CICLOPE Asia Pacific announces 2025 winners

CICLOPE Asia Pacific announced its 2025 Award-winners, in a Showcase held at Sydney’s boutique Golden Age Cinema on Wednesday 28 May.

Benchmarking excellence in craft across the region, the evening celebrated the work setting the gold standard in commercials, music videos, and short films - and the people behind it.

This year’s esteemed Executive Jury, a selection of the region’s top directors, producers and creatives, awarded a Grand Prix to ‘Better on a Better Mobile Network’, directed by Revolver's Jeff Low, via Bear Meets Eagle on Fire and +61for Telstra.

As well as awarding the winners of each craft category, CICLOPE Asia Pacific also honoured the most successful overall performances of the year, with Special Awards going to:

Director of the Year: Tim Bullock
Production Company of the Year: Scoundrel
Agency of the Year: Bear Meets Eagle on Fire
Brand of the Year: Telstra

Telstra – Better on a Better Mobile Network - Northcliffe

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Production Company Revolver
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Agency Bear Meets Eagle on Fire/Sydney
Production Company Revolver
Director Jeff Low
Managing Director/Owner Michael Ritchie
Executive Producer/Partner Pip Smart
Production Co. Biscuit Filmworks/UK
Post Production The Editors
Post Production/Editing The Editors

Executive Post Producer Nicoletta Rousianos
Post Producer Adrian Konarski
Post Producer Isabella Key
Online Matt Edwards
Post Production Electric Theatre Collective
Executive Post Producer Vic Lovejoy
2D Supervisor David Filipe
VFX Electric Theatre Collective

Sound Design Rumble Studios
Lead Sound Designer Tone Aston
Sound Designer Daniel William
Sound/Music Rumble Studios
Executive Sound Producer Michael Gie
Production Services WJ Team
Casting Citizen Jane Casting
Chief Creative Officer Micah Walker

Senior Producer Emma Wright
Managing Director Michael Ritchie
Executive Producer Pip Smart
Producer Caroline Kruck
Production Designer Oliver Hogan
Production Designer Oliver Hogan
DP Jan Pawel Trzaska
Editor Grace O’Connell

Executive Producer Nicoletta Rousianos
Producer Adrian Konarski
Making Of Film Editor Grace O’Connell
Online Stuart Cadzow
Executive Producer Vic Lovejoy
VFX Supervisor David Filipe
2D Lead Daniel Brewster
Animation Director Tobias Fouracre

Colorist Trish Cahill
Executive Producer Michael Gie
Sound Designer Tone Aston

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Jason Tran won New Talent in Direction, with the Eating Heartache music video for Cosmo’s Midnight produced by SUIKA Studios.

The 2025 Winners Showcase was the first regional celebration for the Home of Craft to be held in Sydney. Held at the glamorous Golden Age Cinema, a venue steeped in film-industry history, the event took place ahead of the global CICLOPE Festival and Awards returning to Berlin later this year.

CICLOPE Festival will take place over three days, from 7-9 October 2025, at one of Europe's oldest art universities; Universität der Künste (UdK). Entries are already open for the global CICLOPE Awards, and Festival passes will be available from next week.

CICLOPE Founder & CEO, Francisco Condorelli comments: Entries for the 2025 edition came from across Asia and the Pacific, with all shortlisted and winning work once again highlighting the region’s unique lens on creativity, and its industry filled with talent who stand out on the international scene. Many congratulations to all finalists and winners of this year’s CICLOPE Asia Pacific Awards.