CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 4, 2018--
National
CineMedia (NCM), America’s Movie Network and the U.S. representative
to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, is proud to
present the winning teams of this year’s U.S.
Young Lions competitions. Over 350 entries were submitted this year
from teams of young professionals working for Advertising, Digital,
Media, Creative, and PR companies or agencies as well as in-house
marketing teams.
2018 U.S. Cannes Young Lions Winning Teams:
- Digital: Andrew Green and Blas Madera, R/GA – View
Entry
- Film: Emanuel Vinkler and Jay Zschunke, 360i – View
Entry
- Media: Rachel Hoffman and Max Slonim, Initiative – View
Entry
- PR: Kelly Kenny and Gabrielle Low, Ketchum NY – View
Entry
- Print: Marcos Botelho and Juarez Rodriguez, RPA – View
Entry
2018 U.S. Cannes Young Lions 2nd
& 3rd
Place Teams:
- Digital:
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Cat Samarista, POSSIBLE and Claire Zimmerman, SapientRazorfish (2nd
Place)
- Lauren Meredith and Luna Zhang, VML (3rd Place)
- Film:
- Kate Dickerson and Deniz Kayiket, FCBHealthcare (2nd
Place)
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Lauriann LeMoreaux and Sara Mason, FCBWest (3rd Place)
- Media:
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Anthony Rocer and Janine Serio, Mediacom (2nd Place)
- Mackenzie Beer and Catherine Kim, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, (3rd
Place)
- PR:
- Sarah Connolly and Paula Verkuylen, FleishmanHillard (Runners-Up)
- Print:
- Daniel Jaramillo and Amanda Keffer, Leo Burnett (2nd
Place)
- Aaron Fisher and Robyn Tenenbaum, CP+B (3rd Place)
Each of the winning teams will be sent, all expenses paid, to Cannes,
France to compete as Team USA in the global Young Lions competition at
the 65th
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the world’s
leading celebration of creativity in communications, taking place from
June 18 - 22, 2018.
In their respective categories, each team was challenged to develop a
creative and innovative campaign that would increase name and brand
recognition as well as drive new donations for The
Jack & Jill Foundation Late Stage Cancer Foundation (JAJF).
JAJF is a national 501(c)(3) developed 12 years ago to treat the
families (not the cancer) who are facing the loss of a young parent
through late stage cancer. It is the only organization of its kind with
a mission to help these children who are losing their mom or dad to
cancer at a very vulnerable time. It is a small, very personal
organization that treats 100-120 families a year, one family at a time.
Jon Albert, Founder and Executive Director, explained the impact this
2018 Young Lions initiative will have on his organization, saying,“The
creativity, compassion, insight, enthusiasm and forward thinking
demonstrated be these impressive Young Lions was admirable, and I am
thankful for the judges as well. JAJF will no doubt benefit from the
collective and specific plans proposed by these teams. This was a
tangible initiative that JAJF strives to take full advantage of by
implementing and executing on some of these relevant, important ideas.
This was a WOW! and the timing could not be any better for JAJF. We
can’t be more grateful and excited. This was important.”
Cliff Marks, President of National CineMedia (NCM), shared his
enthusiasm for this year’s competition, saying, “The work and the
compassion exhibited by the Young Lions participants was extraordinary
and will benefit the Jack and Jill Foundation for year to come. NCM is
thrilled to be able to bring so much brilliant thought and executable
ideas to a charity who helps so many young families during such a
critical time of need.”
The 2018 U.S. Young Lions sponsors who provided continuous involvement
and generous support of this year’s competitions are: DigitasLBi
for Digital, Pereira
& O’Dellfor Film, UM
for Media and The
PR Council for PR. NCMis thesponsor of the Print
competition.
NCM would also like to thank the judges who scored this year’s
submissions:
Digital: Jennifer Awasano, Digitas; Chris Barnes, NCM; Sue
DeSilva, Digitas; Craig Elimeliah, VML; Jess Greenwood, R/GA; AJ Hassan,
R/GA; Piper Hickman, 360i; Jeffrey Hinz, Mediacom; Troy Lumpkin, Goodby,
Silverstein & Partners; Beth Mach, Initiative; Gavin McLeod, AKQA;
Elicia Zank, Audi
Film:Jason Apaliski, Pereira & O’Dell; Christoph Becker, gyro;
Marianne Besch, McGarry Bowen SF; Paul Caiozzo, Office of Baby; Cameron
Farrelly, Vice Media; Marla Kaplowitz, 4 A’s; Robert Lambrechts, Pereira
& O’Dell; Leeann Leahy, The Via Agency; Matt Reinhard, O’Keefe, Reinhard
& Paul; Garrick Schmitt, Essence Global
Media:Amy Armstrong, Initiative;Dave Bolger, Trilia
Media; Christine Bradt, MullenLowe Media Hub; Rachel Brook, Mediacom;
Christine Chen, Goodby Silverstein & Partners; Pele Cortizo-Burgess,
Initiative; Mark Egan, Mediacom; Kristin Jones, UM; Hallie Johnston,
Initiative; Tara Levine, Hearts & Science; Lynn Lewis-Pinkus, UM; Jason
Lim, Mediacom; Jason Maggs, Initiative; Leah Meranus, Initiative; Sean
O’Sullivan, Carat; Haley Paas, Carat; Anush Prabhu, Mediacom; Jasmine
Presson, Mediacom; Lisa Purpura, VML; David Stopforth, Initiative; Sarah
Stringer, Carat; Robert Swartz, Mediacom; Ben Winkler, OMD; Jeff
Zanella, Trilia Media
PR:Gail Heimann, Weber Shandwick (Jury Chair); Natalie
Best, French West Vaughn; Ted Fragulis, Catalyst; Jeff Olson, Olson
Engage; Jaclyn Ruelle, MullenLowe; Bret Werner, MWW
Print: Will Bright, O’Keefe, Reinhard & Paul; Luciana Cardoso,
FCB NY; Angie Elko, Goodby Silverstein & Partners; Jordan Edwards, NCM;
Marques Gartrell, Deutsch NY; John Godsey, VML; Jeff Goeke, NCM; Joel
Kaplan, MUH-TAY-ZIK; Menno Kluin, 360i; Tara Lawall, 72andSunny; Mike
Lear, EP+CO; Bernardo Romero, Area23 FCB Healthcare; Crystal Yu, AKQA SF
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