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Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Cielo Films Adds Directors Scarlet, Aamodt & Richter
Cielo Films, the Santa Monica-headquartered shop headed by founder/executive producer Joanna Bongiovanni, has signed three directors for commercial representation: Bill Scarlet, Vincent Blackhawk Aamodt and Thomas Richter. Scarlet's last national spot roost was now defunct OneSuch Films, which...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Quicker Cuts: The Need For Speed
Visual effects artists want it sexier and the production community is in pursuit of beauty, but when it comes to new products for editors, the first word is speed. While most people would agree that the commercial postproduction business hasn't recovered in the year that's passed since the 2002...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Clatter & Din & DCC
Music shop Downtown Composer Collective (DCC), Brooklyn Heights, has entered into an affiliation agreement with Seattle-based sound design house Clatter & Din. Under the terms of the deal, the two operations will maintain their separate identities while offering a unified music and sound design...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Craig Gillespie
If director Craig Gillespie has a fear regarding his spotwork, it's of his ads becoming too predictable. "I try to let the idea dictate how a spot is going be executed so that there's not a specific style about my work," says Gillespie, who directs via bicoastal/international Morton Jankel Zander (...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Mat Humphrey
Director Mat Humphrey doesn't want to be known as "the PSA guy." Yet it's a title that fits snugly because he's made the public service announcement into an art form. Take "Consequences," for the Land Traffic Safety Association, which Humphrey directed for Clemenger BBDO, Wellington, New Zealand,...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Mike Mills
Mike Mills likes to make things. It's the underlying principle that drives everything he does, which might be why he does so much. Mills is a noted commercial and music video director, graphic artist and documentary filmmaker. He's also co-founder, with director Roman Coppola, of bicoastal shop The...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
David Shane
Director David Shane of bicoastal/international hungry man is feeling more comfortable with his directing prowess these days. Back when Shane was profiled in SHOOT's 2001 Spring Directors issue, he explained that at the time he basically felt like he had no business directing. "I just happened to...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Baker Smith
Visigoths," a spot for Canal +, a European movie and sports channel, out of BETC Euro RSCG, Paris, opens with a medieval battle scene. A host of pelt-clad barbarians are having at each other with all kinds of weaponry. The camera pans the field, offering a view of the carnage. A tag line reads: "...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Malcolm Venville
Elegant in its simplicity, Volkswagen's "Squares" looks more like a piece of modern art than a commercial. Created by Arnold Worldwide, Boston, the spot depicts a series of square objects—an electrical outlet, a piece of toast, industrial buildings and the like—before settling on the appealingly...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
HSI Lands Supermega Director Kahn
CULVER CITY, Calif.—Noted music video director Joseph Kahn and his production company, Supermega, have linked with bicoastal HSI. Per the deal, Kahn and Supermega directors Hayley Cloake and Todd Kellstein gain worldwide representation for commercials and music videos via HSI, which in return gets...