Venables to head Craft Jury at Adstars

Adstars has announced Guy Venables managing director and executive producer of Look Production as President of Craft Jury for the 2010 Adstars festival to be held in Busan, Korea this month.

Adstars is in its third year and is positioning itself as a global Cannes-style event based in Asia, held in Busan on the riviera.

This year, Adstars has attracted 5,437 entires from 41 countries. For Craft, 5566 entries from 24 countries were submitted. The preliminary online judging has filtered the entries down to 89 finalists from 18 countries and will be judged next week in Korea.

Venable's career has spanned 18 years, and while based in Sydney, much of his work has been seen on Asian TV and print projects. He was part of the effort in putting Print Craft on the map as a category in Asia for Adfest in Thailand in 2006.

"It's a great honour to be invited to judge Craft. Until recently Craft was the unsung hero of many campaigns, I remember when photographers were not even credited for winning print campaigns, all that has changed with the major regional ad festivals embracing Craft as an integral part of the advertising mix," said Venables.

Guy is now based full time in Sydney as EP of his two companies Look Production and Nomad working locally with some of the industries leading photographers and directors.