Director David Shane of O Positive will be the featured speaker at the gala screening of the 2024 winners at the AICP Awards in Los Angeles. The event at The Ebell of Los Angeles will kick off the awards’ 2024 National Tour.
Set for Thursday, July 25, the L.A. event starts with a happy hour from 6 to 7 pm, with the program to follow. The evening closes out with a reception from 8 to 11 pm. Ticket information is available here.
As the evening’s featured speaker, Shane will take attendees through a journey to examine the creative process and the nuances of working with actors. Joining him will be Chloe Wepper, an actor who appeared in Shane’s Apple spot “Album Cover,” a winner in the Performance category at this year’s AICP Show. Wepper is also known for her work on “Office Christmas Party,” “Star Trek: Picard” and “The Rookie,” among other credits.
Their conversation will delve into all aspects of performance and acting for film. Shane will also discuss the creation of his short film for the AICP Awards, “The Journey,” which will be screened at the start of the program.
A founding partner of O Positive, Shane–known for his work in comedy–has won awards around the world. His “Best Friends” spot for Uber One |Uber Eats won the Advertising Excellence honor at this year’s AICP Show. It was also nominated for an Emmy Awards this year, as was “Album Cover.”
The Los Angeles event launches this year’s AICP Awards National Tour, with similar events on tap for San Francisco on Oct. 16, Dallas on Nov. 14 and Chicago on Nov. 21. A date for the AICP Awards in Mexico City will be announced shortly.
Established in 1992, The AICP Show is the most important advertising showcase in the U.S. dedicated to excellence in craft. The AICP Post Awards, which debuted in 2001, honors excellence in a wide range of postproduction crafts and disciplines. And the AICP Next Awards, launched in 2007, highlights the winners of the 11 Next categories, which honor innovative marketing communications.
Honorees of the AICP Show, The AICP Next Awards and The AICP Post Awards are preserved in The Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film’s state of the art archives for future generations to study and are available for use or exhibition by the museum’s curators.
ESPN and other channels return to DirecTV with a new Disney deal after a nearly 2-week blackout
DirecTV announced Saturday it had reached a deal with Walt Disney Co. that will restore ESPN and ABC-owned stations to its service after a nearly 2-week dispute that blacked out those networks for millions of viewers across the U.S.
The end of the impasse came in time for sports fans to watch ESPN's slate of college football games on DirecTV. It also will ensure that ABC's telecast of the Emmy Awards on Sunday night will be available in more major markets where viewers subscribe to DirecTV's pay service.
ABC had been unavailable since Sept. 1 on DirecTV in several markets where the station is owned by Disney. Those were located in the San Francisco Bay Area; Fresno, California; New York; Chicago; Philadelphia; Houston; and Raleigh, North Carolina.
DirecTV's 11 million subscribers abruptly lost access to ESPN, the ABC-owned stations and other Disney-owned channels such as FX and National Geographic during the Labor Day weekend in a dispute over carriage fees and programming flexibility.
Some viewers were watching the fourth round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament when ESPN suddenly went dark and others were getting ready to watch a college football showdown between LSU and Southern California.
The impasse also kept the NFL's opening game of Monday Night Football off of DirecTV's service.
Financial details of Disney's new deal with DirecTV weren't disclosed as part of Saturday's announcement. DirecTV's payments to Disney will be based on "market-based" pricing, according to the announcement about the deal.
The agreement also will give DirecTV the ability to offer Disney's video streaming services a la carte as well as in its own bundled packages. DirecTV won the right to include ESPN's forthcoming direct-to-consumer... Read More