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CHICAGO-- As the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) embarks on its 30th year, the organization is honoring two professionals with The Jay B. Eisenstat Award, which is presented...

This museum was founded on the premise that art is part of everyday life," relates Larry Kardish, senior curator of the Department of Film and Video at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York...

The first AICP Show took place in June of 1992, and with it a 20-year-old pipe dream came true. Early on in the life of the AICP, many members were keen on the idea of an event honoring the...

Jon Kamen was national chairman of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers in 1992, the first year of the AICP Show. At the time, he wrote in the event's program book, "The awards...

"The Art and Technique of the American Television Commercial" is reflected and embodied in the annual Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Show. As AICP president Matt Miller...

Animation

FOX Sports, "Randy's Secret" (:30). Vinton Studios, Portland, Ore. David Daniels, animation director; Brad Schiff and Kevin MacLean, animators; Mike McNamara, director;...

SHOOT is proud to have been involved with the AICP Show since its inception. I remember when Jon Kamen, AICP national chairman at the time, called to tell me about the AICP's "kind of crazy idea...

Making real people suddenly turn into the surreal, two-dimensional Nintendo Game Boy Advance characters required some pretty wild filming and post techniques in "Concourse," via Leo Burnett USA,...

SHORT CUTS

Radium, San Francisco and Santa Monica, completed visual effects on two spots for Qwest and DDB Chicago. "Powerful Home" (:30) and "Late Night" (:60) feature CG "...

Call it a personal bias, but the public service and low-budget categories at this year's AICP Show caught my eye, because each had an honoree that had first gained widespread industry exposure in...