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Franki Goodwin, chief creative officer at Saatchi & Saatchi, and Felix Richter, chief creative officer and creative partner at Mother, are among the 16 UK figures judging at this year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
The festival is running from 17 to 21 June and will see some of the world’s best creative work awarded for its effectiveness by a global jury.
This year, the Awarding Jury is made up of talent from across 54 markets, which is the highest number of markets ever represented on the jury.
Goodwin and Antony Nelson, executive creative director at Adam & Eve/DDB, will be on the Film Lions jury alongside eight other global figures.
Goodwin has spent 11 years at Saatchi & Saatchi and was made chief creative officer in 2022. Nelson joined Adam & Eve/DDB in 2017 as deputy executive creative director and became executive creative director a year later.
In 2023, Adam & Eve/DDB won a Grand Prix in the category for ITV and Campaign Against Living Miserably’s “The last photo”.
Andre Sallowicz, creative partner at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, who has been at the agency for two years, will be joining Richter on the Outdoor Lions jury.
Richter joined Mother in 2022 and has helped the shop create work for the likes of Ikea, KFC and Uber Eats.
Sue Unerman, chief transformation officer at EssenceMediacom X and global head of relevance for EssenceMediacom Creative Futures, will be judging the Glass: Lion for Change.
Anne Akande, VFX producer at Unini Productions Limited, will be judging the Digital Craft Lions and James Sorton, executive producer at Magna Studios, will be helping to award the Film Craft Lions.
“We cry together – a short film” by PgLang, Los Angeles won the Film Craft Lions Grand Prix last year. The film was created for Kendrick Lamar’s song of the same name and portrayed a fight between an emotionally abusive couple.
(Closewise from top left: Steve Rogers, Anne Akande, Andrew Barnes-Jones, Keturah Cummings, Jem Lloyd-Williams, Victoria Wright, James Sorton, Felicity Long and Louise Johnson)
Andrew Barnes-Jones, global creative director at Ledger Bennett (Havas Group), will be on the Creative B2B Lions jury and Felicity Long, partner at Bain & Company, will be judging the Creative Data Lions.
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