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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...
- JULY 14, 1995/Bicoastal/international Propaganda has launched London-based production company Federation. The new company is in the process of searching for an executive producer....Bicoastal Giraldi Suarez Productions has signed director Will van der Vlugt for U.S. spot representation. He...
As reported in this week's issue (see "CA To Enact Anti-Runaway Program" by Millie Takaki), funding for the Film California First initiative has been included in the 2000-'01 state budget recently signed by Gov. Gray Davis (D-Calif.). Per the anti-runaway program, $15 million will be set aside...
Minneapolis-based post/visual effects house Crash & Sue's and music/sound design shop Echo Boys have signed Patti Paul of Patti Paul and Associates, Chicago, to handle their Midwest representation....Santa Monica-based Tropix Films, a satellite of Atlas Pictures, Santa Monica, is being...
Bicoastal production house Anonymous has signed director Mark Romanek, who comes over from bicoastal/international Satellite....Word is that director Geoffrey Barish is about to hook up with bicoastal/international Propaganda Films....After stints wih Portland, Ore.-based Wieden + Kennedy and...
The words "best friends" always bring back memories of kids whispering secrets or teenagers spending hours on the phone. Paul and I spent many hours on the phone and in many different countries watching the sunrise and the sunset. I have never met anyone with more self-confidence, determination...
- JULY 7, 1995/The U.S. not only claims this year's Palme d'Or at the Cannes Advertising Festivalaby way of Venice, Calif.-based PYTKAabut six of the top 10 contenders for the prize were from the U.S....Director Lance Kelleher, a partner in the Sydney, Australia-based house Kino Montage, has...
The importance of arts education to our industry and society in general has been discussed in previous installments of this column, as well as chronicled in assorted SHOOT news stories. Suffice it to say that the visual effects/CG business and new media sectors in the U.S. are grappling with a...
Lincoln Mercury has decided to stop filming commercials for its 2001 line of automobiles until the actors' strike is resolved. The move came the day after SAG and AFTRA claimed that a recent Lincoln Mercury spot smacked of racism in that it entailed use of makeup to darken the face of a white...