Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity will not take place in June as originally scheduled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers are now shifting to their previously announced contingency plans which call for the event to take place the week of Oct. 26-30.
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Cannes Lions has announced the jury presidents selected for the 2020 Festival of Creativity (June 22-26, 2020). Among the global spread of elite industry experts, 53% of Presidents are also women for the first time (up from 33% in 2019)--ensuring global female talent is equally represented at...
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has officially launched the 2019 Festival, opening for delegate registration and announcing details around next year’s event.
Two new Lions will be added to the awards lineup in 2019. The Creative Strategy Lion will sit within the...
Procter & Gamble had a Grand time at the Cannes Film Lions competition on Friday (6/22) as two of its efforts garnered Film Grand Prix honors: P&G’s “The Talk” directed by Malik Vitthal of The Corner Shop for BBDO New York; and the “It’s A Tide Ad” Super Bowl campaign helmed by the...
The new Cannes Social & Influencer Lions has its first Grand Prix winner: Nike’s “Nothing Beats a Londoner” from Wieden+Kennedy, London. A key component of the campaign is a short film--directed by the Megaforce collective and produced by Riff Raff Films--which centers on enterprising,...
Film and commercial director Ridley Scott presented the 28th Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase to an audience of 2,300 at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Curated by Scott in partnership with MPC, the Showcase featured seven individual filmmakers and five teams...
"Hope,” an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) spot directed by James Rouse via Blur Films in Madrid for agency Sra Rushmore, Madrid, took the Grand Prix honor in the Cannes Film Craft Lions competition. In addition to securing the Grand Prix for Rouse’s direction, “Hope” garnered a...
The 2018 Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity will be marked by significant changes to the delegate experience and awards structure.
The 65th edition of the Festival will run for five days, from Monday, June 18, through Friday, June 22, 2018. A streamlined Festival and a simplified award...
Underscoring the power of the human spirit, a defiant girl and a band of paralympian athletes were among the big winners on the final day (6/24) of the 64th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Taking home the Film Grand Prix was the “We're the Superhumans” UK Channel 4...
It’s been a big week at the 64th Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for The Blaze, a French directing/producing duo--consisting of cousins Jonathan and Guillaume Alric--who also make music. Their music video “Territory”--from their first EP album released earlier this year--first...