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Friday, Oct. 25, 2002
Geuder Dies At Age 35
Bob Geuder passed away suddenly this month while vacationing on the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire. He was 35. Most recently, Geuder had worked as a Flame artist/designer with Deep Blue Sea, Miami—a visual effects house under the aegis of BVI LLC, Coconut Grove, Fla. He was slated to become...
Friday, Oct. 25, 2002
Spot Split Finalized
Larry Andersen and Carl MacNeal, partners at Boston commercial editing facility Spot, are ending their five-year business relationship. Andersen will remain at Spot while MacNeal formally launches commercial editing facility Edit Pod in a nearby Boston location. (Edit Pod has been operating out of...
Friday, Oct. 25, 2002
Post/VFX, Music/Sound Design and Equipment Briefs
SHORT CUTS Ohio Edit , New York, cut a package of spots for Crave, Calvin Klein's new men's cologne, via the company's in-house New York agency, CRK Advertising. "Computer," "Projection," "Funny" and "Animation" were cut by Ohio's Frank Snider, assisted by Peter Fritz. Fabien Baron directed the...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
AICE Gears Up For Editing Awards; 32 Spot Finalists Set
LOS ANGELES—At press time, DVDs—each containing 32 spots—were on their way to blue-ribbon judges throughout the country for the second annual Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) Editing Awards. This past summer, editors from AICE member houses throughout the country judged 260-plus...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT : DIRECTORS : FALL EDITION Ivan Zacharias
Two and a half years ago, Czech director Ivan Zacharias told SHOOT that his youthful appearance and modest demeanor sometimes put him in awkward situations. He might be mistaken for a "gofer" in an agency meeting or on the set. And he lacked the clout to insist that he be allowed to stay with a job...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT : DIRECTORS : FALL EDITION Spooner/French
Back when he worked for Comedy Central in 1995, Andrew French had a problem with a co-worker. The guy sitting in the office next door, Nick Spooner, enjoyed playing Mahler on his stereo loud enough that French could hear it, too. "Our offices were right next door to each other and I couldn't stand...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT : DIRECTORS : FALL EDITION Kim Geldenhuys
Kim Geldenhuys, who is represented stateside by bicoastal Bob Industries, and in his native South Africa by his own shop, Egg, Cape Town, wants to come to America to direct spots, but America insists on coming to him. After signing in January with bicoastal Bob, Geldenhuys was looking forward to...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT : DIRECTORS : FALL EDITION Francois Girard
Francois Girard has played the piano for years. But, he says, "I've never considered myself a musician. I have too much respect for real musicians to do that." That respect inspired Girard's feature films, The Red Violin and Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould. And it also made him the perfect...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT : DIRECTORS : FALL EDITION Michael Grasso
Director Michael Grasso's newfound focus on reality-based storytelling is best exemplified in "Black Hawk," a spec spot he wrote and directed several months ago for the U.S. Army—a client for whom he's done a considerable amount of work over the years. "Black Hawk" revolves around a family having a...
Friday, Oct. 18, 2002
SPECIAL REPORT : DIRECTORS : FALL EDITION Michael Haussman
Director Michael Haussman's stylish visual touch has been applied to commercials (Lincoln, adidas, and Bacardi), music videos (Madonna, Chris Isaak, Eric Clapton and B.B. King), and his feature, Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest. Recently, the director completed a feature-length bullfighting...