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Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Vic Armstrong Links With Saville For Spotwork
Perhaps best known for his contributions to the James Bond franchise, second unit director/stunt coordinator and Academy Award winner Vic Armstrong has signed with Beverly Hills-headquartered Saville Productions for exclusive worldwide representation as a commercial helmer. The deal marks Armstrong...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Cool Cuts
On March 1, the Directors Guild of America (DGA), during its annual awards ceremony, named Baker Smith of Harvest, Santa Monica, the best commercial director of 2002. This was the second consecutive year Smith was nominated, and the first time he won the honor. His fellow nominees were Noam Murro...
Friday, Mar. 14, 2003
Northern Lights Adds Pennington
Veteran cutter Robert Pennington has entered into an agreement with Northern Lights Post, New York, for exclusive representation in spots and promos. He will continue to be repped for longform projects through New York Office, New York. With Pennington, Northern Lights now has a lineup of five...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Homeland "Insecurity": H-1B Quandary
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As earlier reported (SHOOT, 2/28, p. 1), barring new federal legislation, the current annual cap on H-1B visas will plummet from 195,000 to 65,000 effective Oct. 1. Such a decrease could potentially impact the U.S. production community. Over the years, H-1Bs have been used by...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Directors Caliri, Trent Join Windmill Family
SANTA MONICA—Windmill Lane and its sister shop Miss Jones, both based in Santa Monica, have signed directors Jamie Caliri and Rob Trent, respectively. Caliri has not been active in commercials or music videos for the past few years, but earlier in his career he had been affiliated with bicoastal/...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
ON THE MOVE
New Faces Jeroen Bours has joined Hill, Holliday , New York, as executive creative director. Bours was most recently senior partner/executive creative director at Ogilvy & Mather, New York. Grey , Los Angeles, has named Bob Merlotti executive VP/executive creative director. Merlotti was most...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Weber
"Sam" Henson Alexander has joined Quantel, New Canaan, Conn., as its Eastern regional senior engineer for North America. He will be based in the New York office of Quantel, where his responsibilities will include assisting the sales efforts of Quantel's generationQ solutions for postproduction,...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Northern Exposure
Heads" was part of an extended U.S. road trip to Canada. The :30 for Ikea, a combination of live-action and stop-motion animation, finds a young, buttoned-down man sitting in an apartment across from a good-looking woman. He is droning on about work. The woman, looking bored, gets up and moves...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
CYclops Takes On A Team
Calabazitaz Tiernaz, the Mexican directorial collective led by brothers Everado and Leopoldo Gout, has signed for exclusive U.S. representation with cYclops, New York. The Gout brothers function as the principal helmers and driving force behind the collective, which also draws on contributions from...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Editor Bill Weber Discovers Radium
Digital visual effects studio Radium, with bases of operation in San Francisco and Santa Monica, has brought veteran editor Bill Weber on board. Weber will work primarily out of Radium's San Francisco shop, joining fellow cutter Alan Chimenti. "It's important that editors and visual effects artists...