DANIELS take the honours at Vimeo Festival + Awards 2012

DANIELS won the Music Video award at the Vimeo Festival + Awards 2012 for their video for Manchester Orchestra’s Simple Math – and the directing duo comprised of Daniel Kwan and Dan Scheinert also won the Honorary Award for New Creators at the awards ceremony in New York City on June 7th. The Simple Math [...]

Vimeo Festival and Awards 2012: Music Video Finalists announced

The finalists have now been announced for each of the categories for the Vimeo Awards, held next month at the Vimeo Festival + Awards, including for Music Video. The four Music Video finalists are Sean Pecknold’s video for Fleet Foxes’ The Shrine/An Argument, Apache by Oneedo, DANIELS’ video for Manchester Orchestra’s Simple Math, and the [...]

‘Hello, Future’ Music Video Challenge – and the winner is…

Alberto Gomez, a 23 year old director from Mexico, is the winner of the Hello, Future Music Video Challenge. Gomez’s video for the Moby track After, a hugely stylish and beautifully art directed work, was chosen from nearly 600 original works submitted to the competition, and the result announced and the video shown at the [...]

“Hello, Future” Music Video Challenge – the finalists

The “Hello, Future” Music Video Challenge – a competition that invited up-and-coming filmmakers to make a video for one of three tracks from the new Moby album Destroyed – received nearly 600 entries by the deadline of May 9th. Now Moby’s partners of the competition – Saatchi & Saatchi, Vimeo and BUG – have decided [...]

Hello, Future – a Music Video Challenge by Saatchi & Saatchi, Moby, Vimeo and BUG launches today!

In a collaboration between the 21st Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase, acclaimed music artist Moby, international videosharing community Vimeo, and BUG, a new competition launches today to discover fresh filmmaking talent – with significant rewards for the winning work. Hello, Future: A Music Video Challenge gives up-and-coming filmmakers the chance to make a music [...]

Vimeo Festival + Awards: Liars’ Scissor wins Best Music Video

Andy Bruntel’s extraordinary video for Liars’ Scissor won the Best Music Video award at the first Vimeo Festival + Awards on October 9th in New York. After two days of seminars, screenings and special events, including BUG’s first show in the US, the video for Liars – commissioned by John Moule at Mute and directed [...]

BUG plays Vimeo Festival + Awards in New York on October 8th

BUG will play its very first show in North America in just over one week’s time. The inimitable cocktail of brilliant music video creativity and laughter that is BUG, is coming to the inaugural Vimeo Festival+Awards in New York on Thursday, October 8th – hosted, as always, by Adam Buxton. Adam will present a very [...]

Vimeo Festival and Awards – submissions deadline is July 31st

The submissions deadline for the first Vimeo Festival and Awards, to be held in New York in October, is less than two weeks away. Prospective entrants have until July 31st to submit their work to this new event which seeks to honour the best in online video in its various forms – including music video. [...]