22nd Golden Drum: Chavo D’Emilio and Geoffrey Hantson named 2015 Jury Presidents
The organizers of the 22nd Golden Drum Festival announced that Chavo D’Emilio (Creative Director McCann Worldgroup Latin America & the Caribbean and President and Chief Creative Officer McCann Buenos Aires) was selected as this year’s Single Channel Jury President, while Geoffrey Hantson (Chief Creative Officer & Co-founder Happiness Belgium) is the Multi Channel Jury President. Moreover, 20 other jury members, to be announced during the following days, will join them with the mission to judge this year’s Golden Drum entries.
Golden Drum invites best creative, advertising, digital, PR and media agencies, advertisers, production and media companies from 37 countries of New Europe, to enter their creative work before the entry deadline – 21 August – and compete for the prestigious Golden Drum Awards. Online system is already open for entry and delegate registration.
Chavo D’Emilio, Single Channel Jury President, started working in advertising at Lautrec Nazca Saatchi&Saatchi in 1996, where he became General Creative Director after brief periods at Publicis and Leo Burnett Chile. He won the most important awards for brands as Procter&Gamble, Zoo Bs As. In 2005, he was recognized as the Best Creative Director in Argentina at El Ojo de Iberoamerica. For 3 years he was CO-CEO and ECD at McCann Buenos Aires. During all these years he was jury of the most important advertising awards festivals as, Clio, D&AD, New York festival, London Awards and FIAP.
He founded TAG Buenos Aires, a creative cell associated to McCann Latam to develop regional and global projects, also being Creative Director for McCann Miami. Currently he is one of the 6 founding members of the McCann Worldwide Executive Creative Council. He won the following awards: 5 Golden Lions, 3 Silver Lions, 1 Bronze Lion at Cannes. 17 Clios. 8 Soles de Iberoamerica. 3 Gold London Awards. 1 Yellow Pencil. 5 Gold at FIAP. Grand Prix at Circulo de Creativos Argentinos. In 2012 he started his movie opera prima as a film director, “La despedida”, selected by the Festival Internacional de Cine de La Habana.
Geoffrey Hantson is Chief Creative Officer and Co-founder Happiness Belgium. At 42, he is part of the global creative council of the FCB network. Geoffrey took his first steps as a creative director at Duval Guillaume in 2006. In 2010 Geoffrey was named ‘creative of the year’ and both in 2012, 2013 and 2014 Duval Guillaume was named ‘creative agency of the year’ in Belgium.
In the last 3 years only he gathered 27 Cannes Lions – of which 11 gold – and his agency was named agency of the year in the Media category. Also at the Eurobest festival he won an astonishing 42 awards, including 3 Grand Prix and 9 gold, in the last 3 years. In 2012 Business Insider named Geoffrey ‘one of the 25 most creative people in advertising’ (globally). In 2013 he even made it to the top of that list (nr 1), calling his work ‘amongst the best advertising ever seen’. Geoffrey believes in the power of creativity and humanity. And in Happiness, that fuels both.
Golden Drum International Advertising Festival is a four day event, organized by the Slovenian Advertising Chamber. This year’s theme of the 22nd Golden Drum International Advertising Festival, organized by the Slovenian Advertising Chamber from 13 to 16 October 2015 in Portorož, Slovenia, will be “Transformation, liberation and creative culture”.
This year’s program, conceptualised by Barbara Krajnc, Executive Director of the Golden Drum Festival, and Mitja Petrovič, Director of Business & Content Development of the Golden Drum Festival, will host many world renowned guests on the Portorož stage this Autumn, many of them who will visit the Golden Drum Festival for the first time: Ajaz Ahmed, Founder and CEO of the global digital agency AKQA and co-author of the bestseller “Velocity”, co-creator of the famous project Nike+ FuelBand, Tomáš Sedláček, world famous economist and author of the book “Economy of Good and Evil”, university professor and former adviser of the past President of Czech Republic Václav Havel, and Paul Brazier, executive creative director of AMV BBDO from UK, who won over 200 different awards, including six D&AD pencils and 11 Cannes Lions, and brought his agency five consecutive titles as the “most awarded creative agency in UK” according to The Gunn Report and Big Won.
Mitja Petrovič on the Transformation, Liberation and Creative Culture, this year’s theme of the Golden Drum Festival:
We believe that the digital revolution and the new power of the universally connected individual are transforming the business and our society. These changes have caused problems for many, but they also bring new freedom – both to brands and to the people who use them (Airbnb is the first Community Driven SuperBrand and it is changing tourism).
The advertising industry can follow these changes or it can be part of the transformation. We believe that our role is to lead and we believe that creative culture is the only thing that can encourage transformation and create a better future. Transition is behind us, what lies ahead is transformation.
Golden Drum Festival, visited each year in Portorož by over 800 experts in the field of marketing, advertising, creatives, designers, young talents and students will offer four festival days of quality program with many interesting speakers and the biggest overview of creative advertising from the 37 countries of New Europe. The organizers also promise that this year’s participants can look forward to some extra surprises. The Early Bird Deadline for Delegates ends on 18 September
The first Golden Drum festival was organized in 1994, beginning as a modest idea many considered bold and overreaching. Since then, the Golden Drum International Advertising Festival has grown not only into a European manifestation but also into a prominent event noticed worldwide. From Trieste to Vladivostok, from Helsinki to Tel Aviv, the Golden Drum is recognized as one of the biggest, most important and most visible advertising overviews and events of the year. In the two decades of its existence it has gained the reputation of the friendliest among the bigger advertising events. The festival celebrates genius loci, the spirit of the place, and always lives up to its motto “sharp competition, good school, crazy party and devilish challenge”.
During the past 21 years Golden Drum brought together more than 26,000 professionals from 40 countries all across the world. Over 36,000 entries have been submitted to compete for highly prestigious and cherished Golden Drum Awards. The Golden Drum Festival proudly welcomed numerous advertising and other celebrities as jury presidents, jury members and guest speakers. In 2010, Golden Drum has honoured its most loyal and passionate contributors and supporters in the Golden Drum Hall of Fame for the first time. Since then new members are honoured yearly. Golden Drum is proud to recognize Jure Apih, longstanding president and current Honorary President of Golden Drum, Adrian Botan, Farid Chehab, Michael Conrad, Ivan Čimburov, Meta Dobnikar, Ami Hasan, Jan Mariusz Demner, Jirži Mikeš, Juli Nemes(+), Milka Pogliani, Daniel Ružička, Dragan Sakan(+), Juraj Vaculik, Vital Verlič, Darek Zatorski and Jarek Ziebinski as members of the Golden Drum Hall of Fame.
In a joint venture with affiliated regional festivals from Asia-pacific (ADfest), Ibero-America (FIAP) and the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADC*E), a new global as well as anti-globalist advertising award – The Intercontinental Advertising Cup (The Cup) – was launched. All shortlisted entries in Golden Drum Competition gain an exclusive right to compete for The Cup awards.