AICE has just issued its Call for Entries for the 2017 AICE Awards. The international postproduction trade association’s annual competition will celebrate its 16th anniversary 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 here.
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,” said Rachelle Madden, AICE executive director, “and we’ll be announcing some new entry categories soon. The AICE Awards are an important way to underscore the value independent postproduction 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.
South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users
South Korea's privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers.
It was the latest in a series of penalties against Meta by South Korean authorities in recent years as they increase their scrutiny of how the company, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, handles private information.
Following a four-year investigation, South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission concluded that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive information about around 980,000 Facebook users, including their religion, political views and whether they were in same-sex unions, from July 2018 to March 2022.
It said the company shared the data with around 4,000 advertisers.
South Korea's privacy law provides strict protection for information related to personal beliefs, political views and sexual behavior, and bars companies from processing or using such data without the specific consent of the person involved.
The commission said Meta amassed sensitive information by analyzing the pages the Facebook users liked or the advertisements they clicked on.
The company categorized ads to identify users interested in themes such as specific religions, same-sex and transgender issues, and issues related to North Korean escapees, said Lee Eun Jung, a director at the commission who led the investigation on Meta.
"While Meta collected this sensitive information and used it for individualized services, they made only vague mentions of this use in their data policy and did not obtain specific consent," Lee said.
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