CICLOPE has completed its selection of the best minds in the business throughout the world, to form its 2025 executive juries ahead of the entry deadline, Friday August 15.
Deliberations will begin online, bringing together 200 top producers, creatives, directors, editors, marketing executives, and industry experts from more than 30 different countries, before the executive jury, chosen from leading companies such as Revolver TBWA\Media Arts Lab, DIVISION, Bear Meets Eagle on Fire, Mattel, BWGTBLD, Apple and Droga5, gather for the final round of judging held live in Berlin.
The 2025 CICLOPE Awards executive jurors are:
PRODUCTION
- Pip Smart, Revolver, Executive Producer & Partner (Jury President)
- Charlie Gatsky-Sinclair, Uncommon Creative Studio, President of Brands & Entertainment
- Perry Fair, Mattel, Head of Creative, IMC
- Suzanne Hargrove, PRETTYBIRD, Vice President & Executive Producer
- Taísa Malouf, Production Designer
- Philipp Ramhofer, BWGTBLD, Founding Partner & CEO
- Alberto Ponte, Someplace, Co-Founder & CCO
- Fredrik Bond, Stink, Director
POST PRODUCTION & ANIMATION
- Lauren Hertzberg, Cut+Run, Managing Partner (Jury President)
- Melissa Culligan, Epoch Films, Owner & Managing Executive Producer
- Marilena Vatseri, NOMINT, Executive Producer & Creative Partner
- Enca Kaul, Parliament, Founding Partner
- Rodrigo Valdes, Superprime, Director
- Simona Cristea, Coffee & TV, Creative Director Of Colour
- Fabian Barz, Innocean Berlin, Head of Production and Business Affairs
- Patricia Gaglioni, Wieden+Kennedy São Paulo, Head of Integrated Production
MUSIC VIDEOS
- Jules de Chateleux, DIVISION, Founding Partner (Jury President)
- Lana Senaoui, ProdCo, Director
- Mah Ferraz, Church Edit, Film Editor & Co-FounderPrecious Mahaga, Riff Raff Films, Global Head of Music Video
- Theresa Adebiyi, Studio Island (Island Records & EMI Records), Head of Creative
- Fady Salame, UNIT+SOFA, Executive Producer & Founder
- Sebastian Lyman, Anomaly Berlin, Executive Creative Director
- YUCA, The Youth, Directors
SOUND & MUSIC
- Rachel Hough, String and Tins, CEO & Managing Director (Jury President)
- Michael Refuerzo, Beats by Dre, Apple Inc., Global Head of Production
- Simon Heeger, 2WEI, CEO & Founder
- Sophie Gold, ELEANOR, President
- Manuel Iljitsch, JOAN Creative, Group Creative Director
- Martin Jalfen, Roma, Director & Co-Founder
- Sara Dunlop, The Corner Shop, Writer & Director
IDEAS & INNOVATION
- Brent Anderson, TBWA\Media Arts Lab, Global CCO (Jury President)
- Sue Yeon Ahn, SMUGGLER, Managing Director
- Nick Ball, MJZ, Director
- Motonori Sugiyama, Droga5 Tokyo, Accenture Song, Executive Creative Director
- Ezequiel Ortiz, Rebolucion, CEO & Partner
- Jeannette Bohné, Serviceplan Berlin, Managing Director Creative
- Cindy Richter, Lufthansa, Head of Marketing
- Matthew Carey, Google Creative Lab
SPECIAL CATEGORIES
- Dom Thomas, Object & Animal, Managing Partner (Jury President)
- Micah Walker, Bear Meets Eagle On Fire, Founder & Chief Creative Officer
- Jaime Tan, On, Global Head of Production
- Germain Robin, Ocurens, Managing Director
- Catherine Baikousis, ANORAK, Managing Partner
- Zee Ntuli, Darling Films South Africa, Director
- Pavla Burgetova Callegari, Compass Rose, Founder & Executive Producer
- Lora Schulson, 72andSunny, Head of Production & PAL, North America
- Winners will be announced on stage at the CICLOPE Awards ceremony, held in the historic UdK
- Konzertsaal on the closing night of CICLOPE Festival 2025, Thursday 9 October.
There’s only one more week to enter before the deadline on Friday, August 15.
Download the Entry Kit here. New Talent and Unsigned Director rates are offered alongside regular entry fees.
The Awards team can help answer questions around category selection or anything else entries-related. Find them here. awards@ciclopefestival.com.
