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.
Local school staple “Lost on a Mountain in Maine” from 1939 hits the big screen nationwide
Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state's tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the story.
Opening in 650 movie theaters on Friday, "Lost on a Mountain in Maine" tells the harrowing tale of 12-year-old Donn Fendler, who spent nine days on Mount Katahdin and the surrounding wilderness before being rescued. The gripping story of survival commanded the nation's attention in the days before World War II and the boy's grit earned an award from the president.
For decades, Fendler and Joseph B. Egan's book, published the same year as the rescue, has been required reading in many Maine classrooms, like third-grade teacher Kimberly Nielsen's.
"I love that the overarching theme is that Donn never gave up. He just never quits. He goes and goes," said Nielsen, a teacher at Crooked River Elementary School in Casco, who also read the book multiple times with her own kids.
Separated from his hiking group in bad weather atop Mount Katahdin, Fendler used techniques learned as a Boy Scout to survive. He made his way through the woods to the east branch of the Penobscot River, where he was found more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) from where he started. Bruised and cut, starved and without pants or shoes, he survived nine days by eating berries and lost 15 pounds (7 kilograms).
The boy's peril sparked a massive search and was the focus of newspaper headlines and nightly radio broadcasts. Hundreds of volunteers streamed into the region to help.
The movie builds on the children's book, as told by Fendler to Egan, by drawing upon additional interviews and archival footage to reinforce the importance of family, faith and community during difficult times,... Read More