Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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,...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

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...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

Is former RSA USA president Bruce Martin about to resurface in the spot biz?….Former Propaganda Films VP/director of commercial development Dave Morrison is helping launch the as-yet-unnamed production and management company being started by Steve Golin, cofounder and former chairman of...

Friday, Oct. 22, 1999

Lauri Aloi, former senior producer of bicoastal Bang music + sound design, has joined bicoastal Partizan Entertainment as East Coast sales rep. Partizan's directorial roster includes Traktor, Michel Gondry, Quentin Dupieux, Eric Coignoux and two recently signed helmers, Barbara McDonough and...

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