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    AMP Awards competition issues call for entries

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    NEW YORK --

    The 2019 AMP Awards are off and running as the competition’s official call for entries portal is now open and ready to accept submissions. Sponsored by the Association of Music Producers, the AMP Awards are advertising’s only juried, non-profit competition dedicated to honoring achievements in music and sound in all media.

    To enter this year’s competition, visit the portal here.

    The AMP Awards has set up a tiered system of entry deadlines and fees, with an early bird deadline of January 25 for AMP members in good standing; entries submitted by this date will receive a significant discount on their entry fees. The general entry deadline is set for Friday, March 1.

    Entries are welcome from music companies, audio post houses, ad agencies, marketers, labels, publishing companies and any entity involved in the providing music and sound for advertising, branding and marketing content. Full details on entry deadlines, requirements and fees can be found on the AMP Awards entry portal.

    To be eligible for the 2019 AMP Awards, work must have first been aired or released publicly between March 1, 2018 and March 1, 2019.

    Judged by members of the Association of Music Producers along with a Curatorial Committee comprised of agency, label, publishing and music production professionals, the awards will present trophies in 14 unique categories as well as a Best In Show honor. Entries are now being accepted for the following categories:

    • Best Original Song
    • Best Original Score
    • Outstanding Adaptation / Arrangement
    • Best Use of a Licensed Pre-Existing Recording
    • Best Sound Design
    • 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

    Excellence in Audio-Only Marketing represents an expansion of the AMP Awards’ former radio category. It’s designed for non-synced, audio-only commercial or promotional content whose success and impact on the listener are a direct result of its creativity, production and sound. Entries for this category can range from radio ads to branded podcasts to music and sound created for mobile devices or IoT uses.

    The AMP Awards honors will be presented at a gala presentation set for Tuesday, May 21, at Sony Hall in New York City. Formerly the Diamond Horseshoe, the venue, located in the Paramount Hotel just off Times Square, was the site of the 2017 AMP Awards show. Among the highlights of the event will be the presentation of the AMP Hall of Fame trophy, presented to an innovative marketer in recognition of its use of music and sound in building strong consumer perceptions.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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