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  • Hungama Digital brings top female voices as jury members for Women Game Changers – 2024

    Hungama Digital brings top female voices as jury members for Women Game Changers – 2024

    Mumbai: Hungama Digital, India’s leading digital entertainment company, announces the jury panel for the brand’s renowned Women Game Changers 2024 initiative. The annual event returns this year, continuing its efforts to empower women by honouring 50 extraordinary women who are making remarkable achievements across diverse industries.

    This year’s board includes leaders and experts from various industries with each member offering a unique perspective and experience. The achievers for 2024 will undergo careful inspection and rounds of selection conducted by this board. The panel includes stalwarts from the entertainment industry, including Megha Tata – Media consultant, ex-CEO Cosmos, ex-MD Discovery Communications, Kanan Rai – ex business head, Google Play, Merlin D’souza – music director, Nirmika Singh – founder MOX Asia and ex executive-editor Rolling Stones, Raunaq Roy – vice president, Hungama Digital Media, Preeta Sukhtankar – founder, The Label Life, Soumini Sridhara Paul – SVP artist aloud & content Youtube, Hungama Digital Media,  Poornima Seetharaman – director of Design, Zynga and Sonia Parasnis, VP, creative & content programming.

    Speaking on the announcement, Hungama Digital Media Pvt Ltd SVP Raunaq Roy said, “We are proud to have brought together our passionate jury panel representing excellence from the core areas of the entertainment industry across film, music, and gaming. Through this annual program, we plan to spotlight the third cohort of women who are not just breaking glass ceilings but building bridges for others to follow. We proudly elevate their stories, successes, and trailblazing spirit, amplifying their impact on the entertainment Industry.”

    Adding on, Phantom Movies CEO Shrishti Behl said, “These Gamechangers embody the spirit of progress and innovation, and their collective expertise will ensure a fair and empowering platform for all women across entertainment. I am excited about an industry driven by inclusivity and equality.”

    The professionals bestowed with the recognition as ‘Game Changes’ will be announced on Hungama’s website on 1 April 2024, i.e. The Hungama Day. Following the announcement, the winners will be invited to a podcast where they will share intriguing insights from their journeys.

    In the last year of WGC 2023, the Gamechangers were given an opportunity to be a panellist at the Conceit Nexus 2023, an invite to the iOS Developer Conference: Women in App Development, sponsored access to Mumbai’s Tech Week 2024 and early access to the panel plus networking event at IGX (India’s largest gaming expo) 2024.

  • Six top creatives in India named to ADC 103rd Annual Awards Jury

    Six top creatives in India named to ADC 103rd Annual Awards Jury

    Mumbai: The One Club for Creativity has announced six leading creatives in India who will serve on the diverse global jury for the ADC 103rd Annual Awards, the world’s longest continuously-running global competition celebrating excellence in craft and innovation in all forms of design and advertising.

    Dimpy Bhalotia, photographer and creative director based in Mumbai, will serve as Jury President for the Photography discipline.

    Other ADC 103rd judges based in India are:

       Soumitro Ghosh, partner, Mathew and Ghosh Architects, Bengaluru (architecture/interior/environmental design)

       Anushka Sani, founder, CD, Thought Over Design, Mumbai (brand/communication design)

       Poornima Seetharaman, associate general manager, Take Two – Zynga, Bangalore (gaming)

       Sumitra Sengupta, ECD, FCB India, Gurugram (advertising)

       Juhi Vishnani, art director, November, Mumbai (typography)

    The complete ADC 103rd Annual Awards jury can be viewed here.

    Judging will finish in April 2024, with finalists announced in May. Gold, Silver and Bronze Cube winners will be announced at the ADC 103rd Annual Awards ceremony during Creative Week 2024 in New York, taking place 13-17 May.

    Entries can be submitted now, with fees increasing after each deadline period.  Regular deadline is 26 January 2024, with an extended deadline of 16 February 2024, and the final deadline is 1 March 2024.  

    New for 2024

    One notable change for the ADC 103rd Annual Awards is Best of Discipline honors will be awarded to brand-based work only. Entries for non-profit clients are no longer eligible.  

    This year will also mark the show’s first Best of Non-Profit award, presented for the top-scoring work from across all disciplines done for a non-profit client as voted by the entire jury.  Best of Non-Profit will receive the same points as a Best of Discipline winner.

    Other highlights for the ADC 103rd Annual Awards include:

    1   Rankings points – All awards will receive rankings points, multiple awards for the same work within a discipline will not be de-duped.

    2   Storytelling categories – Advertising discipline expanded with new categories for Storytelling in Humor and Drama genres.

    3   Continued partnership with creative community Working Not Working on event and content collaborations, as well as the special Freelancer of the Year award.

    4   ADC Members’ Choice Award, where freelance members of both The One Club and Working Not Working are invited to cast votes for their favorite entry amongst the year’s top-scoring works in all ADC Design disciplines.

    Tiered pricing

    A special tiered pricing structure makes it easier for smaller agencies, studios and freelancers to participate.  Larger agencies and brands pay the standard entry fee; smaller shops get a discount on entries (amount varies by discipline), and freelance creatives and one-person shops are eligible for an even greater reduction in their entry fee.

    Unlike for-profit awards shows, The One Club is a non-profit organization that puts revenue generated from awards entries into programs that serve the industry under the club’s four pillars: Education, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Gender Equality and Creative Development.  

    The One Club for Creativity – home of The One Show, ADC Annual Awards, Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE), ONE Asia Awards, Type Directors Club and competition, TDC Ascenders, Young Guns, Young Ones Student Awards, Next Creative Leaders, ONE Screen Short Film Festival, and more – is the world’s foremost non-profit organisation whose mission is to support and celebrate the global creative community. Revenue generated from entries to its global awards shows goes back into the industry to fund programming under the organization’s four pillars: education, inclusion & diversity, gender equality, and creative development.