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Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
Trumpeting Food
New Orleans is a city that is known for a lot of great things—music, restaurants, literature, Mardi Gras, to name a few—but advertising isn't something that immediately comes to mind. Nevertheless, a New Orleans agency is where online grocer FreshDirect went when it wanted to introduce its hometown...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
Willoughby And Welsh Launch Space Division
Space Division, a creative editorial and design company, has opened with two bases of operation in Southern California. The new venture was founded by creative director/editor Chris Willoughby and executive producer Leah Walsh, both formerly with ARTiFACT, a shop which recently pulled out of the...
Friday, Mar. 21, 2003
Post/VFX, Music and Equipment Briefs
SHORT CUTS Push Creative , New York, produced a series of vignettes celebrating Black History Month for The New TNN. The nine spots (three :30s, four :15s and two :05s) were created in collaboration with the networks in-house brand creative group and Push. Rudy Gaskins, Push's creative director,...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Palomar Pictures To Close Up Shop After 11 Years
LOS ANGELES—Palomar Pictures is winding down operations and will soon shut its doors. Staffers were informed of the decision last week. At press time, the Los Angeles-headquartered house was wrapping its spot commitments, producing jobs that were already in its pipeline. Once those projects are...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Karen Kourtessis Moves To Post Factory
NEW YORK—After 10 years with bicoastal Crew Cuts, most recently as partner/editor, Karen Kourtessis has left to join Post Factory—the New York postproduction facility founded in 1996 by director Alex Halpern. Kourtessis, who becomes a partner/ editor at Post Factory, also brings assistant editor...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Robins
Industry veteran Mike Dowd has launched Vapor Post, a Miami-based digital postproduction boutique. Vapor Post is the new facility identity for AVC, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., founded by Dowd in 1986. Dowd moved the entire AVC operation from Ft. Lauderdale to Miami this month, but the AVC moniker...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
New Launch In New York Is Suspect
Rob Appelblatt and Tim Crean have left New York visual effects/design house Guava—where they were producer and senior visual effects artist, respectively—and launched Suspect, New York. Now at their own visual effects facility, Crean has assumed the title of partner/Flame artist, while Appelblatt...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Blindfaith For Jim Manera, Tracy Hauser
Director Jim Manera and executive producer Tracy Hauser have teamed with veteran spot production house entrepreneur Michael Romersa to launch blindfaith, a Santa Monica house that will specialize in mainstream commercialmaking, emerging advertainment and varied content. Romersa is a participating...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Smith Confirmed As DGA Spot Winner
In response to questions regarding the eligibility of two spot entries, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) is standing firmly behind its award judges' selection of Baker Smith as best commercial director of 2002. Smith, co-founder of Santa Monica-based Harvest, won the honor at the DGA Awards...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
MARCH 13, 1998/Bruce Dowad of Hollywood-based Dowad Associates has been named Best Commercial Director of 1997 by the Directors Guild of America….Regina Ebel, BBDO New York senior VP/group head of TV production, has been promoted to director of television production, a post that had been vacant...