Summer Shiny Awards Launches New Directors at AMVBBDO
The Summer Shiny Awards, hosted by Flare Productions took place at AMVBBDO in London on Tuesday evening. The shortlist of 15 short videos screened to a squash of new directors, post production, production services and production companies.
Here’s a flavour of the evening, from Chris Cable head of production at 2AM Films, "...One of the most valuable industry evenings I’ve been to in recent memory. Full of wonderful, enthusiastic, passionate people, huge amounts of talent in one room and a great vibe..."
The five winners were announced live, by the Awards Judges:
- AMVBBDO creative, Anzhela Heyrabedyan
- AMVBBDO/Flare Productions producer/ director, Jess Journo
- Shots features editor, Carol Cooper
Winners:
Renee Zhan, for Soft Animals. Renee is a new signing to BlinkInk and is based in London. Soft Animals can’t be shown yet online, but here is a link to her other work .
Imogen Harrison, with ‘Could You?’ for NHS. Imogen is a new signing to My Accomplice and is based in London
Alex Dunning, for This Girl Can. Alex is a new signing to Flipt and is based in London
Diana Olifirova, with ‘Intrance’, she is freelance and based in London
Jessica Batson for ‘La Folie’. She is freelance and based in Chicago. Soft Animals can’t be shown yet online, but here is a link to her other work
These and the 10 other shortlisted videos can be seen on the Shiny Network.
Under-represented Talent
As always for the Shiny Awards, the shortlist included at least 70% work from under-represented directors according to gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, childhood income and disability. In fact this time it was 80%!
Entries are open for the Autumn Shiny Awards, date and venue TBA
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