The results are in, and it’s time to reveal the winners of our Creative Talent Contest. Open since January 2009 to all students enrolled at Apple Authorised Training Centres for Education (AATCe), the contest gave some of Europe’s most talented students the chance to showcase their video and music production skills using Final Cut Studio and Logic Studio. We received hundreds of applications, and the quality of the entries was extremely high.

After careful deliberation, the Judging Panel decided on six winners, three in the Video category and three in the Audio category. Check out the winning entries further down the page. Each of the winners received fantastic prizes from the Apple product range, in addition to free AATCe certification and a trip to Apple’s London HQ for the Awards Ceremony. All finalists were awarded mini prizes and the top four songs and movies are now available for download from the iTunes Store.

Video category nominations:

	Film	Author	School
1st Prize	Bitacora	Juan Carlos Somalinos Martinez	Escuela Trazos, Spain
2nd Prize	Johan Johansen Hansen	Hannah Kollsete	NISS, Norway
3rd Prize	Echo	Christopher Wollebekk	NISS, Norway
4th Prize	Le Jour du Permis (facebook)	Ambroise Carminati	EICAR, France

Video Winner - Juan Carlos

Audio category nominations:

	Song	Author	School
1st Prize	Bit of This and That	Krizia Bassanini	Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, UK
2nd Prize	Plain Sight	Tom Prendergast	Doncaster College, UK
3rd Prize	The Reason	Simon Konzett	Jazzseminar Dornbirn, Austria
4th Prize	Try Again	Xenia Ghali	University of Surrey, UK

Audio Winner - Krizia Bassanini

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you very much to everyone who entered the competition. One more thing: did you know that 2009 has been designated the “Year of Creativity” by the European Commission? Visit their website at www.create2009.europa.eu and take inspiration to “Imagine. Create. Innovate”.