Written by Tom Deehan on Oct 28, 2016. Posted in Awards and Festivals / General Interest

Awards shortlist revealed for the 2016 Ciclope Festival

After more than 1000 entries were submitted for consideration, the shortlist of projects now in the running to compete at the 7^th annual Ciclope Festival have been announced. The winners of the bronze, silver and gold awards in each category will be announced November 4^th at 7:30pm.

The full shortlist can be downloaded here.

If a project is deemed exemplary, then it may forego the aforementioned award tiers and instead be presented with the Grand Prix of their category. The judges will convene November 2^nd, a day before the festival starts to judge the chosen shortlist and declare the winners.

This year’s jury will be comprised of Judy John, from Leo Burnett Canada (Commercials); Thomas Benski, from Pulse Films (Branded Content); Patrick Milling Smith, from Here Be Dragons (Digital Experiences); Christiane Dressler, from Anorak (Fashion Films); Lisette Nice, from Factory (Sound); and Paul Weston, from Colonel Blimp (Music Videos).

Ciclope Festival seeks to celebrate the skills and creativity that go into production, with this year’s iteration including talks from Sir John Hegarty (BBH), trailers Director Mark Woollen, music Producer Sam Spiegel, German Director Sebastian Schipper, Kerstin Emhoff (Prettybird), Thomas Punch (Vice Media) and Ian Comley (Industrial Light & Magic) amongst others.

Ciclope Festival 2016 will take place November 3^rd and 4^th at the Kino International in Berlin.