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PRODUCTION CO.
Crossroads Films, Los Angeles.
Mark Story, director; Barry Markowitz, DP; Cami Taylor, executive producer; Norman Reiss, producer. Shot at GMT Studios, Culver City, Calif.
AGENCY
BBDO Chicago.
Tim Baergen, creative director...
Okay, professional hockey is violent and full of personal hygiene taboos—but that's part of the game's charm. Tapping into that charm for the Washington Capitals hockey team is Hill Holliday Connors Cosmopulos, Boston, with "Romantic Dinner," helmed by feature director David Veloz (Permanent...
The hit disco song performed by the Village People declared that "it's fun to stay at the YMCA." Today, those lyrics might be altered to "it's fun to watch YMCA commercials," thanks to a campaign for the Providence, Rhode Island YMCAs. The ads were directed and shot by Leif Husted-Jensen of...
Super villains are regular people too. They have kids, play poker on the weekends and think about retirement. But keeping their files in order is no easy task. Consider all their evil plans that need to be catalogued and sorted. That's why someone interested in world domination needs a perfect...
CLIENT
NextCard.
PRODUCTION CO.
Link Entertainment, New York.
Henning Winkelmann, director; Larry Fong, DP; Ann Egbert, executive producer; Nan Simons, producer. Shot at Hayvenhurst Studios, Van Nuys, Calif., and on location in Van Nuys and Santa Paula, Calif.
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Donald R. Stogo Associates (DRSA), New York, has entered into an exclusive arrangement with Hong Kong-based spot house Odeon Productions under the aegis of executive producer Tammy Hui. Per the deal, DRSA will represent Odeon's directors—including Derek Chang and Sng Tong Beng—for commercials...
Lux Pictures Commercials LLC, Venice, Calif., has secured reps Marilyn Clancey to handle the West Coast and Midwest, and Colin Giles to cover the East Coast….Santa Monica-based Method has secured Patricia Claire of art.fx, New York, for East Coast representation…. Commercial production design...
Director Martin Canellakis has joined bicoastal/international hungry man. He comes over from bicoastal Coppos Films, where he had been represented first as part of the Marty+Brian directorial duo, and then as an individual helmer after he and Brian Aldrich each decided to go solo late last year...
His attitude to life and art never lost intensity—he was never the amateur."—William Butler Yeats
On March 1, the production community lost one of its best, John Romeyn, an executive producer at Flying Tiger Films. And of all the things John will be remembered for—his amazing confidence,...
The "Your Shot" below this column is a remembrance of executive producer John Romeyn, by Flying Tiger Films' partner/exec. producer Jeff Devlin. Romeyn passed away on March 1 due to respiratory failure; he was 57.
Besides a lasting body of work over a career of more than 30 years, Romeyn...