JON KAMEN GIVEN PRODUCTION INDUSTRY’S HIGHEST HONOR

JUNE 16, 2004, NEW YORK, NY - Jon Kamen, chairman of production company @radical.media was the 2004 recipient of the Jay B. Eisenstat Award at last night’s premiere of the 13th annual AICP Show, which took place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Matt Miller, president and CEO of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, presented the award which is given for “distinguished service to the television commercial production industry.”

“Jon Kamen has been an active member of AICP for over twenty-five years, devoting countless hours to the commercial production industry, all while building a successful international company,” said AICP President and CEO Matt Miller. “His contributions to the industry as a whole and to AICP in particular merit this special award, and we’re delighted to have been able to honor him before an audience of his colleagues.”

Kamen was national chairman of the association in 1991 and 1992, and was instrumental in the establishment of the AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Television Commercial, a compendium of brilliant commercial filmmaking, that is one of the most prestigious advertising awards programs in the country. Commercials in the AICP Show become part of the permanent film archives of the Department of Film and Media of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), a distinction that is unique among advertising awards, and a relationship that was forged by Kamen, who is the only person to have chaired the Show twice once in 1994 and again in 2001 for the event’s tenth anniversary.

In addition to his AICP honor, Kamen has been a recipient of New York City’s Crystal Apple Award for his outstanding contributions to city’s film production industry. His company has twice won the Palme D’Or at Cannes, presented to the top production company at the International Advertising Festival. And this year, his company produced director Errol Morris’s Academy Award-winning documentary “Fog of War.”

The Jay B. Eisenstat Award is named for one of the founders of AICP, who got together with a handful of executive producers in 1972, and formed an organization that created order from the chaos that was then the commercial production industry. Today, AICP has almost 600 members, national offices in New York and Los Angeles, and regional offices around the country, and has emerged as a powerful voice in the $5.5 billion commercial production industry.