Bruketa to sit on a jury of the leading creativity festival in Northern Asia

The Mad Stars Festival, to be held for the 16^th time this year, will run from August 23 to 25 in a South Korean city of Busan. It is the leading creativity festival and the only global festival of a kind in Northern Asia, as stated by Hwan-Jin Choi, Chairman at Mad Stars.

This festival celebrates creative use of cutting-edge technologies, and last year received around 190 thousand entries from 73 countries across the globe, making it one of the fastest growing advertising festivals in the world.

The awards will be deliberated by an international jury composed of leading experts in the area of marketing, advertising and digital, including Davor Bruketa, Creative Director at Bruketa&Žinić&Grey Agency, as of this year. Besides Bruketa, some of this year’s jury members will also be Aurora Stratin from Google, Annematt Ruseler from WeTransfer, Wilson Ang from Wunderman Thompson, Kitty Lun from Meta, and others.

“We have heard and taken note of Davor Bruketa’s great achievement and international success. We are sure that he will be a great asset to our festival”, stated the festival organizers.

This year’s festival theme is REBOOT (Refresh Your Strategy for the Post-pandemic Era). The competition participation is free, and the entries should be submitted by June 15. Any additional information can be found on the Mad Stars official website.

Bruketa is also a permanent jury member of New York Cresta Awards, and to date has served on a jury of other prestigious competitions in the area of marketing communications as well such as Red Dot, D&AD London, Art Directors Club New York, New York Festivals, Graphis, Young Guns, OneScreen New York, etc., and was the first Southeast European to chair the London International Awards jury.