The nominated titles for this year’s Kinsale Shark Advertising Festival now in its 46th year have been announced. The festival, which will be held on 11 – 13 September 2008 will see over 700 leading creative people from all over the globe attend.
The festival consists of two gala awards ceremonies, the Shark Broadcast Awards and the Promo Shark Awards.
Among the shortlisted titles are ‘Some Bits Are Crucial’ by McConnell’s Advertising and ‘Easy Bar’ by Publicis QMP in Best Direction Category.
Piranha Bar has two nominations in the Best Post Production Category for their work on ‘BMW ‘Premium Collection’ and ‘Get More Grandad’ along with Screenscene’s title ‘Wind Energy’ which is also nominated in the Best Editing Category.
In the Best Irish TV Series titles include ‘Thirst Never Wins – Quench’ by McCann-Erickson and ‘Nutrigrain Office’ by Leo Burnetts while in the Irish Television Commercials Cat, Owens DDB have three titles ‘Johnston Mooney & O'Brien Paddy and Jim’ the ‘VW Dog’ and ‘DDBVFI Pubs Got Soul’
Richard O’Brien, the noted writer and creator of ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ and presenter of The Crystal Maze has been confirmed as special guest speaker for the festival.
A renowned international panel of judges will decide the winners these being, John Pallant Chair, Richard Flintam (Fallon London), Keith Doyle (Publicis QMP Ireland), Martin Kiessling (Heye & Partner), Darek Zatorski (DDB Warsaw) and Sean Thompson (Amsterdam).
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