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Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
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"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...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
New All Day Buffet In NYC
Partners Ronan Nagle, Ben Starkman and JJ Lask have bowed production company All Day Buffet, New York. Nagle will serve as executive producer, and Starkman will be director/DP. Lask, who is co-principal/editor at New York-based editing house P.S. 260, will not be involved in day-to-day operations...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
501 Post Adds Editors Travis Aitken, Luis Lacau
501 Post, Austin, the six-year-old creative editorial and postproduction boutique, has hired two new editors, Travis Aitken and Luis Lacau. The cutters join editor Gavin Tatro on staff, bringing 501's editorial roster total to three. Texas-native Aitken comes aboard the company after a rags-to-...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Campbell Takes A Spin
Visual effects artist Jeff Campbell has left Toybox, Toronto, to join visual effects/design facility Spin Productions, Toronto and Atlanta. As Spin's new partner/Inferno artist, Campbell will work out of the company's Canadian office. Toybox and sister company Toybox, Vancouver, B.C., fall under...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
It's A Go For Ex-Moxie Partner Rose
Executive producer Gary Rose has left Moxie Pictures—the bicoastal company he co-founded with director Dan Levinson—to become a partner/executive producer at Go Film, the bicoastal shop launched nearly three years ago by executive producers/partners Robert Wherry and Jonathan Weinstein. Rose gives...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
DGA Names Baker Smith Best Spot Director Of 2002
Baker Smith of Santa Monica-based Harvest has been named the best commercial director of 2002 by the Directors Guild of America (DGA). He won the honor on the strength of five entries: "Black Bands" and "Visigoths" for sports and movie channel Canal+, via agency BETC Euro RSCG, Paris; FOX Sports' "...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Spot Trio Launches Aero Films
Executive producers Skip Short and Lance O'Connor have teamed with director Klaus Obermeyer Jr. to form Aero Films, a satellite of bicoastal Flying Tiger Films. The new venture has additionally signed director Ken Arlidge for exclusive spot representation, and expects to bring on more helmers soon...