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Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
Filming Incentives Emerge At Local And State Levels
As the three-day Locations trade show gets underway this weekend (4/12-14) with film commissioners from around the world exhibiting their wares at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (see separate Special Report story, p. 29), lensing incentive programs have emerged or started to take shape and/or...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
FLASHBACK: 5 YEARS/10 YEARS
APRIL 11, 1997/Directors Gary Gutierrez and Richard Taylor have joined Rhythm & Hues Studios, Los Angeles, for exclusive representation. Gutierrez's former spot home was Complete Pandemonium, San Francisco; Taylor comes over from Los Angeles-based The Front…. Documentary/feature filmmaker Vince...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
Colorist Eli Friedman Joins Company 3, N.Y.
Colorist Eli Friedman has joined Company 3, New York. Friedman had been a mainstay at SMA Realtime, New York, for the past five years. His recent credits include the currently running 1-800-ATT calling-card campaign featuring comedian Carrot Top for FCB New York, as well as spots for Advil via Grey...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
Bisetti To Primal Scream
Composer Victor Bisetti has joined Santa Monica-based music and sound design house Primal Scream. A percussionist with specialties in both rock and Latin music, Bisetti has spent the last 12 years touring and recording as the drummer for the band Los Lobos. He joins Primal Scream as part of its...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
Goldberg Links With Trivers/Meyers
Noted audio engineer Goldberg (a.k.a. Barry Goldberg), in conjunction with his Venice, Calif.-based Bare Bones Music, has signed with Trivers/Myers Music, Manhattan Beach, for commercial representation. Per the deal, Trivers/Myers—the music house co-founded by composers John Trivers and Liz Myers—...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
Three Directors Enter The Land Of Storyville
Storyville Pictures, the commercial production house headed by principal/ executive producer Dirk Detweiler, has added three directors to its roster: Deb Hagan, Mark Ellensohn and Steve Bruni. Based in Santa Monica, Storyville was launched last March by Detweiler and partner/director Glen Owen (...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
First Trailer Park Festival Spotlights Assistant Editors
Assistant editors at companies affiliated with the Midwest chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) recently got a chance to show off their cutting skills via the first annual Trailer Park Festival. For the AICE-sponsored event, the assistant editors took last year's...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
NEWSBRIEFS
Henninger Media Services, headquartered in Richmond, Va., has promoted several staffers within its various facilities. Scott Witthaus was upped to VP/general manager, Henninger D.C. operations, which includes 1150 Post, Henninger Capitol and Henninger Arlington; Dave Leonard was promoted to...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design And Stock Footage Briefs
SHORT CUTS Santa Monica-based The Finish Line (TFL) worked on the visual effects and final conform for a trio of Bacardi Silver :30s via Momentum, San Diego, Calif. TFL's James Bygrave was the visual effects artist on "Bottle Dance," "Pied Piper" and "Shower," with "Pied Piper" receiving the bulk...
Friday, Apr. 12, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
As of May 1, Peter Nicholson is new creative chief at Publicis in Mid America , Chicago. Most recently he was a group creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco. William Gelner , formerly an associate creative director at Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York, has joined...