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Boston-based Olive Jar Studios, the animation and special effects house owned by president Larry Pensack and creative director Fred Macdonald, is expanding its operation with the addition of a Los Angeles facility. Roughly 5,000 square feet, the new facility features administration and...
Aidan Foley, CEO of Hollywood-headquartered Cinesite, exited the company last week. He decided not to renew his contract and is considering offers in the Internet and new media arenas. Foley said he "will make a decision in the near future" regarding his next roost.
Cinesite is the...
FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, our NODANCE.com Film & Multimedia Festival has used DVD technology to present its film selections. For our third annual festival (to be held Jan. 22-25 in Park City, Utah), DVD continues to provide a portable, high-quality presentation medium for filmmakers, and also...
OCTOBER 28, 1994
Lynne L. Sanzenbacher has joined Ventura Entertainment Group, Beverly Hills, Calif., as executive producer of its infomercial division. Previously, she was a commercial production manager at Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati....In a recent expansion, Manhattan Transfer/...
one more profoundly meaningful than the other—will come together in November. The New Directors Charity Group is staging, with sponsor support, its second annual benefit for Children's Hospital, Los Angeles.
The New Directors Charity Group was formed in Oct. '98 as a nonprofit...
Editor Chris Van Dyke has joined New York-based Vito DeSario Editing (VDE). This is the first U.S. roost for Van Dyke, who had worked at now defunct The Daily Post for over a decade until the shop closed at the beginning of this year. Van Dyke had been freelancing in Toronto before signing with...
The American Association of Advertising Agencies' AAAA Foundation has granted 17 scholarships to multicultural students studying advertising creative arts at five creative portfolio schools.
This year's recipients of the Multicultural Scholarship Fund are Claire Chen, Kevin Robinson,...
Because dot-com companies will often go to extremes to get people to remember their Web addresses, e-commerce has meant a creative windfall for the advertising business. But San Francisco-based StoryWorks' principal/director Michael Shaun Conaway predicts that the second generation of e-commerce...
Lee Hunt Associates (LHA), New York, has named Maribeth Phillips executive producer of on-air design.
At her new post, Phillips will oversee the development of on-air design projects, including responsibilities in production, budgeting, staffing, and the management of creative personnel....
NewNew films, a satellite of Toronto-based Avion Film Productions has opened under the aegis of executive producer Teri Walderman, who formerly spent six years at The Directors Film Company, Toronto.
Based out of Avion's offices, NewNew films will provide exclusive Canadian representation...