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Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Crossroads Forms Feature Film Division
Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago, has brought on Bingham Ray as a full partner to launch a feature film production division. A veteran of the independent feature industry, Ray is perhaps best known as a co-founder of the now defunct October Films. Plans call for Crossroads' new venture to...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Digital Realm In Flux At Sundance
Editor's Note: This is the concluding installment of SHOOT's three-part report on Sundance. PARK CITY, Utah—As soon as visitors set foot on snowy Main Street, Park City's central artery, they knew that the 2001 Sundance Film Festival would be a different affair than last year's. Even this quaint...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Dir. Aronofsky Signs With A Band Apart
Director Darren Aronofsky has joined Los Angeles-based A Band Apart. 35mm, which represents feature filmmakers for short format projects. The deal marks the first official spot and music video representation for Aronofsky, who has directed two critically acclaimed features: (1998) and Requiem for a...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Virtual Edit Sessions Open Up "Remote" Possibilities
High on the ad agency wish list for several years has been the prospect of conducting remote editing sessions in real time, enabling a creative team to collaborate meaningfully with editors and post artisans located in other parts of the country—or for that matter, the world. Grappling with the...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
R!OT Signs Henry Artist Lisa Tomei
Henry artist Lisa Tomei has joined Santa Monica-based creative digital production studio R!OT. A former freelancer, she brings to her new roost credits spanning commercials, broadcast promos, show opens, music videos and episodic television. Her experience encompasses visual effects production, 2-D...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Jon Adelman And Rob Fielack Join Nutmeg
Nutmeg Recording, New York, has hired former Kamen Entertainment Group staffers Jon Adelman and Rob Fielack. Adelman becomes Nutmeg's director of operations, while Fielack serves as senior engineer/producer. They held the same positions at New York-based Kamen. Nutmeg recently expanded, adding two...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Ford's "Goodbye/Hello" Wins Top Mobius Prize
"Goodbye/Hello," the two-minute anthem for Ford Motor Company, out of Detroit-based J. Walter Thompson, picked up the Best of Show in broadcast at the 30th annual Mobius Advertising Awards, held last week at the Chicago Cultural Center. Created as Ford's branding effort for the millennium, "Goodbye...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Editors Lobo, Becker Upped To FilmCore
Editors Dave Becker and Rick Lobo have joined the roster at FilmCore, San Francisco. They come over from Green, FilmCore's San Francisco-based division which was launched two years ago to groom up-and-coming editorial talent. Of Lobo and Becker, Jon Ettinger, executive producer for both Green and...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
IC(approximately) Opens Audio Studio
IC(approximately), a New York-based convergent media production facility, has finished construction of its audio studio. Located in the firm's 30,000-square-foot space, this new audio studio is the latest addition to the IC(approximately) complex, which also has four editing suites, three motion...
Friday, Feb. 16, 2001
Steve Ford Music Opens Hispanic Spot Track Division
Steve Ford Music has launched a Hispanic spot music division, Periquito Music. Both entities are based in Chicago. Composer/producer Alejandro Valencia was named to head Periquito (Spanish for "parakeet") after working informally with Steve Ford Music over the past few months. In that time,...