Known to the world for 26 years as the IVCA Awards, this year’s marks the arrival of the EVCOM Screen Awards, the first of the EVCOM-branded awards events. The EVCOM era has, since its official merger in January 2014, drawn the live events and corporate video industries closer together. The Screen Awards, to be held on 27 March at the Grosvener House Hotel, will be followed by the EVCOM Experience Awards, replacing the Eventia Awards, and the EVCOM Clarion Awards.

This year’s spate of shortlisted nominees includes ever-lauded agencies like the Edge Picture Company, which is nominated for seven projects, alongside newer entrants like Gorilla Gorilla!, a London-based animation company up for its lively, helpful Infobot video for Informa. 

Marco Forgione, EVCOM CEO says, “The inaugural EVCOM Screen Awards has built on the success of the previous IVCA Awards. These awards focus on the quality and value of film in helping brands and organisations build emotionally impactful communications. The quality of entries has been outstanding and as the shortlist reveals we’ve had a fantastic selection of entries from right across the industry. I’m really looking forward to the awards dinner on 27 March at the Grosvenor House Hotel where we’ll be revealing the winners.”

Last year’s winners featured a number of films created for public sector or not-for-profit clients, a trend which has continued in this year’s shortlist. A few videos developed for the armed forces also received nods this year. GROSVENERFILM, which has a long-standing relationship with the Army, was shortlisted for its ‘Army Officer Reserve Recruiting Presentation’ and BFBS Television got a nod for ‘PARA Platoon: Earning the Maroon Beret.’

The awards were judged by an expert panel at the Kia Oval last week. In the past, the benchmark set by the EVCOM (or IVCA) Screen Awards has expanded to recognise excellence in film, television and video, but also in digital media and film based on social media – as was the 2012 Grand Prix winner, Streaming Tank’s ‘Topshop Facebook App’.

The full list of nominations is below:

3angrymen Productions 'NSPCC – Every Childhood'

Alex Pickering 'Rising star'

Altitude Music 'Thomson Scene Online'

Film ATT LIMITED (Active Training Team) 'Right from the Start'

A-Vision 'Production Company of the Year'

BFBS Television 'PARA Platoon: Earning the Maroon Beret'

Brickwall 'The Amazon: Silent Crisis'

Buddy Films and Havas Sports & Entertainment 'Barclays Spirit of the Game Heroes, 4 films about passion'

Buddy Films and Havas Sports & Entertainment ' Billy Ingham, a story of passion'

Buddy Films and Havas Sports & Entertainment 'Paul Kelly, a story of passion'

Casual Academy 'Everyone Needs A Friend'

Casual Films 'Dar Al-Hekma College'

Casual Films ' Rolls-Royce STEM'

Citizen B 'Paper Dreams'

Cogent Elliott Limited 'Tamsin Addison Story'

Contra 'Christmas Starts with Christ'

Contra 'Literacy Boost Vignette'

CTN Communications 'Two Six TV'

Dan Harris 'Rising star'

David Hodgson-Lorente 'Rising star'

drp 'Production Company of the Year'

drp 'This is Our Love'

EdComs 'Production Company of the year'

Gorilla Gorilla! 'Information is precious'

GROSVENORFILM, drpdigital 'Army Officer Reserve Recruiting Presentation'

Juice Learning ‘Free Fall’

Juice Learning ‘The Reaction Times’

Khaki Films 'Brighter Business'

Liquid Productions 'Think Plumpton!'

Lonelyleap 'Picturehouse Cinemas Ident'

Lonelyleap 'The Plant Family Tree'

Lonelyleap 'What the Artist Saw'

Media Therapy / A-Vision 'Kaspersky Protection Test – Viral Campaign'

MerchantCantos 'My Name is Jennifer'

Network Rail Film Unit 'Emergency Call'

ONE TWO FOUR 'Coffee vs gangs'

other 'AlphaSights Client Protection'

Plastic Pictures 'Rooted in the Past, Invested in the Future'

RAW Productions 'Poppy Appeal Launch 2014 – The Watch'

RD Content 'Cirque du Soleil’s – Kooza'

Ridley Scott Associates 'Sales Force ‘Marketing Alignment’'

Scorch London 'The Language of Love'

Social Fuel 'Numb3rs Appeal'

Spectrecom Films 'Adam Gemili: What Makes an Elite Athlete?'

Spectrecom Films 'Hot Cars Kill Dogs'

Straker Films 'Risky pics'

Straker Films 'Hidden hurt'

Straker Films 'Take another look'

Tangerine Films Ltd 'Land Rover Discovery Sport'

Tangerine Films Ltd 'Range Rover Sport SVR Launch Film'

The Edge Picture Company ' A Day In The Life'

The Edge Picture Company 'Life Saving Rules'

The Edge Picture Company 'My Story'

The Edge Picture Company 'Take A Second'

The Edge Picture Company 'When Lloyd Met Eliana'

The Edge Picture Company 'Your Family Needs You'

The Edge Picture Company/Jabberwokie 'You Poo Too'

The Giggle Group 'Vodafone Mural'

The Mill Group 'Produce TV'

White Boat TV 'Still Here'

Wing '#RememberSenna'

Wing 'The Mast Walk'

Woodsfilm 'Lendwithcare Christmas Gift Vouchers'