Exit director, Mark Molloy, has won Gold in Direction at this year’s Ciclope Awards in Berlin for This Is Footy Country with The Monkeys and client, Telstra.
Expert jurors from around the world awarded the best-crafted creative work of the year to set the benchmark in 37 categories, including Direction, Cinematography, Production Design, Editing, VFX, Animation, Music and more.
Revolver’s Steve Rogers was named Director of the Year.
Five Grand Prix, plus 40 Gold, over 60 Silver and over 80 Bronze trophies:
Grand Prix winners are:
Idents for Channel 4, created by 4Creative, produced by Art Practice, with visual effects by Time Based Arts and music by String and Tins. Lynsey Atkin was executive creative director.
Summer Never Sleeps for Kathmandu, directed by Daniel Warwick, produced by Scoundrel and created by Special.
On Set with Adam Driver, directed by Pepe Hernandez and Alex Thompson, and The Singularity, directed by Aoife McArdle, VFX by Black Kite Studios, both created by Squarespace and produced by Smuggler. (Awarded together as a campaign.)
Mama’s Eyes for American artist Mette, edited by Trim Editing, and produced by Love Song, Art Practice, Division and Shot In Mars.
We Cry Together for Kendrick Lamar, produced by pgLang / project3 and Park Pictures and directed by Jake Schreier, Dave Free and Kendrick Lamar was also awarded a coveted Grand Prix.
CICLOPE Festival also delivered Special Awards to:
- Production Company: Smuggler
- Agency of the Year: Squarespace
- Director of the Year: Steve Rogers
- VFX Company: Square & Monumental FX
- Animation Company: Electric Theatre Collective
- Editing Company: Cut+Run
- Music Company: Human
- Sound Company: String & Tins
View all the winners:
- Grand Prix Winners
- Production Winners
- Post-Production Winner
- Animation Winners
- Sound & Music Winners
- Music Video Winners
- Special Section Winners
- Ideas Winners
Find the winning films here.
CICLOPE founder and festival director, Francisco Condorelli, commented, “Across the board our jury members were so impressed by the standard of entries this year that they wanted to recognise this with the trophies awarded. CICLOPE Festival is growing each year, and we’d like to extend our thanks to our community – those who believe in the power of craft – for making it all possible.”
