May 15, 2009
Ascent Media Group has acquired substantially all the assets of Beast, an editorial house with shops in Santa Monica, NY, and Austin, Tex., as well as international outposts/affiliations. Complementing Beast’s lineup of editorial talent is Ascent’s existing roster at Filmcore, which includes Doug Walker, as well as Lucas Eskin and Michael Elliot. Both Eskin and Elliot came over from the recently shuttered Mad River Post…Droga 5, NY, CP+B, Miami and Boulder, Colo., and Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, each won best of show Grand Clios. Droga 5 took the Content and Contact Grand Clio for its NY Dept. of Education “Million” initiative, a campaign which deploys specially designed cell phones as devices eliciting interest from and facilitating education for public school students. Meanwhile CP+B garnered the Interactive Grand Clio for Burger King’s “Whopper Sacrifice,” which introduced us to the so-called “Whopper virgins.” And Scholz & Friends copped the Innovative Grand Clio for Doppelherz Health Care Products’ “The Doppelherz Poem Reading”…Colorist Siggy Ferstl, whose work spans features, spots and TV, has joined Company 3 (CO3) in Santa Monica as director of telecine. Ferstl comes over from CO3 sister facility, Method….
May 14, 2004
Editor Hank Corwin of bicoastal Lost Planet was the big winner last night at the third Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) Awards, presented at Soldier Field in Chicago. He garnered three awards for his work for Hewlett-Packard (HP) via Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco. Close behind was Chris Franklin of New York-based Big Sky Editorial, who collected a pair of AICE trophies. Both editors went into last night’s ceremony with the highest number of individual nominations–Corwin with six and Franklin with five….Returning to the roots of its annual Lecture Series, the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) has secured four major directors to share insights into the craft of spotmaking: the team of Kuntz & Maguire (Tom and Mike, respectively) from MJZ; Andrew Douglas of Anonymous Content; and Noam Murro of Biscuit Filmworks….Bill Sandwick, former NY-based exec producer of HSI Productions, has bought production house JGF, Hollywood, from director Jeff Gorman. JGF now becomes Sandwick Films. The company retains Gorman as its mainstay director and adds Marc Klasfeld, a music video helmer, for representation in commercials…
