2010 Cannes Lions Film Craft Awards

Feb 23, 2010 - 12:05 PM

New for Cannes Lions 2010 is a distinct entry section: the Film Craft Lions. Judged by a carefully selected jury of directors, producers and creatives, it will honour the craft of the filmmaking process - the direction, copywriting or editing, or the skillful use of music or sound design.

CRAFT LIONS JURY MEMBERS

Jon Kamen, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, @radical.media – Jury President
Joao Daniel Tikhomiroff, President, Mixer, Brazil
François Chilot, President Producer, Les Producers, France
Calvin Soh, Chief Creative Officer & Vice Chairman, Publicis Asia, Singapore
Ringan Ledwidge, Director, Rattling Stick, UK
Joe Pytka, Director, Pytka, USA
The categories you can enter are:
Production Design;
Direction;
Cinematography;
Editing;
Copywriting;
Best Use of Music;
Sound Design;
Special Effects & Computer Graphics and Animation.

See rules and tips for entering Film Craft Lions:Film Craft Rules for Entry

The Film Craft Lions Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday 26 June.

For all additional information regarding the Cannes Lions Film Craft Awards please follow this link to the Cannes Lions website Cannes Lions Official Website

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Another Lively World Producers Summit for 2010

Jun 28, 2010 - 02:29 PM

Each year 100 production company representatives from dozens of countries come together in Cannes at the World Producers Summit to discuss current issues effecting the industry. This year the idea was to focus on business issues that influence the international commercial industry, with attendees coming in from around the globe it was a perfect opportunity to learn from the experiences of others and to talk about the successes people have had. This year’s conversation was planned to be based around viable business models that afford new opportunities for Production Companies to transform how they are doing business in the evolving business of creating marketing messages, doing so is absolutely vital to any company in this business.

Change within the industry- the need for production companies to change for the digital world- and the dangers for production companies not adapting to this world and of the problems the recession and other competitive factors have brought- is a familiar one. So we decided to concentrate on the good news. That is the opportunities this new world brings and why we are well placed as producers to lead that change. Opportunities come from the proliferation of places where commercials, a word which now encompasses not just TV advertising but moving image advertising on any screen, will be seen. The prevailing mood was that while we had to be alert to change and embrace it quickly, we should be confident that our skills, our ability to produce the best commercials, whatever the media, means that we should be confident that our skills will be in demand, however the structure of the industry evolves. It is clear that evolution is not from one model- the client to agency to production company model- to another but from one to many different ways of working, which may be specific and tailor made just to the one project.

Production companies, with the skills in demand and the most flexible of business models are very well placed to lead and benefit from new ways of working.

The World Producers Summit doesn’t end in Cannes, we have created an open group on Facebook for people to join and continue to share their success stories as well as any problems they are facing. The Group is designed to continue the discussion that has been started in Cannes and keep the lines of communication open for producers from around the world to continue that conversation year round.

This year’s World Producers Summit was once again sponsored by our partners at Kodak and we thank them for once again hosting a brilliant Summit Meeting.

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AND THE WINNER IS….

Jun 28, 2010 - 01:37 PM

The winners of the 2010 Young Director Award have been announced at an industry-packed show in Cannes.

A sign of the growing diversity of the industry and the fact that directors increasingly have to stretch themselves beyond the standard 30 second TV spot, this year’s shortlist saw fashion films and interactive YouTube experiences sit alongside the more traditional fare of test commercials and viral films.

Winners included Adam Bonke of Danish production company Nobody CPH took top prize in European Broadcast while Samir Mallal took the prize in the equivalent non-European Broadcast category. Isabel Prahl won top honour in European FIlmschool for her moving film Poverty Tells Many Stories. Meanwhile Simon Ellis of UK production company Mad Cow took the European Web Film top prize for his innovative interactive anti-knife crime film.

An audience of shortlisted directors and insiders from the worlds of advertising and commercials production gathered at the Palais Stephanie at Cannes. Winners shared thousands of metres of 35mm film courtesy of main sponsor Kodak, and are set to be profiled in media partner shots magazine.  And after the winners were announced, there was a chance for the directors and audience to hob nob on the beach outside.

Despite the talent on display, no special jury prize was awarded this year as the jury were keen to maintain the standard of exceptional excellence associated with the prize. Moreover there was no shortlist announced for the non-European test commercial category, and no award given in the European test commercial category.

For a full list of shortlisted films and winners see below or visit the official website at YDA WINNERS . And keep posted for interviews and insight from winning directors.

THE WINNERS!

European Broadcast

1st Prize:
Title: Interruption
Director: Adam Bonke
Production Company: Nobody CPH
Country: Denmark

2nd Prize:
Title: Orange – magic Numbers
Director: Megaforce
Production Company: Irene
Country: France

Title: Dementia – “?”
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Production Company: Fantefilm
Country: Norway

European Test Commercials (no award)

European Filmschool

1st Prize:
Title: Poverty tells many stories
Director: Isabel Prahl
Production Company: Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Country: Germany

2nd Prize
Title: Held
Director: Simon Ritzler
Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Country: Germany

European Web Films

1st Prize:
Title: Choose A Different Ending
Director: Simon Ellis
Production Company: Mad Cow Films
Country: England

2nd Prize:
Title: graffiti
Director: Yoann Lemoine
Production Company: Wanda
Country: France

European Branded Shortfilms

1st Prize:
Title: Halston A/W 2009
Director: Nezar Khamal
Production Company: Blink Productions
Country: England

Non-European Broadcast

1st Prize:
Title: Arctic Sun
Director: Samir Mallal
Production Company: Radke Film Group
Country: Canada

2nd Prize:
Title: HYENA
Director: Hernán Bargman
Production Company: HACHIKO FILMS
Country: Argentina

Non-European Film School

2nd Prize:
Title: Canon- Trigger Happy
Director: Saman Keshavarz
Production Company: Paydirt Pictures
Country: USA

Non-European Web Films

2nd Prize:
Title: Sony / Make.believe
Director: Jessica Sanders
Production Company: Epoch Films
Country: UK

Non-European Branded Short Films

1st Prize:
Title: Going West
Director: Martin and Line Andersen
Production Company: Broadway Films
Country: UK

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The CFP-E - Who runs it?

Apr 21, 2009 - 03:56 PM

The CFPE is run by and for its members- the national associations whose logos you can see at the bottom of this page.
Its management is:

President: Francois Chilot (Les Producers)
Executive Vice Presidents: Stephen Davies (APA, UK) & Klaus Hansen (Producentforeningen, DK)
Vice Presidents: Manfred Vogelsänger (Vogelsänger Film, D) & Petr Keller (Starlite, CZ)
Treasurer: Mikis Modiano (Modiano TV, GR)
Board members: Marie Lou Florisson (VCP, NL) & Rudi Haller (Haller Film ,CH)

The CFPE is now administered from London, through the APA and your first point of contacts should be APA Chief Executive/CFPE Executive Vice President Steve Davies .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or APA training manager/CFPE co-coordinator Rebecca Glover .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) along side the CFPE president Francois Chilot from Les Producers.

The CFPE’s Young Director Award, our main event of the year, continues to be run from Copenhagen, by the Danish Produces Association and your first point of contact for the YDA is Klaus Hansen .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Danish Producers Association Chief Executive/CFPE Executive Vice President or CFPE Project Manager YDA Hannes Morten Jakobsen .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

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