LIA 2015 Music Video Shortlist Revealed
United States takes 38%
London International Awards (LIA) has announced the shortlist for the Music Video medium.
Out of the 8 music videos shortlisted, Mori Inc.’s “I Won’t Let You Down” for OK Go, Great Guns’ “Preacherman” for Melody Gardot and PRETTYBIRD’s “Freedom” for Pharrell Williams each appear twice in distinctive categories.
Lizie Gower, Managing Director and Founder of Academy Films, presided over a venerated jury composed of Adrian Bosich, Richard De Aragüés, Davud Karbassioun, Alexander Schildt, Wilf Sweetland, Ivo van Vollenhoven and Jacqui Wilkinson.
Winners will be announced on November 10th.
Music Video Shortlist:
JAPAN
Mori Inc., Tokyo - OK Go “I Won't Let You Down” - Music Video, Cinematography
Mori Inc., Tokyo - OK Go “I Won't Let You Down” - Music Video, Best Music Video
TAIWAN
HiOrganic, Taipei - Mayday “Eternal Summer” - Music Video, Editing
UNITED KINGDOM
Great Guns, London - Melody Gardot “Preacherman” - Music Video, Editing
Great Guns, London - Melody Gardot “Preacherman” - Music Video, Direction
UNITED STATES
Blind Visual Propaganda, Santa Monica - Coldplay “Ink” - Music Video, Animation
PRETTYBIRD, Culver City - Pharrell Williams “Freedom” - Music Video, Direction
PRETTYBIRD, Culver City - Pharrell Williams “Freedom” - Music Video, Best Music Video
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Notes to the editor:
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London International Awards (LIA) is a global Festival honoring creativity and new ideas in Advertising, Production, Digital, Design, Music & Sound and Technology. The Awards, founded in 1986 by President, Barbara Levy, began by honoring advertising in the realms of Cinema, Television, Print and Radio worldwide, evolving since its inception into 15 unique media types. It was the first truly international advertising awards of its kind to acknowledge all media and methods from all over the world to be judged by a diverse global jury. Every member on each Jury Panel, including the Jury President, judge all entries except their own work, in their respective media. Each jury has the discretion to award a Grand LIA within the media they are judging.