Inaugural Short&Sweet Music Video Awards winners

Each winner was presented with an award specially designed Alejandra Olivera. The winner of Best New Director, Louis Minnaar, won a one-year contract with Caviar Content London, a production company that aims to empower talent across various film industry platforms.

 

The 2014 shortlist and winners:

 

Best Art Direction and Design

 

Ninja & Kezia Eales: Die Antwoord – Fatty Boom Boom (winner)

Louis Minnaar: Doodgewone Aand – Die Heuwels Fantasties

Inka Kendzia: Jungle Jimmy – Mr Sakitumi

Inka Kendzia : Mr The Girl – Mr Sakitumi

 

Best EDM

 

Ryan Kryger: Trickery – Goodluck (winner)

Ryan Kruger: Dreamcatcher – LCNVL feat. Tailor

Ryan Kruger: Lights out ft JungFreud – PHFat

Ari Kruger: JACK PAROW – Afrikaans is Dood

 

Best Animation

 

Mike Scott: One Million Views – Goldfish (winner)

Louis Minnaar: Skerm – Bittereinder

Neil van Nimwegen: Best Pretenders – The Plastics

Sebastian Borckenhagen: Wild Motion – Miami Horror

 

Best Cinematography

 

Roscoe Vercueil: Sleepwalker – The Parlotones feat Khuli Chana (winner)

Darren Wertheim: Bloubek – Jack Parow

George Loxton: Million Grains of Sand – Farryl Purkiss

Caleb Heymann: In the twilight – aKing

 

Best Rock

 

Ryan Kruger: Prime Circle – Doors (winner)

Louis Minnaar: Van Coke Kartel – Ondier Kom

Ryan Kruger: Taxi Violence – The Turn

Claudio Pavan: The Parlotones – Honey Spiders

 

Best Hip Hop

 

Ninja & Terence Neale: Die Antwoord – Baby’s on fire (winner)

Quinton Lavery: Jack Parow – Bloubek

Ryan Kruger: PHFat – Lights Out ft Jung Freud

Louis Minnaar: Jack Parow – Hosh Tokelosh

 

Best Video for International Artist

 

Terence Neale: Skrillex – Ragga Bomb (winner)

Sebastian Borckenhagen: Miami Horror – Wild Motion

Ryan Kruger: Prime Circle – Doors

Ryan Kruger: ISO – Never Going Back

 

Best Live Coverage of an Event

 

Barry de Villiers: Night Beats – The New World (winner)

Louis Minnaar: Dink Dans Masjien – Bittereinder

 

Best Editing

 

Daniel Morcos: Mondays – Nomadic Orchestra (winner)

Barry de Villiers: A Drop of Water – The Very Wicked

Barry de Villiers: The Very Wicked – Winter Baby

Marte Aasen: Dookoom – Larney Jou Poes

 

Best Original Concept

 

Inka Kendzia: Jungle Jimmy – Mr Sakitumi and the Grrrl (winner)

Daniel Morcos: Best Pretenders – The Plastics

Ryan Kruger: Prime Circle – Doors

Louis Minnar: aKING – The Runaround

 

Best New Director

 

Louis Minnaar: Sofa sufi – Believe in You, Van Coke Kartel – Voor ons stof word, Her Narnian Horse Analogy – Jacob Israel (winner)

Ben Jay Crossman: Rich Bitch – Die Antwoord, BYEBENECO – On the line, Van Coke Kartel – Sweef

Daniel Morcos: Best Pretenders – The Plastics, Mondays – Nomadic Orchestra, Caves – The Plastics

Fausto Becatti: Shadowclub – Dirt and the Rubble, Toya Delazy – Memoriam, Spoek Mathambo – Awufuni

 

Submissions for this year’s awards will be opening during Cape Town Music Week in September. All music videos produced by a South African national and that have been created between October 2014 and October 2015 will be eligible for submission.

 

For more info, go to shortandsweet.tv/music-video-awards.