Craig Rasmus has won Best Director – Charity at the Young Director Awards.

Craig Rasmus joined Rapid a month ago from The Feds and teamed up with producer, Rita Gagliardi.

His work for Everlast had attracted the attention of Susannah DiLallo. It was also his commercial directorial debut and the work from which awards from Mobius, Adfest and the Australian Cinematographer’s Society sprang.

Now Rasmus has a Cannes Young Director Award to speak for his abilities.

His direction of iris worldwide’s 5 Fund film for the UNICEF & Qantas Change For Good campaign, won him a finalist position in the Animation category and made him overall winner of the Charity section.

The winning film was the director’s first foray into animation direction and was produced by The Feds.

The Young Director Award has been promoting emerging international creative talent in commercial film production since 1998. It attracts more than 400 entries every year and has become the place for young directors to show what they can do with new technologies technologies and forward thinking techniques.

Its jury, chosen from The Commercial Film Producers of Europe, represents 600 companies from 17 associations across Europe.