Revolver at Cannes Lions.
Revolver has won a Palme d’Or, the first Australian production company to win one at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity.
The win for Revolver was in addition to winning the Film Craft and Film Grand Prix.
This was shared with Australia’s Bear Meets Eagle on Fire for Telstra’s Better on A Better Mobile Network campaign.
The Film Grand Prix was awarded to Steve Roger’s Considering What? for Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympic games.
The wins mark the second year in a row that Revolver has won both the Film and Film Craft Grand Prix’s at the festival (the Sydney production company received both accolades in 2024 for Kim Gehrig’s Play it Safe and Steve Rogers’ 1 Square Meter).
Following the monumental success for the company, Revolver’s Managing Director/Co-Owner Michael Ritchie remarked on the wins, and what it means for Australian production,
“For myself and our entire team, this is an enormous honour, and honestly pretty overwhelming,” said Revolver’s managing director/Cco-owner Michael Ritchie.
“Our country is home to some of the best talent globally, and these wins only reiterate the high calibre of work from our region.”
He said Telstra CMO Brent Smart's and Bear Meets Eagle on Fire CCO and founder Micah Walker’s vision for Telstra, and the trust and respect to their production partners and the directors they work with, is something Revolver is so grateful for.
“Similarly, a huge thank you goes to the entire team behind Steve’s ‘Considering What?’ campaign, which is a brilliant piece of work with an unflinching grit that celebrated the athletes at the heart of the Paralympics,” Ritchie said.
“We are also incredibly grateful for our long standing partnership with Biscuit Filmworks in LA and UK whom we worked with across a number of our winning works.
“For twenty years we have worked together and to see this coming to genuine fruition now, is as rewarding as the work itself.”
The Palme d’Or, and dual Grand Prix wins were on top of four Gold Lion’s for Steve Rogers in Film Craft, a Gold Lion in Film for Better on a Better Mobile Network, a total of five gold, four silver and seven bronze Lions across the film and film craft categories.
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