The Kancil Awards, Malaysia’s version of our Ad Congress ARAW, has announced its theme and jury. According to Jury Chairman and recent Manila visitor Ronald Ng of Proximity KL, this year’s theme is "Change the game".
Fittingly, then, the local jury includes the most-internationally-awarded KL creatives. But in contrast to Manila’s network-dominated juries, the inter-national jury is made of "a stellar lineup of game changers", from mainly independent agencies like Crispin Porter and Droga5.
In an email, Ng explains that the Kancils "will be celebrating ideas that break the rules. Innovative ideas that have no precedent, big thinking that sets new benchmarks. Game changing work." The awards ceremony is on 28 November; judging is divided into main and digital.
The Kancil local jury is picked from the creative heads of the agencies with the best international award showings: Adrian Miller (Saatchi & Saatchi), Rahul Matthew (Y&R), Mun Tuck Wai (BBDO), Andy Soong (Publicis) and Ted Lim (Naga DDB). Edwin Leong (JWT) will confirm his participation soon. The digital jury will be locally represented by Liew Sanyen of If Interactive.
The international jury is as follows: For main, Alex Burnard (Crispin Porter + Bogusky), Thirasak (Creative Juice, Thailand), Sonal Dabral (Bates Asia), Pann Lim (Kinetic Singapore), Matty Burton (droga5, Sydney). Digital will be judged online by Iain Tait (Poke London), Flo Heiss (Dare London), Sean Lam (Kinetic Singapore) Jon Dranger (Farfar), and Graham Kelly, ex-TBWA Singapore.
