Cannes Contenders: Argentina
Agustina Crespo, Creative Director at 1stAveMachine Buenos Aires, goes double Messi as she picks the Argentine work that she thinks may do well in Cannes next week.
Cannes Contenders: Japan
Andres Aguilar, Associate Creative Director at UltraSuperNew Tokyo, picks campaigns about toilets, transport and Tinder as some of the work from Japan that might do well at the Lions.
Cannes Contenders: France
Clement Martorell, Managing Partner & EP at HAMLET Paris, picks the five French campaigns he fancies to pick up a prize in Cannes next week.
Cannes Contenders: The UK
From a cartoon dog bringing hope to refugees to a more futuristically animated incarnation of a band, Charlie Gatsky, Chief Production Officer at Uncommon Creative Studios, highlights some of the work she thinks could win big on the Croisette.
Cannes Contenders: USA
Jed Grossman, VCCP’s new US CCO, chooses some of the US campaigns he thinks might be roaring into action in Cannes next week, including annoying a nation of sports fans and faking the history of a videogame.
Cannes Contenders: Ireland
Anne-Marie Curran, Executive Producer at Arrow Film in Dublin chooses Irish work she feels deserve the honours at Cannes in 2023, including beautifully shot campaigns, ads dealing with traumatising issues, and family orientated commercials.
Cannes Contenders: Sweden
Samuel Skwarski, PR Director/Creative at Stockholm agency Volt, shares the Swedish campaigns he feels deserve some love at this years Cannes Lions. The work includes machines built on heartbeats, scratch cards turned concert tickets and tough guy school kids pushing oat milk.
Cannes Contenders: Japan
Takayuki Niizawa, CCO at Wunderman Thompson Tokyo, picks some of the Japanese work he thinks might pick up metal in Cannes next week, including artwork by dogs and manga-revealing milk.
Cannes Contenders: Germany
Julica Hauke CEO and Managing Partner at Grabarz & Partner/Hamburg talks us through her German Cannes Contenders, featuring emotional human work, socio-critical campaigns and amusing rethinks.
Cannes Contenders: Norway
Bacon director Andreas Riiser delivers an eclectic selection of work from Norway that he feels should win at Cannes. His choices includes Amnesty's hard-hitting film about abortion rights, colourful characters selling pre-loved goods and an unusual lesson in learning how to swear properly.
Cannes Contenders: Spain
Saulo Rocha, CCO at agency DAVID/Madrid chooses Spanish work he feels deserve the big prizes this year at Cannes, including AI noise-selecting headphones, divinely dripping de-iced ice cream and an entrancing trans story.
Cannes Contenders: Digital Out of Home
Thomas Valente, Founder of Inertia Studios, picks some of the best digital out of home campaigns from the last year that he thinks have a chance of taking home a Lion in Cannes, including some awesome Lionesses.