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Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
New Visitor: Exec. Prod. Hollingshead
Veteran commercial producer Lisa Hollingshead has been named executive producer of Visitor, a Los Angeles shop founded by director James Wahlberg. Hollingshead succeeds Olivier Katz, who now serves as executive producer at Wahlberg's longstanding animation house Celluloid Studios, which recently...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
MTV Commercials To Close
MTV Commercials, a New York-based division of MTV, is scheduled to shut down in a few months after it wraps a three-spot campaign for an undisclosed client. The closure is part of the MTV Networks' corporate downsizing, which includes some eight percent of its employees being laid off. Launched...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
Opening Doors To Breathe
Editors Michael Schwartz and Andy Jennison have left Zap Edit, New York, and teamed up with former agency producer Kenny Pedini to open Breathe Editing, New York. Pedini will serve as executive producer at the new venture. Graduating in 1987 from Columbia University majoring in history, Schwartz...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
NOVEMBER 22, 1996/The American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's) has held its first-ever Creative Conference and Trade Show—Nov. 13-15, in Miami. Attending were 325 registrants, a significant increase from the 200 originally anticipated….Curious Pictures, New York, has named Meridith Brown...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
STAR System Deployed In Anti-Runaway Movement
While it's debatable as to whether proposed federal tax credits will ultimately come to pass as a means to combat runaway production, programs have emerged on state and local levels that provide some incentive to keep filming within the U.S. Perhaps the highest profile of these is Film California...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
Top Gunns: Partizan, Harry Nash
Donald Gunn—former president of the Cannes International Advertising Festival (1998 and '99) and, prior to that, the head of Leo Burnett's Creative Exchange Resource Department, Chicago—has released the third annual Gunn Report, a compilation of award show results over the past year. From this...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
Gartner Lands Dir. Canellakis
Bicoastal Gartner has signed director Martin Canellakis for exclusive U.S. spot representation. He comes over from bicoastal/international hungry man where he spent the past year-and-a-half. Canellakis continues to be repped in Canada by Toronto-based Radke Films. He also recently secured U.K...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
Company 3 Expands Into New York
Company 3, the Santa Monica-headquartered telecine house, has taken the first major step toward its anticipated launch of a studio in New York. Colorist Billy Gabor is relocating from Company 3's West Coast operation to sister shop R!OT Manhattan. Company 3 and R!OT are both part of the Liberty...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
Alan Neidorf Joins Charlex
After a 17-year tenure with the New York-headquartered Tape House Group of Companies, Alan Neidorf is leaving to join the hybrid postproduction/design/graphics company Charlex, New York, as a Flame artist. Neidorf began at Tape House Editorial as an online editor in 1984. In '92 he made the...
Friday, Nov. 23, 2001
Editor Effron, Exec. Producer Dunlap Join Stuart Waks &Co.
Editor Frank Effron and executive producer Tom Dunlap have come aboard Stuart Waks & Co. (SW&Co.), the Santa Monica-based editorial boutique owned by veteran cutter Stuart Waks. Effron fills the void left by Agusta Einarsdottir, who joined Santa Monica-based Jigsaw Editorial in June after...