MOSCOW – The biggest international advertising festival in Russia, Red Apple that is taking place on December 10-11, is now calling for entries from creatives throughout the world.
The festival, now on its 25th year, will be headed by a jury of prestigious international award-winners from across different regions. This year’s jury president is Leo Burnett Middle East and North Africa Chief Creative Officer Bechara Mouzannar. He handles 11 offices in 10 countries.
Just over the last four years, received more than 700 international and regional prestigious awards: 20 Grand Prixs, gold and silver prizes at festivals such as Cannes Lions, Golden Drum, the Clio Awards, D&AD, The One Show, Cresta, New York Festivals, John Caples’, Epica, The Cup, Loerie, Dubai Lynx, MENA Cristal and Effie awards.
Joining Mouzannar are equally award-winning industry names:
Nadya Kirillova, Creative Director, DENTSU Tokyo
Richard Brim, Creative Director, adam&eve DDB London
Chacho Puebla, Executive CD, Lola/LOWE Madrid
Alexey Meshkov, Creative Director, Instinct BBDO Group Russia
Kitty Lun, Chairman/ Chief Executive Officer, LOWE China
Alexander Zagorsky, Creative Director, Depot WPF Russia
Sa’ad Hussein, Chief Creative Officer and Executive Director, TBWA\Kuala Lumpur
Mike Sutherland, Creative Director, AMV BBDO England
Szymon Rose Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam
Ali Shabaz, Chief Creative Officer, GREY GROUP Indonesia
Apart from the usual categories including Advertising Campaigns, Indoor Advertising, Print Advertising, and Outdoor Advertising, TV and Film has been expanded to include Fashion Film which is both a commercial, art-house cinema and fashion shooting for a magazine, when the designer becomes the customer of campaign, and another sub-category, Media and Entertainment.
The festival is also giving out a set of new special awards including Independent Agency of the Year, Media Person of the Year, Best Production and For the Good–to be awarded to works done for charity and non-profit.
The deadline for entries is on October 10, 2015.
Click here for details on how to join.
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