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Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Wild Brain, Egmont Ink Co-Production Deal
Wild Brain, a San Francisco-headquartered animation studio active in commercials and longform, has signed a co-production/development deal with Copenhagen-based Egmont Imagination. Headed, respectively, by CEO Jeff Ulin and president Tom van Waveren, Wild Brain and Egmont have already entered into...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Shimkin Faces The Music
Tony Shimkin, known for his prowess as both a composer and producer, has joined bicoastal music and sound design company Face The Music (FTM). According to FTM partner/executive producer Adam Joseph, Shimkin will score spots out of the company's New York office, while maintaining his freelance...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Finkenstaedt, Dellara Hop Aboard Black Dog
Catherine Finkenstaedt and her associate Kim Dellara—who spearheaded the music video operation of now defunct Propaganda Films—have surfaced at bicoastal Black Dog Films as executive producer and creative director, respectively. The latter title was held by Verenne Ferrari, who also served as head...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Director Baker Smith "Nails" IBA Sweepstakes
FOX Broadcasting Company's "Nail Gun" took the Sweepstakes best-of-show TV honor at the 42nd annual International Broadcasting Awards (IBA), held this week (1/21), in Las Vegas. Directed by Baker Smith of Santa Monica-based Harvest for TBWA/Chiat/Day, San Francisco, "Nail Gun" (SHOOT "Top Spot," 9/...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: MADE IN AMERICA_ Staying Power
During a California Legislature informational hearing last month in Los Angeles (SHOOT, 12/14, p. 1), Frank Scherma, co-proprietor of bicoastal/international @radical.media, and the recently elected national treasurer of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), gave a spotmaking...
Friday, Jan. 25, 2002
Post/VFX And Music/Sound Design Briefs
SHORT CUTS Digital effects designer/Inferno artist Cassie Scroggins of Minneapolis-based Hi-Wire worked on an open for DragonflyTV, a new PBS children's program created by Twin Cities Public Television (TPT). Geared toward children ages 9-12, DragonflyTV is based on the kid's magazine of the same...
Friday, Jan. 18, 2002
Post/VFX And Music/Sound Design Briefs
SHORT CUTS New York-based Zona Design created and produced a promo package for American Classics , a four-hour mini-series which aired recently on The History Channel. Zona's package included logo design for print, billboards and on-air, as well as opens, bumpers, bugs, animated text background,...
Friday, Jan. 18, 2002
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos , Boston, has appointed Bryan Sweeney senior VP, director of broadcast. Most recently he was executive producer at Arnold Communications, Boston. Larry Donabedian has joined Doner , Detroit, as VP/creative director. He comes over from PentaMark Worldwide, Detroit...
Friday, Jan. 18, 2002
Tariff Backers Withdraw Petition—For Time Being
A petition asking the federal government to impose countervailing tariffs on U.S. films produced in Canada with Canadian government subsidies has been withdrawn, at least for the time being, by its backers—the Film & Television Action Committee (FTAC), Made in the USA and the Screen Actors...
Friday, Jan. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT: CREATIVE DIRECTORS/MIDWEST_ Nightmares & Dreamscapes
Kabuki, the highly stylized form of Japanese theater, doesn't often appear in advertising, but the art form figures prominently in a new, nearly four-minute Internet film advertising Polaroid's Mio, a new, high-end instant camera that takes wallet-size photos. The short film was done via Leo...