Matt Miller, president and CEO of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), has announced that Rob Reilly, global creative chairman of McCann Worldgroup, will serve as the 2015 AICP Next Awards judging chair, and emcee at the AICP Next Awards presentation.
The AICP Next Awards will be held at the NYU Skirball Center on June 2, 2015. It is the kickoff event for AICP Week, which also includes the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, and the AICP Week Base Camp (AICP Week runs June 2-4). The call for entries for the AICP Next Awards and the AICP Show are now open here.
“The AICP Next Awards celebrates the best ideas. Ones that define what’s possible and showcase how brands connect with consumers on all the platforms,” Reilly said.
The AICP Next Awards honor advertising across eight categories: Integrated Campaign, Viral/Web Film, Website/Microsite, Product Integration, Experiential, Mobile, Social and Cause Marketing. Reilly has selected the Jury Presidents for each category, who will in turn select the judges for that discipline. Serving as AICP Next Awards jury presidents for 2015 are:
Integrated Campaign – Tor Myhren, worldwide chief creative officer, Grey
Cause Marketing – David Rolfe, director of integrated production, BBDO
Experiential – Nick Law, chief creative officer, R/GA
Mobile – Jaime Robinson, executive creative director, Pereira + O’Dell
Product Integration – Jennifer Golub, executive director of content, Imagine Dragons
Social – Colleen DeCourcy, co-global executive creative cirector, Wieden + Kennedy
Viral/Web Film – Jeff Kling, chief creative officer, Fallon
Website/Microsite – Benjamin Palmer, chairman, The Barbarian Group
In addition to selecting the judges for their respective categories, the jury presidents serve on a Curatorial Committee that selects the Most Next Award (the top prize for the Next Awards) from among all of the categories, as well as review the findings of each jury to ensure proper eligibility and appropriateness to category. Joining the jury presidents as curators will be Gerry Graf, founder and chief creative officer of Barton F. Graf 9000 (and a past Next Awards judging chair) and Tiffany Rolfe, partner/chief content officer at Co:Create (and a past jury president of the Cause Marketing category).
“Rob has a long history of innovative, groundbreaking work,” added Miller. “His involvement in the Next Awards includes stints as a judge and as a jury president. This past experience makes him the perfect fit for the role of judging chair.”
At the AICP Next Awards presentation, winners of the Integrated Campaign category present cases studies exploring the creative and strategic thinking behind each winning piece. The work of the AICP Next Awards winners, along with that of the honorees of the AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, becomes a part of the archives of The Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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 — and those many "Babadook" memes — 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 — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — 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