EIGHT pitchers will race the clock to win over a live Banff audience with a 30-second elevator pitch for a cross-platform branded entertainment project that fits our creative brief.

THREE finalists will go head-to-head pitching to the judges – a star panel of industry gatekeepers from across the media ecosystem.

ONE winner will be crowned the ultimate deal maker by the judges and audience taking home a VIP Deal Makers Prize Pack!

Enter Now!

Stay tuned for details about the CFC Media Lab’s involvement at Banff World Media Festival!

Happy Hallowe’en weekend, everyone!
Enjoy your sugar comas…

CFC Media Lab Alumni Maggie Greyson (Writer/Producer), Kyree Fisher (Editor), and Faustine Faubert (Logo Animator) have the opportunity to introduce their short film It’s Time to Answer the Question, Does a Virus Cause Breast Cancer in Women? to the Opening Night audience of 2010 Breast Fest Short Film competition …But they need your vote!Their film has been selected by judges as one of the top films submitted to the world’s first breast cancer film festival, which is in its third year in Toronto.

The festival will run November 19-21, 2010.

PSST! Your votes will make perfect little virtual birthday gifts for Maggie! *Everyone here at The Lab wishes you a wonderful Birthday!*

There’s nothing quite like a story of positive change...

Check out GreenHeroes (www.greenheroes.tv) the current project of CFC Media Lab Alumni, John Bessai and Joan Prowse.

GreenHeroes are remarkable people who acted on their idea and heroically “ventured forth” to protect our planet. Through their stories, our goal is to inspire people, like you, to become GreenHeroes too. On the web and on our TV show, GreenHeroes tells the story of change – of how people improved their lives, what their tipping point moments were and how they overcome obstacles to become a GreenHero.

• John Bessai – The executive producer and creative director of the GreenHeroes Campaign, John has devoted his career to bringing social causes and Canadian culture to television and computer screens around the world.
• Joan Prowse – Our own personal wonder-woman, Joan is an award winning producer, director and editor with a career of creating exciting, informative and educational Canadian themed television and new media projects.

To view the current feature webisode on American race car driver and environmental activist, Leilani Munter, click here: www.greenheroes.tv/webisode/2996341-Leilani%20Munter

Canadian New Media Awards (CNMAs), the country’s only nationwide competition recognizing the accomplishments of Canada’s most successful digital media companies, is now open for nominations! The awards are part of nextMEDIA Toronto, Canada’s leading digital media production and development marketplace.

Canada is a hotbed of digital innovation. Last year’s nominees and award recipients truly represented the best in digital media and we look forward to discovering fresh talent from leading-edge companies.

- Mark Greenspan, Executive Producer of nextMEDIA and former Senior Training Programs Manager at the CFC Media Lab

Celebrating its 10th year, the CNMAs offers up two exciting new categories:

• Community Campaign of the Year
• Digital Media Technology of the Year

Think you’ve got the chops to enter?

To be considered for this year’s CNMAs, choose the category which best applies to the achievements that you would like to highlight for this year’s awards. To view all the categories and to check your eligibility, click here: www.nextmediaevents.com/cnma/competition-categories.php
Regular Rate is $175.00 CDN. Enter today! Contest is closing September 17th, 2010.

For more information, please contact:
Tiffany Rushton | Program Producer – Awards
Email: trushton@achillesmedia.com

nextMEDIA+Banff2010 will be chock-full of inspiring conversations and exciting keynotes!
Still trying to decide when to be where and where to be when? Check out the CFC Media Lab’s top picks!

To register for Banff2010, visit: https://registration.achillesmedia.com/delegate_registration/list_products?event_id=19

To check out the full schedule, visit: http://www.banff2010.com/schedule.dynamic.php?

nextMEDIA is proud to announce a new competition to find the hottest new ideas using iPad/tablet devices!

Submission: FREE

The Process:
Applicants must fill out the application form which will outline the following:

* goal of the application, and specifics of functionality
* audience target
* intentions for development
* information architecture or up to five screen shots

An expert jury will select five finalists to showcase their concept live at nextMEDIA and the
Banff World Television Festival on June 16, 2010.

The winning entry will receive a development deal worth $25,000 to make their concept a reality via leading interactive development agency Trapeze* and the Toronto-based Mobile Experience Innovation Centre**.

The winners will be announced at nextMEDIA.

Deadline for submissions is May 14th, 2010. Click HERE to apply now!

* CFC Media Lab Alumnus, Mike Kasprow, is Founder of Trapeze.
** CFC Media Lab Guest Faculty Member, Michele Perras, is Executive Director at MEIC.

WANT TEN GRAND IN YOUR HAND?

The submission deadline for The Reel Challenge is fast approaching! Submit your film online by April 26, 2010 at thereelchallenge.ca.

The Reel Challenge contest, an initiative of the CFC, challenges filmmakers to create a short film that will persuade audiences to respect creator’s rights and copyright protection for their work.

1st place winner: $10,000

2nd & 3rd place winners: $2,500

Please note the contest is open to residents of Canada (excluding Quebec as well as all CFC employees and their families)

For more information click HERE.

Making a great one-minute film, that’s TUFF!

The Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF) founded by CFC Media Lab Alumnus, Sharon Switzer, is a 10-day (September 10-19, 2010) public film festival that reaches over 1.3 million subway commuters daily. TUFF is looking for the best one-minute silent films from across Canada and around the world. Over $10,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to the winning films (Check out the incredible prizes!) Artist fees of $100 will be payed to every film that’s selected by our jury to screen on the TTC and on the TUFF website.

Films are selected by a guest jury, with the top films chosen by a special Guest Judge. The TUFF 2010 Jury includes Min Sook Lee, Jorge Lozano, Kathleen Mullen, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Haema Sivanesan, and Michael Zryd.

Filmmakers, animators and video artists are invited to consider our urban-themed categories:

• Urban Encounters and Other Stories

• Our Environment and Urban Growth

• The Medium is the Message

• Urban Ideas and Politics

• Urban Journeys

• The City is a Poem

• After Night Falls

TUFF SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 15, 2010
Submit your film before June 1st and avoid the $10 entry fee. Fees rise to $15 on July 1st.

www.torontourbanfilmfestival.com

…Need support to make your TUFF film? Click HERE to find out about the Trinity Square Video (TSV) Pitch Award.

Submission Deadline: March 15th, 2010

Do you know someone who’s going green and doing good? Tell the story of an every day environmental hero in the first annual Every Day Heroes Film Competition.

Filmmakers can submit silent 90 second videos online, or by mail.

Jury Includes: Judy Gladstone (Executive Director of CTV’s Bravo!FACT); Jennifer Baichwal (Award winning Director, Manufactured Landscapes); Sharon Switzer (Festival Director, Toronto Urban Film Festival); Keith Treffrey (Earth Day Canada).

Exposure: Filmmakers selected as finalists by our jury will have their films viewed by over 2 million viewers a day during Earth Week (April 16-25), on the ONESTOP screens in Toronto’s TTC, and on screens in Ivanhoe Cambridge shopping centers across Canada.

Prizes: Selected films will have a chance to win great prizes in four categories:

• Best of Competition—North American Getaway

• ‘Best of Under 18 years of Age’, and ‘Best of 18 and Over’ – MacBook Pro laptops (one per age group)

• People’s Choice Award —Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System

Online Voting: Get your friends and family to vote for your film as winner of the People’s Choice Award and they can enter to win a $250 Ivanhoe Cambridge shopping center gift card.

Every Day Heroes is co-produced by Earth Day Canada, Art for Commuters and ONESTOP Media Group (the folks who produce TUFF).

MEIC6
Wednesday, February 24, 3 to 7 p.m.
OCAD’s Mobile Experience Innovation Centre (MEIC) presents an afternoon conference discussing the future of mobile content, services and experiences. Speakers will include Gerald Karam, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs – Research, and he will be speaking about: iLoveIt: Riding the accelerating adoption of Smartphones. MORE.

Augmented Reality Developers Camp
Saturday, February 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
OCAD’s Mobile Experience Innovation Centre (MEIC) hosts Toronto’s first Augmented Reality Developers Camp (ARDevCamp). This day-long, free event is for developers, designers, researchers, entrepreneurs and others enthusiastic to learn more about the rapidly changing technologies supporting Augmented Reality. MORE.

On Campus
EXHIBITIONS:

Superviscous: Works in Glass
February 19 to May 28
Curators’ Tour with Charles Reeve and York Lethbridge: Wednesday, March 3, 6:30 p.m.
Haunted by fragility and an uncertain identity (ultra-thick liquid? amorphous solid?), glass rests uneasily at the intersection between art, design and craft. Including works drawn largely from Toronto collections, Superviscous brings together artists exploring this temperamental medium’s unstable nature. Jon Kuhn’s dazzling cubes are compacted universes full of colour and light. Tim Whiten’s subtle cast broom stands quietly in the corner, contrasting with Sandra Rechico’s satisfyingly crunchy shards on the floor. Through these and other works, the show explores the contradictory associations we bring to glass. Its eye-catching beauty is both strength and weakness. Is this inevitable attractiveness just a cheap — or costly — trick? MORE.

OCAD Student Gallery:
Fabricating Frontiers
Until March 13
The artists within this show, Ivette Aghajani, Eugenie Davis, Shlomi Greenspan, Nathaniel Hurtubise, Megan A. Skyvington, and Jarrod Wilson produce work which explores architectural forms and space as points of personal reference, whether referring to a personal memory or to a geographical location. The idea of space as a referent indicates an interest in the search for individual identities and a sense of place within a system which perceives space as property and wealth. MORE.

Transit Space:
Corners of Evening
Until March 4
Adrienne Chalaturnyk, Kali Fisher, Jillian MacLachlan, and Ariel Kellett explore the unconscious mind and create alternative realities as they examine the influence of night time. Working with painting and mixed media, these artists contrast the soft, imaginative quality of dreams with the harsh, unsettling reality of nightmares. MORE.

Level 4 Photography Display Cases:
Introductory Photography: Black and White, Photo Essay Assignment
Until February 22
Students in Ron Wood’s Introductory Photography: Black and White course at OCAD produced wonderful visual narratives on interesting themes. MORE.

Student Centre GalleryWall:
Hot Work: Working Towards Summer
Until February 28
Members of OCAD Student Entrepreneurs (OSE) have put together this diverse selection of work, with the celebration of the coming summer in mind. MORE.

The Alumni Window Gallery (Rm 249):
Works by Paula Krochak
Until April 30
The OCAD Alumni Association is presents an installation of a works by alumna Paula Krochak. MORE.

EVENTS:

Alumni Life Drawing Sessions
Wednesday, February 24, 7 to 10 p.m.
Saturday, February 27, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Interested in drawing a professional model each week? These sessions are perfect for people looking for a life drawing drop-in without instruction. You don’t have to be a student or alumni to attend – these sessions are open to everyone. MORE.

Everything You wanted to know about Indians* (but were afraid to ask)
Every Thursday, 2 to 3 p.m.

Aboriginal Visual Culture Program Mentor Advisor Duke Redbird hosts discussion, questions and answers in Rm 1512d, 113 McCaul Street. All are welcome. *First Nations, Inuit, Mètis, Aboriginal and Native Peoples of the Americas.

Community Hours with Jane Ngobia, Director, Diversity & Equity Initiatives
Thursdays from 3 to 5 p.m. (Level 3, 115 McCaul St.)
Jane Ngobia, Director, Diversity & Equity Initiatives, welcomes students, faculty and staff to meet with her informally during her community hours to confidentially discuss their ideas, comments or concerns about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OCAD.

OCAD Student Entrepreneurs
Friday, February 26, 2 p.m.
The OCAD Student Entrepreneurs work together, support each other, brainstorm and follow through on ways to market their crafts through discussion, exhibition, self-development events, speakers and supportive feedback. MORE.

Faculty of Art annual Drawing Marathon
Sunday, February 28, 12 noon to midnight
The Faculty of Art hosts its annual Drawing Marathon. Professional models will be available in rooms 484 and 487 (Level 4, 100 McCaul St.) for gestures or a sustained pose. Challenge yourself, bring a lunch, get sponsors; this all day event is only $25 for students and $30 for everyone else. All money collected will be used for a catalogue to support the Drawing and Painting Figure Show. MORE.

DEADLINES:

OCADSU Call for Submissions: OCAD Flea Market
Deadline: Thursday February 25, 2010
Sell old clothes, household items, books, cds, arts, crafts, designed clothes, fundraise for your department, barter and swap for affordable items. Flea Market Date: March 4, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. MORE.

Call for Submissions: I See You See Me
Deadline: Monday, March 1
The Internationaleyes OCAD Student Group invites all OCAD students to submit works. MORE.

Call for Submissions: Michael Sweet Memorial
FIRST PRIZE: $5000
Information session: Wednesday, March 3, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Deadline to register: Thursday, March 12
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, March 15
52 Division Toronto Police Service, First Urban Development and OCAD invite all OCAD students to submit proposals to create an outdoor art or design installation in memory of Police Constable Michael Sweet, an officer who lost his life in the line of duty 30 years ago this March. Complete competition details will be available online and in MyCourses after February 18. MORE.

Call for Submissions: Transit Space
Deadline: Thursday, March 4
Faculty and students are invited to submit proposals for Fall 2010 programing. MORE.

OCADSU Call for Submissions: 2010 RETRO SHOW
Deadline: Friday, March 12
The Student Union is planning our annual retrospective, or the 2010 RETRO SHOW for short. It is an end of the year show hosted and put together by the OCADSU. It consists of a variety of artworks from all disciplines of the school. MORE.

Call for Awards Program Applications
Deadline: Friday, March 26, 4 p.m.
OCAD’s Awards Program recognizes excellence in each program at the second-, third- and fourth-year level on the basis of studio work as well as for specific Liberal Studies achievement, on the basis of coursework completed. OCAD Medals will be given for each program at the fourth-year level as part of the Awards Program. Awards are differentiated from Bursaries, which are distributed on the basis of financial need. MORE.

Call for Submissions: OCAD Student Gallery
Deadline: Thursday, May 20
The OCAD Student Gallery/Transit Space office is accepting student submissions to program Fall 2010 – Spring 2011 in the OCAD Student Gallery. MORE.

In the Community

EXHIBITIONS:

give us our dreams: part II
Until March 20
Leo Kamen Gallery in Toronto presents new work by alumna Crystal Liu. MORE.

EVENTS:

Architecture Theraputics Aesthetics
February 26 to 28
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto hosts a conference focused on “Technologically Enhanced Environments and the Human Sensorium.” OCAD is a collaborative partner, and presents two speakers: Industrial Design program chair Julian Goss and Faculty of Liberal Studies Associate Professor Jim Drobnick. MORE.

SCREENINGS:

New Snow
Tuesday, February 23, 7 p.m.
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery presents the Toronto premiere of Reverberlin (2006, 67 min.). This film will be preceded by Puccini Conservato (2009, 10 min.). OCAD alumnus Michael Snow will be present for a post-screening Q&A. MORE.

Queer Café
Wednesday, March 3, 12 to 1 p.m.
A “PROUD at OCAD” drop-in for LGBQTI2Q students, staff, faculty and alumni. MORE.

Graduate Student Gallery:
Past Now: Works by Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell
March 4 to 13
Opening Reception: March 4, 7 to 9 p.m.
Curated by Suzanne Morrissette and Lisa Myers; first-year MFA in Criticism and Curatorial Practice students at OCAD. Past Now is an exhibition concerned with the life of images. Artists Meryl McMaster and Luke Parnell enter into a dialogue with meaning in visual representations of Aboriginal identity. Their works rupture stereotypes embedded in historical iconography to challenge and problematize the legacy of these images. MORE.

ASA Buffalo Stew Lunch
Thursday, March 4, 12 to 2 p.m.
The Aboriginal Student Association (ASA) exists to bring together Aboriginal, Native, Indigenous, Métis and Inuit students at OCAD to network and support an Aboriginal community of emerging artists and designers. The ASA Buffalo Stew Lunch is held every second week on Thursday. All are welcome. MORE.

Art Creates Change: Action
Vodou and Haitian Art
Friday, March 5, 1 p.m.
OCAD’s Faculty of Art presents a lecture, exhibition and silent auction in support of Haiti. Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, professor of Africology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and an Oungon Asogwe (a high practitioner of Vodou religion and spirituality) will lecture on Vodou and Haitian Art. Professor Bellegarde-Smith will address misperceptions surrounding Vodou, and in the process reveal the strength found in its cultural practices and historic vision. An exhibition of art representing the past four generations of Haitian artists, from the 1940’s to the present (courtesy of Arte Del Pueblo). The event includes a silent auction of art with proceeds going to SOPUDEP, located in Petion-ville, Haiti, a comprehensive community school serving the poorest residents of the city. MORE.

SUMO Robot Challenge 2010
Saturday, March 6, 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
One of the most anticipated annual events at OCAD, the SUMO Robot Challenge features homemade robots in competitions ranging from tug of war, dancer/painter, autonomous, and full out, head to head combat! MORE.

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Our alumni constantly tell us that The Banff Centre has transformed them in some way. How have you been inspired – months or even years after a program here? We’re looking for stories about how the Centre has affected your career or your life — whether you have come through our doors as an artist, a business leader, or a mountain enthusiast.

We’ll include submissions in a new alumni section on our website. And, we may feature one of them in our upcoming online version of Inspired magazine to be launched next month.

Enter your story to win music, books, or Banff Centre events tickets.
Draw will be held on March 1, 2010.

Click here for more information.

The ThreePointOh (3PO) New Media Showcase is calling for entries that take creativity to the cusp by fusing and integrating as many media and elements together.

3PO emerges in its second year at the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival as the festival’s freshest, most compelling addition to the ten day and night showcase of sports, music, and arts.

As a celebration of innovation, technology and culture, the 3P0 New Media Showcase will present 3-5 minute digital shorts that best morph film, photo, graphics and animation, visual art, sport and media into a production that transcends the sum of its technical parts to create a moment of emotional resonance.

A panel of judges will review the submissions and select 6-10 finalists to be shown to the public in Whistler, BC during a Gala evening on Monday, April 19th as part of the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival.

One winner, Best of Show, will be chosen by an esteemed panel of judges, to reap the rewards this exposure will result in.

Best of Show will win $2,500 cash!
People’s Choice Award will win a prize value of $1000!

Deadline for Entries is March 26, 2010.

TO SUBMIT CLICK HERE.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE FESTIVAL CLICK HERE.

The exhibition I am here; what can we do? is part of “Urban Screens Toronto 2010”, an international urban screens conference and exhibition taking place between
September 24th-30th; produced in collaboration with the International Urban Screens Association (IUSA).

Through an integrated program of keynote lectures, panel sessions, workshops, curated screenings and multimedia projects, (Urban Screens Toronto) will bring together leading Canadian and international artists and curators, architects and urban planners, designers, ad agencies and brand managers, screen operators and content providers, academics, activists, policymakers, technology manufacturers, software developers and public intellectuals.

Public Call For Submissions:

• New or existing experimental, interactive artwork suitable for urban screens.

• Short-format videos that are relevant for presentation on urban screens.

• Interactive Design & advertising created for urban screens (past commercial interactive work from ad agencies and designers accepted).

• Student work interactive and video work by students at any institution worldwide is welcome.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2010

Visit here for full details, suggested themes, and submission format/requirements.

Attention all filmmakers! Inspire Canada this Earth Day by creating a 90-second silent videos telling the story of your every day environmental hero and their dedication to support of a healthier environment.

Enthusiastic. Remarkable. Inspiring. These are just a few words that describe the individuals and groups across Canada that are doing amazing things to reduce their impact on the environment in large and small ways. They’ve taken the three R’s and made it a way of life. They’re every day heroes whose stories need to be told.

Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:

Best of ‘Under 18′ years of age (win a 13 inch MacBook Pro)
Best of ’18 and Over’ (win a 13 inch MacBook Pro)
Best of Competition (win two economy airline tickets to any destination in North America with two nights Hotel accommodation AND two tickets to the Earth Day Canada Gala, including travel to Toronto and hotel accommodation for the nights of June 8th and 9th, 2010)
The People’s Choice Award (win a Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System)

Finalists will have their videos screened in Ivanhoe Cambridge Shopping Malls across Canada, on the Onestop Network of 270 monitors on the subway platforms of the Toronto Transit Commission, as well as hosted on Earth Day Canada’s website and YouTube channel.

Judges include:

Judy Gladstone (Executive Director of CTV’s Bravo!FACT)
Jennifer Baichwal (Award winning Documentary filmmaker and director of Manufactured Landscapes)
Sharon Switzer (Media artist, curator, and founder of Art for Commuters)
Keith Treffry (Director of Communications for Earth Day Canada and unabashed movie enthusiast)

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE: MARCH 15, 2010

Submissions received prior to February 15, 2010 will be entered into the raffle to win a Panasonic 60GB HDD/SD Camcorder.

Click here for more details and a submission form.

ATTENTION ALL DIGITAL DAREDEVILS!

The most anticipated cross-media pitching challenge of the new decade has begun accepting entries for new ideas and techniques to engage audiences across digital platforms.

Finalists including independent producers, interactive agencies and digital designers will be invited to Cannes, France (April 12-16) to pitch ideas LIVE to major international networks, including the BBC, TF1, KCC, NFB, and the European Commission.

This rapid-fire competition sets the creative pulse for the Content 360 Festival, part of MIPTV’s all-new MIPDigital event programme.

Since its launch 4 years ago, the Content 360 Challenge has attracted over 1400 new ideas from 42 countries and awarded €400,000 in development funding.

Category: CONTENT 360 “Next Generation Audience Engagement”. A creative challenge for new talent, companies or freelancers, with truly new and unique application or content ideas with mass potential to attract and engage audiences.

Category: KOREA COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (KCC) “Engaging with children through the use of Connected TV”. Best educational content or service idea to engage with children through Wed TV, DMB and IPTV including any kind of connected TV.

Category: NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA (NFB) – “Next Generation Online Video Experience”. The National Film Board of Canada is on the lookout for the best and brightest to push the online video experience to a whole new level and imagine the next “killer feature” for the NFB.ca website.

Category: TF1 PUBLICITÉ – “New Advertising formats”. TF1 Publicité is looking for new advertising formats and/or cross media techniques to complement TV campaigns (TV commercials, billboards or short form programs) in order to maximize the efficiency of traditional TV advertising methods.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: February 15, 2010.

European Commission Challenge details.

For more information on “Content 360 – MIPTV Cross Media Challenge” visit here or contact content360@reedmidem.com.

THE CHALLENGE: The European Commission is inviting audiovisual professionals as well as individuals to compete in the production of a video clip presenting an original vision of Europe based on EU archive material mixed with new or remixed images produced by the participant.
CLIP CONTENT: The clip should express a personal vision of Europe and be able to captivate a young and wide audience via internet and/or mobile devices through its original, creative or aesthetical approach.
CLIP LENGTH: Maximum of 3 minutes
THE PRIZE: €10,000
THE DEADLINE: March 15, 2010

FULL BRIEF

UPLOAD YOUR CLIP

James Milward and Secret Location faced tough competition from last years champion, Mekanism, San Francisco and Seattle’s Wexley School for Girls, emerging victorious presenting a deep multi-tiered integrated campaign.

It was a tough race as the Board Summit is ‘THE WORLDS LARGEST COMMERCIAL PRODUCTION CONFERENCE’ and all the big players are there from every agency in the world.

James / Secret Location went up against Jason Harris, CEO and Ian Kovalik, Creative Director from Mekanism in San Francisco, (one of the top digital agencies in the world) (http://www.mekanism.com) and Brian Marr, Managing Director of The Wexley School for Girls in Seattle (One of the hottest integrated agencies in the world) (http://www.wexley.com).

The Creative Challenge focused its efforts on GLASS (http://www.giveaglass.org/Welcome.html) – the advertising/post/production endeavor to decrease waste in the environment and increase clean water supply in the world. Selected companies were given a brief 2 weeks before the competition and then presented creative solutions to the goal of eliminating plastic waste and contributing to clean water resources live on stage at the summit.

After a hard fought 45 minutes and the three presentations, including a grilling from client, Mishawn Williams (Glass) and Judge, Roger Baldacci – EVP & Creative Director, Arnold Worldwide, in Boston (http://www.arnoldworldwide.com), James Milward and his company Secret Location emerged victorious.

This was a stunning defeat as Mekanism were the defending champions, and both Mekanism and Wexley have dozens of employees, creatives and resources to work on the challenge. Secret Location is currently 6 people.

To find out more about Secret Location:

http://www.thesecretlocation.com

Find out more about the Creative Challenge at the Boards Summit in New York:

More about Boards magazine: http://www.boardsmag.com