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Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Homeland "Insecurity": H-1B Quandary
WASHINGTON, D.C.—As earlier reported (SHOOT, 2/28, p. 1), barring new federal legislation, the current annual cap on H-1B visas will plummet from 195,000 to 65,000 effective Oct. 1. Such a decrease could potentially impact the U.S. production community. Over the years, H-1Bs have been used by...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Directors Caliri, Trent Join Windmill Family
SANTA MONICA—Windmill Lane and its sister shop Miss Jones, both based in Santa Monica, have signed directors Jamie Caliri and Rob Trent, respectively. Caliri has not been active in commercials or music videos for the past few years, but earlier in his career he had been affiliated with bicoastal/...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
ON THE MOVE
New Faces Jeroen Bours has joined Hill, Holliday , New York, as executive creative director. Bours was most recently senior partner/executive creative director at Ogilvy & Mather, New York. Grey , Los Angeles, has named Bob Merlotti executive VP/executive creative director. Merlotti was most...
Friday, Mar. 7, 2003
Weber
"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...