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Up until last year, limeBeat Productions was just a couple of young faces with business cards and a home studio. Randy Lee and Matthias Raabe, college buddies from NYU, had started the business, part-time, in '94, by pooling together their industry contacts, sound equipment accumulated from...
Recent credits:
ESPN SportsCenter, "Vince's Limo," "Keyshawn Early Hour" and "Cookie Dough." Wieden & Kennedy, New York.
Burton Snowboards, "First Up, Last Down." JDK Design, Burlington, Vt, with Emerald City Media, New York.
MediaOne, "...
Musikvergnuegen, Sherman Oaks, Calif., scored the spot "Motorcycle," via Grey Advertising, New York, promoting Canon's Rebel camera and featuring tennis great Andre Agassi. Walter Werzowa and John Luker composed the jazzy, orchestral music to accompany Agassi competing in a game called "fireball...
Three weeks after an anticipated sale to a prospective buyer fell through, Chicago-based postproduction house Skyview Studios terminated its remaining employees and closed its doors on Nov. 5.
Skyview's equipment and assets—appraised at $1.9 million—are slated to be auctioned off by San...
Music house Ear to Ear has signed sound designer Matthew Schoenfeld. The addition marks the opening of Ear to Ear Sound Design.
A natural outgrowth of parent company Ear to Ear, the sound design division shares the spotlight with Ear to Ear Artists, a division formed earlier this year...
Marcie Malooly has been promoted to VP of Lucas Digital Ltd., LLC, the San Rafael-headquartered parent company to Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions (ILMCP), San Rafael and Los Angeles. Malooly continues in her day-to-day role as ILMCP executive producer/division manager.
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Director Alex Turner has joined Zero 2 Sixty Productions. Turner comes to the New York-headquartered production company from Five Union Square Productions, New York.
One could argue that Turner started his film career at age 14, when his short film entitled Spatula Death was broadcast on...
Election results are in for three chapters of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). Brian Donnelly, Los Angeles-based executive producer of bicoastal OneSuch Films, has become president of AICP/West. Bob Fisher, principal/executive producer at Celsius Films, New York, has...
Oil Factory Films, with bases in West Hollywood and London, has signed directors Steven Tsuchida and Philipp Stölzl for commercial and music video representation.
The L.A.-based Tsuchida—who first established himself in the industry during the early 90's as an agency art director—was...
Director Scott Gillen, best known for his prowess in automotive advertising, has joined bicoastal Coppos Films for exclusive spot representation. Gillen recently wrapped a yearlong stay at Santa Monica-based Cognito Films, his first career production company roost.
Gillen's commercial...