AICE has just issued its Call for Entries for the 2017 AICE Awards. The international post production trade association’s annual competition will celebrate its 16thanniversary as it recognizes creative and craft excellence in a wide variety of categories. The AICE Awards presentation is scheduled for Thursday, May 11, 2017, and will be held at Capitale, the soaring event space located on The Bowery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The deadline for entries is Monday, February 6, 2017. Full descriptions of categories and entry requirements can be found at http://www.awardcore.com/aice/login.php.
The 2017 AICE Awards will welcome entries for editorial excellence in product categories such as automotive, technique categories such as comedy or performance and genre categories such as music video. It also includes craft categories for original music composition, audio mixing, sound design, color grading, graphic design and visual effects, and recognizes the best work emanating from its local chapters with Best of Chapter awards. Each presentation culminates with a Best of Show winner, which was presented at the 2016 Show to VFX Supervisor and Lead Flame Artist Andy Rafael Barrios of A52 for his work on a TV spot for Honda.
The neoclassical landmark that houses Capitale originally opened in 1895 as The Bowery Savings Bank, designed by the renowned architect Stanford White. Adorned with Corinthian columns, Venetian glass, marble mosaic floors and 65-foot ceilings, it underwent a million-dollar renovation in 2013.
“We’ve continued to evolve the AICE Awards with each passing year to reflect the changing scope of work our members are doing,” says AICE Executive Director Rachelle Madden, “and we’ll be announcing some new entry categories soon. The AICE Awards are an important way to underscore the value independent post production companies provide their clients. We’ve always held that the most creative people in our industry – and the best creative thinking – are found at independent shops. Our annual awards celebrates this creativity and ingenuity.”
The 2017 presentation will also honor the latest inductee to the AICE Hall of Fame and recognize the winners of “The Lev,” the Grand Prizes in the associations’ International Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for assistants. Members of AICE’s New York Chapter Board are hosting the event. The 2017 show logo was created by MPC in New York and designed by Daniel Uribe.
About AICE
AICE is the marketing communications post production association whose members are independent creative editorial, design, visual effects, color grading, audio, music and finishing companies. It is dedicated to the advancement and promotion of these companies and the essential role their artists and producers play in the media creation process. With chapters in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, Texas and Toronto, AICE maintains a strong collective voice in the commercial advertising and marketing industry. Among its signature initiatives and programs are the annual AICE Awards, which highlights creative excellence among its member companies; the regular publication of recommended practices, white papers and advisories on relevant trends and developments in post production; and active participation with other industry organizations on the establishment of standards and best practices for the post production process. For more information, visit www.aice.org.www.aice.org.
