The Monkeys

Our very own production powerhouse, back-to-back Cannes Grand Prix winning, Head of Production Penny Brown has been selected to judge Direction and Casting at this year’s shots Awards. Go Penny! Get those entries in! 🙌🏼 🐵 Accenture Song

🐵 🏆 GRAND PRIX!!! 'Play it safe' for Sydney Opera House has been awarded the Film Grand Prix at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity! Thank you to Tim Minchin, Kim Gehrig, Pip Smart and Michael Ritchie at Revolver x Somesuch, with ARC EDIT & Trim Editing, the wonderful team at Sydney Opera House, Joanne Been, Stephen O'Connor, Jade McKellar, our Monkeys team of Tara Ford, Scott Nowell, Barbara Humphries, Jake Ausburn, Alex Polglase, Penny Brown, Izzy Robertson, Kezia Quinn, Mark Green, Matthew Michael and Fizzy Keeble and music production and composition by Elliott Wheeler at Turning Studios and Simon Kane at MassiveMusic 👏 👏 👏

Looking back at the week that was, on Monday Cannes kicked off with standing-room only for our first two main stage sessions of the festival. Nick Law talked about the power of creativity as the great connecter, using The Monkeys 'Play it Safe' for Sydney Opera House as an example - and David Droga joined Mira Murati, CTO of OpenAI, for a discussion on redefining the boundaries of creativity with AI as a collaborator. Accenture Song

Excited to see our projects ‘Play it Safe’ for Sydney Opera House, ‘England Bitter’ for Carlton & United Breweries, ‘Benee Bagels’ for ASB Bank & Youthline NZ, ‘Hello Christmas’ for Telstra & ‘Sport is our Sport’ for TAB receive Cannes shortlists across Film, Film Craft, Media, Audio & Radio, Entertainment, Entertainment for Music, Entertainment for Sport, PR & Direct. Thank you to our team and partners, including Revolver, FINCH Company, EXIT Films, Assembly, Liquid Studios, Squeak E. Clean Studios, MassiveMusic, ARC EDIT, the Editors, Trim Editing, Blockhead Studios & Alt.vfx. Fingers crossed for the week to come! 🤞🦁 Accenture Song

Excited to see our projects ‘Play it Safe’ for Sydney Opera House, ‘England Bitter’ for Carlton & United Breweries, ‘Benee Bagels’ for ASB Bank & Youthline NZ, ‘Hello Christmas’ for Telstra & ‘Sport is our Sport’ for TAB receive Cannes shortlists across Film, Film Craft, Media, Audio & Radio, Entertainment, Entertainment for Music, Entertainment for Sport, PR & Direct. Thank you to our team and partners, including Revolver, FINCH Company, EXIT Films, Assembly, Liquid Studios, Squeak E. Clean Studios & MassiveMusic. Fingers crossed for the week to come! 🤞 Accenture Song

Thank you Matt Murphy and Natalie Lam for including Sydney Opera House "Play it Safe" in Ad Age Cannes 2024 Winner Predictions: Matt: " The storytelling in the song is matched only by all the amazing details in the craft. “Play It Safe” is the right message, albeit tongue in cheek, to an industry ripe for change." Natalie: "Every scene, every frame, every detail, every performance—it’s all perfect. To me, this is the gold standard of perfection, craft and epicness"

WARC have just announced their global Grand Prix winners, amongst them, our entry for The Government of Tuvalu - "How can a country exist without land?" which picked up a global Grand Prix for Strategic Thinking. Congratulations to the planning team Kit Lansdell, Hugh Munro and the rest of the Tuvalu project team The Monkeys & Accenture Song 

Exciting news coming from the Sydney Monkeys office with two promotions! Milla McPhee has been appointed to the role of Chief Strategy Officer & Ben de Castella to Head of Planning. Congratulations Milla & Ben! 👏🐵🎉 https://shorturl.at/N6v1E

Thrilled to hear we have an incredible 51 AWARD Award finalists across 8 clients - Mountain Goat Beer, Telstra, Sydney Opera House, Meat & Livestock Australia, TAB, Carlton & United Breweries, The Government of Tuvalu, ASB Bank & Youthline. Huge congratulations to all involved who worked tirelessly to bring our ideas to life, especially our clients and production partners. Studio Pancho Revolver EXIT Films Rabbit Content Assembly FINCH Company MOFA Collider Accenture Song

Excited to hear we have been awarded CICLOPE Asia Agency of the Year (shout out to our amazing production team!) as well as a Grand Prix & winner for Direction for Play it Safe Sydney Opera House. Congratulations also to Play it Safe director Kim Gehrig – who won Director of the Year, Revolver who won Production Company of the Year, and Turning Studios and MassiveMusic who won for music for Play it Safe!    Shout out also to Mark Molloy and EXIT Films for their win in Direction for Telstra Footy Country. 🏆🎬🎻🕺🏉 Accenture Song