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MillimeterAICP Elects National Officers for 2006
Dec 21, 2005 6:49 PM
The Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has announced its national officers for 2006. At a recent meeting of the organization’s Board of Directors in Los Angeles, Frank Stiefel of @radical.media (New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Sydney, Berlin) was elected chairman of the 34-year-old organization, which represents companies that produce commercials for television and other media.
Serving with Mr. Stiefel will be Bob Fisher of Celsius Films, Inc. (New York, West Hollywood), who was elected vice chairman, and Sally Antonacchio of The Artists Company (New York, Los Angeles, Toronto) who was reelected treasurer. The chairman and vice chairman each serve a one-year term. The term of the treasurer is two years.
Other officers of the trade organization include: Robert L. Sacks of Kane Kessler, secretary and legal counsel; and AICP President and CEO Matt Miller, who is appointed to office.
Frank Stiefel, Chairman: Mr. Stiefel, executive producer and executive vice president at @radical.media, headed Stiefel + Co until September 2002, when the firm he’d established in 1986 was acquired by @radical.media. During its existence, Stiefel + Co won multiple awards, including Cannes Lions, Clios and the AICP Show, and produced over 1500 commercials. In addition, Mr. Stiefel produced three short subject films, which were honored at numerous film festivals, among them festivals in Berlin, London, Toronto, and Edinburgh, as well as the Sundance Film Festival and the Telluride Film Festival.
For AICP, he has served on the East and West boards, was president of the East Chapter, is a past national chairman as well as a past chairman of the AICP Show, for which he also served on the Board of Governors. In 1998, Frank Stiefel was appointed to the Santa Monica College Foundation Board, of which he is currently president. In 2004, he was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office to serve on the California Film Commission.
Bob Fisher, Vice Chairman: Bob Fisher is executive producer/owner of bi-coastal production company Celsius Films. A graduate of the University of Buffalo, he began his filmmaking career as a production assistant on commercials, hoping to move into his first love at the time, documentaries. However, he found he enjoyed short-form filming, and after several years of freelance work, he became the executive producer for Bob Giraldi Productions, later working with Frank Stiefel and Michael Ulick at Michael Ulick Productions.
In 1990, he helped found bi-coastal Fahrenheit Films, and in 1996 left to start Celsius Films. A former president and long-time board member of AICP/East, as well as a member of the Board of Directors of the national organization, he is also a member of the Directors Guild of America and teaches seminars in commercial production and a week-long class at the University of Buffalo.
Sally Antonacchio, Treasurer: Sally Antonacchio has been with The Artists Company for the past 15 years. She began as controller, was promoted to CFO, and is now vice president. An active member of the AICP/East Board during the same period, Ms. Antonacchio is also a past president of the East Chapter, served on the AICP National Financial Committee for six years and has been a member of the AICP Show Committee since the Show’s early days.
In addition, she has headed fund raising committees including the annual East holiday events, which have raised in excess of $100,000 for AICP/East and an equal amount for the Program for Children and Adolescents with AIDS at the New York Weill Cornell Medical Center of New York Presbyterian Hospital. A frequent instructor for the AICP coordinator training program, Ms. Antonacchio also led the research committee that developed standards for the production company employee handbooks.
Founded in 1972, the AICP represents, exclusively, the interests of companies that specialize in producing commercials in various media—film, video, computer—for advertisers and agencies.
The association, with national offices in New York and Los Angeles as well as regional chapters across the country, serves as a strong collective voice for this $5.5 billion industry, disseminating information; representing the production industry within the advertising community, in business circles, in labor negotiations and before governmental officials; developing industry standards and tools; providing professional development; and marketing American production through the AICP Show: The Art & Technique of the American Commercial.
Now in its 15th year, the AICP Show is an exhibit of the artistry and expertise of commercial filmmakers in the U.S.
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