24th Kyiv International Advertising Festival announces the jury teams. 39 jury members from 23 countries of the world in 5 international teams will evaluate the festival works.
Among the experts are the best representatives of the industry from all over the world – from Europe, Asia, North and South America. Among the members of the KIAF jury are creative and art directors of leading international advertising agencies, creators of successful projects for well-known global brands.
On KIAF 2023 contest program five international jury teams judge entries:
- Jury Team 1 – PEACE
- Jury Team 2 – Environment & Sustainability; Health & Well-Being; Culture/Local Solutions
- Jury Team 3 – Human Rights, Justice & Strong Institutions; Partnership for the Goals; Children: Health/Safety/Happiness
- Jury Team 4 – Gender Equality & LGBTQ Rights; Arts and Culture; Animal Care & Protection
- Jury Team 5 – Poverty & Hunger; Education: Quality, Civic & Social Education; Prosperity: Economic Growth, Innovations, Industry
KIAF Jury Chairmen:
- Gaetan du Peloux, Chief Creative Officer, Marcel, France
- Bartek Klimaszewski, Executive Creative Director, MOLECULAR Worldwide, Poland
- Morten Grubak, Executive Creative Director, Virtue Futures, Denmark
- Edson Athayde, CEO and Creative Director, FCB Lisbon, Portugal
- Nari Moon, Creative Director, INNOCEAN, South Korea
KIAF 2023 is dedicated exclusively to socially significant communications in advertising. The program consists of 13 contests, each of which includes 11 categories, namely: Film, Radio/Audio, Print & Publishing, Out Of Home, Design, Digital & Mobile, Social Media & Influence, Integrated Campaigns, PR Campaigns, Direct Campaigns and Activation Campaigns.
The festival takes place within the framework of the Ukrainian Creative Stories project. The organizer is the All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition.
Entries submission is open on the website creative-stories.com.ua – the final deadline is on April 21.
The winners will be announced at the end of May 2023.
The General Partner is Nova Poshta. Delivering victories from Ukraine worldwide.
KIAF JURY TEAMS
Jury Team 1 – PEACE
- Jury Chairman – Gaetan du Peloux, Chief Creative Officer, Marcel, France
- Raphael Brinkert, Founder, brinkertlück, Germany
- Zuza Duchniewska-Sobczak, Executive Creative Director, DDB Warsaw, Poland
- Daewon Kim, Executive Creative Director, HSAd, South Korea
- Pia Lystad, Art Director, POL, Norway
- Nail Muratov, Creative Director, SEED, Kazakhstan
- Arto Sivonen, Creative Director, Founder, Måndag, Finland
- Konstantin Trendafilov, Creative Director, Partner, HUMAN, Bulgaria
Jury Team 2 – Environment & Sustainability; Health & Well-Being; Culture/Local Solutions
- Jury Chairman – Bartek Klimaszewski, Executive Creative Director, MOLECULAR Worldwide, Poland
- Cesar Aburto, Chief Creative Officer, McCann Santiago, Chile
- Luka Bajs, Executive Creative Director, SHIFT, Slovenia
- Istvan Bracsok, Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, White Rabbit Budapest, Hungary
- Chrystel Jung, Associate Creative Director, BETC Paris, France
- Marsel Levi, Creative Director, Noble Graphics, Bulgaria
- Lizzie Murray, Studio Director, W+K Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Tuukka Paikkari, Creative Director, Bob the Robot, Finland
Jury Team 3 – Human Rights, Justice & Strong Institutions; Partnership for the Goals; Children: Health/Safety/Happiness
- Jury Chairman – Morten Grubak, Executive Creative Director, Virtue Futures, Denmark
- Paolo Boccardi, Customer Experience Creative Director, VMLYR Milan, Italy
- Rodolfo Borrell, Co-founder, Chief Creative Officer, The Table By De Ferrari Borrell, Dominican Republic
- Jelena Fiškuš, Creative Director, Studio Sonda, Croatia
- Luca Lorenzini, Co-Founder and Executive Creative Directors, SMALL, USA
- Goran Radinovic, Creative Director, Founder , Aritmija, Slovenia
- Kerstin Raidma, Creative Director, Tabasco, Estonia
- Bartłomiej Rams, Creative Director & Partner, Heart & Brain Agency, Poland
Jury Team 4 – Gender Equality & LGBTQ Rights; Arts and Culture; Animal Care & Protection
- Jury Chairman – Edson Athayde, CEO and Creative Director, FCB Lisbon, Portugal
- Dace Izabella Grundsteina, Art Director, MAGIC, Latvia
- Tytus Klepacz, Content and Creative Consultant, PZL Warsaw, Poland
- Gary Payn, Creative Director Customer Experience / Strategy, Uniplan, Germany
- Fabrice Plazolles, Chief Creative Officer, Havas Play, France
- Heli Roiha, Creative Director, SEK, Finland
- Momchil Zahariev, Creative Director, NEXT-DC, Bulgaria
Jury Team 5 – Poverty & Hunger; Education: Quality, Civic & Social Education; Prosperity: Economic Growth, Innovations, Industry
- Jury Chairman – Nari Moon, Creative Director, INNOCEAN, South Korea
- Bayyina Black, Global Director, Sustainability & Impact, Make/Good, R/GA, USA
- Robert Boyle, Creative Director and Head of Art, BBDO Dublin, Ireland
- Davor Bruketa, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer and Head of Design, Bruketa&Zinic&Grey, Croatia
- Marius Lukošius, Creative Director, Not Perfect Vilnius, Lithuania
- Mikael Nemeschansky, Independent Creative Director, Finland
- Alban Penicaut, Executive Creative Director, Partner, Brainsonic, France
- Temur Sadi, Design Director, MA'NO Branding Agency, Uzbekistan
In 2023 Kyiv International Advertising Festival is dedicated exclusively to socially significant communications in advertising.
Make the world a better place is the main message that the festival wants to convey to creators all over the world. Making the world better, safer, more tolerant, more responsible has become an urgent task for humanity. Creative communications play an important role in such changes.
The focus of the KIAF contest program on socially significant communications makes it possible to draw the attention of creators from all over the world to the topic of social, ethical, environmental and other problems that are currently troubling society and inspire the society to make the world a better place.
KIAF 2023 will celebrate the most creative works of socially significant communications, and these initiatives are aimed:
- to educate, change perception, inspire action toward helping the environment,
- to fight against discrimination (racial, ethnic, religious etc.) by promoting empowerment, equality, rights, tolerance,
- to achieve gender equality and empowerment for all,
- to reduce poverty and hunger everywhere,
- to support, protect, and conserve animals and wildlife,
- to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development.
In the 2023 season it is presented a special contest PEACE, created for works and campaigns that against war, aggression, genocide, crimes against humanity, including the current war in Ukraine. Among the priorities in this contest are to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, reduce violence, combat crime and terrorism; combat organized crime and illicit financial and arms flows etc.
The contest program includes 13 contests:
- PEACE
- Environment & Sustainability – initiatives intended to educate, change perception, inspire action toward helping the environment.
- Human Rights, Justice & Strong Institutions – work intended to fight against discrimination (racial, ethnic, religious etc.) by promoting empowerment, equality, rights, tolerance.
- Education: Quality, Civic & Social Education – efforts that contribute to ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning opportunities.
- Gender Equality & LGBTQ Rights – work towards the achievement of gender equality and empowerment for all.
- Poverty & Hunger – efforts which address poverty and hunger everywhere.
- Health & Well-Being – work which intends to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.
- Children: Health/Safety/Happiness – initiatives that intend in relation to what children need for a safe and happy life.
- Prosperity: Economic Growth, Innovations, Industry – work which promotes inclusive and economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all, nurtures investments and innovations.
- Animal Care & Protection – work which intends to support, protect, and conserve animals and wildlife.
- Arts and Culture – efforts which address the different issues and goals in aid to preserve artistic and cultural heritage.
- Partnership for the Goals – collaboration working and multi-stakeholder partnerships of governments, civil society, the private sector and others towards the betterment of society and the implementation of sustainable development.
- Local Solutions – initiatives which address positive change goals with a main focus on cultural insights and regional context.
The festival is open to all parties, organizations, individual creators involved in advertising, production, media, PR, design and creative industries throughout the world, including advertisers, media companies etc., except terrorist and aggressor countries, or countries that support terrorism and aggression.
