The 2020 AMP Awards for Music & Sound–the industry’s only non-profit juried competition honoring excellence in music and sound for brands across all media–has announced its call for entries and the opening of its online entry portal. The portal, which features an updated design for 2020, can be found here. It’s now accepting submissions across its 14 categories.
The deadline for submitting entries for the AMP Awards is Monday, March 9. An early bird discount of 30 percent is available for all AMP members in good standing for entries submitted by Monday, January 27. All AMP members receive a 20 percent discount on entry fees.
To be eligible for the 2020 AMP Awards, entries must have first aired or been made public between March 1, 2019 and March 1, 2020. Detailed information on technical specs, categories, rules and fees can be found on the entry portal. A full list of categories includes:
Best Original Song
Best Original Score
Outstanding Adaptation/Arrangement
Best Use of Licensed Pre-Existing Recording
Best Sound Design
Ryan Barkan Award for Most Effective Use of Music in a Campaign
Best Use of Music in a Promo or Trailer for Film, TV, or Game
Best Use of Music and Sound in New Media Marketing (Case Study Submission)
Best Use of Music and Sound in Experiential/Events (Case Study Submission)
Most Innovative Process & Execution (Case Study Submission)
Best Artist + Brand Partnership (Case Study Submission)
Outstanding Mix
Best Execution of a Sonic Logo/ID
Excellence in Audio-Only Marketing
The AMP Awards focuses exclusively on the unique contributions made to the industry by creators and producers of music and sound. Judged by agency, label, publishing and music production professionals, it honors one of its 14 category winners with its coveted Best In Show trophy, chosen by its Curatorial Committee.
Elad Marish of Swell Music + Sound, national board president of the Association of Music Producers, sponsors of the AMP Awards, said, “We’re lining up our Show Chair, our Curatorial Committee and our annual Hall of Fame honoree, as well as researching some emerging artists and DJs to provide the beat of our show. Expect lots more news from the AMP Awards in the coming weeks!”
Winners will be presented at a gala awards ceremony scheduled for Tuesday, May 19 at Sony Hall in New York. Tickets will be available on the AICP website here.
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this โ and those many "Babadook" memes โ unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables โ "Bah-Bah-Doooook" โ an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More