CICLOPE Asia 2019 Winners Announced

On September 5th, CICLOPE Asia got back to Tokyo to celebrate the best film craft in Asia-Pacific. During the awards ceremony the jury recognized the best works of the year among 18 categories.  

The big winners at CICLOPE Asia’s second edition were Nion (that received the Grand Prix for “Transphere”, directed by Kosai Sekine), and Goodoil Films, that was selected as Best Production Company. The Agency of the Year award was for TBWA\Australia. You can see the complete list of winners by clicking here. 

You can check out a selection of the winners below:

The Grand Prix winner 'Transphere':

The Branded Content Casting winner 'Santa Crashes Christmas' from Goodoil Films:

The Branded Content Cinematography winner 'SCARS' for TAL Insurance from Scoundrel

The Branded Content Visual Effects winner: Rush of Schweppervesence from Alt.vfx

The Branded Content Writing winner 'Dad Joke' from Mr+ Positive Tokyo

The winners at Ciclope Latino 2019 were chosen by a panel of exceptional professionals chaired by Sneha Iype (from Nirvana Films) and Yang Yeo (from Hakuhodo). The other jurors are Ji Young Lim (from Planit), Bohong Deng (from Dans Digital), Tom Martin (from Special Group), Tsuyoshi Takizawa (from Robot Communications), Aika Sawai Nakashima (from AKQA), Eiji Tanigawa (from Tokyo), Peter Grasse (from Mister Positive), Jung A Kim (from Innocean), Arthur Ma (from Red Horse Media), Tamon Fujimi (from MassiveMusic), Alessandro Agnini (from Amazon), Glenn Martin (from Nomad), Reiko Mori (from Stink), Wuthisak Anarnkaporn (from Factoy 01) and Sam Long (from Goodoil Films).

Once again, Ciclope Asia’s Grand Prix and best works in each category will automatically become finalists in the flagship annual CICLOPE Festival, to be held in Berlin on November 7 & 8, 2019.

Before the ceremony, more than 200 producers and creatives enjoyed inspiring talks by speakers such as director Kosai Sekine (Nion), Masato Kosukegawa (Shiseido), Maiya Kinoshita (Dentsu), Jamie Loudon (MPC), director Wuthisak Anarnkaporn (Factory01) and Dr. Yu (Cutters Studios). Delegates also took part in The Market, Ciclope’s exclusive networking activity, where agencies and production companies from the region met and discussed business opportunities.

CICLOPE Asia 2019 was supported by Alt.VFX, AOI Pro, Connection, Cutters Studios, Nomad, Stink, Geek Pictures, MPC, Mr. Positive, TYO, Hamlet and Wieden+Kennedy.

More information is available at http://asia.ciclopefestival.com.