Revolver is the first Australian production company to win the Palme d’Or in the history of the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
Iconoclast, United States is #2. Biscuit Filmworks, United Kingdom is #3
The win for Revolver adds to its Film Craft and Film Grands Prix.
The Film Craft Grand Prix was shared with Australian agency Bear Meets Eagle on Fire for their work on Telstra’s Better on A Better Mobile Network campaign.
The Film Grand Prix was awarded to Steve Roger’s Considering What? for Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympic games.
This is the second year in a row that Revolver has won both the Film and Film Craft Grands Prix at the festival (the Sydney production company received both accolades in 2024 for Kim Gehrig’s Play it Safe and Steve Rogers’ 1 Square Meter respectively.
Revolve managing director & co-Oowner, Michael Ritchie commented, “For myself and our entire team, this is an enormous honour, and honestly- pretty overwhelming. Our country is home to some of the best talent globally, and these wins only reiterate the high calibre of work from our region. Brent Smart, CMO of Telstra, and Micah Walker, CCO & Founder of Bear Meets Eagle on Fire’s industry defining vision for Telstra , and the trust and respect they offer to their production partners and the directors they work with is something we are so grateful for, and a direct contributor to our success this year. Similarly, a huge thank you goes to the entire team behind Steve’s Considering What? campaign , which is a brilliant piece of work with an unflinching grit that celebrated the athletes at the heart of the Paralympics.
“We are also incredibly grateful for our long-standing partnership with Biscuit Filmworks in LA and UK whom we worked with across a number of our winning works. For twenty years we have worked together and to see this coming to genuine fruition now , is as rewarding as the work itself.”
The Palme d’Or, and dual Grand Prix wins were in addition to four Gold Lion’s for Steve Rogers in Film Craft, a Gold Lion in Film for Better on a B etter Mobile Network . Totalling five gold, four silver and seven bronze Lions across the film and film craft categories for Revolver.
