The AICP Awards tour heads into the Bay Area on October 11 with a panel discussion and screening. The event will be held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, and a selection of top winners from AICP’s three competitions–The AICP Post Awards, the AICP Next Awards, and the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial–will be screened and analyzed by a quintet of industry leaders.
Speakers at the panel will include 2023 AICP Show chairperson Sally Campbell, global CEO & founding partner, Somesuch; Margaret Johnson, a past AICP Show curator and current chief creative officer and partner, Goodby Silverstein & Partners; Jason Kreher, a 2023 AICP Show curator and chief creative officer, North America, Accenture Song; Hillary Coate, a past AICP Show curator who’s head of integrated production, Venables Bell & Partners; and Carol Dunn, a 2023 AICP Show curator, AMP National Board president and executive producer at Human.
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.
The event kicks off at 6 pm with a happy hour, followed by the Awards presentation at 7 pm, and concludes with a reception. The Exploratorium is located at Pier 15 on The Embarcadero. Tickets are available; for more information, click here.
The San Francisco event is the second stop on this year’s AICP Awards national tour, after a sold-out event in Los Angeles in July. The next stops on the Tour include Dallas and Mexico City, both set for November 2, and Chicago on November 9. For more details on these events, click here.
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 at the AICP Show and The AICP Next Awards 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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