LOS ANGELES -- (SPW) --

The AICP Awards returns to Los Angeles later this month as the first stop on its 2023 National Tour. Scheduled to take place on July 27 at The Ebell, the event kicks off with a happy hour, with the program to follow. A gala reception will close out the evening’s activities. Ticket information can be found here.

Curators from each AICP Awards competition – the AICP Next Awards, the AICP Post Awards and the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial – will be on hand to discuss the winning work, offer insights into the decision-making process that went into its selection and address ongoing trends in the industry.

“Bringing the AICP Awards to Los Angeles is always an exciting experience,” says AICP President & CEO Matt Miller. “We’re looking forward to bringing our winners to the L.A. advertising and production communities. Our speakers will share some truly insightful observations with our attendees.”

Taking part in the discussion will be Melissa Culligan, AICP Show Curator and Partner/Executive Producer, Epoch Films; Genie Gurnani, AICP Next Awards Influencer Jury President and Editorial Creative Director – Freeform, The Walt Disney Company; Jason Kreher, AICP Show Curator and Chief Creative Officer, North America, Accenture Song; and Paul Martinez, AICP Post Awards Curator and Editor and Founding Partner, Arcade Edit. The program will be moderated by Miller.

The Los Angeles event kicks off the 2023 AICP Awards national tour, with similar events on tap for Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago. Full details will be available soon at www.aicp.com.

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: Cast & Crew, Advertising & Short Form Production; Universal Production Services; Wrapbook; Film Hawaii; Musicbed + Film Supply; NEED Financial Services, Inc.; Sony Pictures Studios and SoStereo.

2023 AICP Awards Sponsors Benefactors include Another Country; Aspen Travel; AwardCore; Cabin Editing Company; Carbon; Colorlab; Company 3; Cut+Run; Cutters; Directors Guild of America; Flavor; Heard City; International Digital Centre, Inc. – IDC; Istros Media Corporation; Kodak Motion Picture Film; LBBonline – Little Black Book; Optimus; SHOOT Magazine / SHOOTonline; Source Shots Slate; S’well; and Whitehouse Post.

2023 AICP Awards Patrons include asche & spencer, BMG Production Music, Island Film Group, Quixote, SAG-AFTRA, Silvercup Studios, The Roots Production Services and Vagabond Production Services.

Flavor created the graphics and design language for all three competitions, with music and sound design produced by Another Country. All showreel editing was performed at Cutters.

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 of  the AICP Show, The AICP Next Awards and The AICP Post 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.