Friday, Dec. 3, 1999

Director Robert Mulligan has joined N ur Eye Films, New York. Mulligan comes to the company after a nine-month stay at New York-based Creative Film Management (CFM).

Before coming aboard CFM, Mulligan was a relative newcomer to the spot world. He was signed by CFM based on the strength of...

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

Luke Thornton and Liz Silver, co-founders of bicoastal The End, resigned from the company last week. Silver was president of The End and Thornton served as its executive producer. The End is a subsidiary of public company Harmony Holdings Inc., whose majority owner is the publicly traded,...

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

Hollywood-headquartered Mirella Film Company, featuring director Michael Cerny, has added Los Angeles-based sales rep Patty Everett for the West Coast and Texas, and Chicago-based Tim Harwood to cover the Midwest; they join New York-based rep Michael Sitzer....Miller/Nadler, New York, is now...

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

Dec. 3/San Francisco: San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Awards call for entries deadline. (415) 929-5014; fax: (415) 921-5032; ggawards@sfiff.org….Dec. 3/ Dallas: the Video Association of Dallas (VAD) call for entries deadline. Kelly...

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

Publicly traded visual content firm Getty Images has made a minority investment in San Francisco-based LicenseMusic.com, an online database of original music available for licensing over the Internet. As part of the arrangement, Seattle-headquartered Getty Images will market audio content from...

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

The Firm Design Group, a bicoastal creative concept studio specializing in broadcast design and image campaigns, has enlisted creative director/director Peter Burega to head up the company's West Coast in Venice. Burega is also available to direct commercial projects through The Firm Design...

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

Veteran production executive Alana Rothlein has opened her own South Florida firm, Envision It. The Miami-based business will target a broad range of production-related companies as well as advertising agencies, with Rothlein offering management, strategic marketing and production services....

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

Following disappointing financial results this year and the recent resignations of chairman/CEO William Miller and COO Clifford Jenks (SHOOT, 11/5, p.1), Tewksbury-based Avid Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID) has laid off nearly 200 employees as part of its restructuring plan.

The layoffs—...

Friday, Nov. 26, 1999

A group of hip, urban, twenty-something friends enjoying coffee: It's not quite an episode of Friends, but it's close. This six-spot series for a new line of Nescafé gourmet coffee beverages via McCann-Erickson, New York, bears a close resemblance to the popular NBC show.

Not only were...

Friday, Nov. 19, 1999

Ending a two-year tenure, executive producer Julie Weinman is leaving New York-based Maysles Shorts and Maysles Films. She will be replaced by Bill Curren, who was executive producer for now defunct Elbert Budin Inc. from '90 to '96. Since '96, when Elbert Budin Inc. closed following famed...

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