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Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
Michael Goode To Great Guns; Director Goes Solo
Great Guns, bicoastal and London, has signed director/cameraman Michael Goode for spot representation. Goode, who began his career as a music video and spot storyboard artist, formerly comprised one third of directing trio, Goetz & Goode, whose remaining members—brothers Kevin and Michael Goetz...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
Mechaniks Opens Up Shop In Venice
Director Boris Damast and his longtime executive producer Andrea Kikot have formed their own shop, Mechaniks, that operates as a satellite of Venice, Calif.-based Cucoloris Films. The new shop is based in the Cucoloris office complex. Under the Mechaniks banner, Damast has recently directed a spate...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
Dirs. Reed, Ventura, Burk Move Into BeachHouse
Directors Adam Reed, Valerio Ventura and Kurt Burk have joined BeachHouse Films, the Santa Monica shop launched earlier this year by executive producers Patti and David Coulter (SHOOT, 1/18, p. 7). Reed comes over from now defunct Elsewhere, which was his first stateside spot roost. He continues to...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
Williams, Humphrey Join Liberty Livewire
Liberty Livewire Corporation—the international holding company based in Santa Monica, with postproduction and effects studios in North America, Europe and Asia—has brought on two key executives, the most recent being Bill Humphrey who comes on board as president of the firm's Media Group. The...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
SuperMega/Palomar And F.M. Rocks Top MTV Awards
Joseph Kahn, who helms spots and music videos via SuperMega/Palomar, Los Angeles, and Dave Meyers, who directs music videos through F.M. Rocks, Santa Monica, and helms spots via bicoastal/international @radical. media, were the big winners at MTV's Video Music Awards, held at Radio City Music Hall...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
P&G And Ford Among Few Advertisers On 9/11
NEW YORK—The airwaves will be practically barren of commercials on 9/11-the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States. At this point, Procter & Gamble (P&G)—the maker of consumer products such as Bounty paper towels and Tide laundry detergent—and Ford are the only...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Joe Kayser has been appointed senior VP/creative director at Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos , San Francisco. He comes over from Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco, where his title was associate creative director. Kevyn Lewis has been promoted from chief creative officer to president at...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design And Stock Footage Briefs
SHORT CUTS Match Frame , a digital postproduction company with offices in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, produced a :10 Gatorade ad for Grey, Mexico City. "Mango" introduces a new flavor of the beverage, and features a mango-laced up like a football-which is kicked off the screen by a Gatorade...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
CBS, ABC Up HDTV Commitment
ABC and CBS have increased their commitments to high-definition broadcasts for the upcoming fall program season. Zenith Electronics Corp. is sponsoring hi-def presentation of ABC's primetime comedies, dramas and movies. Plans call for ABC to broadcast more than the 260 hours of programming it...
Friday, Sep. 6, 2002
Spot Artisans Report From Ground Zero
Sept. 11, 2001 will go down in history as a day of devastating loss, grief, fear, anger and shock. For the heroic men and women in uniform who responded to the World Trade Center attacks, it was all that, and then some. "There was no big tunnel with the white light at the end," recalled firefighter...