Film: Droga5 scoops Gold

CANNES: Australian agencies delivered a barnstorming performance in the Film category, with Droga5 winning a Gold Lion for its tickertape TV campaign for VB.

In another big win for Australia, Leo Burnett Sydney won Gold for a music video called “Monkey” for the World Wildlife Fund.

The overall performance marked a four-year best for Australia in the category, following a slow start to the week, which led many to assume the industry would fail to come any where near to matching last year's exceptional performance

In total, Australian agencies took home 44 awards, compared to the record-breaking performance of last year, when Australia picked up 45 Lions, including three Grands Prix for Tourism Queensland's “Best Job in the World”.

In the Film category, Silver went to Meerkats Perth for the HBF campaign “Working Less” and “How it used to be”.

Colman Rasic Sydney scooped a Silver Lion for MTV Exit Foundation's “Goodnight, Travel Well”, while Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney wasawarded a Bronze Lion for Lion Nathan's Toohey's New campaign “Nana” and “SMS”.

New Zealand flew the flag earlier in the week, but its early successes did not carry any momentum through to the Film category.

New Zealand agencies failed to pick up any Film Lions. The Grand Prix went to Wieden + Kennedy Portland for Old Spice's viral hit “The Man your Man Could Smell Like”.

Story by Darren Davidson, AdNews.

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