CICLOPE Announces 2018 Winners
After two days of the festival, with about 700 producers and creatives from all over the world meeting, exchanging ideas and celebrating the best work of the year, winners for CICLOPE Festival 2018 were announced on Friday November 9th in an awards ceremony held at Kino International, in the heart of Berlin.
A jury chaired by Lisa Margulis (The Directors Bureau), Ali Brown (Prettybird) and Rupert Reynolds-MacLean (Biscuit Filmworks) chose - from among about 1,000 entries - the best work in 37 categories divided into four sections: BRAND CONTENT / SHORT FORM, BRAND CONTENT / LONG FORM, MUSIC VIDEOS and a SPECIAL SECTION.
More than 100 entries were awarded and three of them received a Grand Prix: “Apple – Welcome home” (directed by Spike Jonze, produced by MJZ and created by TBWA\Media Arts Lab), “Ubisoft – Baptism” (directed by Martin de Thurah, produced by Henry and created by DDB Paris) and “Childish Gambino – This is America” (directed by Hiro Murai and produced by Doomsday Entertaiment).
Based on a points system where all credited companies receive one point for a finalist submission, three points for a Bronze award, five points for a Silver award, seven points for a Gold award and 10 points for a Grand Prix, CICLOPE Festival also delivered special awards to:
Production Company of the Year: MJZ
Director of the Year: Martin de Thurah
Animation Company of the Year: Passion Animation Studios
Visual Effects Company of the Year: MPC
Editing Company of the Year: Work Editorial
Sound Company of the Year: 750 MPH
Music Company of the Year: White Horse Music
Agency of the Year: TBWA \ Media Arts Lab
You can find the complete list of winners at www.ciclopefestival.com.
During the festival, delegates from all over the world enjoyed a complete programme of talks and panels. The line-up of speakers included visual artist David LaChapelle, Lance Acord (director, cinematographer of films such as Lost in Translation or Being John Malkovich), Academy-award winning editor Kirk Baxter (The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, among others), Richard Brim (CCO adam&eveDDB), Jenny Pham (Director of Brand Communications at Adidas Originals), Carl Johnson (Founding Partner of Anomaly), costume designer Sara Sensoy, and directors Crystal Moselle, James Rouse and Emmanuel Adjei, among many others.
Representatives from dozens of companies also had the chance to meet top creatives and producers in The Fresh Market and The Service Market, two exclusive networking activities. After the awards ceremony guests had a celebration party at The Atelier, with director Tom Kuntz and other DJs behind the turntables.
