As I mentioned a few weeks ago, once or twice a month I’m going to take some time to give a special shout-out to our sponsors.  In this installment of the Sponsor Spotlight I thought I’d post some recent Poptent, Mofilm and Tongal winners from August.

Last month, the winners of Mofilm’s Lollapalooza competition gathered in Chicago for three days of music, parties and terrifying thunderstorms.  During the Saturday afternoon concert the whole area was suddenly slammed by just a massive deluge of rain.  The storm was so bad that everyone at the festival had to be evacuated so they wouldn’t get hit by lighting.  So the Mofilm winners probably got a little wet but hey, at least they got a great story out of the experience!  The top winner of the Lolla competition was an extremely well made ad for Sovereign by Raul B. Fernandez.  For winning his category, Raul received a trip for 2 to Chicago and $8,000.  And for winning the best of the fest award he received a statuette and a big bag of glory.

One of the biggest Poptent assignments of the summer turned out to be the Ahhmigo Drinks competition.  Ahhmigo was only supposed to buy 4 videos for $7,500 each but they wound up buying 6 in total.  I actually accepted this assignment and Ahhmigo even sent me a case of drinks that I could include in my video.  I never shot anything for this one so right about now I’m feeling like a real idiot. (more so than usual.)  Some pretty good videos wound up getting purchased but my favorite was created by friend of VCN and super-poptent champion Joe AKA Bisbinetts.

Tongal ran a bunch of big contests this summer but I think my favorite recent winner is the ad that took first place in Duck Tape’s Ship it in Style contest.  It’s a cute little video that gets the message across nicely.  It’s entitled Box Girl and was created MindFruit Studios. (love the name.)  It’s got kind of a “Marcel the Shell with Shoes on” vibe.  If you don’t know what that is, get your ass to youtube and prepare your mindfruit for a cuteness infusion. The prize for coming in first in the Duck Tape contest was $8,000.