Creative East Awards Round-Up

Creative East Awards Round-Up (Sponsored by FDMX)

FDMX Sponsors Animation Award at the Creative East Awards.

The second Creative East Awards cumulated in a finals night to remember on
Thursday 20th March.

Over 400 business leaders and people working in the Creative Industries in the Eastern region attended a night to remember in Norwich to recognise and reward the talent the
region boasts, at the 2008 Creative East Awards.

Clive Anderson hosted the Awards ceremony and was joined on stage by presenters from the world of show biz and industry leaders. Winners and presenters for each category were as follows...

Category	Finalists	Winners	Sponsors	Presenters of the Award
Best Graphic Design	Come Hither Design Ware Anthony Rust White Space design The District	The District from Cambridge for The Junction	Micropress	Richard Snell
Best Commercial Photography	White Space design CHPV Offshore DW Photography Harrington Photography	Harrington Photography - Mike Harrington from Norwich	Professional Photographer - Archant Specialist	Andy Rice
Best Animation Production	Soup Ltd Sony University of Herts Triffic Films Ltd	Soup Ltd - Mat Denney based in Norwich	FDMX	Ruth Fielding
Best Professional Development and Training	Creative Industries Business Improvement Partnership Screen East BBC Voices BBC TV East	BBC TV East - Lisa Collins	MOVE/LSC	Susie Fowler Watt
Best Exclusive Story	BBC TV East Inside Out BBC Look East Eastern Daily Press Basildon Echo	Basildon Echo - Jon Austin	Norfolk County Council	David White
Best Film/TV Location	Norfolk County Council/Parallel Film and TV Ely Cathedral Herts Tourism and Leisure Partnership/ Paramount Films Essex County Council/20th Century Fox	Ely Cathedral - Elizabeth The Golden Age	East of England Tourist Board	Graham Easton
Best Non - Broadcast Production	Great Takes TV The JMS Group Eye Film and TV Peet Media Associates Ltd	Great Takes TV - Birthmark	Naked Marketing	Mike Beale
Best Broadcast Production	BBC Essex Anglia/TV Granada Wavelength Films	Granada - Living With Half A Brain	S.R.E.P’s	Mike Beale
Best Design Innovation	Anglia Elevated Photography The Student Pocket Guide Fresh Pod GGS Graphics	Fresh Pod - based in Thetford Norfolk	EEDA	Richard Snell
Best Web Design	Affinity New Media Spring Web Design BGD Group Affinity New Media	BGD Group - Proton Cars	Pricewaterhouse Cooper	Chris Tomlinson
Best Film	BBC TV East Justin Coleman - sponsored by Screen East The Content Providers Five Feet Films	Justin Coleman - Blood On His Hands	Screen East	Graham Easton
Best Radio Programme	Radio Broadland KLFM B BC Essex BBC Radio Norfolk BBC Radio Norfolk	BBC Essex - Inside at Christmas	creativeeast.co.uk	Mike Read
Best Advertising Campaign	MC + Co Environcomms The Works Commercial Breaks	The Works - Big Three	ITV/Anglia	Philip Smith
Best Creative Campaign	MC + Co Ware Anthony Rust White Space designs The Works	MC + Co - Martin Cerulli	Brand Republic/ Haymarket Publishing	Philip Smith
Best Architecture Design - in the region	Mouchel Group Fielden & Mawson LSI Architects Ingleton Woods LLP	Fielden & Mawson - Family Life Centre	Hansells Solicitors	Nick Lomax
Best factual Publication	Green Pebble Poppyland Publishing The Tagman Press Norwich City Council	Poppyland Publishing	BBC East	John Fry

The Awards ceremony was followed by an after show dinner at the newly refurbished Theatre Royal where guests networked with presenters and industry leaders from across the region. The event aimed to show potential clients in both the public and private sectors the very high standard of creative work out there.

Now in its second year as The Creative East Awards and following on from the success of 2007, the Awards attracted nearly double the number of entries on the previous years. Entries arrived and finalists and winners were selected from businesses across the six counties making up the Eastern region.

The prime purpose of the Awards is to show the country that the Eastern Region is an established major creative hub and is still growing at a considerable pace. It is in fact the biggest creative area outside of London with over 17,000 businesses registered.

In the run up to the Awards 3,000 business and individuals from across the region and working in the creative industries engaged in the process and the website www.creativeeast.co.uk kept interested parties informed of progress.

Richard Cox Director of the Creative East Awards commented on the strength of the creative industries in the region, “The prime purpose of the Awards is to show that the Eastern region is a major and growing hub. The wide variety and high quality of work on display during the evening clearly demonstrated the breadth of our expanding creative industries”.

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