The winners of the 2012 Vimeo Awards have been announced. This year, the Awards received 14,567 entries from 147 countries around the world. Vimeo will make grants of $5,000 (around £3,200) to each of the 13 category winners.
The Grand Prize winner, directing collective Everynone, will receive an additional $25,000 (around £16,000) for its film, Symmetry.
Lyrical: Symmetry
Vimeo presented the awards last night in New York City with a motion-responsive, projection-mapped awards show set designed by arts and technology collective seeper (creators of the recent projection onto the ship-shapped Titatic museum in Belfast), which engaged with ive performers Reggie Watts and Beardyman. See the video below for more details:
The 2012 Vimeo Awards category winners are:
Action Sports: Dark Side of the Lens by Astray Films
Advertising: K-Swiss Kenny Powers - MFCEO by Caviar
Animation: Umbra by Malcolm Sutherland
Captured: Sweatshoppe Video Painting Europe by Sweatshoppe
Documentary: Amar (All Great Achievements Require Time) by Andrew Hilton
Experimental: Prie Dieu by Cokau
Fashion: Skirt by Amanda Boyle/Academy Plus
Motion Graphics: A History of the Title Sequence by Jurjen Versteeg
Music Video: Manchester Orchestra: Simple Math by Daniels
Narrative: BLINKY™ by Ruairi Robinson
Series: Often Awesome The Series by All Aces
Remix: Rear Window Timelapse by Jeff Deson
The winners were selected by panels of three judges per category. Judges included actor and director James Franco; Parks and Recreation star Aziz Ansari; 2012 Oscar Nominee Lucy Walker; Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World director Edgar Wright; snowboard superstar Travis Rice; Thierry Mugler and UNIQLO creative director Nicola Formichetti; Shelley Page of DreamWorks Animation; Barbara London of The Museum of Modern Art; advertising legend David Droga; and more
