New Showplayer feature

For all you big screen fans Cannes Fringe has just launched our latest feature. We introduced our SHOWPLAYER on the top of the site. In there you will be able to see all our Cannes Fringe reports in full screen mode. Yeah baby… go on and re-live the highlights of Cannes 07, Midsummer Ball and Kinsale in all its Technicolor glory. All our productions are archived and always easy to find and with a simple click blown up to full screen. You can subscribe to it and make sure you never miss a show again. This feature is brought to you by the great people from Blip.tv where we are hosting our content.
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Kinsale night life - spot ya Paddy, Mick & Frank!

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The 07 Shark Award Winners - Exclusive Secret Footage

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So we have it, an exclusive scoop on a number of the Kinsale Shark Award Winners, and try as they might there PR and security staff where not canny enough to keep out the Cannes Fringe ninja bloggers as we slid in under the cover of darkness and a woolly hat.We moved deftly passed the security teams into the awards for a look at the presentation ceremony. In the Actons Hotels dinning room there was about 180 agency delegates eating dinner, swilling back the plonk and preparing themselves for what lay ahead.Which we are sad to report was an on mass of Award grabbing and industry back slapping session, on a scale we had never seen before.On numerous occasions more than one Gold was handed out and then again in each Bronze and Silver again more than 1 award was given for each category. It made us question, with so many awards being given out, in so many categories what is a Shark Award really worth? The amount of awards given away was truly amazing; they even had to reinforce the stage set to support the weight of all those shiny Shark awards (look at for all those shiny shark heads in the video).Now we have to admit, we was not in there for the entire award ceremony that would have been just too much for any Cannes Fringe Blogger to handle, so our view of the Sharks Awards may be a little bias and out of prospective, we’ll see when the official winners announcements break in the trade press next week.

We also mean no disrespect to the work being shown, as all the ads on show where of international standard, good work, but surly that’s the whole point. Even though it may be hard to pick a winner sometimes amongst these great ads, still only one ad should win Gold, Silver or Bronze in a category, 1 ad should stand out and grab the award. Anyway, everyone was having fun and the agencies obviously love it. So for this grab an ad award festival, we can exclusively break a number of the category winners before anyone else, well done to the winners – we think.

Shark Awards:

TV Awards:

World Winner: Partizan HONDA ‘choir’

International TV:

- Alcoholic Drinks -

Beers:

Bronze: DDB Chicago AMHAUSER BUSCH ‘fist pump’

Diploma: Radical Media HEINEKEN ‘the most interesting man in the world’

Spirits:

Silver: Leo Burnett Sydney DIAGEO BUNDABERG RUM ‘australia fair’

Non Alcoholic:

Gold: Nexus Productions Ltd COCA COLA ‘video game’

Bronze: Leith Agency A.G. BARR ’snowman’

Diploma: Nexus CRAVENDALE ‘out of stock’

Food:

Gold: Leo Burnett Chicago KELLOGS ‘construction’

Confectionary:

Silver: Leo Burnett Chicago WILLIAM WRIGLEY CHEWING GUM ‘half deer’

Household Maintenance & Appliances:

Bronze: DeWalt Jung COMPO ‘compo bird’

Diploma: Leo Burnett Chicago PALLISER ‘bedroom’

Diploma: Ogilvy Group Ltd UNILEVER ‘the uncomfortable life of Paul Jenkins’

Cosmetics, Toiletries & Medical

Diploma: HSI London BOOTS ’tis the season’

Automotive:

Gold: Leo Burnett Italy FIAT ’spa’

Gold: Gorgeous Enterprises SKODA ‘baking of’

Silver: Knucklehead AUDI ’satellite’

Bronze: Leo Burnett Italy FIAT SPA ‘Icarus’

Bronze: Gorgeous Enterprises HONDA ‘museum’

Sports Wear(?)

Gold: Wieden + Kennedy NIKE ‘less hurt’

Retail Services:

Gold: C.H.I. & Partners BIG YELLOW STORAGE COMPANY ‘tide’

Bronze: Leo Burnett Chicago MCDONALDS ‘fillet o fish’

3 - Celebrate the good people of Kinsale

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The kind people of Kinsale - On the whole I have to take my hat off to these folk for 1 putting up with a nut bag like me pushing a microphone in their face and talking a load of arse. But more so for putting up with a bucket load of ad folk that descend on this little town every year for what is turning out to be probably the Worlds cutest ad festival, and we have seen quite a few. Of course as ever we never get let into any of the official stuff and so we can not report on what goes on in there (yawn), but from out here – it’s a great little place, full of friendly folk willing to help. Also worth noting is this town, which is about the size of a handkerchief, and it has 20 pubs and 3 chemists and 1 Hospital – always handy to know.

God bless the kind people of Kinsale.

2 - Good Morning Kinsale Sharks - we’er here!

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Good morning Kinsale! But where is the Starbucks? We need coffee and a muffin; it’s a production crew basic early morning need. But nope we ask the street cleaner where the Starbucks is – “we spotted a cup on a wall we know you got one come on give it up we need coffee”. His reply was “er be Jesus, what ya want”. We spelled it our Coffee! “ar be with your self Coffee be good” yep we want coffee – the guy had Elvis tattooed on his right hand and a sweeping brush in his left as he looked at us like we was the ones that needed sweeping up.

“Texaco, be good for coffee, 2 miles up the hill”
We said thank you and found our selves in an Ian Schrager hotel on crack

1 - Sharks Coverage From The Kinsale Carlton

The Cannes Fringe Team Lands in Kinsale for the Sharks Awards. After a short delay at the air port we are off an before we know it we are back down in the magical land of Ireland and into or hire car to Kinsale, only a short 20 minuites drive outside of Cork. So then it’s a call to the hotel and some Paddy called John starts telling us how to get to his place.

That’s where the problems began. Go left head up the hill right etc, until we start to leave the town of Kinsale behind us. As we approach the edge of the town some miles up the hill, and can see the fields he says STOP. Look for the old dog lying by the gate. Old dog, gate?

Oh over there, it’s a bungalow ok a pretty big one so we pull in. As I walk through the door of the bungalow it hits me – this isn’t a hotel it’s a bloody house and the lady of the house – some bloated Asian lazy lady is slumped on the sofa with an old sleeping bag covering here, the home looks nice enough true, but still we are a shooting crew that will be editing through the night for the next 3 days, and a house, with its familiy in it is not the right environment for a bunch of fringers – not good for the family and not good for us.

Without even getting up of the sofa to greet us she shouts from under the snugly sleeping bag, “Did you speak to Jon?” realising she was talking to me and not some out of view family member, I stuttered a response. She managed to drag her self of the sofa and showed us to our rooms. There are 4 of us – 2 rooms and she says will one key do? As the door opened to our rooms I got that feeling – the one you get when you just want to vanish and run back to your mother, but turning round there was no mother, just me my camera man, my editor and my wife??? Who I had blagged to that this would be a great trip, and a good break to celebrate our 8 year wedding anniversary that we had celebrated over dinner this week.

Who the hell was I kidding this was hell.

So think fast Asa do something… Ok so I have no Producer with me, that’s ok they are fucking waste of space anyway…. Who the hell am I kidding again… at times like this you need your Mother, or a bloody good Producer with a credit card and some backbone.

So we could not stay at the bungalow Irish hillbilly hotel, no way José, we needed somewhere fast. The only problem was that this weekend trying to find a cheap hotel in Kinsale, as a load of Ad Folk flock in – well lets just say you’d be better of looking for virgin in Essex.

Ok so I hit the phones, and guess what – the only rooms available for us is a suite at the Carlton! Well bugger me backwards, a 3 bedroom ***** (count em 5) star Garden suite in the grounds of the Kinsale Carlton – OK how much I ask. €700 all in including breakfasts and an evening dinner on one of the nights – talk about lucking out, we’d hit the Irish hotel jack pot. Buck it Danny Boy I said, even though It was a lady on the phone!!!

So my fringer friends – it’s the Carlton Kinsale, as a base for your fringe coverage of the Sharks Awards. Now from here that conversation with our Paddy mate John seems oh oh so long ago, and his half arsed wife on the sofa - I just have to now wonder who we will bump into in the Kinsale Carlton Reception – well check in and you’ll find out too.

Join us, we hope you enjoy the coming coverage.

Asa.

If you are in Kinsale and would like to meet up with the Cannes Fringe team please drop us a call on +44(0)7905 349 739.

How did Phil Collins get inside the Gorilla ???

We have al seen this great new Cadbury ad written and directed by Sony Bravia ‘balls’ creative director Juan Cabral of Fallon London. But the real question we are asking ourselves here is how the devil did they fit Phil into the costume ?? We all agree that the face is him and the moves are there still and considering good old Phil must have spend hours inside the costume during filming this we are intrigued. If anyone can come up with any ideas about getting Phil Collins inside an ape costume we would like to hear them.
In the meantime turn it up and get the cutlery out…….
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