Eye Candy Animation

Three times Platinum for Eye Candy at WorldFest International Film Festival!

30th April, 2008

30/4/08 - Eye Candy Animation has collected multiple award wins at the 2008 WorldFest Houston International Film Festival. WorldFest, one of the oldest international film festivals, took place in Houston Texas between the 11th and 20th April. In it’s 41st year of competition, WorldFest 2008 showcased and honoured creative excellence across various categories in film, TV and advertising production. With entries in six categories, Eye Candy Animation picked up three Platinum, two Silver and one Bronze REMI award for its animated production work on television commercials for a range of organisation’s that included Old Parliament House, Club Lime and ActewAGL. Eye Candy also picked up a Silver award for its cute and entertaining short film ‘The Bee’s Knees’. Eye Candy’s Creative Director Damian Stocks was very proud of his team;

“Winning at WorldFest is a great testament to the hard work and dedication that our team continue to put in at Eye Candy day in day out, we love what we do and it really comes through in our work. We’ve also been lucky enough to have some pretty brave clients that let us push the boundaries”.

In total Eye Candy was awarded three of the highest category based awards with Platinum REMI award wins for its animated television commercials for the Old Parliament House which it worked in collaboration with ZOO Advertising, these included; A Platinum REMI award in the ’series/campaign’ category for all four Old Parliament House animated television commercials, a second Platinum REMI award for the ‘Talking Walls’ commercial in the ‘institutional identity’ category and a third Platinum REMI award in the ‘Low Budget’ category for the ‘Mrs Prime Minister’ exhibition commercial. Eye Candy also collected a Silver REMI award for the ‘Tertiary Open Day 2007′ ad which it collaborated on with CRE8IVE, a Silver REMI for ActewAGL Energy Shop’s ‘Heat & Ice Age’ ad which it collaborated on with Ken Buchan of ZOO Advertising, a Bronze REMI for local gym Club Lime’s calypso dancing ‘Gymmy’ commercial produced in conjunction with Bearcage and a Silver REMI for Eye Candy’s short film ‘The Bee’s Knees’.

The International Film Festival that is WorldFest, is the oldest Independent Film & Video Festival in the World. Founded 48 years ago as Cinema Arts, an International Film Society in August, 1961, WorldFest evolved into a competitive International Film Festival in April, 1968 and became the third most competitive international film festival in North America, following San Francisco and New York. WorldFest offers competition categories in TV Production, Documentary, Corporate & Business Films, Student & Experimental, TV Commercials, Film & Video Production, Music Videos, New Media (Interactive & Web Sites), Screenplays, Print and Radio. With more than 4,500 category entries received from 37 countries in 2007, WorldFest is the incorporation of 12 Major film & video competitions into one event. With 12 major competitions and the 200+ sub-categories, WorldFest gives out a lot of awards, but they are both earned and deserved. No awards are given in any category unless the scores from the juries are high enough to place for honours. Overall only 15-20% of the total category entries actually win an award at WorldFest.

Eye Candy previously won a Silver REMI award at the 2006 WorldFest for its work on the animated TVC which launched Canberra’s internet service provider, Grapevine. Check out our portfolio page to see our award winning work!