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3x Shortlist Cannes Lions 2009
Centraal Beheer-UFO and Volkswagen-Polo were selected for the Film Shortlist in Cannes. Both for DDB Amsterdam, both carrying original music and sounddesign by Studio De Keuken. Publicis Amsterdam's Slachtofferhulp (Dutch Victim Support Fund) was on the Radio Shortlist.
UFO wins World Medal NYF 2009
Centraal Beheer's UFO won a Bronze World Medal at the New York Festivals 2009. Congrats to all at DDB Amsterdam, Stylewar and Stink UK!
Bol.com Winner Commercial Review 2008
ETCETERA Amsterdam scored a hattrick in IM's Commercial Review 2008. Gold, Silver and Bronze for 3 Bol.com-films! Geert van Gaalen (Music/Sounddesign) and Remko Keuter (Sounddesign) worked on the Gold-winner, Bol.com-Battle/Singstar. Congrats to Stan, Guido and the rest @ ETCETERA!
3x Gold/1x Silver Promax 2008 World & NA
"MTV-Rocket Bros" (John Doe/ CTV) was nominated 4 times.
And...we actually won Gold for "Best Use of an Original Composition in a Promo",
once for World Gold and once for North-America. Which is the most highly acclaimed award
for music in TV-promo's worldwide. The promo also won Gold and Silver in 2 other categories.
Shortlist Radio Cannes 2008
Renault's Eco2 Recycle spot for Publicis Amsterdam made it to the Radio Shortlist in Cannes 2008.
4x Shortlist Promax/BDA 2008 World & North-America
"MTV-Rocket Bros" (John Doe/ CTV) is nominated 4 times for the world's
most prestigious TV-promotion-Award at the Promax/BDA.
Twice nominated for "Best Use of an Original Composition in a Promo",
once for World Gold and once for North-America.
Shortlist New York Festivals 2008
Barely recovered from winning a Lamp, the same soundtrack (J&B Spain - Rabbit Man) is on the shortlist in the category Technique/Original Music at the New York Festivals 2008 too!
ADCN Lamps 2008
We did it! We won the only Lamp in the category Geluid (Music & Sound Design). For the J&B Spain "Rabbitman"-soundtrack for Kessels Kramer. 8 Nominations in the category, 2 for us and the jury had a hard time choosing between these two, as the jury told us afterwards...nice... The music was composed by Geert van Gaalen and Geert did the sounddesign together with director Olivier Babinet (Dr. Film).
The only (Silver) Radio Lamp this year is for Publicis for the Renault Recycle spot, on which our own Robin Schlosser meticulously crafted a new radio-commercial from snippets of many older (recycled) radiospots.
Amazing job! Congrats to Publicis and we're proud of this Lamp (and Robin!) too.
Jury Clio's & New York Festivals 2008
Geert van Gaalen has been invited as a Jury-member for both the Art & Technique Jury in New York and the Technique Jury in Miami's Clio Awards 2008. Quite an honour!
ADCN 2008: 2 Nominations
Our soundtracks for KesselsKramer's viral for J&B Spain "Rabbit Man" (directed by Olivier Babinet) and MTV Worldwide "Rocket Bros" (John Doe) are nominated by the Dutch Art Directors Club in the category Best Music & Sounddesign.
NFSG @ Cannes Lions 2007 Shortlist
The film 'Metro' for Dutch Disabled Sports Foundation, directed by Olaf van Gerwen (Bij Brand) for Etcetera is selected for the Shortlist at Cannes Lions 2007!
4x GOLD / 1x BRONZE / 1x Finalist @ New York Festivals 2007
Right after the Silver Clio, now we also won a Gold World Medal for a collection of 4 films for MTV (Just Like Daddy, Brassband, Rain & Togo). Again in the category 'Original Music/Lyrics'. John Doe also received a Bronze World Medal in the category 'Media Promo' for the MTV UK-spot. Pubicis Amsterdam's beautiful spot for Kika received Finalist-status.
SILVER Clio 2007!!!!
Yes!!!! We actually won the prestigious Silver Clio 2007 in the category 'Original Music/Lyrics'!
No Gold was awarded in the category. We couldn't resist picking it up personally in Miami...
2xGOLD / 2xBRONZE @ ProMax/BDA Worldwide 2007
One Gold award for MTV UK 'Brassband' and Bronze for MTV Canada 'Rain' on the '2007 BDA World Gold',
and Gold and Bronze for MTV UK on the '2007 ProMax World Gold'. ProMax/BDA is the world's most prestigious award for Television Promotion!
Clio & ProMax/BDA Europe 2007
The soundtrack Geert van Gaalen composed for MTV UK's 'Brassband' film is nominated for a Clio in the States and at the ProMax/bda in Berlin, both in the category 'Best Original Music Composition'. Kinda cool!
SILVER & BRONZE Epica 2006
Congratulations to Publicis Amsterdam (Ministry of Internal Affairs-'Vote') and Etcetera (NFSG Disability Sports Foundation-'Metro') for winning a Silver and a Bronze Epica respectively. Both spots carry an original Studio De Keuken-composition.
Finalist LIAA 2006 - Twice!
Studio De Keuken / Geert van Gaalen was recently awarded - twice! - as Finalist in the category "Original Music With Lyrics" at the London International Awards 2006, for 'MTV - Just Like Daddy' and 'MTV Canada - Rain'.
'Daddy' wins Bronze in UK & Australia
At the recent Midsummer Awards 2006, John Doe received a Bronze Award for 'Just Like Daddy' and director Steve Ayson a Bronze AWARD 2006 (Australasian Writers and Art Directors Asociation) for direction. Congratulations, guys!
'Daddy' on Shortlist Cannes Lions 2006
John Doe's 'Just Like Daddy'-film for MTV made it to the Shortlist of the Cannes Lions in the category 'Best Use Of Music'!!!
Many people think it's an existing song, but since we wrote and produced the song we're obviously extra proud of this nomination!
ADCN 2006: 2 Nominations!
John Doe's 'Just Like Daddy'-film for MTV and KRO's '10 Promises'-campaign are nominated by the Dutch Art Directors Club in the category Best Music & Sounddesign. No 'Lamp' this year in the category, but 2 out of 8 nominations is not a bad score, we think...
Launch MTV Canada
After getting international acclaim for the MTV Shorts-series (the "Günther"-film was shortlisted for the Cannes Lions, the D&AD Pencils and the ADCN), John Doe's Hein Mevissen was invited to create and direct the launchcampaign for MTV Canada. That's right, up until March 21, 2006, the Canadians were deprived of MTV! After this 'drought' this campaign comes as a soothing rain! Geert wrote a sweet lovesong from MTV to the new viewers and Geert, Robin and Jeroen did the Sounddesign. The 90" spot (please, check it out in the 'work'-section) was the very first image shown on MTV Canada!