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Friday, May. 23, 2003
Form Fit For Three Directors
Form, the Los Angeles-based production house launched a year-and-a-half ago by executive producer Craig Rodgers and director Jesse Dylan, has added directors Enda McCallion, Harry Patramanis and Lisa Cholodenko for commercials. Instrumental in bringing this trio of helmers into the Form fold were...
Friday, May. 23, 2003
A Band Apart Teams With Dir. Ricagni
A Band Apart, Los Angeles, has signed Leonardo Ricagni and will represent the director for commercials and music videos; A Band Apart sister company Bikini Films, London, will handle the director in Europe. In conjunction with the signing, A Band Apart has teamed with Ricagni's Mojo Film,...
Friday, May. 23, 2003
"Lamp" Lights Up The Clio Awards
Ikea's "Lamp," directed by Spike Jonze of bicoastal/international Morton Jankel Zander, out of agency Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Miami, won the Grand Clio at the 44th annual Clio Festival, held May 18-21, at Miami Beach's Eden Roc Resort & Spa. The spot, which also won a gold Clio in the retail...
Friday, May. 23, 2003
ON THE MOVE
New Faces Paul Shearer and Jim Thornton have joined Leo Burnett , London, as co-executive creative directors. Al Jackson has joined BBDO Atlanta as senior VP/group creative director. He will work on the Georgia Natural Gas, Peace Corps and Cingular Wireless accounts. Cristian Dobles has joined...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
Connectivity Comes Of Age
Since the early 1990s, when the commercial industry first heard the distant beat of Sprint's Drums, there has been steadily growing interest in connectivity via phone lines and high-speed networks that offer services to the production community. Those early applications—beginning with Mad River...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
Company 3, New York, Installs New Management Team
Company 3, New York, has expanded the roles of three key staffers—business manager Linda Lagnese, operations manager Kenny Attard and director of telecine Luana Ayres—who now share responsibilities for managing the facility, which provides telecine services for commercials, music videos, episodic...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
Sony Decides To Exit Telecine Market
SHOOT has learned that Sony Business Solutions and Systems Co., headquartered in Park Ridge, has made the decision to cease production of the Sony Vialta FVS-1000 telecine system in September. The move will take Sony out of the telecine market. This decision shifts the fierce telecine sector to a...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
MAY 15, 1998/Following a short stint as director of broadcast at now defunct agency Wells BDDP, advertising production veteran John Garland has moved to another Omnicom shop, TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York, as director of broadcast production….Jason Smith, a British director currently represented by...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
Directors Jim Manera, Baker Smith Top IBAs
Chevy Trucks' "Big Boots" took the Best of Show TV Sweepstakes honor at the 43rd annual International Broadcasting Awards (IBA) competition. Directed by Jim Manera of the recently launched blindfaith, Santa Monica (SHOOT, 3/14, p. 1) for Campbell-Ewald Advertising, Warren, Mich., "Big Boots" also...
Friday, May. 16, 2003
Hungry Man's Jim Jenkins Directs Martin Scorsese
It's a well-known fact that director Martin Scorsese is a perfectionist, and the creative team at Ogilvy & Mather (O&M), New York, cleverly exaggerates that personality trait in a :30 promoting the fact that American Express is the official card for the Big Apple's Tribeca Film Festival (...