The AICP Awards tour heads into the Bay Area on October 12. 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 discussed by a panel of industry leaders.
Speakers at the panel will include 2022 AICP Post Awards Chairperson Yvette Cobarrubias, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Cosmo Street; Margaret Johnson, Chief Creative Officer and Partner, Goodby Silverstein & Partners; Jose Luis Martinez, Creative Director, Meta (winner of the Advertising Excellence/Campaign honor and AICP Post Awards’ Best in Show); and 2022 AICP Show Chairperson Mal Ward, Managing Director/Partner of Arts & Sciences. Led by moderator Matt Miller, President and CEO of AICP, the panel will discuss the winning work and offer insights into the decision-making process for selecting the honored work as well as trends in the industry.
The San Francisco event is the third stop on this year’s AICP Awards National Tour, after sold-out gatherings in Los Angeles in July and Atlanta last month. The next stops up are Dallas on November 3 and Chicago on November 17. For more details go to www.aicp.com.
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 now; for more information, click here.
Sponsors help make all of the AICP awards competitions and events possible. AICP Partners and Supporting Partners, who support all AICP events throughout the year, are: CAPS, Universal, Wrapbook, Film Hawaii, Film Supply + Musicbed and TEAMS.
AICP Awards Show Benefactors include Arcade, Aspen Travel, AwardCore, Color Lab, Cosmo Street, Directors Guild of America, Heard City, IDC, Istros Media Corporation, Kodak, Little Black Book, Optimus, SHOOT Magazine | SHOOTonline, Source | SHOTS | Slate, Squeak E. Clean, S’well, The Colonie, The Mill and Whitehouse Post.
AICP Awards Show Patrons include BMG, Florida Office of Film & Entertainment, Hello World, Need Financial Services, SAG-AFTRA, The ROOTS.TV and Vagabond. The Mill created the graphics and design language for all three competitions, and Squeak E. Clean provided the music and sound design for all elements.
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 post production 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. All individual works and each year’s shows in their entirety can be viewed exclusively at www.aicpawards.com, the AICP Awards Archive website, while winners of the AICP Post winners can be viewed at www.aicppostawards.com.
About AICP
AICP represents, exclusively, the interests of independent companies that specialize in the production and post production of commercials in various media—film, video, digital—for advertisers and agencies. The association, with national offices in New York and Los Angeles as well as regional chapters across the country, serves as a strong collective voice for this $5 billion-plus industry. Founded in 1972, AICP assists its members by: disseminating information; representing production and post production companies within the advertising community in business circles, in labor negotiations and dealing with employment issues; and before governmental officials; developing industry standards and tools; providing professional development; and marketing American production and post production via events and awards shows.
