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Friday, Sep. 7, 2001
DNA Promotes Missy Galanida
Missy Galanida has become executive producer of music videos at Hollywood-based commercial/music clips production company DNA. She adds that title to her ongoing role as directors' representative for videos. Galanida joined DNA in 1998 as directors' rep, developing sales strategies and becoming...
Friday, Sep. 7, 2001
NEWSBRIEFS
Producer Anne Medcalf has been promoted to VP at Hollywood-based production house Jay Silverman Productions….Moviola, a Los Angeles-headquartered facility that provides production and post tools and services to the commercial industry, has launched a camera rental department with Bill Weisman as...
Friday, Sep. 7, 2001
U.S. Congress To Push For Overhaul Of Bankruptcy Laws
Sweeping changes in federal bankruptcy laws and procedures are making their way through Congress. While the initial thrust is geared toward personal bankruptcies—with bills in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in the process of being reconciled before being sent to President Bush—reforms...
Friday, Sep. 7, 2001
IBC Expects Turnout Of Nearly 50,000
Despite a tightening global economy, the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC)—slated for Sept. 14-18 in Amsterdam—expects to draw some 47,000 people from 120 countries; at last count, the number of exhibitors was approaching 900. Perennially a hotbed of new-product introductions, the IBC...
Friday, Sep. 7, 2001
Cerebral Credit Card
A summer campaign for smart Visa, called "Factory," opens on a futuristic factory filmed in a high-tech style. The factory is making smart Visa cards-which combine the purchasing power of traditional payment cards with smart chip technology, promising consumers added security, utility and...
Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Kevin O'Neill has joined Earle Palmer Brown , New York, as creative director. He had been chief creative officer/president at now defunct Warwick Baker O'Neill. Effective Sept. 1, GMO/Hill Holliday , San Francisco, is dropping the GMO from its name.
Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
There's The Beef
"I'll have a hamburger for which I'll gladly pay you ... Tuesday." However healthy his cash flow, if Popeye's Whimpy had to deal with the campy extras pushed by some of today's chain restaurants, he might learn to live without his favorite food. The notion of quality at a good price-minus such...
Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
NEWSBRIEFS
Eve Ehrich has joined Attik, New York, as senior producer. She has spent the past three years freelancing with various New York visual effects shops, including Spontaneous Combustion, The Diecks Group and EyeballNYC. Attik also maintains offices in Huddersfield and London, U.K.; San Francisco; and...
Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT: STOCK FOOTAGE_ Medal-Winning Shots
An Olympic athlete doesn't have to win a gold medal to make an indelible impression on viewers around the world. The International Olympic Committee's "Celebrate Humanity" campaign reminds us of that fact—and gears up for the 2002 Winter Games, to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah—with footage of...
Friday, Aug. 31, 2001
SPECIAL REPORT: STOCK FOOTAGE_ New Approaches
In the past few years, two major influences have altered the nature of the stock footage world: consolidation of the larger footage houses, and the growing impact of the Internet. While some say these changes will revolutionize the stock footage business, others say it will only lead to relatively...