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Palace Production Center (PPC), a postproduction/multimedia studio in South Norwalk, Conn., has acquired ServiSound, a New York-based video editing/audio post facility. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ServiSound will be renamed ServiDigital Studios.
The two companies have...
Digital artist/ compositor Danny Mudgett has joined Venice-based Sight Effects. The move ends his 14-year tenure at CIS, Hollywood, where he worked on commercials for such clients as Nike, Dodge, 7-Up and Miller Beer. Mudgett also worked on features (i.e. Titanic, Contact) and TV series (i.e....
Director Mark Decena has been signed by Limbo Films, the two-year-old Portland, Ore.-based commercial production house owned by director/cameraman Gary Nolton. Additionally, Los Angeles-based freelancer Peggy Dunn is acting as consultant/executive producer at Limbo. For the past year, Dunn has...
Independent Artists, New York, has signed Julian Griffiths, a director whose work has not yet been widely seen in the U.S. Griffiths, who works for the European market out of his own shop, Woof, London, has aligned with Independent Artists for spot representation in the U.S., Canada and South...
Boston-based Olive Jar Studios, the animation and special effects house owned by president Larry Pensack and creative director Fred Macdonald, is expanding its operation with the addition of a Los Angeles facility. Roughly 5,000 square feet, the new facility features administration and...
Aidan Foley, CEO of Hollywood-headquartered Cinesite, exited the company last week. He decided not to renew his contract and is considering offers in the Internet and new media arenas. Foley said he "will make a decision in the near future" regarding his next roost.
Cinesite is the...
FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS, our NODANCE.com Film & Multimedia Festival has used DVD technology to present its film selections. For our third annual festival (to be held Jan. 22-25 in Park City, Utah), DVD continues to provide a portable, high-quality presentation medium for filmmakers, and also...
OCTOBER 28, 1994
Lynne L. Sanzenbacher has joined Ventura Entertainment Group, Beverly Hills, Calif., as executive producer of its infomercial division. Previously, she was a commercial production manager at Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati....In a recent expansion, Manhattan Transfer/...
one more profoundly meaningful than the other—will come together in November. The New Directors Charity Group is staging, with sponsor support, its second annual benefit for Children's Hospital, Los Angeles.
The New Directors Charity Group was formed in Oct. '98 as a nonprofit...
Editor Chris Van Dyke has joined New York-based Vito DeSario Editing (VDE). This is the first U.S. roost for Van Dyke, who had worked at now defunct The Daily Post for over a decade until the shop closed at the beginning of this year. Van Dyke had been freelancing in Toronto before signing with...