Executive producer Bryan Farhy and director Wayne Holloway have exited bicoastal Basecamp Entertainment….Curious Pictures, New York, has signed design and directorial collective panOptic for spots….Sydney, Australia-based director Paul Middleditch has joined bicoastal Public Works for exclusive commercial representation in North America….Director Brad Steward and executive producer Amber Ventris have teamed to launch Crova, a production house with offices in Santa Monica, and Portland, Ore. The new venture opens with a directorial roster that also consists of Matt Goodman and Jasan Radford…. Matthew Pomerans, formerly an executive producer at bicoastal/international Satellite, has joined Santa Monica-based Area 51 Films as an executive producer. Meanwhile, Mark Thomas continues as executive producer at Area 51, and now adds the title of managing director….Editor Bob Mori, formerly of Cosmo Street, Santa Monica, has joined Superior Assembly Editing Company, Santa Monica….Marc Schwartz has joined Fluid Post, New York, as managing director. Formerly, he was general manager at Spontaneous Combustion, New York.…Composer Mike Pandolfo has joined JSM, New York. He was formerly with Amber Music, New York and London….Editors Gavin Tatro and Angelo Valencia, and visual effects artist/graphics designer/compositor Eric Pham have come aboard 501 Post, Austin, Texas….Kelly Hickel, chairman of Paradise Music & Entertainment, has taken on the additional role of president at the publicly traded bicoastal company. Stepping down as Paradise CEO is David Pritchard, former CEO/president of North Hollywood-based animation studio Film Roman. Hickel—who is also chairman of iballMedia, a San Diego firm servicing consumers with traditional and online delivery of music and music-driven events—came aboard Paradise in February when the company reached a memo of understanding to merge with iballMedia. That merger will probably be finalized later this month. Paradise is the parent company to bicoastal spot production companies Straw Dogs and Shelter Films, as well as Nashville, Tenn.-headquartered music video/concert film/commercial house Picture Vision….
Curatorial Committee Is Set For The 2025 AICP Show
The AICP has unveiled the full roster for the Curatorial Committee for the 2025 AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the Commercial. The committee, representing a lineup of experts from a cross-section of the industry, will gather this spring under the leadership of AICP Show chairperson Patrick Milling-Smith, co-founder and CEO of SMUGGLER.
The entry deadline for the full suite of AICP Awards--which includes The AICP Show, the AICP Next Awards and the AICP Post Awards--is Wednesday, Feb. 26. Full entry details can be found here. The results of each show will debut during AICP Week in New York this June, and be featured at a gala celebration at The Museum of Modern Art.
The AICP Show Curatorial Committee is the final stage of a bifurcated judging system that begins with a series of panels with experts in various fields from around the globe, nominated by their peers, who judge work across their respective categories. The Committee then serves as the final arbiter of the awards, confirming eligibility and appropriateness to category, as well as selecting the Best of Show--the winners in the Advertising Excellence/Campaign and Advertising Excellence categories.
In assembling the Committee, Milling-Smith said he was seeking a wide range of viewpoints and influences, representing just about every facet of branded film and commercial creation and production matrix. “We strove to assemble a complementary and aspirational range of voices and experiences,” he commented. “This Curatorial Committee is an inspiring blend of creative and executional excellence. I want it to be a rewarding and invigorating experience for all in the room, and best of class in terms of the caliber of people reviewing the... Read More