AICE has announced its call for entries for the 14th annual AICE Awards, a creative competition for the postproduction industry in the US and Canada. The 2015 AICE Awards includes 21 categories: 16 for editorial and five for other post production crafts such as audio mixing, color grading, design, sound design and visual effects. Winners will be announced at the AICE Awards Show, set for Thursday, May 14, 2015, at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.
The deadline for entries is Monday, February 2, 2015. Full descriptions of categories and entry requirements can be found here.
This will mark the second year the AICE Awards will be honoring a Best in Show winner, which will be selected from among all the category winners by the AICE Awards Curatorial Committee. In 2014 the committee presented the inaugural Best of Show award to editor Brian Lagerhausen of Beast in San Francisco for his work on the Google 60-second spot titled “Fearless.”
In addition, the latest inductees to the AICE Hall of Fame will be honored at the awards presentation, which is being hosted by the association’s Los Angeles chapter, led by jumP EP Betsy Beale. Heading up the AICE Awards Committee are Craig Lewandowski, an editor and partner at Utopic in Chicago; Chris Franklin, editor and owner of Big Sky Editorial in New York; and Bob Spector, editor at Beast in San Francisco.
“As the industry’s only awards program to focus exclusively on the work of postproduction artists, the annual AICE Awards is an opportunity for our community to recognize the contribution editors, colorists, audio engineers, visual effects artists and designers make to the success of a piece of advertising content,” said AICE executive director Rachelle Madden. “Our competition’s growth and expansion over the years only serves to underscore how critical these contributions are to the content creation process for agencies and brands.”
Austrian activist wins privacy/targeted advertising case against Meta over personal data on sexual orientation
The European Union's top court said Friday that social media company Meta can't use public information about a user's sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc's strict data privacy rules.
The decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg is a victory for Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, who has been a thorn in the side of Big Tech companies over their compliance with 27-nation bloc's data privacy rules.
The EU court issued its ruling after Austria's supreme court asked for guidance in Schrems' case on how to apply the privacy rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR.
Schrems had complained that Facebook had processed personal data including information about his sexual orientation to target him with online advertising, even though he had never disclosed on his account that he was gay. The only time he had publicly revealed this fact was during a panel discussion.
"An online social network such as Facebook cannot use all of the personal data obtained for the purposes of targeted advertising, without restriction as to time and without distinction as to type of data," the court said in a press release summarizing its decision.
Even though Schrems revealed he was gay in the panel discussion, that "does not authorise the operator of an online social network platform to process other data relating to his sexual orientation, obtained, as the case may be, outside that platform, with a view to aggregating and analysing those data, in order to offer him personalised advertising."
Meta said it was awaiting publication of the court's full judgment and that it "takes privacy very seriously."
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