AICP AWARDS TOUR: AICP Midwest Chapter Presents the 2025 AICP Awards

The AICP Awards concludes its annual tour in Chicago on November 20th at the Old Post Office. The Windy City stop puts the focus on brands this year, with a thoughtful panel discussion around the winning work in the AICP Awards - the AICP Show, AICP Post Awards and AICP Next Awards.
 
Appearing on the panel will be: David Hernandez, Senior VP/Chief Creative Officer at AllState; Luis Gabriel Ramírez Arias – a.k.a. Tito Ramírez –  Senior Director, Chief Creative Officer at Whirlpool; and Lizette Williams, Managing Director, Global Head of Business Content Marketing, at Meta. Matt Miller, President and CEO of AICP, will moderate the conversation. Each panelist will select a piece of winning work from one of this year’s shows to discuss, sharing insights about creativity and technology, as well as industry shifts.
 
The event, being held at The Old Post Office, kicks off at 5:30pm with a PreShow Cocktail Hour, sponsored by Tessa Films and Quriosity Productions. The cocktail hour will be followed by the show presentation at 7pm, and a reception at 8pm. Tickets are available now; for more information, click here.
 
Local sponsors for the evening include: EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS - Cutters Studios and Optimus/One at Optimus; PRODUCER’S CIRCLE - Picture North, Resolution Digital Studios; Benefactors – Highdive; SPONSORS - Essanay, Cosmo Street, Earhole Studios, GB Studios, FCB Chicago, Whirlpool; SUPPORTERS - The Cre8tors, Levinson Locations, Harbor, SAG-AFTRA Chicago Local, Rise Creative Studios, and Republic; Late Night Hot Dog Sponsor - Forge Virtual Studios, Photo Booth Sponsor - Team Companies, Magician Sponsor – Story. All sponsors will be celebrated in a reel adapted by Framestore, who created the graphics and design language for all three competitions, with music and sound design produced by Human. All showreel editing was performed by Cutters.
 
Sponsors help make all the AICP awards competitions and events possible. AICP Partners and Supporting Partners, who support all AICP events throughout the year, are Cast & Crew; Musicbed + Filmsupply; Universal Production Services; Wrapbook; Catch+Release; Film Hawaii; NEED Financial Services; Saturation.io; Sony Pictures Studios; and Warner Bros.
 
The list of 2025 AICP Awards Sponsors Benefactors includes: 1Park9; Apache Digital; Aspen Travel; Audio Spectrum; AwardCore; Be Electric; BIG Digital; Colorlab; Cutters; Directors Guild of America; Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP; Framestore; Heard City; Human; IDC; Istros Media Corporation; JMR Equipment Rentals; Kodak Motion Picture Film; LBBonline - Little Black Book; Optimus; Republic; SDN; SHOOT Magazine / SHOOTonline; Source Shots Slate; TCS, Inc.; WORK Editorial; and XR-NY.
 
The 2025 AICP Awards Patrons include The Roots Production Services; SAG-AFTRA; and Voices.