There was a strong international and Irish representation amongst the winners of the 56th Kinsale Shark Awards & Festival was held recently.
As Jury President, AMV BBDO’s Head of Art & Creative Partner, Rosie Arnold ensured the usual high standard was maintained throughout the judging process. She commented: “This year has been really exciting in breadth of the work entered. What’s great about the Kinsale Shark Awards is the opportunities for creative talent to get recognised in ways that they may not be in other shows.”
Winners were awarded from the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Thailand, Germany, France, Belgium and Sweden.
The Grand Prix was awarded to AMV BBDO for Bodyform/Libresse’s ‘Blood Normal’ and two Creative Bravery awards were won by AMV BBDO for ‘Blood Normal’ and to Mother for KFC’s ‘FCK’.
Irish Agency of The Year went to Rothco while BBDO New York won International Agency of the Year with BBDO picking up Network of the Year.
Best Irish New Director and Best New International Director – which is voted by the festival audience – went to Carol Freeman (Irish) for ‘The Bird and The Whale’ and Christian Shilling (International) for ‘Kill the Noise’, ‘The Man with a Coin’ and ‘Pomegranate’.
Gold film winners went to Riff Raff films for ‘Nothing Beats a Londoner’ and VCCP for Cadbury ‘Beach Huts’ and ‘Coast’.
Film craft awarded ten golds to Rothco, Motherland both for ‘It’s Just a Phase’, with Nexus, Sonny London, Framestore, MPC, Riff Raff, Blur Films and BBDO New York taking the others.
Only one gold was awarded in print to BBDO Dublin for Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin & The Walt Disney Company’s ‘X-Ray Story’.
Best short film went to ‘Wren Boys’, directed by Harry Lighton, for Try Hard Films.
Best music video was won by CANADA for Rosalia’s ‘Malamente’.
In design, The Line Animation and Energy BBDO won for ‘Gucci Hallucinations’ and ‘Prescribed to Death’ respectively.
Seven golds were awarded for PR and Interactive including Rothco’s ‘JFK Unsilenced’, BETC’s ‘Save our Species’ for Lacoste, AMV BBDO’s ‘Trash Aisles’ for LadBible/Plastic Oceans Foundation.
Music and sound golds went to Goldstein for Dementia UK’s ‘Together Again’ and to Factory for John Lewis & Partnership’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’.
No golds were awarded in digital, but to silvers went to makemepulse for Canal+ ‘The Real Voice of Louis XIV’ and BBDO New York for Downtown Records ‘Live Looper’.
A full list of winners can be seen here
