Friday, May. 12, 2000

Mike McGlynn has joined the staff of Click 3X Los Angeles as director of new business development. Additionally, independent reps Susan Prickett of Susan Prickett Co., Chicago, and Darr Hawthorne of Burning Motor Home, Sherman Oaks, Calif., have been named to handle the Midwest and West Coast,...

Friday, May. 12, 2000

As chronicled in SHOOT over the years, recently in our coverage of the 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...

Friday, May. 12, 2000

- MAY 12, 1995/After three years as VP/general manager, Ken Lorber has been named president of Post Edge, with offices in Hollywood, Boca Raton and South Beach, all Florida. He succeeds Michael Orsburn, who was the inventor of the da Vinci color corrector....Principals/editors Steve Bedner and...

Friday, May. 12, 2000

SAG and AFTRA have begun a strike that deeply impacts the commercial advertising industry. We agree that the issues which precipitated this action need to be resolved by the performers and the media. However, in a business like advertising that is built upon fast turnaround, a work stoppage can...

Friday, May. 12, 2000

Word is that director Jaume is bidding on jobs through bicoastal/international PartizanA.New York-based Shooting Gallery Productions has signed director/cameraman Allen Weiss, who has directed independently for the past year through his own Raleigh, N.C.-based shop, Brackish Films.....Palomar...

Friday, May. 5, 2000

At press time, word was that the Joint Policy Committee of the 4As and ANA was about to file charges with the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that SAG and AFTRA have refused to bargain in good faith for a new commercials contract, and that the unions have engaged in unfair labor...

Friday, May. 5, 2000

Los Angeles-based Bravo Zulu has signed Roxanne Artesona and Jeff Bowman of Roxanne & Co., New York, to handle East Coast representation for directors John Mastromonaco and Patricia Murphy....Duck Soup Studios, a Los Angeles shop specializing in traditional cel animation, computer animation...

Friday, May. 5, 2000

Ironically, as the seemingly widening distance between the actors unions and the JPC has taken industry center stage (see lead story, p. 1), theres movement afoot to bring together other organizations that are finding their agendas share key goals and concerns.

A prime example surfaced...

Friday, May. 5, 2000

If youve never been to NAB, you might be asking yourself, Is it really worth the time and expense? This question might have been well founded five years ago, when it seemed that only two kinds of people attended NAB: the executives walking around in suits in obscenely hot weather, and the video...

Friday, May. 5, 2000

May 5, 1995/Wayne Isham has joined bicoastal Industrial Artists for spot, video and interactive representation. He was most recently affiliated with The Company, which closed in January....Parallax, the mixing and sound design unit of New York-based Betelgeuse Productions, has unveiled a new 400...

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