Jeff Gill, aged 24, from Los Angeles USA has entered two MOFILM competitions so far and came 3rd in Cannes with “Larry and the Internet” which he made for AT&T. Over 350 ads were uploaded in this competition and 14,000 people downloaded briefs from twelve iconic brands.

Jeff’s prize was two tickets to the American Idol finale in 2010 plus $2000 towards airfare and hotel expenses. He was also flown to Cannes, France to the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival where he met legendary film and ad maker, Spike Lee.  Jeff is an animator and works part-time on South Park. He also entered “Talk to the Hand’ for the animation category at the MOFILM 2009 festival in Barcelona.

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In just six weeks, over  14,000 people downloaded a brief from our twelve brands and made an ad to submit to the Cannes competition. We received 350 completed adverts. Congratulations to all the entrants.

We will be keeping track of our winners and letting you know about what has happened to them as a direct result of their entry to the MOFILM competition, so watch this space.

You can view all the finalists on our Cannes Competition page.

Congratulations to all the winners.

Hiroki Ono’s “Feel the Globe” Announced as Grand Prize Winner of the MOFILM User-Generated Content Competition

MOFILM, a pioneer of crowd sourcing for entertainment and mobile, and director Spike Lee, today announced the grand prize winner of the MOFILM user-generated content (UGC) competition at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival.

MOFILM brought together a powerhouse set of twelve brands, which consisted of AT&T, Best Buy, PepsiCo (Doritos), Hewlett Packard, Kodak, Renaissance Hotels and Resorts, Nokia, Philips, Telstra, Unilever (OMO),Visa and Vodafone.

Each brand posted a brief on the MOFILM website allowing entrants from all over the world upload their films and compete for awards and prizes. Each brand selected their favorite video that went on to compete for the grand prize of being on set with Spike Lee.

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