Terence Neale becomes first SA director to win Cannes Lions Grand Prix

22 June, 2017 - 14:51

Egg Films' director Terence Neale became the first South African director ever to win a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the world's most prestigious advertising awards.

Terence won in the Entertainment for Music category for adidas Originals Original Is Never Finished, largely shot in South Africa for New York agency Johannes Leonardo with RSA Films, starring the likes of Snoop Dogg, basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and artist Petra Collins. Original Is Never Finished also picked up Bronze in the Entertainment category and was presented as a case study on the mainstage during Cannes Lions - an honour in itself.

The campaign's success at Cannes is just the latest in a string of accolades: Original Is Never Finished won a Wooden Pencil at D&AD and Silver at the One Show, was nominated for a Webby, and is up for four Association of Independent Commercial Producers' Awards. It has just under 25m views on YouTube.

This was the second year in a row that Terence has won at Cannes Lions, after his previous adidas Originals campaign won Gold for music in 2016.

We feel so lucky to have had the opportunity to work on a brand like adidas, with an agency like Johannes Leonardo, who were so open and gave us such creative satisfaction, says producer Rozanne Rocha-Gray.

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Going into Wednesday night's awards, Egg Films and their sister company Arcade Content had all seven of South Africa's shortlists in the Entertainment and Entertainment for Music categories at Cannes Lions, as well as the only Media shortlist from South Africa. These converted into a Grand Prix, a Gold, two Silvers, and two Bronzes.

See more of Terence's ads and music videos at https://eggfilms.tv/south-african-commercials-director/terence-neale/.

About Egg Films

The most internationally awarded South African production company in 2016, Egg Films represents directors Brent Harris, Dan Mace, Dani Hynes, Jason Fialkov, Lebogang Rasethaba, Slim, Sunu, Terence Neale and Zwelethu Radebe. We do TV ads, music videos, short films and other things too. For more information, visit https://eggfilms.tv.

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