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Friday, Jun. 2, 2000
Clive Christopher Joins Manhattan Transfer
Postproduction house Manhattan Transfer (MT), New York, has signed Clive Christopher, a U.K colorist who will take up residency in New York this July as director of telecine imaging. Christopher succeeds senior colorist and head of the telecine department, Dino Regas, who left the company in March...
Friday, Jun. 2, 2000
Design Lab Finalizes Team
Design Lab at Broadway Video has hired Danny Jones as visual effects producer, Roi Werner as visual effects supervisor, and Daniel Garcia as broadcast designer. Design Lab is the design/visual effects division of Broadway Video, New York. All three have been freelancing for Design Lab since...
Friday, Jun. 2, 2000
Graffiti Filmz Adds Four Animation Directors
New York live action/animation production company Graffiti Filmz has signed four animation directors for exclusive representation in the U.S. Directors Alexander Bychkouski in New York, Zoltan Horvath in Geneva, and Vladimir and Elena Petkevich of Minsk, Belarussia, signed in the beginning of May...
Friday, Jun. 2, 2000
Blue Visual Effects Expands: Exec. Prod. Redmond, Editor Martino Join Co.
Blue Visual Effects, Philadelphia, has added executive producer Sue Redmond and Avid editor Paula Martino. The visual effects boutique, started by motion graphics designer/editor Howard McCabe in '97, is also moving out of the offices of Philadelphia production/post company Center City Film &...
Friday, Jun. 2, 2000
Big Fish Adds Dir. Mack: Shop Also Forms Strategic Alliance With Mexico City's America Film Corporation.
Production house Big Fish Films, Dallas, has added director Brian Mack to its roster. It represents the first commercial representation for Mack, who has worked in the Dallas production market as an assistant director and line producer for the past six years. Already, Mack has directed his first...
Friday, Jun. 2, 2000
NEWSBRIEFS
Senior editor Paul Nesmith and producers Paul Durant and Jennifer Lytle have joined Octane Post, Hollywood.... Cinesite, Los Angeles, has appointed Pat Repola to VP, Cinesite Digital Imaging, and Kim Shriver-Covate to director of operations at the same unitA.Howard Schwartz Recording, New York, has...
Friday, May. 26, 2000
Governor Davis Proposes Runaway Relief PackageCalif.: Budget Includes Filming Incentives; AICP, ITS Endorse Measures. BY ROBERT GOLDRICH
As part of his proposed state budget for fiscal year 2000-'01, Gov. Gray Davis (D-Calif.) has introduced a series of measures designed to encourage filming in California, and to counter production-related financial incentives offered by other states and countries. The centerpiece of Davis' anti-...
Friday, May. 26, 2000
"Whassup" Is What's Up At The Clios
It's like the Abbott and Costello "Who's On First?" routine. "Whassup" turned out to be what was up at the television portion of the 2000 Clio Awards competition. The "Whassup/True" spot for Budweiser, via DDB Chicago, took the Grand Clio in TV during a gala cermony last night (5/25) in New York...
Friday, May. 26, 2000
Assessments Of Actors' Strike Differ
At press time, as the actors' strike entered its fourth week, dramatically different views were voiced as to its impact on spot production. Ira Shepard, legal counsel to the Joint Policy Committee (JPC) of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A's) and the Association of National...
Friday, May. 26, 2000
Partizan Adds Dir. Jaume
Bicoastal/international Partizan has signed mono-monikered director Jaume for exclusive commercial representation in the U.S. and internationally except for Spain, where he continues to be handled by Group Films, Barcelona and Madrid. The Los Angeles-based Jaume, a native of Barcelona, had...