The deadline for campaign entry is this upcoming April 27th
New professionals with renowned careers, from the field of advertising and the digital world, will be in charge of designing the Next to Watch 2017 list, acknowledging the most innovative campaigns presented to compete in the third Sitges Next Festival.
The names that make up the Sitges Next 2017 jury play an important role in making the Festival an essential sector meeting place. They will be Josep Maria Roca de Vinyals, Chief Creative Officer at DDB Spain; Edu Pou, Chief Creative Officer at Here Be Dragons –who will also be offering a presentation; Belén Coca, freelance digital creative director; Augustin Robinne, Marketing Director at Pernod Ricard Spain; Diego González, Chief Creative Officer at OgilvyOne; Marta Caseny, Creative director at VCCP; Joost van Nispen, founder and Chairman of the ICEMD (The Institute of the Digital Economy of ESIC Business & Marketing School in Barcelona); Jordi Pi, executive producer of digital media for the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (Catalan Corporation of Audiovisual Media), and Enric Nel·lo, Chief Creative Officer ay Grey Spain. A jury list of top quality creatives.
The Next to Watch list will be the selection made by the jury and aims to become a platform to present and exhibit the most innovative works in the field of communication. In addition to the competing projects, the Festival has programed eight presentations and two workshops with experts in different areas that portray the new communication between brands and the public. Entries for pieces are open on the Festival website until this upcoming April 27th.
Sitges Next will be held on May 5th and 6th and is organized by the Sitges Town Council and has an Advisory Board made up of the Catalonian Generalitat, the Col·legi de Publicitaris i Relacions Públiques, Mobile World Capital, the Blanquerna Faculty at Ramon Llull University and the Catalan Audiovisual Cluster.