Afaqs: Agnello Dias is appointed as the Jury Chairperson for Goafest 2010, film category. Goafest is one of most prestigious national advertising awards festival organized by The Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) in association with The Advertising Club Bombay (ACB).
Agnello Dias popularly known as Aggy has won recognition, including the AAAI Copywriter of the Year (2004), NDTV’s Creative Director of the Year (2007) and has consistently ranked among the top four Indian creative personalities in all local and international rankings.
I 2007, Dias won the country’s first ever Grand Prix and Titanium/Integrated Lion at Cannes in 2007 besides leading JWT to the best ever performance by an Indian advertising agency at the festival and to the No.1 spot in the WPP network. His Teach India campaign won a double Grand Prix at the Media Spikes in 2009.
On the appointment of Aggy, Ajay Chandwani, director, Percept and chairperson, Creative Abbys at Goafest 2010, says, “We believe Aggy will help push the Goafest judging standards even higher.”
In conversation with Afaqs, Dias spoke about the kind of work he is expecting to see at the fest, he says, “I am expecting to see the work that pushes boundaries and the work that solves marketing problems.”