Owner, Director & Founder at Flamboyant ParadiseDirector at Bitt Animation & 1st Ave MachineCannes Lions Industry Craft Jury 2022Founder and Editor in Chief theuncoolhunter.comJavier Lourenço is an award winning animation and mixed media director focused on provocative comedy storytelling and outstanding art direction.His distinctive style is based on the creation of incredible characters within their unique worlds.After graduated with a degree in Advertising from USAL Buenos Aires, he started his career as an art director and ECD in high-profile agencies such as Lautrec/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi, Euro RSCG, DDB, Del Campo/Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi and in El Cielo de Agulla & Baccetti. In 2006 he became a director working at the innovative creative studio Amautalab based in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires. In 2009 founded the collective of artists Flamboyant Paradise while he worked as director at 4Humans, Gizmo, Bitt and many reps around the globe.As a filmmaker, his short film “The Blindness of the Woods”, was an official selection for Sundance amongst other festivals and was awarded in Milano Film Festival and in Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and his prolific works have been exhibited in international festivals such as Flux (Los Angeles), Pictoplasma (Berlin), Art Futura, Bafici Buenos Aires and Arcalt (France).As an advertising creative and director he won over 200 international awards such as Cannes Lions, Clio, One Show, New York Festivals, London IAA, Fiap, Cíclope Festival, USH Idea Awards, Young Guns, El Ojo de Iberoamérica, amongst others. In 2018 he won the Webby Awards #The YouTube Ad of the Year with Gatorade’s Heart of a Lio short film.He worked for significant brands such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Ikea, Procter & Gamble, Warner Games, California Milk Processor Board (Got Milk?), Energizer, MTV, Pepsico, Fox Networks, Supercell, Toyota, BT Mobile, Havaianas, ZTE Mobile, Nat Geo, Mondelez, Ford, Mad Decent Records, NHK Japan and Mad Decent Records, among many others.Specialties: Art direction, Animation techniques, Creative direction.