has once again raised the bar on great creativity and effectiveness,” said Clark.

     

    Cyber Jury President

     

    Isobar global CEO Jean Lin

     

    Named as one of 30 ‘Women to Watch’ by Advertising Age China, Lin leads the Dentsu Aegis Network agency in over 42 markets, overseeing 69 agencies.

     

    “We are living in the most exciting of times in our industry and the digital landscape has never been at more of a tipping point, into the era of Brand Commerce in which digital technology infuses brand experience with transactions and innovation. It is the perfect time to take up the presidency of the Cannes Lions Cyber Jury – witnessing the redefinition of digital creativity. I am honoured to lead a jury of my peers and excited to see work and ideas from across the world.  At Isobar, we strive daily to deliver what we call “Ideas Without Limits” and this is the lens I will view entries through and will ask my fellow jurors to do the same.”

     

    Design Jury President

     

    Interbrand Group global chief creative officer Andy Payne.

     

    Under his leadership, Payne has guided Interbrand to become one of the most highly awarded brand design consultancies in the world. “I hope as a jury we can champion the value of design – yes celebrate the beauty and the craft but understand that the true value of design is in ideas – ideas that move companies, organisations, brands and people forward to better and more inspiring experiences.”

     

    Direct Jury President

     

    Leo Burnett CEO and chief creative officer Judy John

     

    John is responsible for leading the Leo Burnett #LikeAGirl campaign – now a multiple award winner.

     

    “It’s an incredible honour to be the first Jury President for Canada. I’m looking forward to the discussions around the inspirational work with a world class jury.”

     

    Film Jury President

     

    Grey president and Worldwide chief creative officer Tor Myhren

     

    Myhren has been chosen as one of Fortune Magazine’s ’40 under 40’ (2011) and Fast Company Magazine’s ‘Most Creative People in the Business’.

     

    “Every year Cannes Lions sets a new bar for global creativity, and being president of the Film jury is thrilling. I continue to believe that even in the digital age, film remains the most powerful form of storytelling. We will look for what’s truly “new” and reward brave and remarkable work. I can’t wait.”

     

    Film Craft Jury President

     

    Mixer Brazil founder and partner-director Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff.

     

    A constant performer at Cannes Lions, Tikhomiroff has taken home 41 lions to date making him the second most awarded director in the history of the Festival.

     

    “From the script to the sound, “craft” is the structure that supports an idea. In a world overflowing with information, engaging the audience is becoming increasingly challenging. But that is exactly what I will look for. By achieving excellence in craft, we can actually touch people and make them cry, laugh, think, change. The idea is the soul. With a body, it becomes alive.”

     

    Media Jury President

     

    Mindshare Worldwide global chief executive officer Nick Emery.

     

    “It is our responsibility, and that of the Cannes Lions awards, to champion media at its very best – not just the glitz and glamour, but the connection of data, insight and execution that makes media so compelling. Everything today begins and ends in media. Media is fame and money, ideas and accountability, Hollywood and A Beautiful Mind. Our duty, and what Cannes Lions should represent, is the challenging of the status quo, the provocation of creating new things and not just counting what we already know.  Cannes Lions is a celebration of technology, content and invention, and the Media Lions sits at the centre of that world.”

     

    Mobile Jury President

     

    FCB Brazil vice president creative director Joanna Monteiro.

     

    Co-winner with Max Geraldo of the 2014 Mobile Grand Prix for Nivea ‘Protection Ad’, Monteiro was recently named Business Insider’s ‘Most Creative Woman in Advertising’ and is among the 10 most awarded Creative Directors in the 2014 Cannes Report.

     

    “It’s a true honour to have been selected as president of the Mobile jury, a category that unleashes great potential for creative work. In a time when dialogue between brands and their consumers is crucial, there’s nothing better than mobile.”

     

    Outdoor Jury President

     

    DDB Latina president & CEO and BBD Americas creative chairman Juan Carlos Ortiz.

     

    The first Latin American to become president of a USA based advertising agency, Ortiz also won Colombia’s inaugural, and to date only, gold Film Lion.

     

    “In life and during my career, I’ve always believed that the simplest things can also be the most meaningful. If you stop for a moment and think about it, everything falls into human nature, human insights. Outdoor has always represented the magic of simple ideas, ideas with real power. It’s an honor to be judging this year in this category as one of my main expectations is to see how we as creatives, have evolved and can apply things such as technology within the DNA of our human insights and see them reflected in the real world.”

     

    PR Jury President

     

    FleishmanHillard Asia Pacificpresident and senior partner Lynne Anne Davis.

     

     “What a thrill and a privilege to chair the jury responsible for selecting the year’s most inspired public relations work from all over the world.  PR is at the heart of the world’s greatest campaigns.  It’s a highly dynamic discipline that is constantly elevating its power by making emotional connections, revealing human truths, opening minds, touching hearts and inspiring action in ground-breaking ways. The 2015 Cannes Lions showcase is set to be the richest, most creative yet.”

     

    Press Jury President

     

    Saatchi & Saatchi worldwide creative director Pablo del Campo.

     

    Not only one of the most awarded Argentinean creatives, Campo is also founder of Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi; an agency that ranks consistently high including in the Gunn Report’s Most Awarded Agencies.

     

    “In an industry transformed by new media, print still represents the toughest creative challenge. Print has only one sensory dimension so the idea has to work hardest. Originality, simplicity and surprise need to combine to create a singular emotional moment, which makes this an exciting category to oversee.”

     

    Promo & Activation Jury President

     

    JWT worldwide chief creative officer Matt Eastwood.

     

    Highly awarded in the creative world, one of Eastwood’s best known hits was the hugely successful ‘Hashtag Killer’ campaign.

     

    “It is both an honour and a privilege to lead the Promo & Activation jury. Today, clients look towards work in this category to truly supercharge their brand promise. In selecting the work that will stand as a permanent record of excellence, my hope is to inspire both clients and creatives to push beyond their imagined limits.”

     

    Radio Jury President

     

    WhybinTBWA Group Melbourne executive creative director Paul Reardon.

     

    “My criteria for judging work is pretty simple. I look for brilliant ideas that are strategically relevant and flawlessly crafted. The really, really hard part is finding those ideas. But that’s the exciting thing about Cannes Lions. The show is so big and attracts so much talent, you know that brilliance is out there, hiding amongst thousands of submissions. I’m honoured to be guiding the hunt in Radio in 2015.”

     

    Titanium and Integrated Jury President

     

    Wieden+Kennedy Portland partner and executive creative director Mark Fitzoff.

     

    Famous for invigorating ‘your grandfather’s deodorant’, Fitzoff was the executive creative director behind the legendary, Grand Prix winning, ‘The Man Your Man Could Smell Like’ for Old Spice.

     

    “In 1998, I was shortlisted for an ad banner that I wrote for Microsoft. It was my first Cannes Lions award. And therefore the one that still matters most. What am I looking forward to as this year’s Titanium and Integrated Jury President? I think giving someone that same feeling would be pretty fantastic.”

     

    Cannes Lions takes place from 21-27 June 2015.

  • Kyoorius Announces Kyoorius Advertising Awards in partnership with D&AD

    Kyoorius Announces Kyoorius Advertising Awards in partnership with D&AD

    MUMBAI: Kyoorius, a not-for-profit initiative by Transasia Fine Papers, and D&AD today announced the expansion of Kyoorius Awards to include Kyoorius Advertising Awards and Kyoori- us Digital Awards, alongside the existing Design and Student components.

    Advertising continues to be a crucial medium for companies to communicate with customers and communicate their brand. However, it has become increasingly complex, since agencies have to create unique messages for multiple channels and platforms to resonate with customers. This called for a critical assessment when defining awards categories – Kyoorius Advertising Awards are comprehensive, and structured to recognise individual components as well as entire ad campaigns.

    The overarching structure of the Kyoorius Awards is to only award work that is worthy of merit. No matter how big the brand, or how small the names behind it; how wide the media reach is or the number of retweets; the ultimate goal is to create outstanding work that works.

    Merit involves beating your own best work and setting new benchmarks for creative excellence. This is why Kyoorius Awards have no winning tier structure – no gold, silver or bronze, and it is the jury’s prerogative to award one or multiple Blue Elephants in any one category, whereas none in another, if entries are not up to the mark.

    For the Advertising Awards, international jury members include Rosie Arnold – Deputy Executive Creative Director, BBH, as Jury Foreman, accompanied by Graham Kelly – Regional Executive Creative Director, Isobar, and Woon Siew Hoh – Regional Creative Director, Hakuhudo. From India, jury members include Abhijit Avasthi – Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather, Agnello Dias – Chairman & Co-Founder, TapRoot India, Senthil Kumar – National Creative Director, JWT, and Sonal Dabral – Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy & Mather with more to be added soon.

    Together with D&AD, Kyoorius has chosen this specific mix of the top international, regional, and Indian creative minds to ensure that work is compared against industry best practices, while keeping the Indian context in mind.

    Further, Kyoorius and D&AD aim to create a truly neutral and ethical platform that recognises the best of the advertising industry solely on the basis of merit. Unlike any other advertising awards, all jury members gather in India to review, discuss and elect the best of the best over an intensive three-day session. All voting is private, never by a show of hands.

    Kyoorius Advertising Awards are unlike any other advertising awards in India, not only because of the rigorous judging standards, but also because entry fees are fed back into the industry. Funds are used in developing Kyoorius FYIdays, an initiative aimed at stimulating  creative professionals and educating students – India’s future creative superstars.

    Call for entries open 20th March and close on 21st April 2014. Visit awards.kyoorius.com for more information.

     

  • Jury for Jagran Film Festival Mumbai 2013 announced

    Jury for Jagran Film Festival Mumbai 2013 announced

    MUMBAI: Ahead of the fourth edition of Jagran Film Festival Mumbai 2013, the jury for the event has been announced. For the film festival which commences from 24 September, the jury members for the ‘Indian Showcase’ (feature in competition) section include film maker Basu Chatterjee, actress, film director and producer Aditi Ninad Deshpande, cinematographer Raamachandraah, film editor Suresh Pai and the current commander-in-chief of Indian theatre Feroz Abbas Khan.

    The event which will be held at Fun Republic cinema in Andheri west, Mumbai, will see more than 20 feature films, made in Indian regional languages, including Hindi blockbusters compete with each other in this category. The section also encourages debut directors to showcase their work in front of a global audience and compete with some of the bests, at both national and international level, in the industry.

    Apart from Indian showcase section, where India’s best feature films are competing with each other, the festival has also organised a competition for short films. Under the section ‘Jagran Shorts’ more than 35 short films made in various Indian regional as well as international languages are going to compete with each other. These short films will be judged by a panel of eminent jury including French actress Dorothy Briere, film director N Chandra and Rajshri Media managing director and CEO Rajjat A Barjatya.