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June 9, 1995/Mountain View, Calif.-based Silicon Graphics and Dreamworks SKG have teamed to launch DreamWorks Digital Studio, a visual effects and animation studio in Los Angeles....Computer animation firm Blue Sky Productions, Ossining, N.Y., has signed director/designer Mark Baldo, formerly of...
Some eight years ago, Leigh von der Esch, director of the Utah Film Commission, approached the National Park Service (NPS) about setting up a film fee schedule and policy that would be a win-win situation. While protecting natural resources at parks for the enjoyment of visitors, the guidelines...
The directing duo of Chuck Bennett and Clay Williams-formerly a creative team at TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles-has landed at Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago, for exclusive representationA..Director David Emery, who formerly maintained a Los Angeles-based shop-Emery-in association with...
Stacy Wall, creative director at Wieden + Kennedy, New York, is set to join bicoastal/international hungry mans television divisionA.Bicoastal Go Film has added director Nick Rafter, who comes over from bicoastal/international The End.....Original Film, Los Angeles, and New York Office in...
Didn't go to NAB this year, or last year, and I didn't go the five previous years. Yet for some funny reason, I find myself pushing the envelope of technology at a rate I never thought was possible. From '73awhen I opened The Kiwi Film Company in Sydney and helped change the way editing was...
June 2, 1995/Michael Romersa has obtained sole ownership of the spot production houses formerly under The Partners/USA umbrella: bicoastal Bedford Falls and Fahrenheit Films, Industrial Artists, New York; and Santa Monica-headquartered Petermann/Moss Films.... Entering the multimedia market,...
The power of advertising has really hit home for SHOOT in the last few weeks. As word of the RSA ad in SHOOT's May 12 issue spread beyond the confines of our usual audience of executives at advertising agencies, production companies, post houses, editing companies, visual effects studios and...
Bicoastal Coppos Films has secured Jill Reehl and Noelle Whitfield of Chicago-based Get Reehl for representation in the Midwest and Massachusetts. Independent rep Vicky Miller continues to handle Coppos on the West Coast and has added Texas to her territory. Coppos has also taken on Victoria...
Astrow Ziegler, New York has undergone some restructuring. Dana Astrow adds Oil Factory Films, Hollywood, to her roster of companies, which also includes bicoastal Epoch Films, and New York-based Nocturnal Commercials. She exclusively handles East Coast representation for those companies. Peter...
runaway production proposals contained in Gov. Gray Davis' 2000-'01 fiscal year budget for California have caught the attention of domestic filming advocates who hope the measures will spark reform movements in other states and perhaps even at the federal level.
Dawn Keezer, chair of Film...