Lapiz takes Best of Show at 11th Ad Age Hispanic Creative Awards.

Procter & Gamble’s Pepto-Bismol TV campaign “Love and Hate” by Lapiz won Best of Show/Campaign with two TV spots showing food behaving badly with the message “Don’t let the food you love hurt you.” Lapiz also won a gold and a silver award for the individual spots “Empanada” and “Cheesecake.”

Cine Las Americas picked up Best of Show/Single Ad for “Estratosfera”, a spot that promoted a Latin film festival by featuring a delusional speech by former Argentine president Carlos Menem promising to create space shuttles to make the point “If this is our reality, imagine our films.” Other LatinWorks ads from the same campaign, all featuring zany but genuine footage from Latin American leaders’ speeches, won silver and bronze prizes for radio spots “Muro” about Mexico and “Coca” (Venezuela) and a TV silver for “Fujishock” (Peru).

LatinWorks also won a silver award for Mars’ Starburst spot “Llama,” and two silver magazine and one newspaper bronze prizes for Active Life’s campaign against childhood obesity featuring fat toys. Lapiz also won a gold prize for Partnership for a Drug-Free America, and a bronze for Chase bank.

The winners were announced at an awards show September 18th in Miami at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, and will be featured in a special report in Advertising Age magazine Sept. 21. All the winning work can be seen on Adage.com. Ad Age conducts the Hispanic Creative Advertising Awards in partnership with the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA).

“The creative excellence honored this year was exceptional,” said Gisela Girard, AHAA chair and president of Creative Civilization. “This was truly some of the best work in advertising today. It is remarkable to see the evolution in Hispanic-specialized advertising during AHAA’s 11-year partnership with Ad Age. The originality and ingenuity of the ads and campaigns was exciting to watch and is truly reflective of the quality work being delivered in our industry. AHAA celebrates the winners and entrants in this year’s Hispanic Creative Advertising Awards.”

LatinWorks and Lapiz were the two most-awarded agencies in this year’s awards, followed by Grupo Gallegos, JWT San Juan and Conill.

Grupo Gallegos’ work for Comcast’s CableLatino was a close contender for Best of Show after winning two golds, a silver and a bronze. The agency was also awarded a gold and silver for TV spots for the California Milk Processor Board.

JWT San Juan picked up three gold awards, for Cadbury Adams’ long-lasting Stride gum, Amnesty International and the Susan G. Komen breast cancer awareness organization.

Conill won seven awards, including five for Toyota, and an innovative campaign for T-Mobile USA that appealed to soccer fans by letting them text advice to their teams that appeared to be relayed to players on the field in real time.

Other golds went to independent agency Adrenalina for Tecate Light, to Casanova Pendrill for its work on UNICEF’s TAP Project and to MTV Tr3s for a humorous spot teaching the MTV Tr3s version of Spanglish.

Awards were also won by Alma DDB, Argus, Beans2Beans, The Bravo Group, CreativeOnDemand, De La Cruz & Assoc., Dieste, Draftfcb Puerto Rico, EJE Sociedad Publicitaria, Scpf, The Vidal Partnership and Zubi Advertising.

This year’s jury was headed by Mike Alfonseca, the founder and creative director of independent agency Kraneo in the Dominican Republic, and included Mauricio Galvan, managing partner/executive creative director at The Vidal Partnership and outgoing president of Circulo Creativo; Daniel Marrero, founder of CreativeOnDemand and chairman of AHAA’s creative committee; Carlos Tourne, chief creative officer of Dieste; Carlos Boughton, brand director for Tecate equity and Rebeca Vargas, SVP, marketing director, multicultural segment head at JPMorgan Chase. The interactive category was judged by a separate jury of digital experts consisting of Miguel Angel Calderon, creative director of GrupoW in Mexico; Andrea Arnau, director of interactive at Alma DDB and Eduardo Cintron, a creative director at Lapiz.