Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne was named agency of the year at the Melbourne Advertising & Design Club Awards tonight.
The agency won top honours for the second year running. However, rival Gpy&R Melbourne – which won more lions at Cannes this year than any Australian agency – did not enter for the second consecutive year. Last year, Patts Ecd Ben Coulson cited cost reasons for not supporting the event, which is Melbourne’s top awards show.
The awards list in full:
The Adstream Award for Agency of the Year
Winner
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne
The Madc Award for Best in Show
Winner
Guilt Trips V/Line Agency McCann
The Madc Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner
Scott Whybin, Whybin Tbwa
The Blackley Award for Creative Leader of the Year
Winner
Jason Williams, Leo Burnett
The Madc Award for Client of the Year
Winner
Carlton United Brewers
The Exit Films Award for Best Junior
Winners
Jono...
The agency won top honours for the second year running. However, rival Gpy&R Melbourne – which won more lions at Cannes this year than any Australian agency – did not enter for the second consecutive year. Last year, Patts Ecd Ben Coulson cited cost reasons for not supporting the event, which is Melbourne’s top awards show.
The awards list in full:
The Adstream Award for Agency of the Year
Winner
Clemenger Bbdo Melbourne
The Madc Award for Best in Show
Winner
Guilt Trips V/Line Agency McCann
The Madc Award for Lifetime Achievement
Winner
Scott Whybin, Whybin Tbwa
The Blackley Award for Creative Leader of the Year
Winner
Jason Williams, Leo Burnett
The Madc Award for Client of the Year
Winner
Carlton United Brewers
The Exit Films Award for Best Junior
Winners
Jono...
- 10/4/2012
- by Robin Hicks
- Encore Magazine
The 2011 New York Film Festival has announced its two shorts programs, totaling 13 films. They include Stephen Kang's "Blue," which won the Grand Prix from Cannes Critics Week and "The Great Gatsby in Five Minutes," Michael Almereyda's adaptation of the novel, set in contemporary Los Angeles. Also of note is "Traitors," the half-hour directing debut of actor Sean Gullette, who may be best known as the lead in Darren ...
- 9/15/2011
- Indiewire
Updated through 5/21 — with awards announcements.
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
Directed by Stephen Kang and produced by Tara Riddell, New Zealand’s Blue was named 50th Semaine De La Critique Grand Prix Canal + Du Meilleur Court Metrage Best Short Film.
The story is about a big blue alien and children’s TV mascot who loses his job and struggles to make ends meet working in an Asian restaurant.
The 32 year-old director and graduate from Elam School of Fine Arts told New Zealand’s 3News, “I was very surprised and very honoured, especially given that this year is the 50th anniversary of Critics Week. It’s amazing, I didn’t expect to win with such big competition. The win was totally out of the blue.”
Kang’s feature Desert, is currently in cinemas throughout New Zealand.
The story is about a big blue alien and children’s TV mascot who loses his job and struggles to make ends meet working in an Asian restaurant.
The 32 year-old director and graduate from Elam School of Fine Arts told New Zealand’s 3News, “I was very surprised and very honoured, especially given that this year is the 50th anniversary of Critics Week. It’s amazing, I didn’t expect to win with such big competition. The win was totally out of the blue.”
Kang’s feature Desert, is currently in cinemas throughout New Zealand.
- 5/20/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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