CICLOPE Festival

We're thrilled to share more details of the talks lined up for CICLOPE 2024. A team of Nike's 'Awaken Your Madness' star players will take the stage together to go behind the work: Nike VP Brand Creative Jordi Pont Gasau, W+K London's CD Rebecca Pottinger, and magna studios director Sam Pilling. If you're mad for excellent craft, you know what to do (get a pass to the Festival). #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards

We're thrilled to share more details of the talks lined up for CICLOPE 2024. A team of Nike's 'Awaken Your Madness' star players will take the stage together to go behind the work: Nike VP Brand Creative Jordi Pont Gasau, W+K London's CD Rebecca Pottinger, and magna studios director Sam Pilling. If you're mad for excellent craft, you know what to do (get a pass to the Festival). #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards

We're delighted to add more names to our incredible speaker lineup for CICLOPE 2024. Sharing the mic with those already announced will be Steve Rogers, Bianca Guimaraes, Henry Scholfield, C Prinz, Lynsey Atkin, Sander Saar, Robyn Landau, and Lincoln Wallen & William Bartlett. These are set to be conversations you'll want to be in the room for. In Berlin. On 8, 9, 10 October. Tickets at ciclopefestival[dot]com. #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards

Now that CICLOPE 2024's around the corner, we'll be serving up more details on our Festival speakers in the coming weeks. Starting with The Youth & Co. and Colossal co-founders, João Machado & Eduardo Lubiazi. They'll be discussing how they made the mixed media film 'Ashe Versus', their work with TBWA\Chiat\Day NY for Moderna, about activist and tennis champion Arthur Ashe. It's going to be ace, so get your tickets at ciclopefestival[dot]com now. #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards

If you haven't yet entered your work in this year's CICLOPE Awards, the final deadline is TOMORROW, 30 August. Enter now at ciclopefestival[dot]com.

In light of this week's entry deadline extension, Jury President for the Special Awards section, Alexander Kalchev, CEO & CCO at DDB Paris, shared his thoughts on why it is that craft matters: CRAFT: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU? The word craft has taken on a life of its own over the last years, but to me, in the simplest terms, craft is the manifestation of an idea. To that end, saying that an idea is excellently crafted means that you have found a great way to bring that idea to the world. There is no idea without the hands that built it. WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? Further to my point - craft and idea being inextricably linked - the choices we make along the journey are what make the idea real. There’s very little substance and flesh to an idea on paper. A concept, a thought, is as ethereal as a ghost. It’s the rolling of the sleeves, the physical act of creating something that makes it all worth it. You have to go on that journey, you have to try things out, you have to go through the pain of a thousand choices to really create. Any artificial acceleration of the process comes with a certain loss in the value of what we do. FINALLY, WHAT KIND OF WORK ARE YOU HOPING TO SEE ENTERED? Work that required the sort of unrequited and unreasonable love that creatives put into their ideas to bring them to life. Work that makes me feel something. Work that might be flawed, but is real. Entries now close THIS FRIDAY, 30 August. Make all that pain worthwhile, and enter your work at ciclopefestival[dot]com. #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards

The entry deadline for this year's CICLOPE Awards has been extended. Entries will now close NEXT FRIDAY, 30 August at 23.59 PST, giving you just one extra week to submit your work. Enter at ciclopefestival[dot]com.

Introducing the first speakers for CICLOPE 2024. We're thrilled to be welcoming none other than David Droga, Sharon Horgan, Aoife McArdle, David Shane, Jason Kreher, King She and Dave Rolfe to the Festival's stage in Berlin. Tickets are available now at ciclopefestival[dot]com - where you can also enter the Awards, before entries close tomorrow, Friday 23 August. #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards

Ahead of entries closing Friday 23 August, Carol Dunn, our Sound & Music Jury President and MD at Barking Owl, shared her thoughts on where the ability to create excellent work innately stems from, and why she'll be optimistically bringing tissues to Berlin this year: WHAT SUMS UP EXCELLENCE IN CRAFT TO YOU? Excellent craft blooms from excellent creativity. They have both, since childhood, been the best outlets for self-expression and ways to cope with our feelings. The excellence in craft is found in the child-like innocence of an idea never seen before, which is passionately executed without fear. WHY IS CRAFT SO IMPORTANT IN OUR INDUSTRY? At the end of the day we are selling products through storytelling. But as artisans and craftspeople we are hopefully also providing new ways of thinking and problem-solving. The importance of craft is to make our industry care about more than affecting Wall Street or impressing Madison Avenue. It's to tap into and beyond the cultural zeitgeist, by taking the excuse of ignorance out of the argument by encouraging space in our industry where inclusion, respect & kindness can take the lead. The best (and sometimes worst) work will go viral as long as there is a deliberate intention of making us think when we buy. That is not to say comedy can't do that either. Good comedy is smartly crafted comedy. WHAT KIND OF WORK ARE YOU HOPING TO SEE ENTERED? Every year I leave Berlin re-energized by the level of craft shown here. It reminds me just how good we are when given the creative reins to do what our heart desires. Every year I hope to be moved to tears or laughter by an impeccable script or perfect casting. When the absence of sound stops my heart or when the use of red dye in a menstruation ad makes me applaud, I know we're pushing boundaries. So, it's just work that dares to take the "low road", which in some of the best creative cases, is not the easy road, to prove a point; that point being that good work can not be denied. Enter your work before next Friday at ciclopefestival[dot]com. #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards

Our final group of Executive Jury members are joining us from six different countries, reminding us that CICLOPE really is the international home of craft. It could be your work these industry experts award as this year's benchmark of excellence - but you'll have to move fast, as entries close in 2 weeks. #CICLOPEfestival #FilmFestival #AdvertisingFestival #FilmAwards #AdvertisingAwards