AICE has just issued its Call for Entries for the 2017 AICE Awards. The international postproduction trade association’s annual competition will celebrate its 16th anniversary as it recognizes creative and craft excellence in a wide variety of categories. The AICE Awards presentation is scheduled for Thursday, May 11, 2017, and will be held at Capitale, the soaring event space located on The Bowery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The deadline for entries is Monday, February 6, 2017. Full descriptions of categories and entry requirements can be found here.
The 2017 AICE Awards will welcome entries for editorial excellence in product categories such as automotive, technique categories such as comedy or performance and genre categories such as music video. It also includes craft categories for original music composition, audio mixing, sound design, color grading, graphic design and visual effects, and recognizes the best work emanating from its local chapters with Best of Chapter awards. Each presentation culminates with a Best of Show winner, which was presented at the 2016 Show to VFX supervisor and lead Flame artist Andy Rafael Barrios of a52 for his work on a TV spot for Honda.
The neoclassical landmark that houses Capitale originally opened in 1895 as The Bowery Savings Bank, designed by the renowned architect Stanford White. Adorned with Corinthian columns, Venetian glass, marble mosaic floors and 65-foot ceilings, it underwent a million-dollar renovation in 2013.
“We’ve continued to evolve the AICE Awards with each passing year to reflect the changing scope of work our members are doing,” said Rachelle Madden, AICE executive director, “and we’ll be announcing some new entry categories soon. The AICE Awards are an important way to underscore the value independent postproduction companies provide their clients. We’ve always held that the most creative people in our industry–and the best creative thinking–are found at independent shops. Our annual awards celebrates this creativity and ingenuity.”
The 2017 presentation will also honor the latest inductee to the AICE Hall of Fame and recognize the winners of “The Lev,” the Grand Prizes in the associations’ International Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for assistants. Members of AICE’s New York Chapter Board are hosting the event.
Nintendo reports lower profits as demand drops for its aging Switch console
Nintendo, the Japanese video game maker behind the Super Mario franchise, said Tuesday that its profit fell 60% in the first half of the fiscal year, as demand waned for its Switch console, now in its eighth year since going on sale.
Kyoto-based Nintendo Co. reported a 108.7 billion yen ($715 million) profit for the April-September period, as sales slipped 34% from the previous year to 523 billion yen ($3.4 billion).
More than 74% of its sales revenue came from overseas, according to Nintendo, which didn't break down quarterly numbers.
Global Switch sales during the period dropped to 4.7 million machines from 6.8 million units the previous year.
But Nintendo said in a statement that Switch sales were still growing and vowed to stick to its goal of selling a Switch console to each and every individual, not just one Switch per every household.
Nintendo stuck to its earlier projection for a 300 billion yen ($2 billion) profit for the full fiscal year through March 2025, down nearly 29% from the previous fiscal year.
Annual sales were forecast to drop 23% to1.28 trillion yen ($8.4 billion).
It also lowered its Switch sales projection for the fiscal year to 12.5 million units from an earlier forecast to sell 13.5 million.
Nintendo and other game and toy makers rake in their biggest profits during the Christmas shopping season, as well as New Year's, a holiday celebrated with fanfare in Japan, when children receive cash gifts from grandparents and other relatives.
Nintendo has not yet announced details on a successor to the Switch.
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