Porsche Awards Hall of Fame

PORSCHE AWARDS HALL OF FAME

Please consult the following list to see all previous winners until 2004 - if you wish to select a specific year, simply click on it.

1. Winners 2019

2 . Winners 2018 & 2017

3 . Winners 2016 & 2015

4 . Winners 2014 & 2013

5 . Winners 2012 & 2011

6 . Winners 2010 & 2009

7 . Winners 2008, 2007 & 2006

8 . Winners 2005 & 2004

If you wish to see the winners biographies, please consult the „Shortlist“-tab on our website.

1 WINNERS 2019

Winners 2019

Mobility Category

- 1st Prize: Nikolas Meyberg – „Brothers“ – Lazi Akademie, Germany - 2nd Prize: Daniel Eceolaza, Spingun Films – „The Chase“ – No film school, Germany - 3rd Prize: Magali Herzog; Miguel Schmid – „Small Talk“ – No film school, Germany

Category Classical / Other Formats

- 1st Prize: Pascal Schelbli – „The Beauty“ – FABW (Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg), Animationsinstitut, Germany - 2nd Prize: Timm Völkner – „Aura“ – FABW (Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg), Germany - 3rd Prize: Benjamin Leichtenstern – „Made for Strength“ - HFF Munich (University of Television and Film), Germany

2 WINNERS 2018-17 Winners 2018

Mobility Category

- 1st Prize: Ben Miethke „Benim Evim Sensin (Welcome Home)“, Filmakademie Baden- Wuerttemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Luca Homolka „Born in Britain“, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - 3rd Prize: Falk Poetz „The Future is Everyone‘s“, Alumni of the Media Academy/ University Mittweida, Germany

Category Classical / Other Formats

- 1st Prize: Bernd Faass „Tears in Heaven“, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Lars Timmermann „Black Stallion“, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - 3rd Prize: Michael Kranz „myBorder‘s joyFence“, University for Television and Film, Germany

Winners 2017

Mobility Category

- 1st Prize: Daniel Titz and Dorian Lebherz „ABC of Death“, Filmakademie Baden- Wuerttemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Moritz Rautenberg & Christian Ricken „EART HERNEST IV.“, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany - 3rd Prize: Nico Kreis „Take No Sides“, Germany

Category Classical / Other Formats

- 1st Prize: Marco Prestini „Star* Back Home“, Art Center College of Design, USA - 2nd Prize: Bernd Faass „Better Safe Than Worry“, Germany - 3rd Prize: Ian Robertson „Cupid“, National Film and Television School, England

WINNERS 2016-15

Winners 2016

Category Automobile

- 1st Prize: Florian Greth „Hungry for History“, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Minh Duong „The Light“, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany - 3rd Prize: David Helmut „Integration“, Macromedia University Munich, Germany

Category Classical / Other Formats

- 1st Prize: Christian Schilling „Kill the Noise“, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Daniel Titz and Dorian Lebherz „Dear Brother“, Filmakademie Baden- Wuerttemberg, Germany - 3rd Prize: Germain Gulick „How New York Eats“, New York University, USA

Winners 2015

Category Automobile

- 1st Prize: Sumit Kumar “ Innovative Dream”, Film and Television Institute of India, India - 2nd Prize: Damien Krisl “ Emotion Starts on Red” (Driving Scenes by Lino Russell & Michael Krautter), No Filmschool, France - 3rd Prize: David Feuerstein “ People´s Car”, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

Category Classical / Other Formats

- 1st Prize: Moritz Rautenberg & Christian Ricken „ Sweaty Santa“, University of Television and Film Munich, Germany - 2nd Prize: Jacqueline Dow “ Music Everwhere” New York University, USA - 3rd Prize: Michael Rittmannsberger “ The Culprit”, No Filmschool, Austria

WINNERS 2014-13

Winners 2014

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Andreas Bruns - „Save Your Skin“ - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Dan Neeson - „Once She Was Just Like You“ - National Film and Televisi on School, United Kingdom - 3rd Prize: Sandin Puce - „Take Your Stage“ (88 Sec.) - Filmakademie Baden- Wuerttemberg, Germany

Other Formats

- New Ways Award: Grégory Weisert - „Find Your Fate“ - University of Darmstadt, Germany

Automobile Category

- Special Prize (Automobile): Tobias Haase - „The Future Chauffeur“ - Filmakademie Baden- Wuerttemberg, Germany

Winners 2013

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Denis Parchow - „Don´t Be Afraid of the Dark“ - Filmakademie Baden- Wuerttemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Charlotte Rabate -“Playtime“ - Tisch School of the Arts, New York Univer sity, USA - 3rd Prize: Andreas Roth - „Fears“ - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Other Formats

- New Ways Award: Matthias Bäuerle, Gabriel Borgetto & Bernd Faaß - „Studies on Hysteria“ - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Special Mention: Kyra Buschor, Ännie Habermehl, Constantin Päplow - „Rollin´ Safari“ - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Automobile Category

- Special Prize (Automobile): Andreas Bruns - „The Journey“ - Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg

WINNERS 2012-11

Winners 2012

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Andreas Roth - „Exorcist“ - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany - 2nd Prize: Hanna Maria Heidrich - „We Miss You“ - Filmakademie Baden-Württem berg, Germany - 3rd Prize: Christian Mielmann (Milo) - „What Ever Happened“ - Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, Germany

Other Formats

- New Ways Award: Adam Wallensten - „A Little Less Gravity“ - The National Film School of Denmark

Honorable Mention

- Justus Becker - „An Ode To Women“ - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Winners 2011

Classical Category

-1st Prize (1st Category): Maria Eriksson - „RFSL“ - Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden - 2nd Prize (1st Category): Hanna Maria Heidrich - „Life is Calling“ - Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, Germany - 3rd Prize (1st Category): Fabian Fricke - „Toast“ - Filmakademie Baden-Württem berg, Germany

Other Formats

- New Ways Award: Johannes Kizler - „The Press“ - Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg, Germany

Special Prize (Best Script):

- Stephan Strube - „Sky North Pole“ - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany

WINNERS 2010-09

Winners 2010

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Marie Dvorakova – “Steenbeckstory“ – Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA - 2nd Prize: Simon Ritzler – “Hero” - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany - 3rd Prize: Isabel Prahl – “Poverty Tells Many Stories“ – Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany

Special Prizes

- Johnny Cullen – “Happy Birthday Timmy“ – Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology, Ireland - Alain Friedrichs – “Cinestud 2010“ – Netherlands Film and Television Academy, Netherlands

Honorable Mention

- Andreas Roth – “Typewriter” - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Winners 2009

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Georg von Mitzlaff – „The Giant Thirst“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Aca demy - 2nd Prize: Mario Zozin – „Oleg - Life of a Weightlifter“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - 3rd Prize: Eugen Liska – „Shockproof-Festival 09“ – FAMU-Film and TV Faculty of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague

Special Prize

- Nicole Volavka – „Rubbish“ – London Film School

WINNERS 2008-06

Winners 2008

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Mario Zozin – „Pure Performance“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - 2nd Prize: Thilo Ewers – „They will come to town“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Aca demy - 3rd Prize: Galed Hamed – „Children“ – Netherlands Film and TV Academy

Special Prize

- Adrian Jäschke/Gregor Türk/Katja Wörz – „Sakromat“ - Akademie U5

Winners 2007

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Johannes Kümmel – “Rainbow Warrior” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - 2nd Prize: Tim Günther – “Schumann” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - 3rd Prize: Eva Zillekens – “Wardrobe” – HFF München

Special Prize

- Tilman Braun – “Clink” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Winners 2006

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Laurentius Emmelmann – “The War of the Roses” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - 2nd Prize: Baran Bo Odar – “Hadi Mini” – HFF München - 3rd Prize: Amit Raj – “The Man who wasn’t here” – Film- and TV- Institute of India

Special Prize

- Jens Junker & Philip Haucke – “Kiosk 1&2” – HFF München

WINNERS 2005-04

Winners 2005

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Minke Faber & Danyael Dugawara – “The Garden” – Netherlands Film and TV Academy - 2nd Prize: Philip Haucke – “Grandma” – HFF München - 3rd Prize: Patrik Gölz – “Jump” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Special Prize

- Joris Kerbosch/Danyael Sugawara – “The Package” –Netherlands Film and TV Aca demy

Winners 2004

Classical Category

- 1st Prize: Frieder Wittich – „Keine Gegenfrage“ McDonald‘s – HFF München - 2nd Prize: Michael Rösel – „Mieter“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - 3rd Prize: Heidi Wittlinger – „No Limits“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Special Prize

- Danny Leong Chi-Keong – „Red Fur Dog“ (Swiss Beer) - NgeeAnn Polytechnic School of Film and Media

PORSCHE AWARD HALL OF FAME

Please consult the following list to see the vitas of all former jury members until 2009 - if you wish to select a specific year, simply click on it.

1. Jury 2018

2. Jury 2017

3. Jury 2016

4. Jury 2015

5. Jury 2014

6. Jury 2013

7. Jury 2012

8. Jury 2011

9. Jury 2010

10. Jury 2009

See below for a list of our jurors from 2008 to 2004:

11. Jury 2008 - 2004

BIOGRAPHIES JURY

Jury 2018

Britta Poetzsch, Chief Creative Officer Campaign, Track GmbH, Hamburg

After working for Springer & Jacoby and KNSK, Britta Poetzsch helped to establish McCann-Er- ickson- Communication House, one of Germa- ny’s first fully integrated agencies. She has held creative responsibility for the global Lufthansa budget and worked for Coca-Cola and all In- Bev brands. After working as Chief Creative Officer of McCann-Erickson Germany she was the Creative Managing Director of Serviceplan Sales in Munich for clients such as Kentucky Fried Chicken, ADAC and many more. Most recently she worked as Global Creative Director at Ogilvy in Düsseldorf. Since February 2017 she has been Chief Creative Officer Campaign at Track in Hamburg for clients such as Lindt, WWF and Comdirect. Britta has received numerous awards for her work, e.g. she was a juror in Cannes, president of the film jury of the ADC of Europe and board member of the Art Direc- tor Club Germany for 9 years. She contributed a weekly communication column in the Han- delsblatt for two years and she recently started writing a column on welt.de. For the last 8 years she has been presenting the award show and the Night of Honour of the German Art Director Club. www.track.de

Markus Weber, Editor, W&V, Munich

Markus Weber is editor at the Munich-based marketing magazine W&V. He has been writing on agency and creative topics for 16 years now. He was also member of several award juries.

www.wuv.de

Jacques Vereecken, Creative Executive Producer, The Boardroom, Amsterdam

Jacques Vereecken is the Creative Executive Producer and founder of TheBoardRoom, the directors’ roster of the worldwide MediaMonks network. He is also the founder of the Dutch Young Dogs, the precursor to the Young Cre- atives in Cannes. Starting as a musician, he became a creative at BBDO, later switching to director. He then started his own production home called bike*, and from there he joined the Caviar Group. After a few years at that company, he decided to step into the digital world in 2015. He has been involved in commercial film education at the Amsterdam Film Academy for more than 10 years. TheBoardRoom produces high- end content around the world. The company recently finished a sports documentary for the German market in association with Fox Sports LA.

www.theboardroom.film/

Katie Lambert, Head of Stink Rising, London

Katie has been working in music videos since 2010, and has EP’d and produced over 100 music videos, recognised across various awards bodies. She has created a name for herself in recognising and developing exceptional new talent. With Katie’s arrival at last year, Stink Films opened its Music Video department and has just opened its first dedicated new talent roster - Stink Rising. Stink Rising is a new talent department which goes beyond music videos, including talent across shorts, content, commercials and photography. The principle of Stink Rising is that this is the talent who will refine advertising in years to come. www.stinkfilms.com/stink-rising/

Austen Humphries, Director, Rattling stick, London

Austen Humphreys is a man of unbelievable stories. Quite literally. His proudest moments include playing bowls for England, meeting the Queen, and surviving a shootout in a Brazilian favela (one of those is a lie). He cut his teeth in post-production at the Mill; immersing himself in the dark arts of post- production whilst working alongside directors as a VFX Supervisor. Through his work, Austen found he wanted to understand the industry from another side, and made the leap over to Rattling Stick. His first commercial was for Swatch Watches, which he describes as being “a vomit-inducing rollercoas- ter ride, whilst laughing my head off in equal measure” – a feeling he still gets to this day. His inaugural project very swiftly led to more work for Swatch, followed by TFL, News Internatio- nal, Sky, Nokia, Nike, Suzuki and most recently eMoov, Smooth Radio & Betstars.

www.rattlingstick.com/

Oliver Hoffmann, Director Marketing Communications, Porsche AG (Jury member Mobility Category)

As a dedicated marketing expert, Oliver Hoff- mann worked in various leading positions at BMW, Citroën and Smart. In 2011 he joined the Porsche AG as Director of Experiential Mar- keting. In March 2018 he took over the role as Director of Marketing Communications and continues to support the Porsche Award.

www.porsche.com/

Preselection only - 2018

Lyndy Stout, Editor 1.4, London

Lyndy Stout was for a long time editor of shots, the magazine, dvd and website on commercial creativity. Before she took over this key post for over a decade, she was deputy editor of Crea- tive Review, and was also a travel writer. She is now editor / curator of the online magazine 1.4 which features the very best of short-form directors and filmmaking. www.onepointfour.co/

Lorenzo Cefis, CEO - Executive Pro- ducer, Filmmaster Productions, Mai- land

Lorenzo Cefis is one of the leading Italian executive producers. He studied at Bocconi Univer- sity, graduating with a degree in Business Admi- nistration. In 1988 he joined Young & Rubicam, one of Italy’s most famous international advertising agencies, where he had the opportunity to get in touch with an international creative reality. Over those 5 years he worked for famous brands such as Johnson & Johnson, San- gemini, Colgate Palmolive and Danone. In the early 1990s Lorenzo Cefis began his career as an executive producer working for leading Italian production companies. In 2010 Cefis decided to take on a new professional challenge and accepted the role of CEO at Filmmaster Productions. He quickly acquired new clients and produced key communication campaigns for brands such as Vodafone, Enel, FCA Group, Nespresso and Ferrero. Since 2016 he has been Chairman of Userfarm, a video crowd-sourcing platform which has been owned by Filmmaster Produc- tions since 2015. www.filmmasterproductions.com/

BIOGRAPHIES JURY

Jury 2017

Michael M. Maschke, Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Michael M. Maschke aka MMM has more than 20 years of advertising experience in production companies (director and executive producer) as well as in agencies. He has been awarded with national and international prizes. Since 2008 Michael M. Maschke has been working as Head of Creative Services (TV, Art-Buying & X- Media) for Saatchi & Saatchi Germany. Between 2009 and 2015 he was in charge of the Saatchi & Saatchi New German Directors’ Showcase, which was annually presented during the German ADC Festival. Since April 2017 he is responsible for the TV- and Art-Buying Departments at Publicis Communications Ger- many. saatchi.com/en-us/

Olivia Atkins

Olivia Atkins is the News Reporter at shots, a publication that covers creativity in global advertising. Since joining the company just over a year ago, she has written predominantly online – writing news pieces and conducting interviews with some of the great brains of adland. But she also occasionally writes for the magazine and most recently, was lucky enough to go on a work trip to document the Scandic creative culture. She’s always on the lookout for the next new idea and is also keen to feature young talent. Prior to the role, she worked in various sectors – including travel, national and financial news – none of which felt quite right, but she finally feels at home working in the creative industry. www.shots.net

Rogier van der Ploeg

Rogier van der Ploeg is a comedy director based in New York City and Amsterdam. His spots have won Clios, Gold Lions, and the Grand Prix at Can- nes for the famous Rolo commercial. You know, the one with the elephant. He co-founded Czar in 1990, a European commercial production company based in Holland, Belgium, France and Ger- many, and a former winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or. He’s directed Super Bowl spots for Budwei- ser and Nabisco, as well as commercials for me- ga-brands like Coca-Cola, Kraft, Miller Lite, Chevy, Chrysler, Sprint and Pepsi. Rogier holds casting in the highest regard and is known for drawing hilarious performances out of celebrities, kids and animals alike. With over 600 films, shot in 15 countries to date, he is a veteran filmmaker, but is also the type of guy who loves shooting spots with a digital Bolex and a one man crew. czar.nl/

Robert Ader

After completing his studies of Business Adminis- tration in Aachen and Sydney, Robert Ader went on to work in the Marketing Communications Department at Porsche AG in 2001. Specializing in Strategy and E- Commerce, he soon became Regio- nal Head of Sales Europe in 2007. He has been the Director Marketing Communications since 2012 and continues to support the PORSCHE AWARD. porsche.com/germany/

Jo Marie Farwick

Jo Marie Farwick has been hip-hopping around the communication sector since 2003. You can put her in the box of the creative skyrocket scientist. For ad people it is very important to win a large number of creative awards, and that is exactly what she has done over the last few years. Star- ting with prizes such as ADC Germany/Europe/ New York, LIAA, red dot & Cannes Lions (a few Gold, some Silver, and numerous Bronze in Print, Film and Copy), she went on to win more digital awards such as the NY Festival Interactive, Clio Interactive and Titanium Integrated in Cannes. This all came about because she developed from a more classical creative to a hybrid creative thinking holistically when it comes to brands. She invented the job title Hybrid Creative Director, which is now adopted by many others in the business. In September 2015 Jo Marie founded Überground, a holistic idea collective with a totally new approach to working on eyelevel with clients on prestigious projects. Überground debuted the well- known international campaign for famous fitness brand Freeletics, for which it won its first awards. For Christmas 2016 the team rocked the market with the 1000degree #SANTACLARA Christmas Campaign for Europe’s biggest discounter Lidl. It replaced Santa Claus, entered all the main Europe- an charts, and was named the best and most-sha- red XMAS Viral 2016. On 23 February Jo Marie’s company Überground was honoured with the Dare Greatly Award from Cadillac Europe and the title Rookie Agency of the Year 2016. She is a member of the German Art Director’s Club and was a teacher at Miami Ad School for 5 years. She is now a trusted “Kapitän” and is responsible for the curriculum at Texterschmiede, the most awarded German copywriting school.

www.überground.com/

Daniel Bergmann

Daniel Bergmann hails from Prague, where he helped to establish the production company Still- king Production, now Stillking Films Group, and 20/20, and worked as a partner and executive producer on numerous commercials, music videos, shorts and films. Daniel is the founder and President of London-based international production company Stink. One of the first and with a global outlook, Daniel has made it Stink’s mission to find and nurture local and international talent and to work directly with the most creative people producing fresh, exciting, progressive and original projects, commercials, music videos and branded experiences. With of- fices in Berlin, Paris, Shanghai, Moscow, Sao Pau- lo, New York and Los Angeles, Stink represents an eclectic roster of directors around the world, and remains at the cutting edge of advertising production, always expanding into new creative areas and proactively looking for new challenges.

stink.co/

Jury 2016

Sir Alan Parker

Sir Alan Parker is a director and writer. His feature films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Gol- den Globes and ten Oscars. His films include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita, Fame, Birdy, Angel Heart and Angela’s Ashes. He was founding chairman ofthe UK Film Council, a position he held for five years, and prior to that was chairman of the BFI. Sir Alan received the CBE in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. He is also an „Officier Des Arts et Lettres“ (France).

Olivia Atkins

Olivia Atkins is the News Reporter at shots, a publication that covers creativity in global advertising. Since joining the company just over a year ago, she has written predominantly online – writing news pieces and conducting interviews with some of the great brains of adland. But she also occasionally writes for the magazine and most recently, was lucky enough to go on a work trip to document the Scandic creative culture. She’s always on the lookout for the next new idea and is also keen to feature young talent. Prior to the role, she worked in various sectors – including travel, national and financial news – none of which felt quite right, but she finally feels at home working in the creative industry. www.shots.net

Lyndy Stout

Lyndy Stout was for a long time editor of shots, the magazine, dvd and website on commercial creativity. Before she took over this key post for over a decade, she was deputy editor of Creative Review, and was also a travel writer. She is now editor and curator of the online magazine 1.4 which features the very best of short-form directors and filmmaking.

www.onepointfour.com

Katie Keith

Rattling Stick’s First Lady, Katie Keith has been described as the company’s ‘mover and shaker’ and the ‘Rattle’ to Johnnie Frankel’s ‘Stick’. With an exceptional eye for talent, she’s also been hailed as one of the industry’s finest talent wranglers.

Katie joined Rattling Stick in 2010 from JWT after 10years service to the agency. Having started out in Account Management, she worked her way up to an Account Director, servicing some of the agency’s largest accounts, before moving into the TV Produc- tion Department. There she produced jobs for Smir- noff, Nestle, MTV, Vodafone, Unilever and Kellogg’s.

As a highly respected member of the UK’s advertising industry, Katie sits on the APA Council and works closely with both Creative Circle and ADCAN.

http://www.rattlingstick.com/

Patrick Cahill, adam&eveDDB, London, United Kingdom

Patrick, who has a background in production, a&r and artist management, started his ad agency career in 2005 with Hamburg-based independent Grabarz & Partner, where he was promoted to Head Of Moving Images in 2011. During his time at Grabarz & Partner he produced work for, amongst others, Volkswagen, Vodafone, Ikea and Müller. In 2014 he joined the integrated production team at adam&eveDDB, where his primary focus is on producing and supervising the network‘s global Volkswagen campaigns. www.adamandeveddb.com

Hugh Hudson, London, United Kingdom

Oscar-winning director. Producer/writer. Docu- mentary and Commercials director and Producer. Films include: Chariots of Fire, Greystoke, Revoluti- on, Lost Angels, My Life So Far, Finding Altamira.

Jury 2015

Michael M. Maschke, Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Michael M. Maschke has 20 years of advertising experience in production companies (director, associate producer) as well as in agencies (producer, Head of TV). He has been awarded with national and international prizes. Since 2004 Michael M. Maschke has been working at Saatchi & Saatchi. As Head of Creative Services Germany and Swit- zerland, he is responsible for the divisions TV, Art-Buying & X-Media (short: sisomoProductions). Furthermore he is in charge of the Saatchi & Saatchi New German Directors‘ Showcase, which is annually presented in Cannes and since 2009 also during the ADC Festival. Additionally he is in the Managing Board of the Association of Commu- nication Agencies GWA.

saatchi.com/en-us/ ww5.ngdsc.de

Patrick Cahill, adam&eveDDB, London, United Kingdom

Patrick, who has a background in production, a&r and artist management, started his ad agency career in 2005 with Hamburg-based independent Grabarz & Partner, where he was promoted to Head Of Moving Images in 2011. During his time at Grabarz & Partner he produced work for, amongst others, Volkswagen, Vodafone, Ikea and Müller. In 2014 he joined the integrated production team at adam&eveDDB, where his primary focus is on producing and supervising the network‘s global Volkswagen campaigns. www.adamandeveddb.com

Ryan Watson, shots, London, United Kingdom

Ryan Watson is News Editor at shots, the world´s leading publication for the advertising and creative marketing industries. Managing editorial content for shots.net, he continues to shine a light on the best in new directing talent from across the globe and has also written features for the long running New Directors section in shots’ magazine print product. Covering the latest work and cham- pioning creative excellence on a daily basis he has interviewed some of the most inspiring directors, producers and creatives in the industry.

www.shots.net

Nova Meierhenrich, Actress, Germany

Be it the big stage of a show on a saturday evening, the paddock of the formula 1, the live-atmosphere of big festivals or the red carpet at the Academy Awards, Grammy & Golden Globe: Nova Meier- henrich is a full- on professional in all the areas of moderation. Since her TV-debut in 1996 she hosted over a hundred different shows in german television, each on a regular basis, and moderated countless events. Being one of the pioneers of internet television, she has a faible for new media and keeps constantly challenging herself in new areas. Her open, charming and kind personality is an enrichment to any event and she has a way of combining both spontaneity and professionalism in an entertaining way. Her degrees in communication studies, psychology and sociology provide Nova Meierhenrich with a profound journalistic background, enabling her to supervise projects from both behind the camera and on stage, as well as editorial. Since january 2014 she moderates the saturday-evening- talkshow „Ducks & Friends“ for the Disney Channel, looking behind the scenes of some of the biggest film-productions worldwide. Nova Meierhenrich is also a succesful actress present in both cinema and television. Not only did she play the main role fort he series „Herzflimmern – Die Klinik am See“, her work as an actress also includes TV-Productions like „Sind denn alle Männer Schweine?“ (for SAT.1), „SOKO“ (for ZDF), „In aller Freundschaft“ (for ARD) or cine-films like „Unter Bauern – Retter in der Nacht“, making her one of the big names of german television.

The productions she participated in reach from telenovelas and dramas all the way to de- tective stories. All but a neophyte in the field of advertising, she worked for various advertising agencies, first and foremost the BBDO. When her growing fame then enabled her to actively advertise for certain companies herself, she became the brand-ambassador for the cosmetics-brand „Sans Soucis“ and the face of an advertising campaign for „Venus Divine“. After a racy career in film and television she started to focus on carefully selected projects and movies while remaining her professional and well-informed self - without ever losing the joy and passion for this line of work. She also invests a great deal of her time in charity, mainly for her own non-profit association „HerzPiraten“ which benefits cardiac children. (http://herzpiraten.com/) www.novameierhenrich.de www.agentur-graefensteiner.de

Allen Pérez: Orcí Advertising, Santa Mo- nica, USA

Allen Pérez has over 20 years experience in advertising and production. He has produced hundreds of advertisements in all disciplines and platforms of the industry for many brands, always deliver- ing strong production value. Allen has produced in Europe, South and Central America, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. Allen was born in Guatema- la, moved to Mexico and arrived to California at the age of ten. He studied photography and film production at PCC in Pasadena, LACC in Los An- geles, UCLA, Video Symphony in Burbank, as well as courses in digital advertising with certificates in editing, audio editing, mixing, and motion graphics. Allen has also taken a number of management and leadership courses: Management Action Program in Los Angeles, Second Wind in Chicago and the Berlin Creative School of Leadership. He currently sits on the board of directors at Orcí Advertising (orci.com). Allen has a passion for advertising and thinks that it is far bigger than making advertisements: “We don‘t just create ads. We influence people. That is a big social responsibility”. Known for his creative approach, Allen continues producing today and is always deeply involved in the development of all his projects.

www.orci.com

Toni Froschhammer, Editor, Berlin, Ger- many

Toni (Thomas) Froschhammer started working as a musician and producer for bands like Em Loo- mes or Frisky Sisco in his own recording studio. From 2001 to 2006 he was a editor at the berlin post-production „FX Factory“ and started directing in 2002. In 2007 he became a self-employer with his own company „Schnittbar“. He worked mainly on advertisments for Vodafone, LBS, Renault or T-Mobile but also did the edits for music videos by Rammstein, Depeche Mode, Rosenstolz or Die Fantastischen Vier as well as short films, such as DANGLE, KURZFASSEN or FROM UP TILL DOWN. In the year of 2009 he founded the „Froschham- mer Film GmbH“ and edited the 3D dance movie „PINA“ by Wim Wenders. In October of 2010 he started to work on the documentary „JOSCHKA UND HERR FISCHER (DER LETZTE ROCK´N´ROLLER DER POLITIK)“ together with Pepe Danquart. Said documentary was released in 2011. His latest movie, which he did together with Wim Wenders, is „EVERY THING WILL BE FINE“ which premiered in 2015. toni-froschhammer.de

Jury 2014

Michael M. Maschke, Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Inez Bjørg David, Danish Actress, Berlin, Germany

A classic beauty with a sense of humor. Inez Bjørg David was born on February 6, 1982 in Aar- hus, Denmark. With the age of 19 she moved to Berlin to learn German. It turned out that this language trip changed her life. Inez Bjørg David was discovered as an extra on a TV show and decided to give acting a chance. She enjoyed a measure of success in daily soaps like “Forbidden Love” and “Storm of Love” and quickly became a well known face in the movie industry, playing important roles in movies such as „Men in the city 1&2“, „All is Love“ and „Ich bin dann mal Weg“. Inez Bjørg David founded the eco fashion store www. miwai.de 2013 and also became an advisory member of the board at the „ Cradle to Cradle Foundation“ in her search to make a difference in the world. She also joined forces with Hollywood Star Edward Norton and Jörg Pilawa as an ambassador for the World Future Council. Inez Bjørg David lives with her partner and her two children in Berlin. She is interested in sustainability, environment, fair trade and is a trained Kundalini Yoga teacher. www.inezdavid.com

Ninian Doff

Ninian Doff is an award winning director whose work spans music videos, comedy shorts and commercials. Following 4 years at a major advertising agency as an editor and working in motion graphics, Ninian pursu- ed directing full time in 2011. Since then he has had music videos and comedy shorts shown and awarded in festivals around the world with his promo ‘Staring Out the Window’ selected for One Dot Zero’s ‘New British Talent 11′ and nominated for a UKMVA that year. Ninian has produced music videos for the likes of Graham Coxon (‘What’ll It Take’), Mykki Blanco (‘The Initiation’) and Darwin Deez (‘Free (The Editorial Me)’), the latter for which he was awarded ‘Best Rock/Indie’ at the 2013 UK Music Video Awards. Furthermore his work has been screened and won awards at the UK MVA 2013 (Best Indie Video), LA Film Festival, MOCA, Las Vegas Film Festival, Montreal Mu- seum of Contemporary Art, London Short Film Festival and many more.

Ninian‘s short film ‚Cool Unicorn Bruv‘ was selected for DepicT (part of Brief Encounters) short film festival, winning both the Jury and Audience awards. Ninian also recently launched easyJet’s new ‘Generation easyJet’ campaign with a critically acclaimed TV commercial and is currently in production on projects with global brands.

http://www.pulsefilms.com niniandoff.com

Ryan Watson, shots, London, United Kingdom

www.shots.net

Eva Maria Schmidt

Editor at Horizont, the german portal for marketing, advertising and media. Department: Jobs/Career/Online-Projects (also responsible for young creatives)

www.horizont.net

Hemant Sharda

Hemant Sharda is Head of Distribution the Na- tional Film and Television School, Beaconsfield, recently voted the No.1 International Film School, by the Hollywood Reporter. The NFTS is the leading centre for postgraduate and professional training in film and television, offering full-time MA and diploma courses in all the key film and television disciplines.

www.nfts.co.uk

Jury 2013

Michael M. Maschke, Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

saatchi.com/en-us/ ww5.ngdsc.de

Lyndy Stout, OnePointFour, London, Uni- ted Kingdom

Lyndy Stout was for a long time editor of shots, the magazine, dvd and website on the world‘s very best commercial creativity. Before she took over this key post ten years ago, she was deputy editor of Creative Review, and was also a travel writer. She is editor of the new online magazine about creative production and film making OnePointFour for one year now.

www.onepointfour.com

Joe Lancaster, shots, London, United Kingdom

Joe Lancaster is Features Editor at shots, the world´s leading publication for the advertising and crative industries. In this role he has travelled the world and interviewed the globe´s most inspiring directors, producers and creatives. His favouri- te part of the job however is finding new talent and showcasing it in shots´ New Directors pages, which he edits each issue. Before joining shots Joe spent several years working as a travel writer and DJ.

www.shots.net

Richard Gorodecky, Amsterdam Worldwi- de, Netherlands

Richard Gorodecky is the Executive Creative Di- rector of Amsterdam Worldwide. He has spent the last 15 years creating International advertising campaigns for some of the biggest brands in the world including Intel, Nike, Pernod Ricard, Electronic Arts, Coca Cola, Panasonic, Chevrolet, Onitsuka Tiger, and most recently Warsteiner. Richard‘s career has spanned graphic design, art direction and copywriting. Now, as an ECD, he is grateful to no longer have to choose between the three. He has won forty-five industry awards include a Grand Prix at Eurobest, a Gold Lion at Cannes, and a Silver Euro Effie. Nice things have been written about him in various books and magazines. www.amsterdamworldwide.com

Daniel Peiron: Amsterdam Worldwide, Netherlands

Daniel Peiron, originally from Spain, started his career in Barcelona working in animation. He then moved into design and art direction in digital focused agencies, working for “la Caixa” bank, Smith&Nephew and Esade; before moving to Amsterdam to focus his career on global brands in the fashion and beverage industry. Next to his advertising career, Daniel is active in artistic projects, from illustration to dance films. Daniel is also established in the music world, where he just started a record label. Daniel Peiron is now the Art Director at Amster- dam Worldwide, working for global clients such as Intel, Asics, Onitsuka Tiger, Olmeca Tequila, Jameson and Pernod Ricard Holding. http://www.amsterdamworldwide.com

Inez Bjørg David, Danish Actress, Berlin, Germany

A classic beauty with a sense of humor. Inez Bjørg David was born on February 6, 1982 in Aarhus, Denmark. With the age of 19 she moved to Berlin to learn German. It turned out that this language trip changed her life. Inez Bjørg David was discovered as an extra on a TV show and decided to give acting a chance. She enjoyed a measure of success in daily soaps like “Forbidden Love” and “Storm of Love” and quickly became a well known face in the movie industry, playing important roles in movies such as „Men in the city 1&2“, „All is Love“ and „Ich bin dann mal Weg“. Inez Bjørg David founded the eco fashion store www.miwai.de 2013 and also became an advisory member of the board at the „ Cradle to Cradle Foundation“ in her search to make a difference in the world. She also joined forces with Hollywood Star Edward Norton and Jörg Pilawa as an ambassador for the World Future Council. Inez Bjørg David lives with her partner and her two children in Berlin. She is interested in sustainability, environment, fair trade and is a trained Kundalini Yoga teacher.

www.inezdavid.com

Jury 2012

Dr. Stephan Vogel

Born in 1963, is Chief Creative Officer at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in Germany. In 1997, he started as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather Advertising in Frankfurt. He is a member of the ADC and since 2008 he has been a member of the ADC-board and has won numerous of international creative awards such as D&AD, LIAA, Clio or One Show – in Cannes alone 20 Lion awards within the last years. He made his doctor in Mannheim and Munich sup- ported by a scholarship of the German educational grant for particularly gifted students. His field of research is psychology and philosophy of science, publishing on “envy” and “emotional psychology, an outline of an exact science of emotions”.

He was a jury member at Cannes Lions, D&AD, Clio, New York Festivals, ADC, ADC of Europe and Epica, among others. http://www.ogilvy.de/

Rupert Reynolds-MacLean is an Executive Producer at Indepentant Films in London. He is also responsible for international sales and new business including digital and most established clients. His background is in producing and editing commercials, music videos, short films and digital content both in the UK and New Zealand. http://www.independ.net

Michael M. Maschke, Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Lyndy Stout, OnePointFour, London, Uni- ted Kingdom

Lyndy Stout was for a long time editor of shots, the magazine, dvd and website on the world‘s very best commercial creativity. Before she took over this key post ten years ago, she was deputy editor of Creative Review, and was also a travel writer. She is editor of the new online magazine about creative production and film making OnePointFour for one year now. www.onepointfour.com

Joe Lancaster, shots, London, United Kingdom

www.shots.net

Jury 2011

Michael M. Maschke, Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

saatchi.com/en-us/ ww5.ngdsc.de

Lyndy Stout, OnePointFour, London, United Kingdom

Lyndy Stout was for a long time editor of shots, the magazine, dvd and website on the world‘s very best commercial creativity. Before she took over this key post ten years ago, she was deputy editor of Creative Review, and was also a travel writer. She is editor of the new online magazine about creative production and film making OnePointFour for one year now.

www.onepointfour.com

Daniel Bergmann: STINK, London, Uni- ted Kingdom

Daniel started his career in the Prague art scene, helping to discover new artists. Moving to the United States, he worked as an art dealer and art fundraiser in New York and San Francisco. His col- laboration on the project “The Gates” was at that time the biggest public art project. At this time Daniel was simultaneously involved in producing music videos and concerts at Central Park Summer Stage (Lou Reed, Gypsy Kings) in both America and Japan. In addition, he collabora- ted with a New York based documentary production company to produce a holocaust documentary drama for PBS, The Butterfly, which saw his return to the Czech Republic. Joining Prague based production feature service production company Stillking Production as a producer, he developed the company’s creative potential and as Executive Producer and Partner, represented directors around the world. Daniel Bergmann is currently Managing Director of London based international production company Stink. One of the first with a global outlook, Daniel has made it Stink’s mission to find and nurture local and international talent and to work directly with the most creative people, regardless of territory, to produce fresh, exciting and original projects, TV commercials, music videos and branded experiences. With the additional strength of Stink Paris and Stink Berlin, Stink represents an eclectic roster of directors around the world, and remains at the cutting edge of commercials production. Last year saw the birth of Stink Digital which is currently developing and redefining Stink’s role through multimedia and internet. Stink is also involved in developing other forms such as documentaries, short films, animation and feature projects.

Selected Awards: Cannes Lions, Epica, Eurobest, Scandinavian Silver Egg, D&AD, Cresta, Emmy, BTAA, AICP, Creative Cirle, Shots Grand Prix, Midsummer Awards, APA 50, Cannes - Best Commercial Campaign 2004, Campaign Production Company of the Year 2005. BTAA Production Compa- ny of the Year 2006 www.stink.tv

John Spary: John Spary Associates (Directors Agent) and Mad Cow Films (Production Compa- ny), London, United Kingdom

John Spary, born in Ireland in 1964, started at Benton & Bowles in their TV Department at 17 and has been working in the Advertising industry ever since. Promoted 5 times in 3 years and then head-hunted to join McCann-Erickson to become the youngest TV producer in London at just 21. After this he side-stepped into the Creative Department there working as Assistant to the Executive Creative Di- rector for 2 years before moving over to MGMM, one of the premier production companies of its time as their Directors Representative. Their international turnover increased more than 500% in the time John worked there. At 25 he left to set up John Spary Associates (JSA) specialising in the representation of Directors throughout the International markets which he continues today. JSA is recognised as the leading Agent of Directors in Europe with over 340 confirmed shoot days in 2010 alone and already over 250 in 2011. It employs 6 multi-lingual Agents, represents over 50 Directors exclusively and has a vast resource of other talent including 200+ up-to-date reels and a digital reference library of over 35,000 commercials. Its website al- lows clients to search Directors under various categories with dedicated servers in Europe and the Asia Pacific region to improve speed and quality. John set up The Association of Directors Agents where he was President for 2.5 years, has judged the New York Awards twice and London International Awards twice.

www.jspary.com

Franz Lustig: Director of Photography (DOP)

After years of exercising and work as a freelance camera assistant and editor for various production companies on all kind of projects and genres, Franz Lustig was one of the first students at the Filmakade- mie Baden-Württemberg in 1991 and finished in 1995 with a master for cinematography. Since 1994 Franz has been working as director of photography for commercials and music-videos with some of the leading directors all over the world, like Daniel Kleinmann, Ringan Ledwidge, Tarsem, Kasper Wedenthal, Martin Werner, Cadmo Quintero and Ralf Schmerberg. After some short films, his first feature “Land of Plen- ty” (directed by Wim Wenders) was shot in 16 days on 25P Mini- DV in 2003 mainly downtown L.A., premiered at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Best Camera at the German Film Awards. He finished up two more films with Wen- ders, “Don’t come knocking” in 2004 “ and Palermo shooting” in 2007. His documentary work, also an important path in his career, includes the film “2, or 3 things, I knew about him” by Malte Ludin. The film was earning a lot of attention worldwide. He was awarded with the prestigious international Mobius-award 2010 for best Cinemato- grapher and is preparing several feature projects in 2011. Franz Lustig also worked together with the german singer Sabrina Setlur and “Die Fantasti- schen Vier”. His whole Biography, Filmography and his list of Awards is published on his website www.franzlustig.com

Jury 2010

François Chilot: Les Producers, Paris, France

Until 1984 François Chilot worked at TBWA. Sub- sequently he started his own production company, Les Producers. In 2000 Les Producers was selected for the top ten of the best production companies in the world at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes. For the past decade, François Chilot has been Pre- sident of the Commercial Film Producers of Euro- pe (CFP-E). Members of the CFP-E are the national associations representing commercial film producers in 15 countries. This federation of national associations gathers around 550 production companies throughout Western Europe. The CFP-E is the founder of the Young Director Award (YDA) in Cannes.

www.lesproducers.com www.youngdirectoraward.com

Ralph Herforth: Velvet Film/Fernsehen/ Theater, Berlin, Germany

Ralph Herforth is a renowned German actor. In 1992 he made his first appearance in Lars Becker‘s „Shadow Boxer“. He subsequently starred in various film and television productions. His cinema projects include the films „Knockin‘ on Heaven‘s Door“, „Kurz und schmerzlos“ and „Der Eisbär“. He took further credit for the succesful ARD production „Das Herz ist rot“ and the critically acclaimed SAT.1 series „Bis in die Spitzen“ (2005). Moreover, his acting career comprises several commercials for LBS, DHL, Volkswagen or Audi.

www.ralphherforth.de

Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein: Ering an der Inn, Germany

Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein has been a nationally and internationally successful director of photography since 1969. His work encompasses feature films, TV movies, documentaries, short and art films, music videos and commercials. His credits as a DoP include several feature films directed by Werner Herzog. Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein has been awarded with many prizes (amongst others: Deutscher Kamerapreis, Bundesfilmpreis/Deutscher Filmpreis, Filmband in Gold). Furthermore he has worked on numerous commercials, e.g. with Ralph Schmerberg, Sebas- tian Strasser or Martin Schmid, amongst others for Nike, Master Card, Volkswagen, Merce- des Benz, DHL, T-Mobile, Deutsche Post, Vodafone. www.reitwein.net

Michael M. Maschke, Saatchi & Saatchi, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Michael M. Maschke has 20 years of advertising experience in production companies (director, associate producer) as well as in agencies (producer, Head of TV). He has been awarded with national and international prizes. Since 2004 Mi- chael M. Maschke has been working at Saatchi & Saatchi. As Head of Creative Services Germany and Switzerland, he is responsible for the divisions TV, Art-Buying & X-Media (short: sisomoProduc- tions). Furthermore he is in charge of the Saatchi & Saatchi New German Directors‘ Showcase, which is annually presented in Cannes and since 2009 also during the ADC Festival. Additionally he is in the Managing Board of the Association of Communica- tion Agencies GWA. saatchi.com/en-us/ ww5.ngdsc.de

Lyndy Stout, OnePointFour, London, Uni- ted Kingdom

Lyndy Stout was for a long time editor of shots, the magazine, dvd and website on the world‘s very best commercial creativity. Before she took over this key post ten years ago, she was deputy editor of Creative Review, and was also a travel writer. She is editor of the new online magazine about creative production and film making OnePoint- Four for one year now.

www.onepointfour.com

Jury 2009

Jürgen Bertrams, Telemaz Commercials, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jürgen Bertrams is joint partner and business manager of „Telmaz Commercials GmbH Düsseldorf“. Over the years the Telemaz group evolved into one of the biggest production companies in germany. Among several other prices it won seven „Goldene Nägel“ at the ADC for its agency „DDB“ and the client „Volkswagen“ with the campaign called „Schlaem- mers Quest“. Jürgen Bertrams is a member of the association of german advertising film producers since 1989. In the year 2003 he got elected as the presidential council, he is a member of the ZAW executive committee. He is a member of the national commodity team „Digital Cinema“. Bertrams is also am member of the board of managment of the „Mood and Motion AG“ and responsible for the „New Media“ division.

Detlev Buck, Silbersee Film GmbH, Ber- lin, Germany

Detlev Buck is an actor, screenwriter, producer and director. Besides he works as an advertising filmmaker and is executive director of “Silbersee Film GmbH”, where advertisments for “Flensbur- ger Pilsner“ have been produced that showed the typical humour of Buck. He also moderated the weekly “Cinematalk” on N24 together with journalist and film critic Knut Elstermann, reviewing current movie releases. He is, together with Claus Boje, the founder of the “BojeBuck Pruduction Company” which produced his first movie “Karniggels” (1991), starring Bernd Michael Lade and Julia Jäger.

Gösta Reiland, Stockholm, Sweden

Gösta Reiland is from sweden and lives in stockholm with his family. as well as his highly acclaimed and successful international work as a director of photography, he also works as a photographer. His h&m films made him very popular.

Awards

vdw award best camera vodafone super flat

Aljosa Bagola, Pristop, Ljubljana, Slove- nija

For nine years, Aljoša Bagola has been actively involved in the creative design and management of the Pristop marketing agency’s largest marketing and communications projects. He has received over 100 awards for his work. For the last three years, he has been holding lectures in Advertising and Design at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Ljubljana. So far, he has created more than 70 advertising films or spots of which several have received numerous national and international advertising awards, won at the biggest advertising festivals and also featured on the BBC’s show on the best commercials in the world.

Lyndy Stout, OnePointFour, London, Uni- ted Kingdom

Lyndy Stout was for a long time editor of shots, the magazine, dvd and website on the world‘s very best commercial creativity. Before she took over this key post ten years ago, she was deputy editor of Creative Review, and was also a travel writer. She is editor of the new online magazine about creative production and film making OnePoint- Four for one year now. www.onepointfour.com

Jury 2008

- Chairman: François Chilot, Chairman of the “Commercial Film Producers Europe (cfp-e)”, and Chairman of the production company “LES PRODUCERS”, Paris - Paul Smith, Regional Creative Director at “Ogilvy & Mather EAME“, London - Lyndy Stout, Editor for “shots“, London - Jacques Vereecken, Director at the production company “Caviar Amsterdam” and associate Professor at the “Netherlands Film and Television Academy” - Florian Sigl, Managing Director of the production company “Bakery Films”, Ham burg and board member of the German Advertising Film Producers Association

Jury 2007

- Director and Grimme laureate Sönke Wortmann - Stephen Whelan, Web Reporter for “shots“, London - Bärbel Unckrich, Editor at the Frankfurt-based advertising magazine “Horizont” - Dennis Willison, Creative Director at “Saatchi & Saatchi”, London - Franz Merlicek, Creative Director at “Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann”, Vienna - Alexander Schill, Creative Director at “Serviceplan”, Hamburg

Jury 2006

- Chairman: Hans-Jürgen Bertrams, CEO at the production company “Telemaz Commercials”, Düsseldorf and board member of the German Advertising Film Producers Association - Danny Edwards, Editor at „shots“ - Hermann Krug, Head of TV at “Springer & Jacoby”, Hamburg - Dietmar Dahmen, free-lance Creative Director at “Ogilvy & Mather”, Vienna

Jury 2005

- Ed White, Senior Researcher “shots” - Julian Vizard, Art Director at “St. Lukes Communication Ltd.”, London - Amir Kassaei, Chief Creative Officer at “DDB Berlin” - Ingeborg Sichau, Editor at the Frankfurt-based advertising magazine “Horizon“

Jury 2004

- Dieter Kosslick, Director of the “Berlin International Film Festival/Berlinale” - Hartwig Keuntje, Creative Director at “Philipp und Keuntje GmbH”, Hamburg - Martin Schmid, Director of the production company “Jo! Schmid Filmproduktion GmbH”, Berlin - Lyndy Stout, Editor of “shots”

PORSCHE AWARD HALL OF FAME

Please consult the following list to see the vitas of all shortlist-candidates until 2009 - if you wish to select a specific year, simply click on it.

1. Shortlist 2018

2. Shortlist 2017

3. Shortlist 2016

4. Shortlist 2015

5. Shortlist 2014

6. Shortlist 2013

Click below to see the shortlist-nominees of the years 2012 - 2004:

7. Shortlist 2012 - 2009

8. Shortlist 2008 - 2004

BIOGRAPHIES SHORTLIST

Shortlist 2018

Lars Timmermann - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Black Stallion Length: 30“

Lars Timmermann was born in Tübingen in 1990 and grew up in Germany, the USA and Switzerland. After graduating he completed an internship with Hans Zimmer in LA, as part of which he worked on the film Sherlock Holmes. He then worked as assistant director for various ProSiebenSat1 formats. Lars started his advertising film studies at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2013, and graduated in 2018. As a freelance director he has already produced commercials for clients such as the DFB, Audi, Mercedes and Philipp Plein, as well as music videos (CRO, Fantastic Four, Clueso) with a total of over 100 million views.

Filmography:

2018 Zusammen - Die fantastischen Vier feat. Clueso (Music video, 3‘) 2018 Mission Tunnel - Die fantastischen Vier (Music video, 3‘) 2018 Black Stallion - Black Stallion Stout (Commercial, 30‘‘) 2017 The Journey - Audi (Commercial, 60“) 2016 Electric Jungle (Commercial, in production) 2015 PLEINTIME - Philipp Plein (Commercial, 60“) 2015 Dream - CRO (Music video 3‘30‘‘) 2014 Hey Girl - CRO (Music video, 3‘05‘‘) 2014 Traum - CRO (Music video, 3‘39’‘)

Axel Morin - France

Film: Paris, Lyon, Marseille Length: 1‘31“

Axel Morin is a director and photographer with a powerful vision of deeply aesthetic imagery and a unique storytelling ability. Inspired by the urban culture of his youth, he discovered a passion for photography at an early age. He creates bold compositions with a contemporary vision. His sought-after style is a blend of timeless sophistication with a fresh, provocative interpretation.

Christian Schilling - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: The Man with a Coin Length: 1‘23“

Christian has dedicated himself to commercials. Driven by his passion for short, emotional stories and visually stunning pictures, he is hungry for new projects and challenges, with the aim of constantly creating extraordinary filmic approaches. In 2013, he obtained a Ba- chelor´s degree in Motion Pictures from the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. He then enrolled to study Commercial Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2014. Christian has won the Young Director Award in Cannes twice and has worked with clients such as Volkswagen, Beiersdorf and Telekom.

Filmography:

„The Man with a Coin“ - Mentos (spec commercial / 2018) „The Funeral“ - Amazon Kindle (spec commercial / 2017) „Nagel“ - T-Mobile (commercial / 2017) „Granatapfel - Unicef“ (spec social spot / 2016) „Kill the Noise - Ohropax“ (spec commercial / 2016) „Yawn of the Dead“ - Dallmayr (spec commercial / 2016) „Footprint“ - NIVEA (commercial / 2015) „Locked in“ (short film / 2015) „Don‘t Drown Yourself in Alcohol“ (social spot / 2014) „Lightspark“ (short film / 2014) „Beat, Note, Music - Visions“ (spec commercial / 2013)

Michael Kranz - University for Television and Film, Germany

Film: myBorder‘s joyFence Length: 1‘30“

Michael Kranz was born in 1983 in Ravensburg, in beautiful Upper Swabia, Germany. After completing his German Abitur and American high school certificate, he attended the Otto Falckenberg School of Performing Arts in Munich. He has appeared in many German and international films, working for directors such as Michael Haneke, Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg. He studied documentary film directing at the University of Television and Film Munich and completed a post-graduate programme in advertising directing. Michael Kranz is a member of the German Film Academy. His graduation film from the advertising programme won the 2018 First Steps advertising film prize. Some people say he is quite a nice guy.

Filmography:

2018 myBorder’s JOYfence (Social spot) 2018 What To Do (Documentary) 2016 The Baby Report (Satiric short) 2014 Ping Pong (Art installation) 2014 Pierre Henry Jean (Music video) 2012 Montreal -Talking Pets (Music video) 2010 At the End of the Meadow (Documentary) 2009 Farbe bekennen (Showing Colors) (Social spot) 2008 Klare’s Hunger (Short documentary)

Bernd Faass - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Tears in Heaven Length: 1‘59“

Bernd was born and raised in the back of beyond in southern Germany. Coincidence led him into filmmaking, which he thinks is good fun. He now writes and directs peculiar films about life, the universe and everything else.

Filmography:

2018 Tears in Heaven - Tears Gin (Commercial, 90“) 2018 Brunnen - Sparkasse (Commercial, 25“) 2017 Nicht.Doch. - Sparkasse (Commercial, 3‘) 2017 Chäskampf - Emmentaler Switzerland (Commercial, 60“) 2016 Ready for Craft - Lidl (Commercial, 60“) 2016 Better Safe Than Worry - Somfy (Commercial, 90“) 2015 Der alte Mann und das Meer - Granu Fink (Spec, 70“) 2015 The Story of Aimee - Swiss (Commercial, 3‘40“) 2015 Mutter - Plain Milch (Commercial, 60“) 2013 Leather - Adidas (Spec, 70“) 2012 Studies on Hysteria (Branded short, 6‘) 2012 The Power of Playstation - Sony (Spec, 60“) 2011 Dudarfst (Short, 3‘30“)

Florian Reittner - University of Applied Sciences Salzburg, Austria

Film: Moore Marsh, More Life Length: 1‘15“

Florian Reittner is a director, idea-factory and scribbler. The Salzburg-born college graduate and gummy bear connoisseur specializes in capturing the weird, the bold and the unexpected. He is currently working as an external screenwriter for the Norwegian production company Helmet, and as a writer/director for his own company Nautilus.film.

Filmography:

2018 Mehr Moor, Mehr Leben (Commercial) 2016 (release 2019) Genesis 2015 Wir - Why I Ride Writer 2015 Kleingeist(Commercial) 2015 Fleshbreath (Short) 2014 Weekend on Wednesday

Andreas Bruns - Alumni of the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Out of the Blue Length: 1‘47“

Always ambitious, emotional and breathtaking. Andreas loves to play with genre and cinematic storytelling. Andreas grew up in Sauerland, Germany, an area well known for lakes, mountains and beer brands, which obviously had an influence on his career choice as a commercials director. His hero’s journey began when he left his cute, sleepy village in search of filmmaking knowledge. He started to gather experience by working at various film production companies in Germany and, later, Canada. Going to the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg proved to be a turning point in his story; Andreas was able to channel his experiences to perfect his cinematic storytelling. Andreas has made commercials for Mercedes-Benz, Harley-Davidson, Lux, McDonalds and Einstök beer. They have won him countless awards, including five Young Director’s Awards at Cannes, First Steps, Clio Image Award and Deutscher Werbefilmpreis.

Filmography:

2018 #ThrillUpYourBeast - Apollo (Commercial) 2018 Out of the blue - Wohninvest (Commercial) 2016 B96 - Silbermond (Music video) 2016 Face the darkness - Einstök (Commercial) 2015 Inner Child - Harley-Davidson (Spec) 2014 Little Drummer Boy - McDonalds (Commercial) 2014 Big Enough - McDonalds (Commercial) 2013 Save your skin - Lux (Spec) 2012 The Journey - Mercedes (spec) 2012 Breathtaking - Obsairve (Spec) 2012 Strongman - Tesa (Commercial) 2012 Everything is wrong, everything is OK - An early cascade (Music video)

Shortlist 2017

Zara Dwinger - The Netherlands Film Academy, Netherlands

Film: The Most Powerful Weapon Length: 49“

Zara Dwinger was born and raised in Amsterdam. After travelling, studying Cultural Anthropology, and exploring photography, acting and writing, she realised that her true passion had always been film. She attended the Netherlands Film Academy, where she graduated as a director in 2017. During her time there she co-directed a feature film, and directed several short films, music videos and commercials. Her graduation movie Sirene focused on a young boy struggling with his gender identity, which won several prizes and garnered critical acclaim. She seeks to tell unique stories in a creative way and challenges herself to do something different each time.

Filmography:

THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON (commercial for Stop Pesten NU, 2017) SIRENE (short film, 2017) PEARLS (music video for Avi On Fire, 2016) GUESS WHO’S BACK II (theatre teaser for YoungGangsters, 2016) GUESS WHO’S BACK I (theatre teaser for YoungGangsters, 2016) LIV (short film, 2016) LOVE/HATE (commercial for Oedipus Brewery, 2015) IK GELOOF DAT IK GELUKKIG BEN (co-direction, feature, 2015) LOS VAST (music video for Josephine Zwaan, 2014)

Bernd Faass - Germany

Film: Better Safe Than Worry Length: 1‘26“

My name is Bernd. I write and direct peculiar films about life, the universe and everything else. This is a picture of me wearing an extra-terrestrial helmet.

Filmography:

2017 Chäskampf – Rocket Film, Zurich (commercial, 45 sec.) 2017 Tutorial – Walking on the Moon, Stuttgart (commercial, 60 sec.) 2016 Readyforcraft – Panama, Stuttgart (commercial, 70 sec.) 2016 Better Safe Than Worry – Element E, Hamburg (commercial, 90 sec.) 2016 Albtrauf – Filmakademie Baden Wuerttemberg (testimonial, 18 min.)

Ben Miethke - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Roll the Old Chariot Length: 1‘30“

Ben was born and raised in Crefeld-Stahldorf. After finishing school he moved to Berlin, where he worked for several production companies for eight years, developing concepts for and directing entertainment and commercial productions. In October 2016 he took the lateral entrance into the commercial directing class at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg.

Filmography:

2017 Roll the old Chariot – Guinness (commercial) 2016 A Place to Fall Apart – Vodafone (commercial) 2015 The Extra Mile (commercial)

Benjamin Pfohl - University of Television and Film Munich, Germany

Film: Eternal Summer Length: 1‘28“

Born in 1985, Benjamin discovered a passion for film as a young boy, with an overwhelming love for James Bond, Star Wars and – some time later – Apocalypse Now. After high school and an intense phase of MiniDV adventures, he worked on national and international feature and commercial productions.

In 2008 he enrolled at the prestigious University of Television and Film Munich, where he wrote and directed several short films. His most acclaimed, TOTES LAND (English title: GHOSTS), competed in several film festivals around the world and won a FIPRESCI prize.

After working as 1st AD on several commercial productions, he was chosen to participate in the school’s advertising masterclass in 2016. His commercials SMUDGE and ETERNAL SUMMER ran at numerous festivals and received awards and recognition at the New York Film Festival, Junior ADC and the Clio Awards.

Filmography:

2016 Smudge, spec spot, 90 sec, Garstig&Solide, HFF Munich 2016 Eternal Summer social, spot 90 sec, Garstig&Solide, HFF Munich 2014 Ghosts (Totes Land), short 30 min, NEUESUPER, HFF Munich 2014 Amazing Ghostland, doc short, 15 min, HFF Munich 2011 Jaeger, short 17 min, NEUESUPER, HFF Munich 2009 Munich Bohème, short, 15 min, HFF Munich

Gabriel Borgetto - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Hans in Luck Length: 2‘25“

Whether it is a feature, TV, branded entertainment or commercial, Gabriel believes that a good film is based on the psychology behind its characters and that this will always be the main driver of a story’s unfolding. He likes to create surreal worlds, and funny and absurd stories, and he is passionate about poetry. He studied in the United States, Germany and Canada before choosing Munich as his current operating base. On a side note, Gabriel also loves to edit films and works as Creative Director for brands like BMW, Eurojackpot, HolidayCheck and Paramount Pictures.

Filmography:

2017 „OFFICEPRANK“ — TVC 2016 „#GRANNYISCOMING“ — Online Commercial 2016 „HANS IN LUCK“ — Branded Short 2015 „HAMDULLAH – IM NAMEN ALLAHS“ — TV Pilot 2015 „WHEN FAITH IS NOT ENOUGH“ — Commercial 2015 „ACHTUNG“ — Music video 2014 „MOMEMO“ — Short 2013 „SNEEZE FREEZE“ — Commercial & Short 2012 „STUDIES ON HYSTERIA“ — Short 2012 „RAUCHZEICHEN“ — Short 2012 „RITTER SPORT – FORMSACHE“ — Commercial 2011 „DIGEL – ISUIT“ — Commercial 2011 „AUGURA“ — Music video 2011 „GARTEN EDEN – DIRECTOR‘S CUT“ — Festival trailer 2011 „BEICHT-STUHL“ — Short 2007 „TRAUMJOB RENNFAHRER“ 1ST SEASON — Reportage 2006 „MONOCHROM“ — Short

Ian Robertson - National Film and Television School, England

Film: Cupid Length: 30“

Ian graduated from the NFTS in Directing Fiction in 2017 and his genre-bending graduation film Comeback Kid is premiering at the BFI London Film Festival this year. His other shorts have premiered at Encounters, LOCO, Glasgow Short Film Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Before the NFTS he enjoyed a fruitful music video career, winning a BAFTA New Talent Award, a Young Director Award in Cannes, and three UK Music Video Award nominations. He has also directed a music video for UK hip-hop national treasure Dizzee Rascal. His videos have been so popular online that he has earned two death threats from YouTube commenters.

Recently his Kodak spot for Paperchase won Gold Student Commercial at the British Arrow Awards 2017. Having graduated from film school, Ian is now getting back into the world of music videos and commercials, whilst developing a number of short and feature film projects, as well as bracing himself for further YouTube death threats.

Filmography:

Paperchase – Cupid (Commercial, 2017) Comeback Kid (Short Film, 2017) The Proposal (Short Film, 2016) Inside (Short Film, 2015) Sheepo (Short Documentary, 2015) Oliver $ - Pushing On (Music Video, 2014) Dizzee Rascal - Love This Town (Music Video, 2013) Duke Dumont - Need U (100%) (Music Video, 2012) Delta Heavy - Get By (Music Video, 2011) The Phone Box (Short Film, 2011)

Marco Prestini - Art Center College of Design (L.A.), USA

Film: Star* Back Home Length: 1‘36“

Born and raised in Italy, Marco Prestini is now an LA-based director. He completed his highschool studies in Vancouver and then graduated in Business in Milan. In 2010, driven by his strong attraction to fashion and underground culture, he founded an art collective under the name Flash Factory with the aim of creating visual content. In 2013, Marco moved to LA to start the Film program at Art Center College of Design, where he graduated in 2016 and made a mark with his powerful electric and poetic visuals.

Filmography:

2017 Li Yuchun - Once Tierra Whack - Mumbles Golden Goose - Star* Back Home 2016 Gucci - Eye for an Eye Tumi - Camille Rowe Clockbeats - Break The Sound Barriers 2015 Golden Goose - Three Rivers Golden Goose - SS15 Los Angeles 2014 Aucan feat. Otto Von Schirach - Rise of the Serpent Together (short)

Dorian & Daniel - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: ABC of Death Length: 44“

Born at the end of the 80s and at the beginning of the 90s and raised in different parts of Germany, Dorian and Daniel always had the same ambition: to tell visual stories.

Their paths crossed when they both started studying commercial directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2012. They found that their brains wouldn’t stop exchanging ideas and incorporating their different backgrounds until these ideas became great. As a result, Dorian and Daniel began working as a directing duo while studying and using this exceptional constellation to make movies. Sometimes funny, sometimes emotional, but always big pictures.

Filmography:

Sony – The Last One Nivea – Mama Johnnie Walker – Dear Brother Volvo - ABC of Death

Nico Kreis - Germany

Film: Take No Sides Length: 1‘

Nico Kreis was born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1988. In 2008 he started studying Cinematography at the Bavarian Academy for Television (BAF) in Munich, and moved to Ludwigsburg one year later to study at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg’s Advertising Film Department. In 2013 Nico was presented as a “New Director” by shots magazine. Since then his advertising films have won the Young Director Award in Cannes, The Andy Awards in

New York, ADC Germany, as well as other renowned festivals. His commercial for Agent Provocateur was recently named a winner at the Lon- don Fashion Film Festival. Nico is based in Hamburg and Berlin.

Filmography (selection):

Nissan - Electrifying (2017) Wohninvest - End the Decadence (2017) Nissan - Take No Sides (2016) Samsung - Picture Quality (2016) Agent Provocateur - Revolution (2015) Brabus - Earlking (2015) Chesterfield - Chester (2014) Ferrari - The Legend (2014)

Moritz Rautenberg & Christian Ricken - University of Television and Film Munich, Germany

Film: EARL HERNEST IV Length: 1‘07“

MORITZ RAUTENBERG

Aliens. The German Chancellor. Santa Claus: Moritz Rautenberg has had all of these in front of his camera. He claims he has the best job in the world, except perhaps for Udo Lindenberg. Moritz’ accountant has a different opinion on that.

Filmography:

2017 Porsche – Earl Hernest IV. (commercial) 2016 PIN-Bootcamp (commercial) 2016 Happy Dog/Happy Cat – Bad Pets (commercial) 2015 Hobräu – Outer Space (commercial) 2014 Astra – Mutti (commercial) 2014 Sweaty Santa (commercial) 2014 Beyond Words (short film) 2013 To Nashville (short film) 2012 It also works without a wheel (short film)

CHRISTIAN RICKEN

Christian is a passionate traveller and a huge football fan, but he found his true love in creating humorous moving images. Christian completed film school and master class in Munich. His passion for storytelling and his special sense of humour led to many award-winning projects. Christian is eager to meet new people and gain experiences from interactions with different cultures. After periods living in Madrid and the United States, he therefore took a year off to conquer the world with his backpack.

Filmography:

2017 MAN – Tested to the limit 2017 Porsche - Earl Hernest IV. (commerical) 2016 PIN-Bootcamp (commerical) 2016 Happy Dog / Happy Cat - Bad Pets (commerical) 2015 Hofbräu – Outer Space 2014 Astra – Mutti (commerical) 2014 Sweaty Santa (commerical) 2014 Krabluk & Plorz (commerical) 2013 Deine Isar – True Love (commerical) 2013 Motorbike Granny (commerical) 2012 Burger Deluxe (short, 15’) 2011 Schwitzkasten (short, 15‘)

Shortlist 2016

Chiara Grabmayr - University of Television and Film Munich, Germany

Film: Moonjourney Length: 2´30“

Chiara was born 1988 in Vienna. In 2010 she received her Bachlor of Arts at University of Applied Sciences in Salzburg. Since 2011 Chiara studies directing at university of television and film Munich. In 2015 Chiara finished the Masterclass of Advertising with her socialspot Monnjourney which let her win prices at the YDA, Clio, New York Fest, Sportlight etc. Currently Chiara is writing and directing the webseries „Fat and Fat“. It´s about people you meet everyday and those you never see – about life close to age thirty and the search for...yeah, for what?

Filmography:

Moonjourney – socialspot, 150 sec Fat and Fat – webseries, 6 x 10 min Stories of Ethiopia – commercial portraits, 5 x 2 min IngDiba Jury – commercial, 3 x 1 min Lulu – shorfilm, 20 min Like a Tiger – shortfilm, 10 min Ott – portrait, 120 sec Siegeshunger – shortfilm, 15 min Leben will ich

John Ryan Johnson - New York University, USA

Film: Limits Like Fears Length: 1´30“

A product of Texas and New York, John Ryan Johnson (JRJ) is an award winning commercial director and filmmaker. At 22, JRJ was shooting high school football in the pouring rain on a Best Buy camcorder. At 32, he won Best Test Commercial in North America at Young Director Award in Cannes for Buckets, a spot he wrote, produced, directed, edited, and funded. Clearly, he ages like wine and Cannes’ definition of “Young” is questionable, at best. Recently, JRJ’s first foray into commercial directing was a six spot, single bid, multi-agency campaign for McDonald’s McCafe. He also started out skiing on a double black diamond course and learned to fish with only snorkel and spear. JRJ’s Jordan Brand spec Limits Like Fears was nominated for the 2016 New Director of the Year at the shots Awards and named a Finalist in the Porsche Awards in London. An Alumni of New York Universi- ty’s Graduate Film program, JRJ’s first feature documentary Anatomy of an American Dre- am is backed by the NYU Production Lab and will be screening in festivals in 2017. JRJ resides in Brooklyn, NY.

Filmography:

„McCafé campaign“ - McDonald´s (2016) „Limits Like Fears“ - Jordan (2016) „Buckets“ - Nike (2015) „Tantrum“ - Polaner All Fruit (2014) „Joanne Rossman“ - American Express (2013) „Nine to Five“ - NBA (2012)

Dorian Lebherz und Daniel Titz - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Dear Brother Length: 1´30“

Born at the end of the 80s and at the beginning of the 90s, raised in different parts of Germany, they always had the same ambition... telling visual stories.

When they both started studying commercial directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2012, their paths crossed. They found that their brains wouldn‘t stop passing ideas, incorporating their different backgrounds, until these ideas became great. So Dorian&Daniel started working as a directing duo while studying and using this exceptional constellation to make movies. Sometimes funny, sometimes emotional, but always big pictures.

Filmography:

Sony – The Last One Nivea – Mama Johnnie Walker – Dear Brother ABC of Death The Beast

Germain Gulick - New York University, USA

Film: How New York Eats Length: 1´

Germain Gulick is a writer/director MFA candidate at the Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film Program in New York. He is currently working on his thesis film. Before moving to New York, Germain worked in Los Angeles at the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program. Germain is a Minnesota native but also lived in Montana and has a great affinity for its South-West landscape-- which is where he plans to set the story for his thesis film.

Filmography:

Sony – The Last One Nivea – Mama Johnnie Walker – Dear Brother ABC of Death The Beast

Christian Schilling - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Kill the Noise Length: 1´10“

Christian has dedicated himself to commercials. Driven by his passion for short, emotional stories and visual stunning pictures, he’s hungry for new projects and challenges, with the aim to constantly create extraordinary filmic approaches. In 2013 he obtained a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt in the study path of „Motion Pictures“. Thereafter he joined the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in the study path of commercial directing in 2014. Christian won the Young Director Award in Cannes two times and worked with clients like NIVEA and Volkswagen.

Filmography:

David Helmut - Macromedia School Munich, Germany

Film: Integration Length: 2´03“

„David Helmut is a cinematographer and director from Augsburg, Bavaria in Germany. Since he stole his parents‘ first camcorder in ‚95 he tirelessly improved his way of capturing stories. In 2010, David found the independent filmlabel called „Geek Pictures“ and began to work as a professional director and dp. During his directing studies at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Munich he made several tv commercials, music videos and short films. In addition to his passion for advertising he‘s also planning to write and direct feature films in the next years.“

Filmography:

„Acer Switch Alpha“ - tv commercial (2016) „LG X Series“ - tv commercial (2016) „Zu gut zum Teilen“ - tv commercial (2016) „Ketapan“ - series pilot (2016) „Errdeka - Frau für eine Nacht“ - music video (2015) „Atamba by Adidas“ - commercial (2015) „We Destroy Disco - Melencholia“ - music video (2015)

Alexander Blome - University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe, Germany

Film: The Mission Length: 1´53“

Alexander Blome was born in 1985 in the Black Forrest, a woody region with twisting roads in the southwest of Germany. Right from the start he was fascinated by cars, motorbikes and the engineering background. 2006 he started his studies in Technical Writing at the University of Applied Science Karlsruhe where he learned the basics in writing, filming and video-editing with a stopover in England at the Bauer Media Publishing Group. From 2010 on he worked as an editorial motorbike journalist at the publishing company Motor Presse Stuttgart. Since 2014 Alex works as a freelance journalist and DSLR-filmmaker, always on the run with his Volkswagen campervan. While traveling through Europe he finished his first short film in 2016: The Mission shows different scenes of people he met by chance, all connected through the element of soap bubbles – authentic moments that Alex turned into a funny twisted story.

Filmography:

Volkswagen (possibly) – The Mission (2016)

Florian Greth - Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Hungry for History Length: 54“

Florian is passionate about visual effects. While studying at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, he also found enthusiasm in directing commericals and short films. As a compositing artist he worked for VFX companies like Pixomondo, Mackevision or RiseFX on large projects like „Game of Thrones“ or „Captain America: Civil War“. In 2016 he founded his own company „Flyvision Media GmbH“, which not only provides visual effects as a vendor, but is also capable of manufacturing own productions.

Filmography:

2017 „The Lake“ feature film (digital compositor) 2016 „Hungry for History“ commercial (director) 2016 „Captain America: Civil War“ feature film (digital compositor) 2015 „Early Birds“ commercial (VFX Supervisor) 2014 „A toad song“ short (R&D, digital puppeteering) 2013 „A Hedgehog‘s Visit“ short (lead compositor) 2013 „Robin Hood“ feature film (associate VFX Supervisor) 2013 „Game of Thrones“ tv series (digital compositor) 2012 „HaiHase“ trailer/short (director) 2010 „Hornochse“ short (director)

Spencer Young - National Film and Television School, United Kingdom

Film: Cardboard Dreams Length: 2´26“

Spencer studied fine art at Chelsea college of art and design, where he experimented with video projection on sculpture and video installation work. Whilst there he was offered a job as a studio assistant for Turner prize nominated painter Dexter Dalwood, and worked with him for a year before leaving in order to pursue filmmaking.

Spencer studied film and television production at the London College of Communication where he specialised in directing, making severalexperimental short films. After leaving, he worked in several Soho-based post-houses as an assistant editor, before setting up Young and Young Post Production, a small family run post-production business. Spencer is now an MA student in Fiction Directing at the UK’s NFTS.

Filmography:

Capsule- director 2016 Known unknowns - director 2015 Headland - director 2014 Minotaur- director 2012

Minh Duong - University of Television and Film Munich, Germany

Film: The Light Length: 1´45“

After graduating from high school, Minh gained first experiences in the film industry as a PA and Unit Manager in feature and commercial film productions. In 2005 he started studying directing feature films at the university of television and film while working as a freelance assistant director. His shortfilms received numerous awards at international film festivals. In 2015 he graduated from the „Masterclass Commercial & Imagefilm“ with two Spec Spots for Tesla and BMW. Currently, Minh lives and works as a freelance director and author in Munich, Germany.

Filmography:

Airbus Defence and Space „Time for Growth“ – Imagefilm Brose „WPA 2015“ - Imagefilm BMW „The Light“ – Spec-Commercial Tesla „Silence“ – Spec-Commercial Pfizer „Domino“ – Spec-Commercial Reebok „Crossfit“ - Viral Microsoft „Megawoosh“ – Viral „Marie“ – Shortfilm „Fights“ – Shortfilm „Black, White, Night“ – Shortfilm „Carl.“ - Shortfilm

Shortlist 2015

Damien Krisl - No School, France

Film: Emotion Starts on Red Length: 59“

Damien was born in 1987 in Basel, Switzerland. After school he worked with a local TV station as DoP and Editor and this is where he discovered his love for film and realized that moving image gave him the chance to realize his dreams in motion pictures. In 2008 he established the production company Eclumes Studios in Basel together with a friend. Here he started his career as a director for national and international projects. In 2012 he separated from his partner and has since then been working as a freelance director for clients all over the world. Damien lives in Paris and Basel.

Filmography:

2015 GUHL spray 2015 ALFA ROMEO red range campaign 2015 LANCOME new advanced genifique 2015 MONCEAU FLEURS flower twister 2014 SCHLUMBERGER golden stars 2014 QATAR FOUNDATIONS thriving in 2014 LANGNESE HONIG sun emotion 2014 BUCHERER craftmanship 2014 OOB MAG makeup 2014 LEAVES OF ABSENCE fashion editorial 2014 GUERLAIN how to... 2014 CITROEN DS versailles touch 2013 PAUL KEHL fall/winter collection 2014 2013 LOVE REPUBLIC a mysterious preparation to crime 2013 ROSHEN BITTER butterfly 2013 URBAN HIPPIE 2013 SWISS MUSIC AWARD event trailer 2012 CSI BASEL horse racing 2012 LEVIATHAN harem‘s latest 2012 BIZS business

Sumit Kumar - Film and Television Institute of India, India

Film: Innovative Dream Length: 59“

Sumit has edited numerous short and advertising films, music videos, documentaries and TV- Shows. In 2005 he received his Diploma in Gra- phics Design and Visual FX from the Arena Multi Media as well as a post-graduate Diploma in Film Editing. Having worked as an Editor, Graphic Designer and Visual FX artist from 2006 to 2010, his work benefits greatly from the collected experiences in those fields. His short film “Tapish” and his documentary “The Donkey Fair” received huge national attention in India. Sumit currently lives in Mumbai, India.

Filmography:

Tapis (The Heat) / Year - 2012 (Worked as an Editor) The Donkey Fair / Documentary / Year - 2013 (Worked as an Editor) A Summer Afternoon / Year - 2015 (Worked as an Editor) 1982- A Love Marriage ( now in Post Production and yet to release) / Year - 2015 Beauty Tips by Reshma „ / Year - 2015 Innovative Dream / Year - 2015

David Feuerstein - Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, Munich, Germany

Film: People´s Car Length: 45 Sec.

David Feuerstein was born in 1986 in Basel (Switzerland). He studied German language and literature and film studies in Zurich as well as directing at the Macromedia University of Ap- plied Sciences. He worked for Xenius, a science program of the renowned Franco-German TV network ARTE, as an author and director for two years. After that he shot two short documentaries: about a maker of violin bows with a difficult family heritage as well as one about an old andoutlandish swiss New Year‘s tradition

where a group of friends has overburdened themselves. Due to those films he was hired to shoot a half-hour documentary for the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Feuerstein lives and works as a freelance director, author and lecturer in Munich, Germany.

Filmography:

People‘s Car - spec-commercial (2015) Unzeit - short-documentary (2015) Chlausen - short-documentary (2014) Freiheit wagen - commercial (2014) Wölfe in Bayern - documentary (2012) Von Grund auf - short-documentary (2011)

Andreas Bruns, Film Academy Ba- den-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Inner Child Length: 150 Sec.

To cut a long story short, Andreas lives to tell stories...... and in the early 80s his own story began. Unable to ignore his designation, he opened a new chapter in Hamburg in 2003, laying the basis for becoming a professional storyteller. His view sharpened, his story moved on and so did he.But after the reality of life had literally jumped his face in Vancouver in 2007, he finally realized where his story had to lead. So he entered the Filmakademie Baden-Württem- berg in 2009 to define his creative mind more and more, which let him win several prizes at the YDA, Clio, FirstSteps, Porsche Award etc. In 2015 he finished filmschool and his story continues. Sometimes provoking, sometimes ambiguous, but always emotional.

Filmography:

Harley-Davidson – Inner Child McDonalds - Groß genug McDonalds - Little Drummer Boy LUX – Save your skin Mercedes-Benz - The Journey TESA Powerbond - Strongman An Early Cascade - Everything is wrong. Everthing is OK Fast Forward Billy Boy – Fruchtgummis obsAIRve - Atemberaubend

Michael Rittmannsberger - No School, Germany

Film: The Culprit Length: 1‘42‘‘

Michael is a writer/director based in Vienna and Berlin. With his short films that earned him numerous awards worldwide, he developed a highly cinematic visual style and poignant, emotional storytelling that he strives to bring into his commercial work. Having worked as a copywriter at Ogilvy & Mather Vienna for three years, Michael also features great sensibility for creative conception, client needs and the industry workflow. In 2014, he won the Deutsche Werbefilmakademie Förderpreis (New Talent Award) for his project „The Culprit“. Produced by Element e Hamburg, the film is one of the nominees for the Porsche International Student Advertising Film Award. Currently, Michael is developing his debut feature screenplay with the Nipkow Script Pro- gramme in Berlin and is preparing new commercial projects.

Filmography:

DER VERURTEILTE (The Culprit, Social Spot/Branded Short, 2015) THE TROJAN HORSE (Greenpeace TVC 30“, 2014) THE MOVEMENT (Greenpeace Awareness Film 165“, 2013) ABGESTEMPELT (Punched, Short Film 11‘, 2012)

Jacqueline Dow - New York University, USA

Film: Music Everywhere Length: 1‘30‘‘

Jacqueline Dow was born in Boston, Massa- chusetts and moved to New York City to attend Barnard College of Columbia University. Prior to beginning her work as a director, Jacqueline worked in advertising, assisting the production of client videos and copy. Jacqueline‘s filmography includes short films The Stain (2013) and Pisces (2014), documentary shorts Shelter Visit

Filmography:

2015 Music Everywhere- ‘Spotify Spec’ (Spec Commercial) 2015 Harry white (Documentary short) 2015 Born Free Pet Shelter (Promo Films) 2014 Pisces (short) 2014 Funny Talk (Sketch Comedy) 2014 Half and Half (Sketch Comedy) 2013 The Stain (short) 2013 Shelter Visit (Documentary short) 2013 Born Free Pet Shelter (Promo Films) 2012 Bait (short)

Sascha Kuntze - No School, United Arab Emirates

Film: The Social Media Guard Length: 1´50“

Sascha Kuntze (33) is an all-round creative with an university degree in Business Administration & Engineering (Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart). Go figure. He started his career in the film industry as a set runner being the first on set and the last to leave with important responsibilities such as guarding roads and making tea. After a brief stint in the brand management department of Snickers, he moved to advertising where he won his first award as a copywriter at Jung von Matt for a viral film. He is currently employed as Creative Director at the agency Memac Ogilvy in Dubai where he heads the creative department. In his short time in advertising, he has since won over 250 awards and certificates at all major award shows including Cannes, D&AD, One Show, Clio, LIA, NYF, Red Dot, Epica, Ef- fie, etc. In every category. Including 6 Grand Prix. And a Titanium at Cannes Lions. In 2013 he was ranked 7th most creative copywriter in the world. Sascha is a storyteller at heart which drove him to pick up his passion for directing recently. His first film advertises the ‘Social Media Guard’ for Coca-Cola, a device that takes the social out of media and puts it back into life. It went viral overnight and spread across the world in 2014. He believes that awards can’t be won, but only be earned. Having great ideas is easy. Brin- ging them to life is the hard part.

Filmography:

Coca-Cola - Stop Phubbing Around (2014) Mentos - Mr Cool (2015) Greenpeace - Story of a Spoon (2015)

Andreas Roth, Film Academy Baden-Wu- erttemberg, Deutschland

Film: Sea Legend Length: 2´05“

Andreas Roth was born in Hamburg. As a young boy he dreamed of becoming a tennis pro, but that‘s simply not where life took him. In 2009 he joined the renowned Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. Andy was quickly known as one of the brightest young directing talents in the business. He shot his first commercial when he was 21 and won the most celebrated emerging director award in 2011 with his online viral for Dirt De- vil (#5 most viewed online film 2011) and in 2013. He also was honored at the prestigious Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase along with winning numerous other awards at festivals and marketing conventions around the world. Including Cannes Lions, D&AD, Clio, NYC Festival, Epica, Eurobest, TED global conference, shots magazine and the Art Director’s Club in New York and Berlin. In 2012 Andreas received a scholarship for the UCLA Filmacademy Masterclass in Los An- geles. Parallel to school he shot a couple of real jobs for world leading brands, e.g. HEINE- KEN and BMW. In April 2014 after envisioning his career in directing - he graduated from the prestigious Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg with a Diploma for Commercial Directing. Due to his last work he caught the attention of Ridley Scott and his well known company RSA Films. Since August he moved to Los Angeles to work closely for the US market. In short, Andy is a very nice guy with great ambitions who loves to create films with a cinematic look and a distinctive, textured style – he definitly has his indiviual handwriting.

Filmography:

Hamburger Morgenpost - Fischverkäufer ISHR - Typewriter BILD - Mord (Spec) Dirtdevil - The Exorcist CAF - Tough but Doable Herbaria - Fears Heineken - The Sub BMW - Scrum Machine

Ernest Desumbila, No School, France

Film: There Will Be Haters Length: 74 Sec.

Ernest´s commercial career has jumped to the next level internationally thanks to his „There Will Be Haters“ campaign for Adidas, which has turned into a truly viral phenomenon. Before that he had worked for clients such as Haribo, Peugeot, Boursurama Banque or Loto, and had directed music videos for Citizens and La Bian Querida. But his real presen- tation to the world was Ibizious, a fake ad for a fake energy drink that was seen around the planet. Ernest Desumbila´s past as a graphic designer is essential to understand and define his audiovisual pieces. Ernest prepares his work obsessively, with a meticulously drawn pre-conception, planned to the last details. He is, on top of that, a whirlwind of responsibility, motivation and energy. Recently, he has co-founded the new production house SAUVAGE.tv so nothing´s going to stop him.

Filmography:

K.O.T.A – (coming soon) Desigual „Exotic Jeans“ Hotel Pulitzer „A-Z of a Cool Hotel“ SFR „La puissance de la fibre SFR by numéricable Adidas „There Will Be Haters“ Adidas „Leo Messi: There Will Be Haters“ Citizens „Lighten Up (Cesare Remix)“ – Music Video Peugeot „New Peugeot 108“ Matinée „Ibizious“ Haribo „Chamallows“ Boursorama Banque „Torture test“ PUB TV LOTO „Croisez les doigts“ Matinée „Girlie Circuit 2013“ Matinée „Circuit Festival 2013“ La Bien Querida „A veces ni eso“ Music Video KLEIN „Beat by Beat“ The Sound of Arrows – Conquest Chinese Christmas Cards „Dreams“ Matinée „The Matinée Experience“

Moritz Rautenberg - University of Televi- sion and Film Munich, Germany

Film: Sweaty Santa Length: 52 Sec.

Moritz Rautenberg, born in Hamburg and raised in Munich, switched from his love for photography to moving image. Since 2011 he is studying cinematography at the University of Television and Film Munich focusing on film and commercials.

Filmography:

2014 Astra – Mutti/Mommy (Werbefilm/Commeri- cal) 2014 Sweaty Santa (Werbefilm/Commerical) 2014 Jenseits von Worten/Beyond Words (Kurz- film/Short, 24’) 2013 Nach Nashville/To Nashville (Kurzfilm/Short, 40’) 2013 Freecross (Werbefilm/Commerical) 2012 OLGA - Ohne Lenkrad gehts auch/It also works without a wheel (Kurzfilm/Short, 10’)

Christian Ricken - University of Televisi- on and Film Munich, Germany

Film: Sweaty Santa Length: 52 Sec.

Christian Ricken left his beloved hometown Frank- furt, Germany, to start his film and TV studies at MHMK University for Media and Communication in Munich with a special focus on directing. Af- ter his graduation he took a year off to backpack around the world. In 2014 he attended the Master Class „Commercials“ at University of Television and Film in Munich.

Filmography:

2014 Astra – Mutti/Mommy (Werbefilm/Commeri- cal) 2014 Sweaty Santa (Werbefilm/Commerical) 2014 Krabluk & Plorz (Werbefilm/Commerical)

2009 Hallo München – Englischer Garten (Werbefilm/Commerical) 2008 Hallo München – Stammtisch/Regulars’ Table (Werbefilm/Commerical)

Shortlist 2014

Martina Plura - Hamburg Media School, Germany

Film: Readers See More Length 87‘‘

Born 1985 in Neuwied, 12 minutes after her identical twin Monika. Started to shoot horror movies with the age of 11, still on VHS-tape and cutting on video recorder. From 2005 on she worked on film sets in Germany for cinema and television. 2007-2012 she studied „Media Arts“ at the “academy of media and arts in Colog- ne“. Meanwhile in 2011, she spent eight months in the feature-film-class at the „Escuela Interna- cional de Ciné y Television“ in Cuba, where she shot the shortfilm „A que no te atreves – Ich wette du traust dich nicht“ that was nominated for the 59. International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen. 2012 she and her twin sister went back to Cuba to shoot her diploma „Cuba Libre“, a feature- length documentary about the underground music in Havanna. Currently she graduated her Master of Arts in Directing at Hamburg Media School, where she realised the films „Chains of Love“, „A pinch of Oscar“ and „Not at all“. Her films „A pinch of Oscar“ and „Chains of love“ won several prices on national & international film festivals. Recently „Chains of love“ was bought by HBO. For 10 years the Plura twins give workshops for children & adults and teach them „how to make a movie“ (2012 for example they were the leader of the workhop „Directing movies“ at the Dortmund / Cologne International Women‘s Film Festival). For their engagment they were honered with the „Johanna Loewenherz“ award.

Filmography:

„Ein kleiner Horrorfilm“, D-2014, ca. 10 Minuten, HD, Farbe, deutsch, Eine Produktion von Jadefilm & Plurafilm, (noch in der Postproduktion) „Da nicht für“, D-2014, 25:16 Minuten, HD, Farbe, deutsch, Eine Produktion der Hamburg Media School „Hinz&Kunzt Leser sehen mehr“, D-2014, 1:26 Minuten, HD, Farbe, ohne Dialog, Eine Pro- duktion der Hamburg Media School „Eine Prise Oskar“, D-2013, 11:23 Minuten, HD, Farbe, deutsch, Eine Produktion der Ham- burg Media School

„Ketten der Liebe“, D -2013, 6 Minuten, 35mm, s&w, ohne Dialog, Eine Produktion der Ham- burg Media School „Cuba Libre“ (AT), D/Kuba, Dokumentarfilm, 90 Minuten, HD, Farbe, spanisch, Eine Produktion der KHM und der HfBK in Zusammenarbeit mit der EICTV „A que no te atreves“, D/Kuba-2012, 23 Minuten, HD, Farbe, spanisch Eine Produktion der KHM und EICTV „Ingeborgs 83.“, D-2011, 15 Minuten, HD, Farbe, deutsch (eine Produktion der KHM in Zu- sammenarbeit mit der HfBK Hamburg)

Vika Evdokimenko - NYU Tisch School of Arts, USA

Film: Find Your People Length 64‘‘

Vika was born in the Soviet Union during the pe- restroika. But as her popstar mother and physicist father fled the country, she spent her early years as an immigrant in Northern Ireland. After graduating from Cambridge University she performed with a jazz orchestra and a drum and bass band, travelled to Cuba where she studied screenwriting at the Escuela Internacional del Cine near Havana. When she found her way back to the UK she worked for acclaimed UK producers Stephen Woolley and John Battsek, and directors Mike Figgis and Kevin Mac- Donald before emigrating to the States. Since starting to direct her own films, her short doc RELATIVE MADNESS premiered at the Edinburgh Internati- onal Film Festival and her first narrative short KATYA & THE SCARLET SAILS premiered at the Sarasota Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize at the International Canada Film Festival and Best Short at Fargo Fantastic Film Festival. Her online spot FIND YOUR PEOPLE for Atsby Vermouth was a finalist in the 2014 AICP Award before being shortlisted for the Porsche International Student Advertising Film Awards. Vika is currently pursuing her MFA in Film on the NYU Grad Film Program, growing her commercial reel, developing a half-hour comedy show about a maverick kid with the strangest dream in America and writing her first feature.

Filmography:

What‘s Up With Fred? - half-hour comedy show, 2014 Find Your People spot for Atsby Vermouth - online spot, 2014 Snapper Magee‘s - short film, 2014 Katya & The Scarlet Sails - short film, 2013 Me & My Life - documentary short, 2010 Relative Madness - documentary short, 2010 Solidarity Complex - documentary short, 2009

Andreas Bruns, Film Academy Ba- den-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Film: Save Your Skin Length: 66 Sec.

To cut a long story short, Andreas lives to tell stories...... and in the early 80s his own story began. Unable to ignore his designation, he opened a new chapter in Hamburg in 2003, laying the basis for becoming a professional storyteller. His view sharpened, his story moved on and so did he. But after the reality of life had literally jumped his face in Vancouver in 2007, he finally realized where his story had to lead. So he entered the Filmakademie Baden-Württem- berg in 2009 to define his creative mind more and more, which let him win several prizes at the YDA, Clio, FirstSteps, Porsche Award etc. In 2015 he finished filmschool and his story continues. Sometimes provoking, sometimes ambiguous, but always emotional.

Filmography:

Nico van den Brink - The Netherlands Filmacademy, Netherlands

Film: Tableau Vivant Length 44‘‘

Nico van den Brink (1986, Delft) is a Dutch filmmaker, currently living in Amsterdam. He holds a Bachelor degree in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam and has recently graduated as a director from the Netherlands Film Academy. Nico is interested in personal stories with a universal significance, specifically related to family relations, and he is es- sentially fascinated by the uncanny and unknown. In addition his films can be described as unconventional and idiosyncratic. Over the past few years Nico has directed several short films.

Since 2014 Nico has been involved in making commercial add films. His test commercial for Kit Kat was shortlisted for the Young Director Award. The Polaroid commercial film Tableau Vivant, made as part of his graduation, won the Golden Gate Com- mercial Award at the Keep an Eye Film Festival in Amsterdam.

Filmography:

2014 POLAROID – TABLEAU VIVANT (Commercial film) 2014 KIT KAT – STILL ALIVE (Commercial Film) 2014 ANTON (Graduation film) 2013 SPIEGELTJE (Short film) 2013 HOMUNCULUS (Short film) 2012 GESUSTERE (Short film) 2011 MOOIE ELLENDE (Short film) 2009 HET OPONTHOUD (Short film)

Milan Ruben Kappen - Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Germany

Film: The Storyteller Length 65‘‘

Born 1987 in Bielefeld. A level 2006. Asisstant director and production asisstant for music videos and avertising film at Camelot Film 2007-2009. Sin- ce 2009 independent studies at Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Filmography:

Brausepulver // 26min // 2013 Makin‘ Fun of Crippled Frogs // 3min // 2012 Snovi // 5 min // 2011 Marie // 4min // 2010 Ein wenig Wärme für die Nacht // 6 min // 2009 CELL // 10 min // 2008 Das Andere // 3 min // 2007 Allein // 4 min // 2006

Michael Binz - Kunsthochschule für Me- dien Köln, Germany

Film: The StorytellerLength 65‘‘

Born 1987 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. No Abitur. Community service at the ophtalmic surgery of UniKlinik Köln. Many internships at Film- and TV-Productions. Thereafter, freelance cartoonist for some print- magazines and bakery salesperson in the family bakery oft he parents . Degree course (Diploma I) at the Academy of Me- dia Arts Cologne 2008 - 2014.

Filmography (selection):

2014 – „Herman the German“ – Kurzfilm, 15 Min. (Buch & Regie) 2014 – „Facebook Stories – Once A Year“ – Wer- bung, 2 Min. (Regie) 2013 – „Aus den Augen, aus dem Sinn“ – Kurzfilm, 4 Min. (Buch & Regie) 2013 - „Der Maismann“ - Kurzfilm, 6 Min. (Buch und Regie) 2012 - „Zähne zeigen“ - Social Spot gegen Altersarmut, 45 Sek. (Buch und Regie) 2012 - „Cosmo“ - Kurzfilm, 5 Min. (Buch und Regie) 2009 - „Placebus – Waiting for Godot’s Bus“ - Kurzfilm, 5 Min. (Regie) 2007 - „Sei kein Idiot“ - 4 Social Spots gegen Rassismus, 4 Min. (Buch)

Dan Neeson - National Film and Televisi- on School, United Kingdom

Film: Once She Was Just Like You Length 30‘‘

Dan Neeson is a London-based director, animator and visual effects artist. He was born in Sydney, Australia, where he worked in the music industry as a artist manager until relocating to London in 2006. He is now 30 years old and is arguably over- due for a haircut. Dan got his first taste for film making in 2010, when one of his former artists asked him to direct a low budget music video for them. The video was filmed using an endoscope and predominantly featured a performance by the singer’s larynx. Although reaching #5 on the Australian charts, the video was subsequently banned from Australian TV for being too offensive.

However, the online success of the video prompted a professional move into filmmaking. After spending a year working on music videos in the UK, Dan was awarded the Sir John Terry Memorial Scholarship and was invited to study his Masters in Visual Effects at the National Film and Television School, (NFTS) England. Focusing mostly on animation projects, Dan spent most of his Masters animating trailers for the London International Animation Festival, designing motion-graphic content for French music producer Alan Braxe, and visual effects for his grad films Pineapple Cala- mari (dir. Kasia Nalewajka, 2013) and My Stuffed Granny (dir. Effie Pappa) – both multiple award winners and official qualifiers for the 2015 Oscar Awards. Dan made his professional directorial debut in 2014 with Once She Was Just Like You - a 30” commercial spot for London’s Shelter From The Storm charity. The commercial went on to win 1st place ‘Best Overall’ and 1st place ‘Best in Brief’ at the 2014 NAHEMI Kodak commercial awards.

Filmography: 2013 TRAILER – LONDON INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL (LIAF) ONLINE TRAILER ANIMATION // VFX 2013 TIME MACHINE – ALAN BRAXE MUSIC PROMO ANIMATION // VFX 2013 MY STUFFED GRANNY – dir. EFFIE PAPPA SHORT ANIMATION FILM CG & VFX SUPERVISION // ANIMATION // VFX 2013 PINEAPPLE CALAMARI – dir. KASIA NALEWAJKA SHORT ANIMATION FILM SFX SUPERVISION // VFX 2014 ONCE SHE WAS JUST LIKE YOU – SHELTER FROM THE STORM 30” COMMERCIAL DIRECTION // ANIMATION // VFX

Victoria Harris – University of Westmins- ter, United Kingdom

Film: Don´t Cope Alone Length 30‘‘

At the age of fourteen Victoria picked up her first camera. A simple VHS recorder on which she filmed her very first short, Jenny’s Lung. An agoni- sing tale of cigarette addicted Jenny and her long suffering lung. A creation that scored her an A in her biology project. But soon school projects were a distant past and Victoria started to widen her filmic horizons into other genres. A zombie horror short – why not, there’s blood involved – called The Unwell got her accepted into Westminster Film School where she made projects

such as Claus Encounters, a dark comedy involving Santa suits and Personal Enemy, a three minute short shot in four hours exploring our fragile relationship we all have with our minds. Since Westminster Film School Victoria has dipped into the world of fashion films with her take on jealously in Sustain, a new line from designer Charlotte Benson exploring the use of all natural products to make man-made items. It was this juxtaposition which inspired Victoria to pursue the ideas found in the short film. Most recently, Victoria has returned to the narrative for short film, Be Free which uncovers the difficult choices you must make in order to protect those you love in the sight of your own death. Currently Victoria is in development of music projects, a media platform not fully explored by her but one which is particularly close to her and her musical devotion.

Sandin Puce - Filmakademie Baden-Wu- erttemberg, Germany

Film: Take Your Stage Length 88‘‘

Sandin Puce was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Her- zegovina. He was the co-founder of the Film Club, and the Short Film Festival in Mostar. Concurrent- ly he started to work with the New York film critic Howard Feinstein and the Sarajevo Film Festival, whilst shooting his own short films, music videos, and commercials. It’s fair to say that Sandin was a very busy boy. In 2008, he left his homeland to study directing at the prestigious Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany. During his studies, he directed movies for Smart, Opel, Johnnie Walker and Adidas. Sandin was nominated three times for the Young director award in Cannes. In 2013 he won the 1. prize in the category Filmschool. His films were nominated, shown and recieved prizes on many festivals such as ITFS (Stuttgart), Anima (Brussel), Spotlight Festival (Mannheim), MonstraFestival (Lis- bon), Reklamfilmpreis (Frankfurt), kurzundschön (Cologne), ADC (Germany), Hamburg Animation Festival, NEW GERMAN DIRECTORS’ SHOWCASE from Saatchi & Saatchi, KROK International Animated Film Festival, Animayo (Gran Canaria), Civican - Responsable Ani- matic (Pamplona) etc. Sandin now lives and works in Berlin.

Filmography:

“Take your Stage “ - adidas (commercial) “My Love” – Kovacs (Music-Video) “Frenki” - johnnie walker (commercial) “BfFF”- Berlin Fashion Film Festival (commercial) “Der Clan. Die Geschichte der Familie Wagner” - (trailer ZDF) „Mutterlandung“ – HASPA (commercial)

Frame- smart brabus tailermade (commercial) “Bijes”- Clown (Music-Video)

Camilo Villota - Miami Ad School, Ger- many

Film: Unafraid Length 220‘‘

Born 1983 in Bogota, Camilo developed a love for fashion and photography over the years, and by moving to Miami, he saw an opportunity to make his hobby a profession. After gathering skills and knowledge in different industries, including the fashion industry, he graduated from Miami Ad School in Miami, to go out and take on the world. Currently Camilo is working as in- house Art Direc- tor in New York.

Theo von Asmuth - Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany

Film: Find Your Fate Length 90‘‘

Theo von Asmuth was born and raised on a small island in the Philippines. He moved to Berlin, Germany at the age of eight. The experience of the huge contrast between this two different worlds has had a great influence on his behaviour and on his interests to date. After graduating from highschool, Theo von As- muth gathered experience in film and television production at the company Cineteam Media Works in Frankfurt and at the company spectral.tv in Wiesbaden. Since 2010 he has studied Digital Media with focus on film in Darmstadt Dieburg. During his studies he found his passion for music videos and commercials. After he had dealt with advertising in more detail, a whole new world opened up to him.

Filmography:

Warum nicht Erzieher / 2012 /Werbeclip Tape.tv / 2012 / Werbeclip Viva/ 2012 / Werbeclip

Darmstadt Diamonds/ 2013 / Werbeclip Find your Fate/ Regie 2014 / Werbeclip Red Bull/ 2014 / Werbeclip Greenpeace - Story of a Spoon (2015)

Shortlist 2013

Andreas Roth, Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg, Deutschland

Film: Fears Length: 70“

Andreas Roth was born in Hamburg. As a young boy he dreamed of becoming a tennis pro, but that‘s simply not where life took him. In 2009 he joined the renowned Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg. Andy was quickly known as one of the brightest young directing talents in the business. He shot his first commercial when he was 21 and won the most celebrated emerging director award in 2011 with his online viral for Dirt Devil (#5 most viewed online film 2011) and in 2013. He also was honored at the prestigious Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase along with winning numerous other awards at festivals and marketing conventions around the world. Including Cannes Lions, D&AD, Clio, NYC Festival, Epica, Eurobest, TED global conference, shots magazine and the Art Director’s Club in New York and Berlin. In 2012 Andreas received a scholarship for the UCLA Filmacademy Masterclass in Los An- geles. Parallel to school he shot a couple of real jobs for world leading brands, e.g. HEINE- KEN and BMW. In April 2014 after envisioning his career in directing - he graduated from the prestigious Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg with a Diploma for Commercial Directing. Due to his last work he caught the attention of Ridley Scott and his well known company RSA Films. Since August he moved to Los Angeles to work closely for the US market. In short, Andy is a very nice guy with great ambitions who loves to create films with a cinematic look and a distinctive, textured style – he definitly has his indiviual handwriting.

Filmography:

Hamburger Morgenpost - Fischverkäufer ISHR - Typewriter BILD - Mord (Spec) Dirtdevil - The Exorcist CAF - Tough but Doable Herbaria - Fears

Heineken - The Sub BMW - Scrum Machine Oceana - Sea Legend BMW - X

Charlotte Rabate - NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, USA

Film: Playtime Length:60“

NYU Tisch School of the Arts, August 2010 – present MFA in Filmmaking, core subjects: Directing, Screenwriting, Producing, Cinematography, Edi- ting, Aesthetics London School of Economics, October 2007 – July 2010 BSc in Management, core subjects: International Management, International Marke- ting, Operational Research, Principles of Corporate Finance Harvard University Summer School, June 2008 – July 2008 I enrolled in a course entitled “Race, gender and ethnicity in the films of Spike Lee”, in- which we analysed how renown filmmaker Spike Lee introduced the controversial topic of race in his films

Filmography:

Opening Ceremony: Extreme make-up with Tracy Le telephone sonne The Mermaid

Denis Parchow - Filmakademie Ba- den-Württemberg, Germany

Film: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Length: 64‘‘

Denis was born in Nürtingen, Germany in 1985. He finished his A-level and an education as a lum- ber jack before he got into internships at several film production companies. In 2008 he has started to study advertising / directing commecials at the Filmakademie Baden- Württemberg.

Filmogrpahy:

2012 – Steiff “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” 2011 – Scharzkopf “Sara the professional” 2011 – IHK “Prashant” 2010 – Antipiracy “Sven the terrible” 2009 – Amazon mp3 “Chase”

Abu Bakr Shawky - NYU, Tisch School of the Arts (USA)

MFA, Film & TV Production New York University Tisch School of the Arts Graduation: Spring 2015 BA, Filmmaking High Institute of Cinema in Cairo (2009) Summa cum Laude with Distinction Specialization: Film Directing BA, Political Science American University in Cairo (2009) Major: Public International Law & Middle East Poli- tics Minor: History University of Southern California (2007) „Fusion Arts Exchange Program“ for Screenwriting and Film Production Fulbright Commission & United States Department of State Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule Cairo (2004) German Abitur

Filmography:

„Water from another World“ Spec Commercial for Zico Coconut Water „Cows in the City“ Spec Commercial for National Anxiety Foundation „Find New Roads“ Spec Commercial for Chevrolet “Things I Heard on Wednesdays” (2012)

Rashko Miljkovic - Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade (Serbia)

Film: Stop Spilling Start Giving Length: 37‘‘

Born 29th of October 1991 in Belgrade, Serbia Education: Graduated high school 2010, Currently studying at the FDU, school of drama arts. Mostly working in advertising while studyin in Belgrade. A solid drummer, avid fan of sushi and very cruel dungeon master in any tabletop FRP.

Filmography:

Klara (Short) Kravata (The Tie, Short) Kendo (Short) You are what you eat (Short) Save (Short) Private label (Tv Show) More than 20 TV and internet commercials

Tobias Haase - Filmakademie Baden-Wu- erttemberg, Germany

Film: MCP Length: 60‘‘

Born in 1981, Tobias spent the first half of his childhood in Dresden. His family escaped the GDR in 1989 and settled in Gütersloh where he started filmmaking at school. After finishing A level in 2001 Tobias went to London for a while and when he came back to germany he started filmmaking for third parties and own projects. In 2007 he studied in Cologne one year media design until he started in 2008 at the Filmakademie Baden- Würt- temberg. His film „Boats - based on a true story“ won silver at the Young Directors Award in Cannes and his diploma project „MCP“ won the First Steps Award in 2013. Since that he is under contract to cobblestone.

Filmography:

1050 Fritz. - vielviel leben Wunden Boats - based on a true story MCP Dystopia

Claas Ortmann – „The Store“ – Hoch- schule für Fernsehen und Film Mün- chen, Germany

Film: Switch Bull‘s Eye Length: 41``

Claas Ortmann was born in Hamburg in 1979. After finishing his A-levels he worked as a full- time production assistant at BSW Filmprodukti- on (film production) in Hamburg. Between 2003 and 2007 he studied at the Munich University of Televisionand Film direction & screenplay for movie and TV. After that, in 2008 and 2009, he successfully completed a postgraduate course in advertising again at the Munich University of Television and Film. He has been working as a freelance director and author since 2009.

Filmography:

2009 - 2012 Diverse Werbefilme u.a. für McDonalds, Audi, Veltins, ARD/ZDF, Parship, Toblerone, CortalConsors, Wick Blau, Bauer Verlag, uvm. Agenturvertretung: DBC - Driven by creatives 2011 Kartensicherheit - Der verrückte Laden (Commercial Film) 2009 Ben&Jerrys ‚Caramel‘ & ‚Handicap‘ (Commercial Film) 2008 Eine kleine Anekdote (Short Film) 2005 Natürliche Auslese (Short Film)

Stephan Strube - Filmakademie Ba- den-Württemberg, Germany

Film: Out of this World Length: 2´

Stephan Strube was born on a small island in the middle of the Baltic Sea. After school and his apprenticeship he worked as a media design free- lancer. His jobs ranged from conceptional design and directing of various corporate films to film editing and countless other tasks for film, television and advertising. As an in- house editor for the international advertising agency TBWA Hamburg, he contributed to numerous TV commercials. In addition, Stephan directed music videos and virals. In October 2008 he started to study commercial directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy.

Filmography:

2012 WOODCOCK (Sitcom Serial Pilot) 2011 SKY NORTH POLE (Commercial Film) 2010 KETEL ONE - MOMENT (Commercial Film) 2009 LIEBESDUNST (Short Film) 2009 DIE WILDEN HERZEN VON ST.TROPEZ (Short Film)

Anna Habermehl - Filmakademie Ba- den-Württemberg, Germany

Film: Rollin´Safari Length: 108‘‘

Anna Habermehl was born on April 27th 1986 in Wiesbaden, Germany. She spent her childhood until in Limburg, Hessen. After achieving general qualification for university entrance in 2005, she decided to begin an apprenticeship as a media designer in a smaller company called “das modular” in Hattersheim. During her apprenticeship she developed an affection for animated and moving pictures what made her applying at the Film Aca- demy Baden-Württemberg where she studies since Winter 2009.

Filmography:

2012 Rollin’ Safari 2011 BombusConfusus 2010 Der Nachtmar

Matthias Bäuerle - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Film: Studies on Hysteria Length: 58‘‘

Matthias Bäuerle was born near Baden-Baden in 1985. He began to make shortfilms in his early years and discovered his passion for various disciplines in design. After his A-levels he studied communication and design at the University of Applied Sciences Aachen and the Hogeschool Maastricht, NL. During several jobs Matti gathered experience in filmmaking, design and marketing. Since 2010 he has been a student at the Filmakademie Baden-Würt- temberg focusing on animation and visual effects.

Filmography:

PLAYSTATION - THE POWER OF PLAYSTATION THE GRUFFALO’S CHILD DU DARFST. THE GRUFFALO TATORT - DAS MÄDCHEN GALINA

Shortlist 2012

- Fabian Fricke - „Toast“ (1‘06‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Germany - John Ryan Johnson - „Nine to Five“ (1‘00‘‘) - New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, USA - Johannes Kizler - „The Press“ (3‘10‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Ger- many - Jakob Schmidt - „Peter Runs“ (1‘25‘‘) - Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen „Kon- rad Wolf“, Germany - Hanna Maria Heidrich - „Life is Calling“ (1‘30‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Aca demy, Germany - Uisenma Borchu - „Thos“ (5‘00‘‘) - Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, Germany - Stephan Strube - „Sky North Pole“ (1‘30‘‘) - Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Maria Eriksson - „RFSL“ (1‘15‘‘) - Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, Sweden - Alexander Dietrich/Dominic Eise/Johannes Flick - „FISH-FACE“ (1‘16‘‘) - Filmaka- demie Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Claas Ortmann – „The Store“ (1‘00‘‘) – Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film Mün- chen, Germany

Shortlist 2011

- Ian Kammer - „Hibernation“ (1‘00‘‘) - Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles/ USA - Hanna Maria Heidrich - „We Miss You“ (1‘30‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Aca- demy, Germany - Christian Mielmann - „What Ever Happened“ (1‘30‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Germany - Amnon Picker - „2010 Tausff Trailer“ (3‘00‘‘) - Tel Aviv University, Israel - Andreas Roth - „Exorcist“ (1‘36‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Germany - Stephan Hilpert - „A World Without Electricity“ (0‘50‘‘) - Hochschule für Fernse- hen und Film München, Germany - Justus Becker - „An Ode To Women“ (3‘00‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Germany - Job Kraaijeveld - „Ilse Listens“ (0‘47‘‘) - The Netherlands Film and Television Aca- demy, Netherlands - Roman Kaelin/ Florian Wittmann/ Falko Paper - „a.Maize“ (1‘50‘‘) - Baden-Würt temberg Film Academy, Germany - Adam Wallensten - „A Little Less Gravity“ (1‘00‘‘) - The National Film School of Denmark, Denmark

Shortlist 2010

- Justus Becker - „Rimowa Hotel“ (1‘30‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Ger many - Hugo Lilja - „Amnesty International“ (0‘45‘‘) - Dramatiska Institutet, Sweden - Isabel Prahl - „Poverty Tells Many Stories“ (1‘10‘‘) - Academy of Media Arts, Colo- gne, Germany - Marie Dvorkova - „Steenbeckstory“ (1‘27‘‘) - Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA - Stephanie Wagner - „Closer „ (1‘30‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Ger many - Johnny Cullen - „Happy Birthday Timmy“ (1‘30‘‘) - Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology, Ireland - Simon Ritzler - „Hero“ (1‘18‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Germany - Josef Wladyka - „The Dream is Coming“ (1‘00‘‘) - New York University, Graduate Film, USA - Andreas Roth - „Typewriter“ (1‘40‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Ger- many - Alain Friedrichs - „Cinestud 2010“ (1‘10‘‘) - Netherlands Film and Television Aca- demy, Netherlands

Shortlist 2009

- Jessica Benzing/Maximilian Gerlach - „Thank You Third World“ (1‘00‘‘) - Univer- sity of Television and Film Munich, Germany - Jonathan Choo Zhe Yu - „Tell Your Story“ (1‘23‘‘) - Ngee Ann Polytechnic School, Singapoore - Mario Zozin - „Oleg – life of a weightlifter“ (1‘30‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Germany - Eugen Liska - „Shockproof Festival 09 Ident“ (1‘30‘‘) - Academy of Performing Arts Prague, Czech Republic - Gröbert & Gröbert - „The Robbery“ (0‘50‘‘) - Rheinische Fachhochschule Cologne, Germany - Richard Vilensky - „Play Dirty“ (0‘47‘‘) - Australian Film, Television & Radio School, Australia - Hanna Maria Heidrich - „Life is Calling“ (1‘30‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Aca- demy, Germany - Nicole Volvaka - „Rubbish“ (1‘00‘‘) - London Film School, England - Georg von Mitzlaff - „The Giant Thirst“ (1‘00‘‘) - Baden-Württemberg Film Aca- demy, Germany - Ivan Markovic - „Everything’s Safe“ (1‘25‘‘) - Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Serbia

Shortlist 2008

- Christian Mielmann – „Busballet“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Michiel Rummens – „Stop Thinking“ – Netherlands Film and TV Academy - Adrian Jäschke/Gregor Türk/Katja Wörz – „Sakromat“ – Akademie U5 - Mario Zozin – „Pure Performance“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Scott Pickett – „Monster“ – Australian Film TV and Radio School - Thilo Ewers – „They will come to town“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Juliet Lashinsky-Revene – „Recycle“ – Columbia University - Austin Formato – „The Museum“ – UCLA - Galed Hamed – „Children“ – Netherlands Film and TV Academy - Aleksander Bach – „I Love You“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Shortlist 2007

- Patrick Clair – „Demand Purity“ – Australian Film TV and Radio School - Hesdy Lonwijk – „Safety Instructions“ – Netherlands Film and TV Academy - Tilman Braun – „Clink“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Ivan Lopez Nunez/Martijn Kalkhoven – „Mafia“ – Netherlands Film and TV Aca demy - Johannes Kümmel – „Rainbow Warrior“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Eva Zillekens – „Wardrobe“ – HFF München - Giacomo Cimini – „Here’s looking at you“ – London Film School - Li Wolfgang Schiffer – „Movie Theater“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Austin Formato – „Ring Tone“ – UCLA - Tim Günther – „Schumann“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy

Shortlist 2006

- Mike Viebrock – „The bad one“ – HFF München - Laurentius Emmelmann – „The War of the Roses“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Laurentius Emmelmann – „Car Park“ – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Moritz Laube – „Doll Theatre“ – DFFB - Antonia Nottebohm – „Ears“ – HFF München - Baran bo Odar – „Hadi Mini“ – HFF München - Emmanuel Q. Palo – „Heaven“ – Film and TV Institute of India - Jens Junker/Philip Haucke – „Kiosk 1“/ „Kiosk 2“ – HFF München - Eva Zillekens – „Little sister“ – HFF München - Amit Raj – „Untitled“ – Film and TV Institute of India

Shortlist 2005

- Tobias Dreyer/Karsten Friemel/Martin Schock/Hannes Weniger – „Mpio - Change your Reality“– Georg-Simon-Ohm-FH Nürnberg - Minke Faber, Danyael Sugawara – „The Garden” – Netherlands Film and TV Aca demy - Philip Haucke – „Grandma” – HFF München - Patrik Gölz – „Jump” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Ayako Yoko – „Kindergarden” - Miami Ad School Europe - Owi Mahn/Laura Baginski – „Krossmedia” – Hochschule für Gestaltung Offen bach - Joris Kerbosch/Danyael Sugawara – „The Package” – Netherlands Film and TV Academy - Linus Ewers – „Timeless” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Alex Kiesl/Steffen Hacker – „XBOX – Racing Beats” – Baden-Württemberg Film Academy - Roman Kazakov – „Zero One Plus Zero Three“ – St. Petersburg State University of Film & TV

Shortlist 2004

- Marc O. Perino – „Smoker (MTV)” – Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg - Marc O. Perino – „Chauffeur (Audi)” – Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg - Adam Martin – „Hockey Shoppers (Fox Sports)” – UCLA - Michael Rösel – „Curling (Poliboy)” – Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg - Michael Rösel – „Mieter (Deutsche Bank Bauspar AG)“ – Filmakademie Ba- den- Württemberg - Michael Rösel – „Halali (Randtstad)” – Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg - Danny Leong Chi – Keong – „Red fur Dog (Swiss Beer)” – Ngee Ann Polytechnic School of Film & Media - Frieder Wittich – „Gefängnis (Astra – Pils)“ – HFF München - Frieder Wittich – „Keine Gegenfrage (Mc Donalds) Spot 1-4“ – HFF München - Heidi Wittlinger/Anja Perl/Max Stolzenberg – „No limits” – Filmakademie Ba- den- Württemberg

BACKGROUND

The PORSCHE AWARD, (former PORSCHE INTERNATIONAL STUDENT AD- VERTISING FILM AWARD), was launched in 2004. Since then, the successful advertising film competition has been organised by its host, the Film- akademie Baden- Wuerttemberg, and its main sponsor, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG.

Until 2015, the event was annually held at the Filmakademie in Ludwigsburg. Since 2016 it is hosted and organised in cooperation with the British National Film and Television School (NFTS). In order to emphasise the award‘s international standard more strongly, the award ceremony was held in London for the first time in 2016, and will be in London again this year.

Furthermore, the competition will continue to feature new formats that go beyond the classical advertising film, with submissions of all moving-image formats used in advertisement accepted. Another aspect is the special sponsorship of innovative mobility-related concepts and projects at the PORSCHE AWARD, which puts the spotlight on the theme of “International Mobility”, specifically supporting innovative ideas and projects relating to the automobile industry, to other public or private modes of transport (e.g. e-bike/pedelec, electric moped, motorbike, bike, etc.), to car pools (open car pools, car sharing, car2go, DriveNow, etc.) as well as spots on issues relating to modern and connected mobility (e.g. quick-charge station infrastructure, mobility apps and Evopark, etc.).

The GOAL of the only international non-profit advertising film competition is to of- fer young directors of advertising films and their teams (film students as well as other budding directors, who have been working outside of a film school or who have recently graduated) based anywhere in the world the chance to present themselves and their work to experienced trade experts, thereby paving the way to professional and successful filmmaking careers for the committed young teams.

Young advertisement filmmakers may submit their films in the following two categories:

1. Mobility Category: Advertisement films related to „Mobility” theme in classical format up to 90 seconds in length, or in any other format previously men- tioned up to three minutes in length. This category emerged from the former automobile category in response to the changing automotive industry. 2. Classical Category / Other Formats: Classical advertisement films up to 90 seconds in length. All other advertisement formats including campaigns, branded entertainment, trailers, etc., may be up to three minutes in length.

It has become an annual tradition that Porsche AG, as the eponymous and MAIN SPONSOR of the competition and as a globally recognised sports car manufacturer, donates all prizes. In reference to the premium car company’s all-time classic model, the Porsche 911, three prizes to the amount of €3,911, €2,911 and €1,911 will be awarded in the mobility category. Three further prizes of equal value will be given in the classical category / other formats.

The PORSCHE AWARD also offers students and young talents the opportunity to take

part in a cultural exchange, since the directors of the ten best advertising films (i.e. the SHORTLIST) will be invited to take part in a short programme prior to the award ceremony, where a organised programme awaiting them. The highlight of the stay is the at- tendance of the award ceremony, which is held in November each year and where the members of the impartial jury will award the much sought-after trophies and prize money.

Over the past few years, talented young filmmakers from the United States of Ame- rica, Australia, Singapore, Russia, the Netherlands, India, England, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Sweden and many other parts of the world have been guests at the PORSCHE AWARD. Please follow the link to our “Hall of Fame” (pdf document Shortlist 2004-2018) to see the SHORTLIST CANDIDATES from previous years.

The members of the JURY also always come from a broad international background and are renowned trade experts (Hall of Fame, pdf Jury 2004-2018), e.g. Dieter Kosslick, director of the International Film Festival Berlin, Lyndy Stout, former editor of the Lon- don-based professional trade magazine shots and now editor of OnePointFour, the director Detlev Buck, Daniel Bergmann, president of stink films, as well as several notable representatives of the advertising industry from London, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin.

Over the past years the competition has continuously expanded and made its mark. For this reason, an increasing AUDIENCE that includes members of agencies, advertising film production companies, film and media companies and other industrial firms have decided to join the award ceremony.

Heightened national and international PRESS COVERAGE also indicates the growing appeal of the PORSCHE AWARD. Alongside German publications such as the advertising trade magazines Horizont, w&v, Blickpunkt Film, Filmecho/Filmwoche and epd Film (film and media trade magazines), and Spiegel Online and Focus Online (nationwide online magazines), shots and Adweek also cover the award regularly.

The PORSCHE AWARD started out as the successor of the HENNESSY PRIZE, which was founded in 1989 by the “Initiative Junger Werbefilm” (Young Advertising Film Initiati- ve) in Munich. Until 2000, young students from all over Germany were called upon annually to submit their advertising spots, which were produced especially for the competition. The goal of the Hennessy Prize was to encourage the students to engage in commercials and to persuade colleagues that the advertising film is a discipline no less worthy than the documentary or fiction film. The PORSCHE AWARD remains true to this goal, however – unlike the Hennessy Award – not on a national, but on a broad international scale with participants, jury members and audiences from all over the world.