Nick Law, vice chairman/global chief creative officer of R/GA, will serve as the 2017 AICP Next Awards judging chair, and master of ceremonies at the AICP Next Awards presentation on June 6.
This year, reflecting the proliferation of new platforms for brands to tell stories, the AICP Next Awards continue to expand with a new category: Experiential–Live Events/Broadcast. The category honors brand promotion in the moving image produced as a live experience for an active audience, including performances, live commercials, pop-up events and other event-based experiences intended to be experienced in “real-time” by a live audience or distributed for later viewing.
Other categories include: Integrated Campaign, Experiential, Viral/Web Film, Website, Branded Content, Mobile, Cause Marketing, Social, Virtual Reality, and Innovation. Law 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 2017 are:
- Integrated Campaign – Jaime Robinson, co-founder/chief creative officer, Joan
- Branded Content – Jonathan Mildenhall, chief marketing officer, airbnb
- Cause Marketing – Jimmy Smith, chairman/CEO/CCO, Amusement Park Entertainment
- Experiential – Tereasa Surratt, global GCD/executive director of experiential, Ogilvy
- Experiential – Live Events/Broadcast – Kerstin Emhoff, co-founder/president, PRETTYBIRD
- Innovation – Vivian Rosenthal, founder/CEO, SNAPS
- Mobile – Tim Allen, president/chief creative officer, Wolff Olins
- Social – Jill Applebaum, creative strategist/Creative Shop Studio, Facebook
- Viral/Web Film – Susan Credle, global chief creative officer, FCB Worldwide
- Virtual Reality – Chris Milk, co-founder/CEO, WithIn & co-founder, Here Be Dragons
- Website – Winston Binch, chief digital officer, Deutsch North America
“It’s an honor to chair such an accomplished group of people.” said Law. “It will be awesome to spend time with them judging the best, most inventive work and the courageous talent behind it. Here’s to another year of jaw-dropping creativity at the AICP Next Awards.”
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 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 at large will be: Gerry Graf, chief creative officer of Barton F. Graf (and 2014 Next Awards judging chair); Jess Greenwood, VP Content and Partnerships at R/GA; Jeff Kling, chief creative officer at Fallon (and 2016 Next Awards judging chair); Karl Lieberman, executive creative director at Wieden+Kennedy; Tor Myhren, VP, Marketing Communications at Apple; and Rob Reilly, global creative chairman of McCann Worldgroup (and 2015 Next Awards Judging Chair).
“Nick is an expert at synthesizing creativity, strategy and technology,” said Matt Miller, president and CEO of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). “His history of involvement in the Next Awards includes stints as a judge and as a Jury President. We are excited about the energy, perspective and talent he is sure to bring to this year’s Next Awards judging process.”
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 AICP Next Awards will be held at the Tishman Auditorium at The New School. It is one of the tent-pole events of AICP Week, which also includes the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, premiering June 7 at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as AICP Week Base Camp (June 5-7). Base Camp, which is open throughout AICP Week at The Helen Mills Theater at 137 W. 26th Street, will feature thought provoking seminars, exhibitions, and serve as a gathering spot for AICP Week attendees.
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.
The Call for Entries for the AICP Next Awards and the AICP Show are now open here. The deadline to enter work is March 3.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More