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Jay Tilin of The Anx, New York, manned a Quantel Henry to perform the online finishing for a pair of :30s for Quizno's and agency Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York. "Focus/Generic" and "Focus/Chicken Carbonara" both feature Chef Jimmy, who is so preoccupied...
PORTLAND, Ore.—Directors David Daniels and Chel White have teamed with partner/executive producer Ray Di Carlo to launch Bent Image Lab, a hybrid animation laboratory/live-action production house headquartered in Portland.
The company name, explained Daniels—who's best known for his...
NEW YORK—So whatever became of the studio complex supposedly destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard? It is under construction, and at least one building containing five soundstages will be operational in April 2004—this according to Andrew Stern, senior VP of client services for the New York City...
Many people in commercial postproduction hope that last year and this year will be vastly different. By most accounts, advertising was unadventurous in 2002, technology was stagnant and the workflow was intermittent. But for those weathering this difficult period, the past year was also a good...
Jonathan Smalheiser, former principal/editor at 3 Fingered Louie, New York, has bowed ChicKönKey, a New York editing facility equipped with three Avid stations. Joining Smalheiser on the ChicKönKey team are executive producer Robin Hall and editor Charlie Cusumano.
Smalheiser doesn't cite...
FEBRUARY 27, 1998/Santa Monica-headquartered Stoney Road Productions has launched talent management company Envision, headed by president Sarah Caplan, and an as-yet-unnamed music video division, under the aegis of executive producer Leslie Owen and rep Kathryn Shaw….Director Gore Verbinski has...
DDB New York executive producer Tim Speidel is the new Plato—that is if you're willing to buy into two key suppositions: First, that New York City is Athens in the Golden Age of Greece. And second, that the medium of film has supplanted philosophy, theater, the novel and so forth as the most...
Director Carl Willat—best known for different forms of animation, at times mixed with live-action elements—has opened his own San Francisco-based shop, Carl's Fine Films. He is teamed in the new venture with executive producer Sandra Kimberly, who regularly freelance produced for him at his...
Postproduction veteran Dan Rosen—whose last facility roost was R!OT Manhattan and its predecessor shop, Manhattan Transfer, where he served as president from 1994 to '01—has launched an eponymous executive coaching/consulting service. The new venture, simply called Dan Rosen, is designed for the...
Bicoastal creative editorial house Lost Planet has added editors Saar Klein and Peter Mostert. The two join a company roster that also includes cutters Hank Corwin, Paul Martinez, Geoff Hounsell and Charlie Johnson. "I've worked with Saar on several films and he is one of the best natural...