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Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
Bullish Or Bearish?
The Heartland is not immune to the country's current economic tribulations. This was reflected in last year's bankruptcy filings of such Midwest-based companies as United Airlines in Elk Grove Village, Ill.; Conseco in Carmel, Ind.; and retail giant Kmart in Troy, Mich. But commercial production...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
SOL Designfx Adds Nguyen
3-D animator/compositor Thuc Nguyen has joined SOL designfx, the graphic design and visual effects boutique with studios in Chicago and Venice, Calif. For the past five years, Nguyen had been at Rhythm & Hues, Los Angeles. At SOL designfx's Chicago studio, Nguyen will once again be teamed with...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
NEWSBRIEFS
Jayson Whitmore has joined Hollywood-based Troika Design Group. He will serve as lead motion graphics artist at the design and production company. Previously, Whitmore was a motion graphics artist at now defunct Pittard Sullivan….Post Modern Company has hired graphic designer/editor Joel Jackson...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
Illinois Prodn. Alliance Launched
Artisans and executives from various sectors of the Illinois filmmaking community have teamed to launch the Illinois Production Alliance (IPA). The group's charter mission is to maintain, promote, increase and expedite the development, creation and production of features, TV programs, commercials,...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
"Back To Normal" For Super Bowl Commercials
Though the phrase "back to normal" may seem incongruous with a climate marked by a still-tenuous economy and the looming threat of war in Iraq, Super Bowl XXXVII—set for Jan. 26 in San Diego—has nonetheless returned to more familiar advertising ground, emerging from the media buying, strategic and...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
Palomar Signs Dir. McKendry
After three years with bicoastal Go Film, director Gary McKendry has signed with Los Angeles-headquartered Palomar Commercials, a division of Palomar Pictures. Palomar Commercials will represent McKendry worldwide for spots, with the exception of Canada, where he is handled by Circle Productions,...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
Nelson To DDB; Endless For Williams
Celia Williams has joined music and sound design shop Endless Noise, Los Angeles, as executive producer. She comes over from DDB New York where she was director of broadcast production. Succeeding her in that post is Bob Nelson, who most recently served as executive VP/managing director of global...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
JANUARY 16, 1998/Director Henry Holtzman, formerly of New York-based Industrial Artists, has left to join bicoastal Petermann/Moss Films, which is working on a name change to credit his new affiliation. Industrial Artists remains open for other projects….Also leaving Industrial Artists is executive...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
Elma Garcia Closes Shop, Signs With MJZ
Director/DP Elma Garcia has shut down her production company, Elma Garcia Films, Woodacre, Calif., and signed with bicoastal/ international Morton Jankel Zander (MJZ) for worldwide commercial representation. Garcia ran Elma Garcia Films during the last five years with her life partner, executive...
Friday, Jan. 17, 2003
Director Kessler Promotes Oxygen's New Sex Show
There is a time and a place for everything, but when it comes to a frank discussion about sex, appropriate times and places are few and far between. Such is the premise of a humorous three-spot campaign promoting the Oxygen Network's Sunday Night Sex Show. In the promos, people instigate candid...