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Like aunties marveling over newborns, Boards is oh-so proud to bring you our 11th annual First Boards Awards. Join us as we coo and fuss over the finest up-and-coming directors, editors, composers, agency producers, mograph and post-production artists, and then lament how fast they're growing up.

Once again, much gratitude and appreciation goes out to our judges for their time and effort in judging the entries across the awards' six categories: directors, editors, composers, post-production, mograph and agency producers. Congratulations to all of this year's winners and finalists. The complete list of judges follows the winner and finalist profiles below.

Directors
WINNER: Sean Pecknold, Rokkit
2. AB/CD/CD, Paranoid US/Rokkit
3. Cole Webley, Über Content
4. Andreas Nilsson, Furlined/Blink
5. Jessica Sanders, Epoch Films
6. Jake Lunt, Independent Films
7. Lewis, Suneeva
8. The Hoffman Bros, Harvest Films
9. Matias Moltrasio, Landia (tie)
9. Tim Saccenti, Partizan (tie)
10. Richard Bullock, Hungry Man

Editors
WINNER: Ben Harrex, Final Cut
2. Logan Hefflefinger, Final Cut
3. Dahkil Hausif, Spot Welders

Composers
WINNER: Jason Brando O’Farrell Ciciola, Apollo Studios
2. Benny Sings, Sizzer
3. Michael Mooney, Apollo Studios

Post-Production
WINNER: Ruben Vandebroek, The Mill
2. Chris Bayol, The Mill
3. James Cornwell, Absolute Post

Motion Graphics
WINNER: Carlos Stevens, Superfad

Agency Producer
WINNER: Aaron Kovan, GSD&M Idea City

This year's judges were:

Directors
Mauro Alencar: Founder, Dojo, SF
Mike Eastwood: EP, Stardust
Cedric Gairard: Executive Producer, Nexus Productions
Maximiliano Itzkoff: Executive Creative Director, Del Campo Nazca S&S
Davud Karbassioun: Head of Film Execution, BBH, London
Jonathan Kneebone: Co-founder, The Glue Society, Sydney
David Kolbusz: ACD, Goodby Silverstein + Partners, SF
Sebastian Visco: Creative Director, Madre
Logan Wilmont: Co-founder, Chief Ideas Architect, People Ideas + Culture
Dan "Ziggy" Zigulich: EVP/Director of Creative Production Services, Draftfcb

Editors
Ben Applebaum: Creative Director, Colangelo
Geoff Edwards: Founder, Dojo, SF
Nate Hackstock: CD West Coast, Sapient Interactive
Lauren Schwartz: Executive Producer, BOOM
Julia Sonder Patchin: Executive Producer, Phoenix/Bonfire Editorial

Composers
Michael Frick: EP/Founder, Mophonics, LA/NY
Gabe McDonough: Sr. Producer of Music/Creative Integration, DDB, Chicago
Simon Pyke: Founder/Composer, Freefarm
Joel Simon: President/CEO, JSM Music

Post-Production
Kaan Atilla: Creative Director, Motion Theory
Tanya Cohen: Executive Producer, Digital Domain Commercials
Sean Henry: Executive Producer, Calabash Animation
Justin Lane: Executive Producer, MassMarket
Steve Schofield: Partner, Zoic Studios
Gary Thomas: Managing Director, Crush

Motion Graphics
Mark Elwood: Head of Design and Fallon Film, Fallon, London
Brien Holman: Creative Director, Royale
Scott Matz: Partner/Creative Director, Thornberg & Forester
Vivian Rosenthal: Co-founder, Tronic
Adina Sales: Executive Producer, Blacklist

Agency Producer
Frank Brooks: Director of Content Production, DDB West
Fabrice Brovelli: Head of TV, BETC Euro RSCG, Paris
Bennett McCarroll: EVP/Broadcast Production, Grey, New York
Andy Gulliman: Executive Broadcast Director, Saatchi & Saatchi, London