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Friday, Jun. 16, 2000
AICP Offers Glimpse Of Spot Industry's Future: Lecture Series Yields Perspectives On Changing Ad Landscape
The last time he addressed the advertising industry, at a conference in '93, Mark Kvamme was almost booed off the stage for talking about the Internet. By sharp contrast, there were no hecklers in the audience last week when Kvamme-a partner in Sequoia Capital, Menlo Park, Calif., and chairman of...
Friday, Jun. 16, 2000
Wall To Wall Adds Two Dirs.
Wall to Wall Films, New York, has added two directors to its roster-Atlanta-based Glen Owen and Tel-Aviv-based Lior Har-Lev. Launched last August by executive producers Eric Calderon and Paul McCarthy and director J. Wesley Jones, Wall to Wall is part of the Multi-Video Group family of companies,...
Friday, Jun. 16, 2000
Director Jay Torres Joins WildLife Management
Director Jay Torres has signed with WildLife Management, a division of OneSuch Films, both bicoastal. Torres, whose work often employs extensive graphics and visual effects, previously made spots through his own company, Los Angeles-based Fugitive. Formerly a conduit for Torres' own directing and...
Friday, Jun. 9, 2000
BULLETIN BOARD
June 13/New York: N.Y. Freelance Producers Network meeting at Napoleon Art & Production. (917) 933-5566A. - June 14-15/Chicago: U.S. International Film and Video Festival at the Chicago Marriott Downtown Hotel. (630) 834-7773; fax: (630) 834-5565; www.filmfestawards.comA . - June 16/Los Angeles...
Friday, Jun. 9, 2000
For The Record
SHOOT was misinformed regarding a Street Talk item about director Stan Morse, who recently signed with bicoastal Straw Dogs. Morse's first job for Coors Light via FCB Chicago was produced through Los Angeles-based design and production firm Imaginary Forces, and Morseaserving as a freelance...
Friday, Jun. 9, 2000
NEWSBRIEFS
Steve Markowski has joined Cinesite, Hollywood, as animation director. Markowski leaves Warner Bros. Pictures, Glendale, Calif., where his credits included serving as supervising animator/character designer/storyboard artist on The Iron Giant....Ada Pozo Sheerin has departed her post as producer/...
Friday, Jun. 9, 2000
Mike Leary Upped To Head Of Production At FCB Chicago
CHICAGOaFCB Chicago has promoted Mike Leary to the position of senior VP/director of broadcast production. Leary, 48, has spent 10 years at FCB, most recently as senior VP/executive producer. Leary's promotion fills the void left by the recent departure of FCB's former production head, Florence "...
Friday, Jun. 9, 2000
YOUR SHOT: Simplergence
I sat down to write this article on convergent media and the positive effects it will have on our industry in the future. With plenty of time to think and write, lots of ideas brewing in my head, and two freshly charged batteries on my G3 laptop, this was easy. But then, convergence converged on me...
Friday, Jun. 9, 2000
FLASHBACK: 5 years / 10 years
June 9, 1995/Mountain View, Calif.-based Silicon Graphics and Dreamworks SKG have teamed to launch DreamWorks Digital Studio, a visual effects and animation studio in Los Angeles....Computer animation firm Blue Sky Productions, Ossining, N.Y., has signed director/designer Mark Baldo, formerly of...
Friday, Jun. 9, 2000
SPOT.COM.MENTARY: Worth The Wait
Some eight years ago, Leigh von der Esch, director of the Utah Film Commission, approached the National Park Service (NPS) about setting up a film fee schedule and policy that would be a win-win situation. While protecting natural resources at parks for the enjoyment of visitors, the guidelines and...