CANNES: TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg's Trillion Dollar Campaign and Lowe Bull Johannesburg's Meet Wally's Heart have made the Titanium & Integrated Lions, while FoxP2 and DDB South Africa have made the Film Lions shortlist for the 56th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Both lists were released this morning, Friday, 26 June 2009. [blog]
The fourth and final awards ceremony and closing gala will be held tomorrow night, Saturday 27 June.
Gisele Wertheim-Aymes on Twitter: @giselewaymes [Wertheim-Aymes, head of media at FNB, is at Cannes and is blogging and tweeting from the festival on behalf of Bizcommunity]
Riaan Wolmarans on Twitter: @riaanw's Cannes Lions tweets [Wolmarans is the former editor of the Mail & Guardian Online and is now senior production editor of all print/online output of Cannes Lions ads awards and related ads festivals]
Adrian Hewlett on Twitter: @AdrianHewlett [MD of the Habari Group]
Nice to see real brands like Flora, Frisco and MTN crack the shortlists. Also nice to see TBWA state that the Zimbabwean work was pro bono. Well done Lowe, FoxP2, DDB and TBWA - you're all putting SA on the world map. Posted on 27 Jun 2009 22:37
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