Radar Awards Winners Announced

On Thursday 14th July, directors and industry guests came from across the UK and the USA, Germany, Croatia, Ireland, Iceland and Denmark to attend the first-ever Radar Awards (the first award show from the ever-splendid Radar Music Video) at the exclusive YouTube Space, London. Celebrating the best in new talent across the music and music video industries, the event was sponsored by Vevo and Marshall Amplifiers and presented by Yasmin Evans. With over 700 entries and with almost half of the shortlisted videos having under 25k views, the awards truly celebrated the best in new, up & coming talent worldwide.

Guests were escorted to the YouTube Space to be welcomed with drinks. Directors were soon whisked away, each to be awarded a ‘shortlisted’ prize, ranging from free film & video education courses, to free submissions to music video festivals worldwide, to free software packages. Shortly after, presenter Yasmin Evans hosted the main Awards and winners were announced to an audience of leading commissioners, commercial production companies and specialist media.  

"The Radar Awards were a blast! The awards connected talented new filmmakers from across the world (USA, Canada, Ireland, Croatia, Berlin, France, Iceland, Norway), with experienced and influential industry tastemakers and all was good. A great venue (thanks YouTube!), plus great prizes (thanks Vevo, Marshall & all!), plus drinks all made for a great party and a lot of happy people." Caroline Bottomley, Company Director, Radar Music Videos.

Overall winners received a valuable promo slate with music video specialist streaming platform Vevo, mentorships with leading production companies, and valuable equipment and software worth thousands.

Following the official event, directors and industry guests flooded out across the venue and engaged in busy networking, before continuing to the ‘after-after party’ at Alley Cat.

To check out the Radar Awards Winners' playlist, go to the Radar YouTube channel, once you're there subscribe to keep up with all the action from the first-ever awards night and to get alerts for rare interviews with many of the VIP guests.

Best Artist - prizes presented by Grace Pantony, Marshall Amps & Claudia de Wolff, Vevo
Fakear - Animal    Dir: Antoine Besse
Prize - An Astoria Marshall Amplifier, Vevo promo slate, PR campaign to +450 media trade & consumer titles, guaranteed coverage from CMU, Music Week, Hypebot, and Record of the Day.

Winner of the Best Director prize, Bob Gallagher.

Radar Awards 2016 Winners

Best Director - prize presented by Claudia de Wolff, Vevo
Girl Band    Paul    Dir: Bob Gallagher
Prize - Jungle post-production software package, Vevo promo slate, automatic entry to UKMVA, Radar membership and PR campaign to +450 media trade & consumer titles.

Director Categories 

Art Department / Styling - prize presented by Jamie Clark
Girl Band    Paul    Dir: Bob Gallagher
Prize - Mentorship at My Accomplice

Animation / VFX - prize presented by Dan Kreeger   
De Staat    Witch Doctor   Dir: Studio Smack
Prize - Mentorship at The Mill

Cinematography / lighting - prize presented by Nathan Kilham
Hammock    In the Middle of this Nowhere  Dir: Seth Fuller
Prize - Mentorship at Kode

Concept / Narrative - prize presented by Sarah Boardman
Death From Above 1979    Virgins   Dir: Eva Michon
Prize - Mentorship at Pulse

Edit - prize presented by Alice Clark    
V V Brown    Lazarus   Dir: Daniel Price
Prize - Mentorship at Stitch Editing (Homespun)

Live  - prize presented by Yasmin Evans    
Lady Leshurr    Queens Speech 4   Dir: Wowa
Prize - Mentorship at HK Corp    

Claudia de Wolff from Vevo on stage with presenter Yasmin Evans. 

Location / Character - prize presented by Hannah Turnbull-Waller
Ojay Morgan - Zebra Katz    BLK Diamond   Dir: Elvar Gunnarsson
Prize - Mentorship at Somesuch & Co

Radar Commissioned - prize presented by Claire Stubbs
Lea Porcelain    Out Is In    Dir: Ethan Graham
Prize - Mentorship at Partizan

Student - prize presented by Chris Abitbol   
Øst    Skræmmende Tomt    Dir: Emil Øllgaard Vilhelmsen
Prize - Mentorship at Wanda

Artist categories - prizes presented by David Knight, Promo News

Dance    
Fakear - Animal    Dir: Antoine Besse
Prize - Guaranteed coverage on Mixmag and Earmilk

Grime / HipHop
Open Mike Eagle - Celebrity Reduction Prayer   Dir: Ryan Calavano    
Prize - Guaranteed coverage on FACTmag, DummyMag and The Line of Best Fit

Indie
Susanne Sundfør    Accelerate    Dir: Stian Andersen    
Guaranteed coverage on The405, DIYmag and Earmilk