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Cannes Contenders: Italy
Peer Review: Mark Edinoff
On My Radar: Andrea Ogunbadejo
Andrea Ogunbadejo, President at Eva Nosidam Productions, highlights a "game-changing" sound system, recommends Walton Goggins in his "absolute best" role, and admits she can't stand to lose at quizzes.
Cannes Contenders: UK
Josh Green, Chief Creative Officer of agency House 337 selects his top five Lions-worthy faves from the UK – which range from chicken worshipping to AI grannybots.
Phoebe Bourke: A Few Of My Favourite Things
Get your jealousy in check as we look through the items (and viewpoints) the Armoury director keeps around her Sicilian Airbnb, from which she writes.
Cannes Contenders: USA
Corinna Falusi, Founder and CCO of Birthday, gets ready to promenade down the Croisette, and reflects on potential Cannes Lions winning work from The USA, including a dancing Pedro Pascal and Brian Cox heading back to college.
Cannes Contenders: South Africa
EP Shayne Brookstein, and Marketing Director Beccy Kellond at Moonlighting share five campaigns that could see South Africa collecting awards at Cannes. Narrowing down the selection of commercials was no easy task and the fact that 4 of the 5 are for chicken, shows where South African hearts lie.
Cannes Contenders: Spain
Roberto Fara, Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy Spain, shares his five top favourite works to come out of Spain, including tech that gives voice to the voiceless, awesome awnings and artistic ice-cream wrappers.
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Playlist: Gabriel Schmitt
We hear from Grey’s Global Chief Creative Officer Gabriel Schmitt, where he talks about the future of visual albums, why Frame.io is his essential piece of tech, and reveals who his most played artist is...
Cannes Contenders: Canada
Leo Toronto's Chief Creative Officer Angus Tucker dives into the campaigns set for Cannes Lions that are set to bring home some Canadian bacon.
On My Radar: Ryan Ebner
ArtClass director Ryan Ebner goes large when it comes to TVs, geeks out to cerebral podcasts, and reveals the six letters that cemented his love of comedy, as he tells us what's on his creative radar.
Cannes Contenders: Sweden
This year's Swedish Cannes Lions Contenders, are selected by Samuel Skwarski, PR Director and Creative at Kid Collective. Here, he highlights some unique gaming initiatives, political pranks and a campaign about channelling your inner horse.
Cannes Contenders: The UK
As the industry once again gears up for its annual trip to the south of France we shine a much deserved light on the work that could illuminate the Palais next month. First up, Natasha Johnson, Head of Integrated Production at Wonderhood Studios, picks the UK work she feels deserves recognition.