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Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
APRIL 10, 1998/Digital effects/animation studio Pacific Data Images (PDI) has moved back into spot production, staffing up a division under the aegis of Cindy Cosenzo, senior producer, commercials….San Francisco-based director Hank Benson joined bicoastal Shelter Films for U.S. representation,...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Director Jayson Moyer Finds Area 51 Films
Director Jayson Moyer has signed with Santa Monica-headquartered Area 51 Films for exclusive commercial representation in North America. He also maintains U.K. representation via Outsider, London. For the past two-and-a-half years, Moyer had been with bicoastal/international Believe Media, his...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Punk Culture Caught On Film
Editor John Gramaglia has been leading a double life. By day, he was a mild-mannered cutter at New York edit shop Chinagraph working on ads for clients like Procter & Gamble and Subaru. But by night, he was elevating '70s punk band The Ramones to legendary status in a documentary. The film,...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Girl Scouts, Kaplan Thaler Group Get Grand Good At 6th Annual GBUs
The Advertising Women of New York presented the sixth annual Good, Bad, Ugly (GBU) Awards on March 31 at New York's Copacabana nightclub. The show, this year hosted by former Wheat Thins spokeswoman Sandy Duncan, honors advertisers and agencies that portray women in a positive light, while...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Roger H. Doran Joins Company 3, New York
Company 3, New York, has hired colorist Roger H. Doran, a two-time Monitor Award winner who brings broad experience, especially in longform work, to the shop's telecine staff. A freelancer for the past year, Doran has been active in spots, music videos and television programs. In the latter arena,...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
It's Swell Time For Editor Nadia Hennrich
Editor Nadia Hennrich has joined Chicago-based Swell. The German native had most recently been working out of Detroit-based Blue Highway, where her credits included a Chevy spot directed by Matt Donaldson and Chuck Leal of Avalon Films, Farmington, Mich., for Campbell-Ewald Advertising, Warren,...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Designer Bob English Joins R!OT Manhattan As Cr. Dir.
Bob English has come aboard R!OT Manhattan as the design/visual effects company's creative director. He will oversee all of the facility's creative design projects, while attempting to broaden the scope of its design services. Since July of last year, English has been running his own design shop—...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Three's Company At Digital EFX Studio Radium
Digital effects studio Radium, with shops in Santa Monica and San Francisco, has brought on board executive producer Matthew McManus, operations manager Michael Chizzo and VP of marketing/sales Julie Luehrman. McManus and Chizzo work out of the Santa Monica site, while Luehrman is based in San...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Blue Room Music Launches In N.Y.
Composer/producer Brian Aumueller and producer Chris Gargani have partnered to form Blue Room Music, New York. Armed with recording industry experience and a solid track record of creating music for broadcast promos, Aumueller and Gargani are entering the spot music arena with Blue Room's launch...
Friday, Apr. 11, 2003
Endangered Species
State budgets are facing shortfalls across the country, and with no quick turnaround in sight for the U.S. economy, many states are being forced to make cutbacks—and in some cases eliminate—a wide variety of programs and services in an effort to shrink budget deficits. The motion picture,...