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At this year's film festival epicenter of Park City, Utah, the presence of the advertising community was stronger than ever. People came and consumed, promoted and acquired in vast quantities. As with the spot arena, the proliferation of dot com companies, hungry for content and eyeballs, was...
The second entry in this week's "The Best Work You May Never See" gallery-Auburn University's "Rock-A-Bye," directed by Karsten of Green Dot Films, Santa Monica, for Birmingham, Ala.-based agency Lewis Communications (see p. 17)-is breakthrough work for the usually deadly dull ad category...
Santa Monica-based music/sound design house Primal Scream has named independent rep Lynda Woodward to handle the West Coast….Film Crew, a Dallas production house, has added Dallas-based independent rep Kimber Wickwire to handle sales in the Southwest region....Bicoastal Innovative Artists has...
Bicoastal production house 8Media, the shop launched by Steve Golin, has officially changed its name to Anonymous. The company has also added director Jeffery Plansker, formerly of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, and West Coast rep Charlie McBrearty...Feature filmmaker Tim Burton (...
CLIENT
OnMoney.com.
PRODUCTION CO.
Plum Productions, Santa Monica.
Nick Piper, director; Amir Mokri, DP; Thom Tyson, executive producer; Cara Tapper, producer. Shot at 10950 Studios, Culver City, Calif.
AGENCY
DDB Chicago.
Don Pogany, creative...
A couple of notable anti-tobacco messages have recently departed from the scare tactics norm and adopted a calm, thoughtful approach in appealing to the minds and hearts of adults through children. The first was spotlighted in "The Best Work You May Never See" Gallery last month (SHOOT, 1/28, p...
A calming lullaby accompanies an afternoon drive as we see a car navigate the twists and turns of a country road. The idyllic mood is shattered as a tire blows out. A wild ride ensues as the driver struggles to retain control of the vehicle, but to no avail. The speeding automobile veers onto a...
If you put one of the top basketball players in the world in a one-on-one game against a Velociraptor, who do you think would win? Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB), Chicago, put that theory to the test in "Raptor vs. Raptor," a :30 for Gatorade Fierce, directed by Steve Beck of Industrial Light+...
At this year's film festival epicenter of Park City, Utah, the presence of the advertising community was stronger than ever. People came and consumed, promoted and acquired in vast quantities. As with the spot arena, the proliferation of dot com companies, hungry for content and eyeballs, was...
The second entry in this week's "The Best Work You May Never See" gallery—Auburn University's "Rock-A-Bye," directed by Karsten of Green Dot Films, Santa Monica, for Birmingham, Ala.-based agency Lewis Communications (see p. 17)—is breakthrough work for the usually deadly dull ad category...