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Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
MARCH 20, 1998/Moxie Pictures' bicoastal satellite, The Industry, has signed two new directors in the production company's quest to brand itself as the home of off-beat filmmakers—feature director Allison Anders and comedic music video figure "Weird Al" Yankovic…. Director Rene Eram, best known for...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
Director Albert Hughes Is @Tate For Spots
Albert Hughes—one half of the Hughes Brothers directing team (From Hell, Dead Presidents, Menace II Society)—has linked with @Tate, a division of Santa Monica-based Tate & Partners, for commercial representation. He had previously been affiliated with Hollywood-based Oil Factory Films in tandem...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
2nd Trailer Park Festival A Windy City Success
Fueled by a free-flowing keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon and well over a gross of White Castle sliders, the second annual Trailer Park Festival celebrated the work of nearly 40 Chicago- and Detroit-based assistant editors on the evening of March 19 at Hideout, a lounge in Chicago. Sponsored by the Midwest...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
Déjà Vu: Editor Michael Bartoli Joins Red Car
Disproving the famed Thomas Wolfe adage that "You can't go home again," editor Michael Bartoli, formerly of FilmCore Santa Monica, has returned to Red Car, where he broke into the business in the late 1980s. He is based at the Santa Monica operation of Red Car, which also maintains shops in New...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
High Definition Defined At NAB
Sony Electronics Broadcast and Professional Co. and Young & Rubicam's sponsored "Dreams" event, now in its second consecutive year (SHOOT, 3/14/03, p. 1), used the promise of creative freedom to entice a total of 17 commercial directors into making short films with Sony's 24P high-definition (...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
ON THE MOVE
New Faces David Nobay has been named executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi , Sydney. He had been executive creative director at Bozell, New York. Jeremy Postaer , group creative director at GSD&M, Austin, Texas, since 2000 has left the agency to freelance. Modernista! , Boston,...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
Peter Sealey Predicts TV Spot Demise
Is the :30 commercial on the verge of becoming extinct? Peter Sealey, Ph.D., certainly thinks so, and he made his case during a provocative presentation at the Association of National Advertisers' (ANA) 2003 Television Advertising Forum, which was held on March 13 at the Plaza Hotel, New York...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
Film Calif. First Program Put On Hold Through June
With a recently reduced budget and an increased demand on the part of its users, the Film California First (FCF) anti-runaway program has allocated all its funds—$7.9 million—for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2003. Thus, FCF cannot process any more applications for reimbursements of qualifying...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
New Image For Barasch, Photomag
Following his resignation as president of New York audio post/video editing facility Palace Studios-NYC, Mark Barasch has launched SoundImage at Photomag, New York. The new venture's primary focus will be audio post, although Barasch—who'll head up operations as president—indicated that the company...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
The Heat Is On
If there is one thing that Miami's postproduction community agrees on, it's that the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic market has been nothing less than a saving grace amidst the economic slump that has shaken the spot industry from New York to Los Angeles. From the larger postproduction and film-to-tape...