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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...
Directors Hermann Lederle and Branson Veal have signed with Los Angeles-based Ace Entertainment, the commercial production house headed by principal/executive producer Pam Tarr. Both directors join the company after brief informal stints at Tony K., Santa Monica and London. Previously, Strato...
Betty Meadows, formerly senior producer at Campbell-Ewald/West, Los Angeles, has joined Rye Films, the Hollywood-based editorial house founded in '79 by editor Rye Dahlman. Meadows comes aboard as the shop is planning a move to Santa Monica. The new site has been secured, space planning has...
Bicoastal Coppos Films has secured Joanne Ferraro as national director of sales/East Coast managing director, and promoted Michael Appel, longtime producer for director/company principal Mark Coppos, to VP/executive producer. Based in New York and Los Angeles, respectively, Ferraro and Appel...
Visual effects shop BLiNK.fx, New York, has merged with its sister postproduction company Fuzion Creative Post, New York, to form one company that will operate under the BLiNK.fx moniker. The newly consolidated entity will be headed by creative director/general manager Paul Agid, who held the...
Bob Samuel—who left his post as New York-based executive producer for bicoastal Coppos Films earlier this year (SHOOT, 5/14, p. 1)—has resurfaced, offering strategic management and personal consulting services to the spot community.
Upon exiting the Coppos studio, Samuel initially planned...
The American Advertising Federation (AAF) has named seven advertising and media executives to its Advertising Hall of Achievement.
This year's inductees include Matthew Ross, managing director, IBM Brand, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, New York; Philippe Krakowsky, senior VP/corporate...
Jeffrey Dunaj has joined Novocom, Playa Vista, Calif., as senior art director.
Before relocating to the West Coast, Dunaj had been a design director at Home & Garden Television, Knoxville, Tenn., for two years. While there, he was responsible for the design of HGTV's on-air identity,...
MIAMI—Broadcast Video Inc. (BVI) has added colorist Patrick Desfayes Reenilä.
For the past two years, Reenilä held the same post at New Art Digital, Mexico City, where he completed spots for such clients as Polaroid and Panasonic.
Reenilä will be working at BVI's suites in Miami...