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Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
AudioBanks Mixes It Up With Jamie Santos
Audio mixer Jamie Santos, most recently of Complete Post, Hollywood, has come aboard Santa Monica-based audio post/sound design shop AudioBanks. He rounds out a company roster of mixers that also includes Mark Meyuhas, Tony Pepper and Dona Richardson. AudioBanks is a sister company to music/sound...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Break Through
The up-and-coming spot helmers in the Spring 2003 Directors issue bring a lot to the table. Although they are new to directing spots, all seven directors—five individuals and a two-person team—have something beyond the basic skill set going for them. Whether it's agency or production company...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Acne
In the world of spotmaking, directors can attain star-like status, but the Swedish collective called Acne Film, which directs stateside out of bicoastal RSA USA, doesn't want the spotlight to shine on any single one of its six members. "We work as a group," says Tomas Skoging, one of Acne's...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Dante Ariola
Dante Ariola, who directs spots via bicoastal/international Morton Jankel Zander (MJZ), was one of five directors nominated by the Directors Guild of America (DGA) for best commercial director of 2002. Ariola earned the nomination based on three spots: Sony PlayStation 2's "Signs" through TBWA/...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Mathew Brady
After more than 20 years of shooting food, flowers and other stunningly lit inanimate objects, tabletop director Mathew Brady shows no signs of slowing down. "It's still fun," reports Brady, who directs out of bicoastal/ international @radical.media. "Some people say that advertising sucks, and it'...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Peter Care
It's extremely tiring—mentally, physically and emotionally—to keep jumping across and back again between doing features and spotwork," says Peter Care, explaining why so many directors give up commercials once they begin to work in features. This may be the case, but if so, Care, who directs spots...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Tom Carty
Director Tom Carty doesn't come across as the sort of guy who would display a trophy case in his home, but if he did, it would be overflowing. Having just completed his second full year directing commercials—he's represented in the United Kingdom by Gorgeous Enterprises, London, and stateside by...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
R!OT, Santa Monica Adds Editor Umberger
Emmy-winning editor/visual effects artist Les Umberger, formerly of Crawford Post Production, Atlanta, has joined R!OT, Santa Monica. His hiring comes on the heels of R!OT's promotion of Diana Young to senior visual effects producer. She previously served as an associate producer/production...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Craig DeLeon Joins ONDA
Craig DeLeon has joined New York-based music house ONDA as its creative director. Most recently the director of sales and marketing at music and sound design company Smack, New York, DeLeon is a well-established presence in the commercial production community who hopes to expand ONDA's activities...
Friday, Mar. 28, 2003
Andy Milkis Back At Splash
Having left visual effects and design facility Splash Design, New York, last summer to start his own company—now defunct Trans Lunar Injection (TLI)—Flame artist Andy Milkis has reassumed his former position as creative director/visual effects supervisor at Splash. Producer Kelley McDermott, who...