Deadline Is April 1; U.S. Will Send Six Judges to Rio de Janeiro
The call for entries is open for the Wave Festival, a leading ad festival for Latin America that includes the U.S. Hispanic market and Puerto Rico for the third year.
Entries are due by April 1, 2015 for the Wave. See the Wave's 15 categories and enter here.
Advertising Age is partnering with the Wave, to be held April 15 and 16 in Rio de Janeiro. The regional Wave Festival is organized by Meio & Mensagem, Brazil's top advertising and marketing publication and events organizer, and Ad Age's longtime editorial partner in Brazil.
Alma's Alvar Suñol
Last year, eight U.S. agencies captured 19 awards at the Wave Festival for Latin America. Chicago-based Lápiz was the biggest U.S. winner with strong work for several Procter & Gamble brands. The other winning agencies were Alma, Conill, Dieste, LatinWorks, The Community (former called La Comunidad), Walton Isaacson and Y&R Bravo. Puerto Rico participated in the Wave for the first time, and DDB Latina Puerto Rico won two trophies.
Dieste's Carla Eboli
All judging is done onsite by judges from eight countries during the festival at the Copacabana Palace in Rio.
At the 2015 festival, the U.S. and Puerto Rico will have six judges, including three jury presidents. Alvar Suñol, senior VP-executive creative director at Miami-based Alma and Elias Weinstock, VP-executive creative director at Casanova Pendrill in Los Angeles, will be jury presidents. Jaime Rosado, VP regional creative director at JWT San Juan in Puerto Rico, will preside over the branded content jury, a new category the Wave Festival is adding this year.
JWT's Jaime Rosado
The other U.S. judges are Gustavo Lauría, president of Circulo Creativo and founder of startup agency We Believers; Favio Ucedo, chief creative officer of New York-based Wing; and Carla Eboli, chief marketing officer of Dieste in Dallas.
Enter the Wave here.