This is one of the genuine highlights of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

The Showcase features the very best new directing talent, identified by our offices around the world, and through the relationships we have with key internet sites.

Notable directors who have appeared in the Showcase include Fredrik Bond, Chris Cunningham, Nicolai Fuglsig, Jonathan Glazer, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Danny Kleinman, David LaChapelle, Chris Palmer, The Perlorian Brothers, Jason Reitman, Mark Romanek, Tarsem, Traktor, Kinka Usher, and Ivan Zacharias.

We wrap each Showcase around a theme. Over the years we’ve brought the theme to life with on-stage performances in the main Cannes auditorium, by the likes of Cirque de Soleil, Fuerzabruta and the dancers from the film ‘Rize’. This year’s Showcase was introduced by Marc Price, the “£45 Feature Film” director.

We now have our own New Directors’ Showcase Channel on YouTube. You can see this year’s Showcase on the Channel by going to WATCH NDS above. You can comment on the directors featured.  And we’re uploading the work of all directors who’ve appeared on the Showcase since it began in 1991. You can comment and rate this work too. You can also nominate new directors for next year’s NDS.

Next year’s New Directors’ Showcase – the twentieth - is scheduled to take place in Cannes on Thursday 24th June 2010. Download How to Enter NDS 2010 (PDF).