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Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Straddling Ads & Film At Sundance
Coincidentally, for Sony and brewery Sam Adams, the choice was obvious: While advertising and independent film are often seen as two distinct realms, when it came to Sony's Dream Project and the Sam Adams/Project Greenlight TV Commercial Contest, the 2002 Sundance Film Festival was the perfect...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Chelsea's Mgt. Team Buys Co. Back
The management team at Chelsea Pictures—Steve Wax, Allison Amon and Lisa Mehling—has bought that commercial production house from publicly traded, Minneapolis-headquartered iNTELEFILM. The three executives acquired 20 percent of Chelsea last July (SHOOT, 8/3/01, p. 1), and at press time had...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Will "Prevent Offense" Mark Super Bowl Spot Strategy?
Pre-game hype aside, Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans could prove to be one of the ad industry's most challenging match-ups—and we're not talking cola wars or the automobile that generates the most buzz. This time around, the challenge is industry wide, cutting across all ad product categories and...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
JANUARY 24, 1997/Editors Igor Kovalik and Robert Ivison—both with Los Angeles-based Rock Paper Scissors since 1994—have formed their own commercial boutique, Inside/Out. The new venture, now in West Hollywood, will move to permanent quarters in Santa Monica this May…. Bicoastal music house...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Pfeifer And Williams Head Over To Lankford Films
Former partner/ head of sales for three years at Pfeifer Van Dusen—now Van Dusen Films, New York—Chuck Pfeifer has moved on to join longtime friend and director/ owner Gary Lankford at Lankford Films, bicoastal and Houston, as head of sales based in New York. Director Jacob Williams has also left...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Director Michael Spiller Goes Into Coma Industries
Director Michael Spiller—known for helming many episodic television shows, including Sex and the City and Scrubs, and for his years as a DP on projects including most of director Hal Hartley's films—has signed with Coma Industries, Marina del Rey, for commercial and music video representation. Coma...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Voss And Gaffney Reach The Finish Line
Dick Voss and Brian Gaffney have joined The Finish Line, the Santa Monica-headquartered visual effects/ motion graphic design/CGI/ compositing and finishing house, as executive producer and director of sales and marketing, respectively. The two industry vets come over from Creative Bridge, their...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Director McDaniel Joins The Directors Bureau
Director Melodie McDaniel has signed with The Directors Bureau, Hollywood—a commercial and music video production house and satellite operation of bicoastal parent HKM Productions. McDaniel comes over from now defunct Satellite—the sister commercial production house of Propaganda Films, also...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Taking The AirTrain
What happens when the future is now—just not right now? This was the central conundrum facing Curious Pictures' director David Kelley and executive producer Richard Winkler in completing a client-direct video project for the Port Authority of New York And New Jersey's recently introduced AirTrain...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
McAuliffe Now Labors At Brickyard
Geoff McAuliffe recently joined boutique visual effects house Brickyard VFX, Boston, as a visual effects specialist. Dave Waller, Flame artist and Brickyard founder, worked with McAuliffe to structure a profit-sharing deal for the new position that officially began at the start of 2002. Waller...