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DIRECTION 2026

Grand Prix

Title: The Shirt Off Your Back

Entrant Company: Good Oil

Production Company: Good Oil

Director: David Robinson-Smith

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Waka Kotahi | New Zealand Transport Agency

Title: Booze Maths

Entrant Company: The Sweetshop

Production Company: The Sweetshop

Agency: McCann New Zealand

Director: Max Barden

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

DIRECTION | 61 TO 120 SECONDS

Client: Spark New Zealand

Title: It's Better With Spark

Entrant Company: The Sweetshop

Production Company: The Sweetshop

Agency: Colenso BBDO

Director: Damien Shatford

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

DIRECTION | OVER 120 SECONDS

Client: Go MonGolia

Title: Go Mongolia

Entrant Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Production Company: Mr+Positive Singapore

Agency: Edelman

Director: Patrick Fileti

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

NEW TALENT IN COMMERCIALS

Client: LYKA

Title: The Brutal Pick-Up

Entrant Company: DIVISION

Production Company: DIVISION

Agency: OUTSIDE IN

Director: Harry Welsh

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

SHORT FILM

Title: The Shirt Off Your Back

Entrant Company: Good Oil

Production Company: Good Oil

Director: David Robinson-Smith

DIRECTION 2026

Winner

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: TOMOAKI BABA

Title: PRIME |feat. BIGYUKI & JK Kim

Entrant Company: Spoon Inc.

Production Company: Spoon Inc.

Director: Director+Animator:Hoji Tsuchiya

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: New Zealand Transport Authority Waka Kotahi

Title: Backseat Whisperer

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: McCann NZ

Director: Michael Hili

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Uber

Title: Can't Do That If You're Driving

Entrant Company: FINCH

Production Company: FINCH

Agency: Special Group

Director: Christopher Riggert

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Puma

Title: Go Wild India

Entrant Company: 100 Feet Films

Production Company: 100 Feet Films

Agency: Puma

Director: Staj Soften

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 60 SECONDS AND UNDER

Client: Whānau Ora

Title: The Māori Roll Call

Entrant Company: Supernormal

Production Company: Supernormal

Agency: Motion Sickness

Director: Reagen Butler

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 61 TO 120 SECONDS

Client: Balter

Title: Beers Do Come True

Entrant Company: Scoundrel

Production Company: Scoundrel

Agency: A Time in Place

Director: Ariel Martin

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | 61 TO 120 SECONDS

Client: Westpac

Title: Double You

Entrant Company: Scoundrel

Production Company: Scoundrel

Agency: The Tuesday Club

Director: Michael Spiccia

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | OVER 120 SECONDS

Client: Apple

Title: 'HVL’ - 360° Album Trailer'

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Production Company: Antiantiart and Incite*

Agency: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab (Vietnam)

Director: Phương Vũ (Antiantiart)

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

DIRECTION | OVER 120 SECONDS

Client: Tourism Australia

Title: Tourism Australia - Come and say G'day

Entrant Company: Exit Films

Production Company: Exit Films

Agency: Droga5

Director: Stefan Hunt / Mark Molloy

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

NEW TALENT IN COMMERCIALS

Client: Krafton India (Shyam Kumar)

Title: BGMI x Royal Enfield

Entrant Company: Hammerhead

Production Company: Hammerhead

Agency: Hammerhead

Director: Vinod Ravie

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

FASHION & LUXURY

Client: Hublot

Title: Jung Kook - Global Brand Ambassador

Entrant Company: kidzfrmnowhere

Production Company: Phantasm

Agency: kidzfrmnowhere

Director: YUANN

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

FASHION & LUXURY

Client: Armani Beauty x to Be Magazine

Title: The Audition

Entrant Company: to Be magazine

Production Company: to Be magazine

Agency: to Be magazine

Director: Riley Hart

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

SHORT FILM

Title: Boy on Fire

Entrant Company: Blue Soup Productions

Production Company: Blue Soup Productions

Director: Alies Sluiter

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

SHORT FILM

Title: EGGS

Entrant Company: DIVISION

Production Company: DIVISION

Director: Zac Wiesel

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: aespa (Client: Apple)

Title: "Dirty Work" Shot on iPhone 16 Pro

Entrant Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab Seoul

Production Company: TBWA\ Media Arts Lab Seoul (Advertising Agency)

Director: -

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: Dom Dolla

Title: Addicted to Bass

Entrant Company: Valve Studio

Production Company: Valve Studio, Cool Studio

Director: Kyle Caulfield, Charles Buxton-Leslie

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: izna

Title: Mamma Mia

Entrant Company: kidzfrmnowhere

Production Company: AEDIASTUDIO / kidzfrmnowhere

Director: YUANN

DIRECTION 2026

Finalist

MUSIC VIDEO

Artist: Genesis Owusu

Title: Stampede

Entrant Company: Ourness

Production Company: Phenomena

Director: Isaac Brown

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