After the successful comeback of the Klappe last year, the film competition of the Communications Association is now entering its second round with yet more new categories. Entries can be submitted from now until May 1. The jury chairman for another two years is Amir Kassaei from the DDB Group Germany. The categories have been expanded from five to a total of 12 creative disciplines such as directing, script, camera, editing, sound design and animation. "Due to the expansion of the creative spectrum, the Klappe offers moving image makers, especially in the new media, significantly more opportunities for submission! We want to promote creativity from German-speaking countries and expect to see even more creativity than in 2007," comments Amir Kassaei on this expansion of disciplines.
Also new is the organization of the Young Director Award, which is being offered for the first time in cooperation with the YDA (Young Director Award) Competition of the CFPE (Cannes Film Festival). Agencies, productions, companies and institutions wishing to take part in the Klappe can register at
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Awards 1 After a one-year break, Die Klappe is relaunching. Die Klappe has been around for 27 years. Now a new chapter is to be opened with the 2007 festival. The communications association, as organizer, wants to make the advertising film competition "an international benchmark". To this end, Die Klappe 27 is taking another important step on the way from a German-language creative prize to a "leading international award for outstanding film and moving image communication". This includes the inclusion of new categories such as "Internet" and "Mobile Devices." Amir Kassaei, Managing Director of Creation at DDB Germany, is one of Europe's youngest and most successful advertising minds to chair the jury. The jury will now be made up of one third each of well-known representatives from agencies, clients and other service providers such as film productions. This should "ensure maximum objectivity and transparency," as Klaus Flettner, President of the Communications Association, hopes.
The 2007 jury members already include Andreas Grabarz (Grabarz & Partner), Guido Heffels (Heimat), André Kemper (kempertrautmann), Delle Krause (Ogilvy & Mather), Johannes Krammer (TBWA/Vienna), Thomas Knops (Nokia Europe), Ralf Lanzrath (Fujitsu Siemens Computers), Claudia Willvonseder (Ikea Germany), Oliver Klein (cherrypicker), Harald Nebel (new business), Philip Schwinger (ffp Vienna) and Mark von Seydlitz (made in munich Filmproduktion), Jörg Schäffken (InBev), Kirsten Missfeld (Warsteiner).
Agencies, production companies, businesses and institutions can still register online at www.dieklappe.de until April 15, 2007. The organizers would particularly like to see more participants from Austria and Switzerland. The decisive jury meeting will take place in May. The award ceremony is in Hamburg or Berlin.

Andreas Panzeri

 After a year's break, the advertising film festival Die Klappe is being relaunched. Registration is open until April 15.  
"Action: Die Klappe, zum zweiten!": The leading advertising film festival in the German-speaking world is to be relaunched in a young freshness after a one-year break. The organizers would particularly like to see more participants from Austria and Switzerland.
 
Die Klappe has been around for 27 years. Now, with the 2007 festival, a new size is to be aimed for. As the organizer, the Kommunikationsverband wants to make the advertising film competition "an international benchmark. To this end, Die Klappe 27 is taking another important step on the way from a German-language creative prize to a "leading international award for outstanding film and moving image communication". New categories such as "Internet" and "Mobile Devices" are now also important elements of the competition.
 
The jury will now be made up of one-third each of well-known representatives of agencies, clients and other service providers such as film productions. This should "ensure maximum objectivity and transparency," as Klaus Flettner, president of the communications association, hopes. The president of the jury is Amir Kassaei, the managing director of creation at DDB Germany. Andreas Grabarz (Grabarz & Partner), Guido Heffels (Heimat), André Kemper (kempertrautmann), Delle Krause (Ogilvy & Mather), Johannes Krammer (TBWA/Vienna), Thomas Knops (Nokia Europe), Ralf Lanzrath (Fujitsu Siemens Computers) have already been appointed as further jury members in 2007, Claudia Willvonseder (Ikea Germany), Oliver Klein (cherrypicker), Harald Nebel (new business), Philip Schwinger (ffp Vienna) and Mark von Seydlitz (made in munich Filmproduktion), Jörg Schäffken (InBev), Kirsten Missfeld (Warsteiner).
 
Participating agencies, production companies, businesses and institutions can register online at www.dieklappe.de until April 15, 2007. The decisive jury meeting will take place in May. The award ceremony is in Hamburg or Berlin.