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Atlanta may not be burning, but TV commercial production and postproduction is starting to heat up again. In recent months, Stephen Moe of Comotion Films, Atlanta, has shot "Dreams," an American General Financial Group ad, and has helmed "Not Alone" and "Amy," a pair of BlueCross BlueShield of...
Director/ designer Tuesday McGowan has signed with Picture Park, Boston and Santa Monica, for exclusive commercial representation. In a separate move, she has also joined the staff at digital visual effects studio Radium, San Francisco and Santa Monica, as a designer.
At press time,...
Visual effects artists expecting eye-popping new products may be disappointed at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention, being held April 6-11, in Las Vegas. Hopefully, a warm feeling of relief will suffice, as artists and technicians alike should be happy to see features for...
Director Thom Higgins has joined Green Dot Films for exclusive spot representation. The move to the Santa Monica shop reunites him with executive producer Rick Fishbein, who freelance line produced regularly for Higgins from 1996 to '98.
Higgins comes over to Green Dot from bicoastal...
Commercial rep firm Creative Management Partners (CMP), bicoastal and Chicago, and Hollywood-based commercial and music video house David Naylor & Associates (DNA), have linked with the directing duo Big TV! and its London-based production company, Studio. Per the arrangement, CMP will rep...
London-headquartered visual effects and postproduction facility The Mill is opening a satellite office in New York in mid-May that will service visual effects for commercials.
According to Robin Shenfield, CEO of The Mill and Mill Film, the firm's feature film division, the shop will...
It's déjà vu all over again—but with some key revisions and additions based on the first experience—for Volvo Cars of North America. The company has unveiled a fully integrated promotion entailing traditional broadcast commercialmaking, interactive television (iTV), the Internet, wireless...
MARCH 28, 1997/San Rafael-headquartered Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions (ILMCP) has signed directors Bill Werts and Robert Caruso, and has formalized an exclusive spot representation agreement with feature director Joe Johnston as well. Werts is closing his 10-year-old WertsFilms,...
The Joneses has signed director Adam Jones for exclusive representation, and has hired Pam Rohs as executive producer. The production company has also relocated from Southern California to New York, where Jones and Rohs are based, and has secured Mary Ford to serve as its rep on the East Coast....
After 18 years with The Tape House family of companies, New York—most recently housed primarily at its downtown operation, The Anx—colorist Milan Boncich has left to join postproduction facility Moving Images, New York.
Tony Fiordalisi, president of Moving Images, described Boncich as "...