For three days from September 24 to 26, unconditional creativity will be in the spotlight at the Kinsale Shark Awards in Ireland. Closing date for entries is September 5.
Susan Hoffman, global executive creative director of Wieden + Kennedy has been named honorary president and overall jury chair.
Creative Social will curate the creative speaker programme, which will feature Laura Jordan Bambach, creative partner of Mr President, and Mr Bingo, the illustrator whose clients include Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired, The Tate and the BBC.
Daniele Fianduca, co-founder of Creative Social commented, “For us it is an amazing opportunity, and an honour, to bring our skills of creative curation to Kinsale. We’ve been delivering inspiring events to industry creative leaders for over a decade now, and we are looking forward to delivering a fresh approach to a festival which is entirely focused on rewarding creativity. It also provides our global Socials who can’t make CS Mumbai in November, an opportunity to hop across to Ireland for some much needed inspiration!”
40 judges will sit on 9 juries. They come from Australia, Austria, China, France, India, Italy, New Zealand, The Netherlands, UK and USA.
Steve Dodds, senior creative at JWT Sydney, is part of the Radio jury.
Maggie Mout, executive creative director of Luvly New Zealand is part of the Print jury. (full list below)
This year, some product categories have been re-defined to reflect the changing landscape of the advertising industry. Additional awards for writing, humour, artiste’s performance and post production colourists have been added to the Craft sections. The Music & Sound Categories have also been reformulated.
The Festival programme is:
Day 1: Short Film and Music Video Screenings and speakers, with the award ceremony and after party in the evening.
Day 2: Creative Social full day of speakers and Festival club.
Day 3: New Directors, Creative Social speakers and the evening awards ceremony finale.
Two different festival passes are available – a one day pass for Thursday’s Short Film and Music Video schedule, awards ceremony and after party, and a complete three day pass to everything.
Earlybird discount still applies for complete festival passes until Friday August 12.
The 2016 Kinsale Shark Awards jurors are:
DIGITAL
Lynda Smith – CD, Epsilon, Ireland
Thierry Astier – ECD, Grey Paris, France
Kevin Patel, Senior Art Director – Connect, UK
Emma Perkins, ECD – Mullen Lowe, UK
Joao Almeida, ECD – 004, Portugal
FILM
Roisin Keown, CD – DDFH&B, Ireland
Kenn MacRae, ECD & Partner – Sid Lee Amsterdam, The Netherlands,
Dylan Cotter, CD – Irish International BBDO, Ireland
Martha Riley, CD – BBH London, UK
Jason Romeyko, Creative Director & Commercial Artist, Austria (formerly ECD Saatchi & Saatchi Switzerland)
FILM CRAFT
Juniper Caulder, Editor – Screen Screen, Ireland
James Bradley, Founding Partner – 750 mph, UK
Ed Sayers, Founder & Director – Straight8, UK
Paul Holmes, Founder & Producer – Red Rage, Ireland
Lottie Cooper, Deputy MD – Framestore, UK
RADIO
Tom Kelly, CD, Ireland
Steve Dodds, Senior Creative – JWT Sydney, Australia
Jamie-Edward Standen, CD – ROSAPARK, France
DESIGN
Steve Simpson, Founder – SteveSimpson Design, Ireland
Louise Sloper, Head of Design – BMB, UK
Georgia Baretta, CD – Cheil, UK
MEDIA
Fiona Field, DMD – Mediaworks, Ireland
Further jury TBA
PROMO
Paul Brolly, Creative Marketing Manager – BBC, Northern Ireland
Keith Woodmass, Creative Director, The Netherlands
Jennifer Leitman, CMO – Yedy, USA
Mark Simmons, Marketing Executive – Deportes, USA
Sergio Ortega Saez, Head of Air – Fine Living Italy, Scripps Network, Italy
Scott Russell, Head of Creative – Sky, UK
PRINT
Jane McDaid, Founder & MD – Thinkhouse, Ireland
Olivier Apers, ECD – BETC Paris, France,
Maggie Mout, ECD – Luvly New Zealand
Subhash Pinnapola, ECD – TBWA India
Kathrin Guethoff, ECD – Service Plan China
SHORT FILM & MUSIC VIDEO
James Lucas, Producer – HWY Films, UK
Zak Razvi, Director – Knucklehead, UK