The AICP Awards tour concludes its national rollout as the association’s Midwest chapter presents a panel discussion and screening on Thursday, November 9. Taking place at The Old Post Office, the event will feature a selection of top winners from AICP’s three 2023 competitions–The AICP Post Awards, the AICP Next Awards, and the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial–which will be screened and analyzed by a quartet of industry leaders.
The event kicks off at 6 pm with a happy hour, followed by the awards presentation at 7 pm, and concludes with a reception. Tickets are available; for more information, click here.
Speakers at the panel will include 2023 Next Awards and AICP Show winner Gordy Sang, co-founder/co-chief creative officer, Quality Meats; Lara Herzer, executive creative director, Dentsu; Kathleen Tax Wille, chief creative officer, Solve; and Next Awards Integrated Campaign category judge Lewis Williams, EVP, head of brand impact, Weber Shandwick.
Moderated by Matt Miller, president and CEO of AICP, the evening will include montages of the winning work from each show, with the panel reviewing selected winners, offering insights into what made them rise to the top of their respective categories and share their viewpoints on key trends in the industry.
“We’re excited to bring the AICP Awards back to Chicago,” said Lisa Masseur of Tessa Films, president of AICP’s Midwest Chapter. “We’re a tight knit community here, and the response we get to this event always serves to remind all of us that we’re focused on a common purpose, which is to maintain the highest standards of creative and production and post production excellence. This will be a night for everyone to not only learn from the best work, but celebrate it as well.”
The Chicago installment of the AICP Awards Tour will be the final stop after sold-out gatherings in Los Angeles and San Francisco, as well as screenings in Dallas and Mexico City set for November 2.
Flavor created the graphics and design language for all three competitions, with music and sound design produced by Another Country. All showreel editing was performed at Cutters.
Established in 1992, The AICP Show is one of the most important advertising showcases in the world that’s dedicated to excellence in craft. The AICP Post Awards, which debuted in 2001, honors excellence in a wide range of postproduction crafts and disciplines. And the AICP Next Awards, launched in 2007, highlights the winners of the 11 Next categories, which honor innovative marketing communications.
Honorees in each of the AICP Awards competitions are preserved in The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film’s state of the art archives for future generations to study and are available for use or exhibition by the museum’s curators.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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