The Creative Circle Announces 2024 Gold Jury Forepersons

The Creative Circle is thrilled to announce this year’s Gold Jury forepersons, who are heading up the live judging sessions for 2024.

The 79th annual awards ceremony is taking place at the close of the UK Creative Festival in Dreamland, Margate on the 11th July 2024. This year all of the shortlisted winning entries are to be exhibited at the aptly named, ‘The Best of British Creativity’ exhibition.

The Creative Circle invites the entire creative community to become a part of the online judging process to play their part on which work should progress to these live Gold judging sessions. This year there were over 1000 creatives registered for the online judging helping to ensure that it is the fairest judging process of any awards in the UK. 

The forepersons of the 2024 Gold Juries are; 

Film 1: Chaka Sobhani, DDB

Film 2: Lynsey Atkin, Channel 4

Film Craft - Editing: Eve Ashwell, The Assembly Rooms 

Film Craft - Styling, Casting, Costume and Performance: Paulette Caletti, Prettybird

Film Craft - Direction, Cinematography and Music: Sophie Gold, Eleanor 

Film Craft - CGI/VFX and Colour Grading: Stirling Archibald, Electric Theatre Collective 

Film Craft - Animation: Charlie Sells, Jelly London

Music Video: Matthew Walker, Mindseye London 

Audio: Jo McCrostie, Global Radio and Munzie Thind, GCRS 

Writing: Ray Shaughnessy, Pablo

Press, Outdoor and Print: Jo Moore, House 337

Digital and Direct 1: Trevor Johnson, TikTok

Digital and Direct 2: Ete Davies, Dentsu Creative 

Design, Craft and Branding: Neville Brody, Brody Associates

Photography and Illustration: Kate Congreve, Mother 

Packaging: Ching Jiang, Design Bridge & Partners 

Event and Experience: Steve Quah, Cheerful Twentyfirst

Gaming: Carl Phillips, Untold Studios

PR and Social:  Jazz Gandhi, Duet London

General: Christopher Kenna, Brand Advance 

Jeremy Green, managing director of the Creative Circle, comments, “We’re so proud to have such incredible creative talent heading up our Gold juries again this year. The Creative Circle is continuing to grow, with entries higher than ever before, this in turn helps us to serve the next generation of creative talent.”

As ever, entry into the Creative Circle awards helps support wider representation in the creative industries. 10% of all award entry fees and 100% of membership fees continue to be pledged to the Creative Foundation charity - which has raised over £150,000 since its launch in 2017. With no employees or overheads to support, 100% of this has gone directly towards supporting young creatives.

Upcoming key dates for this year’s awards can be found below:

Learn more about the UK Creative Festival here.

You can purchase tickets for the UK Creative Festival and Creative Circle Awards here.