Thursday, 29 May 2008

NewsReel 30/05/08

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Comedy Smalls
Time Out Comedy winner and Edinburgh Fringe favourite Stephen K Amos has been announced as part of the judging panel for this year’s Comedy Smalls short film entries. Amos will also host the awards show at the Truman Brewery in June. Long-standing partner Paramount Comedy has been joined by Comedy Central in supporting the event. The full list of judges for this year’s transatlantic talent search is:

Stephen K Amos – Comedian
Kathleen Hutchison – Head Of New Comedy, Paramount Comedy
Chris Hancox – VP Marketing and Creative Services, Paramount Comedy
JoAnn Grigioni – Director Talent, Comedy Central
Christina Lee – Coordinator Development, Comedy Central
Andrew Pulver – Film Editor, The Guardian
Eliza Williams – Writer, Creative Review
Andi Granger – Creative Director, Sky One
Richard Holman – Creative Director, devilfish

This year’s theme is WORK and anyone can enter by submitting a short film of up to 5 minutes at www.thesmalls.com. The deadline has been extended to 6th June, so you had better get a move on. All short-listed films will be screened on Paramount Comedy, the station that helped launch such comedy talent as Sacha Baron Cohen, Simon Pegg and Matt Lucas.

A new sibling for the Brothers and Sisters
Agency Brothers and Sisters have cemented their place as a fully integrated outfit with the appointment of former IPC Digital Development Director and Head of Virgin Media TV, Kevin Brown.

As Digital Director of the fledgling agency , Brown will work with Creative Directors Andy Fowler and Steve Shannon to enhance their digital and interactive credentials, which include last month’s Big Bill McGill campaign for Paramount’s Two & A Half Men, a venture which produced record viewing figures for the channel.

Doritos ads done by doers
The five finalists for Doritos ‘You make it, we play it’ have been revealed and can be viewed and voted for here. The standard of work vying for the £20, 000 top prize and the chance to have their ad aired on national TV is high but our personal favourite has to be the stop-motion ceremonial sacrifice of the ad below.

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