Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

New York-based Slingshot has added editor Noelle Webb, who joins the company from mad.house, New York. Webb worked at mad. house for a total of eight years, including the three years when the company was still named Bender Editorial. Slingshot's roster is also expanding with the addition of...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

Edit Sweet, a Chicago-based creative editorial boutique, has added editors Katie Wrobel and Skip Masters.

Wrobel joins the company after a three-year stay in Tel Aviv, Israel, where she worked as a freelance editor and cut an assortment of Israeli market spots (among them, ads for Huggies...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

Robert Miller, a composer who specializes in orchestral pieces, has added his signature to Amber Music, New York, with an office in London. At press time, Miller was wrapping some projects at New York-based Sacred Noise, his spot roost for the past four years.

Michelle Curran, Amber's...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

"Sensitive," one of four :15s in a World AIDS Day campaign sponsored by Levi Strauss & Co., won the best commercial honor at the 27th annual Annie Awards, which recognize excellence in animation.

Directed by John Hays of San Francisco animation studio Wild Brain, "Sensitive" features...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

Bicoastal Go Film has signed director Frank W. Ockenfels 3 for commercial and music video representation. Ockenfels comes over after five years at Mars Media, a satellite of HSI Productions. Both HSI and Mars are bicoastal.

Ockenfels, a well-known still shooter whose music and portrait...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

Noted international commercial director Agust Baldursson has signed with Orbit Productions, Hollywood, for commercial representation in the U.S. A division of Orbit Entertainment Group, Orbit is the commercial production house under the aegis of president/executive producer Lee Nelson and...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

AS SOON AS THE CHROME crinkled on the cover of SHOOT's Directors Issue, I realized two things about directing: one, how new I am to this game; and two, how unexplainable the link of my old job is to my current job. A little personal history: Ten years ago I started a snowboard company in what...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

NOVEMBER 11, 1994

Director/cameraman Bill Timmer has departed London-based and bicoastal BFCS to sign with Industrial Light + Magic (ILM) Commercial Productions, San Rafael, Calif., for exclusive spot representation. Timmer cited ILM's proximity to his San Francisco home as the reason for...

Friday, Nov. 12, 1999

THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT year-end legislative jockeying is going on in Washington, D.C. regarding the runaway production issue.

The bad news is that year-end legislative jockeying is going on in Washington, D.C. regarding the runaway production issue.

Buried inside a Republican bill...

Friday, Nov. 5, 1999

NOVEMBER 4, 1994

Editor Jon Vesey and designer Ada Whitney, who respectively served as director of offline editorial and senior designer at Broadway Video, New York, have departed the company to form Beehive, New York, a design and editorial company....Boss Film Studios, Marina del Rey,...

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