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Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
Matthew Pomerans Passes Away From Apparent Heart Attack At 38
Matthew Pomerans, a respected executive producer who served at such houses as Area 51 Films, Santa Monica, and the now defunct Satellite, died on Jan. 26, in Los Angeles, of an apparent heart attack. He was 38. Area 51 managing director Mark Thomas remembered Matthew Pomerans as "a brilliant...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
DGA Nods: Pytka, Gillespie, Joe Public, Kerstetter, Smith
The Directors Guild of America (DGA) has named its nominees for best commercial director of 2001: Craig Gillespie of bicoastal Morton Jankel Zander; Bob Kerstetter—a well-known creative director with San Francisco agency Black Rocket Euro RSCG—whose spot helming endeavors have been through...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
FEBRUARY 7, 1997/The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) has set entry rules and deadlines for its first prime time Emmy Award recognizing commercialmaking as an art form. The winner will be announced in September, during the non-televised creative arts portion of the 49th annual...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Eric McClellan , a former creative chief at TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York, has joined Irving, Texas-based Temerlin McClain , filling the agency's top creative post. He takes over the executive creative director title from Dennis McClain , who remains CEO. Freelance art director Ron Arnold has joined...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
Post/VFX And Music/Sound Design Briefs
SHORT CUTS New York-based Zona Design designed and created a graphics package for HBO's Janet Jackson: In Concert From Hawaii . The package takes its cues from Jackson's concert performance and features type and motion that pulsates with the rhythm and directness of Jackson on stage. Zona's team...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
Playing Favorites
The American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), in conjunction with The History Channel and USA Today, unveiled the top 10 commercials of the past 25 years, at a cocktail reception and fund-raiser held last week (2/7), at Cipriani, New York. Proceeds from the event benefited the AAAA...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
Mad River Flows Into Dallas
Mad River Post—with editorial houses in New York, Detroit, Santa Monica and San Francisco—has launched a Dallas operation headed by executive producer Bill Fortney. The new shop features an established editor, Travis Aitken, who comes over from Mad River/San Francisco. He's the first of what figure...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
Director Kim Geldenhuys Shakes Hands With Bob
Kim Geldenhuys, a South African commercial director, is entering the American market via an exclusive U.S. agreement with bicoastal production house Bob Industries. A still photographer turned director in 1995, Geldenhuys spent the last seven years in South Africa honing his directing style with...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
McDonough: Go Film
Director Barbara McDonough has signed for commercial representation in the U.S. and Canada with bicoastal production company Go Film. McDonough was most recently affiliated with bicoastal/international Partizan, which will continue to represent her in France. She was repped by Partizan for work in...
Friday, Feb. 8, 2002
Stimmüng Launches Division With Richardson
Liza Richardson, a prominent DJ and radio personality at public radio station 89.9 KCRW/Santa Monica, has teamed with music/sound design house stimmüng to form an as-yet-unnamed division that will specialize in music supervision, research, licensing and consulting services for the advertising...