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As chronicled in SHOOT over the years, recently in our coverage of the annual H-1B visa cap being met six months ahead of schedule (SHOOT, 3/31, p. 1), the shortage of skilled high-tech workers in the U.S. has been cause for concern not only in Silicon Valley, but also in the visual effects/CGI...
Los Angeles based Yvette Lubinsky is handling West Coast representation for Celsius Films, New York....Cielo Films, Santa Monica, has secured San Francisco-based Mary Saxon and Los Angeles-based Rachel Finn of newly formed independent rep firm FinnSaxon to cover the West Coast....Andrea Ruotsi...
The current actors' strike, with its acrimonious debate over how talent should be compensated, is just one of many points of conflict that have or will soon arise as the media industry undergoes revolutionary change.
Over the past few decades, electronic media has slowly migrated from a...
Director Peter Care, formerly of bicoastal/international Satellite, has joined bicoastal Bob Industries....Los Angeles-based Palomar Pictures has teamed with IFILM, also in Los Angeles, to create Palomar Showcase, a co-branded, IFILM-hosted Web site featuring Palomar-provided short films, music...
- JULY 21, 1995/Writer/director Quentin Tarantino has partnered with producer Lawrence Bender and freelance spot producer Michael Bodnarchek to launch A Band Apart Commercials, Hollywood....Director Robert Black has signed with bicoastal Headquarters for exclusive spot representation. He had...
Those ITS facilities that derive a significant portion of their business from the spot industry have on average lost nearly 20 percent of their gross revenue due to the actors' strike.
Los Angeles County estimates that the strike has hit the local economy to the tune of $2.5 million each...
Bicoastal Cylo and Dallas-based Concrete Productions have ended their affiliation for production and sales. Concrete president Lisa Cobb intends to announce forthcoming changes for her company within the next couple of months....Independent reps John Naitove in New York and Jack Reed, Dallas,...
Bicoastal RSA USA has signed Chicago-based rep firm Nikki Weiss & Company to handle the shop's Midwest sales, and Santa Monica-based Stacey & Annie to cover the West Coast and Texas....After a six year run with the company, Chicago-based rep Donna Daguanno is no longer repping bicoastal...
Feature director Andrzej Bartkowiak (Romeo Must Die) has joined Copper Media-the Los Angeles shop launched last year by longform producer Joel Silver and veteran spot executive Mel Gragido-for spot representation. Bartkowiak first established himself as a noted feature cinematographer with such...
2000" is not just the year, it's the number of people who tried to fit into the Martinez Bar at 3:00 a.m. More entries, more people, more drinking, more begging, more winners, more losers, less sleep ... why do we do this to ourselves? I guess it's because it's fun, stupid. Where else can you...