Bringing you the best emerging creativity

Entries for our 2025 New Creators’ Showcase are officially open.

Screened at Cannes Lions, this showcase spotlights rising creators, celebrating top-tier creativity, storytelling, and visual innovation.

Open to all forms of motion creators, and we are open to all film formats, experiences and styles. We are looking for one single piece of work to feature per creator.

Candidates are not eligible for consideration if they directed any film, content, game etc in moving image format, specifically made for commercial purpose e.g paid for by a brand before June 2023.

Selection criteria:

Outstanding skill in any motion format

Innovative style or technique or use of platform or channel

Exceptional craft in it’s content

Please submit the following:

High res headshot

Bio

Pro res 422HQ and viewable version of the work

List with air dates of any commercial (funded by a brand) work they have been part of

Airdate of work they are submitting

Send your entry to [email protected] by Friday 25th April 2025.

New Creators 2024

Daria Kashcheeva

A generational talent within film making, Daria Kashcheeva is a Tajikistani-born Czech animator. Her 2019 film Daughter – initially delivered as a graduation film - was an Academy Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film at the 92nd Academy Awards in 2020. Kashcheeva's 2023 film Electra premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival and was later screened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the award for Best International Short Film.

Yasmin Afifi

Yasmin Afifi is a BAFTA winning writer/director based in London. Her short film Jellyfish and Lobster won the British Short Film award at this year’s BAFTAs 2024. She has a slate of award winning short films that have screened at many prestigious Oscar/BAFTA qualifying festivals including LFF, Leeds, Aesthetica and more. She’s a Directing Fiction graduate of the National Film and Television School having been awarded a full scholarship from BBC Film and is currently in development with them on her debut feature. She loves using the medium of comedy, magical realism, and absurdism to explore taboo and dark subject matters. Taking very real, grounded characters and throwing them into more conceptual worlds.

Luis Cross

Luis Cross is a Manchester-born and raised Director. His work focuses on blending his distinct raw visual style with sound scapes & music to create narratives that uncover our common human desires.

Joe Weiland & Finn Constantine

Joe Weiland is a BAFTA-nominated writer and director from London. His debut film ‘Gorka’ was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Short Film. Joe has a background in television, commercials, and music videos. Finn Constantine is a director and photographer working across fashion, art and music. He's worked with brands such as Gucci, Adidas and Bottega Veneta. Constantine is the founder of art magazine “Plaster” working across digital, print and video with the world's leading artists. Having shot countless music videos and recently nominated for a UKMVA - he's now moved into narrative work.

PHC

PHC is the creative collaboration between director / cinematographer John Angus Stewart and producer Max Coles where authentic and unique characters lay at the heart of their brand of raw and visceral storytelling. Their commercial work debut came in 2023 for iconic Australian brand, Crumpler, acting as agency, production company, writer & director. The launch took them to Tokyo to unearth rarely seen subcultures. The huge success of the campaign led to a follow up in 2024 in Melbourne.

Jose Hernandez and Víctor Morón

Jose Hernandez and Víctor Morón have worked together for a decade at agencies like Saatchi & Saatchi London, 180 Amsterdam, and Ogilvy Amsterdam. Jose is an art director, graphic designer, and self-taught documentary photographer with work in Vogue, ELLE, and VICE, skilled in AI technologies. Víctor is a copywriter involved in startups and co-founded REBO, a smart bottle partnered with Adidas. He also writes poetry and fiction. Together, they create high-end AI images, films, and music, aiming to build a judgment-free world.

Celine van Heel

Celine van Heel is Spanish/Dutch, born in Athens. She discovered photography three years ago through her 92-year-old grandfather, for whom she created an Instagram account called "The Spanish King." He became her first model and muse, inspiring her to pursue photography. He taught her that age doesn't limit creativity, that wrinkles and rarity are beautiful. She loves capturing rare, extravagant subjects and believes that more is more, with colour as her religion.

Aube Perrie

Aube Perrie is a director whose visual flare and vibrant craft have established him globally as one of the most in demand directors in music video. His promos for Harry Styles, Megan Thee Stallion, MK and The Hives have swept up awards across the board. He's since burst onto the commercial scene, collaborating with W+K on Old Spice.

Abdou Cissé

Abdou Cissé, a BAFTA nominated writer director from South London, burst onto the scene with his debut short film SERIOUS TINGZ. Since then, he’s been dedicated to broadening the spectrum of UK storytelling with projects that evoke wonder in the everyday, whilst fearlessly confronting social and cultural stereotypes. In 2023, he released the BAFTA nominated and BIFA and LFF award winning short, FESTIVAL OF SLAPS, and made his TV directorial debut as lead director for the BBC series GRIME KIDS.

Hugo Docking

Hugo Docking is a stop motion filmmaker with a penchant for the mischievous and macabre. He uses unsettling imagery and unusual materials to create short films that are eerie, theatrical and bizarre. He is the director and co-founder of “Spare Flesh” - a Bristol-based stop motion animation and puppetry studio. They specialise in making twisted and anarchic animations using a blend of dark comedy, body horror and musical theatre.

Tom Stuart

Tom’s directorial debut GOOD BOY starring Ben Whishaw, was shortlisted this year for an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short. It was accepted into multiple prestigious film festivals including Sundance London, Raindance, BFI Flare, Leeds and Santa Barbara.

Philip James McGoldrick

Philip James McGoldrick is an award winning British- European film director, writer and producer. Born in Warsaw in 1987, Philip graduated with honours from the RITCS film academy (Brussels), and subsequently received a scholarship to study Directing Fiction at The National Film & Television School (UK). He is currently developing his first feature film with support from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund.

Meet the curators

Franki Goodwin

Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi

Award-winning creative and filmmaker Franki joined Saatchi & Saatchi almost a decade ago and has been behind much of the company’s most notable work for clients including Direct Line and Deutsche Telekom. Alongside her role at Saatchi & Saatchi, Franki is Executive Producer at Western Edge Pictures, a multi award-winning independent production company she co-founded in 2010. Prior to Saatchi, Franki founded and ran a boutique film marketing consultancy, ‘Franki&Jonny’, whose clients included Pathé, Warner Bros and Curzon Cinemas. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, she has returned regularly as a guest lecturer and spent time teaching at Parsons School of Design in Paris.

Jess Ringshall

Chief Production Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi

Jess comes from a varied background having worked across entertainment and advertising, helping brands tap into cultural moments. She recently joined Saatchi & Saatchi from 750mph, where she worked with brands such as IKEA, Playstation and Bodyform. Prior to 750mph, Jess co-founded and ran a consultancy business which specialised in entertainment partnerships and helping brands and agencies better understand, access and navigate the world of entertainment. She also spent nine years at Grey, delivering Cannes- winning content for brands including P&G, Lucozade, HSBC and Volvo.

Kate Stanners

Global Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi

Kate Stanners is Global Chief Creative Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi. Having been at Saatchi & Saatchi for 18 years she has been pivotal in transforming the agency. By harnessing the unreasonable power of creativity, she has driven the agency’s spirit of Nothing Is Impossible to deliver impossible outcomes and revolutionise clients’ businesses. Kate, oversees the creative talent of the network and global clients that include Visa, UBS, Beiersdorf and Deutsche Telekom to name a few.

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