Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

New Faces

David Nobay has been named executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney. He had been executive creative director at Bozell, New York.

Jeremy Postaer, group creative director at GSD&M, Austin, Texas, since 2000 has left the...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

Is the :30 commercial on the verge of becoming extinct? Peter Sealey, Ph.D., certainly thinks so, and he made his case during a provocative presentation at the Association of National Advertisers' (ANA) 2003 Television Advertising Forum, which was held on March 13 at the Plaza Hotel, New York...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

With a recently reduced budget and an increased demand on the part of its users, the Film California First (FCF) anti-runaway program has allocated all its funds—$7.9 million—for the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2003. Thus, FCF cannot process any more applications for reimbursements of...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

Following his resignation as president of New York audio post/video editing facility Palace Studios-NYC, Mark Barasch has launched SoundImage at Photomag, New York. The new venture's primary focus will be audio post, although Barasch—who'll head up operations as president—indicated that the...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

If there is one thing that Miami's postproduction community agrees on, it's that the burgeoning U.S. Hispanic market has been nothing less than a saving grace amidst the economic slump that has shaken the spot industry from New York to Los Angeles.

From the larger postproduction and film-...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

New Orleans is a city that is known for a lot of great things—music, restaurants, literature, Mardi Gras, to name a few—but advertising isn't something that immediately comes to mind.

Nevertheless, a New Orleans agency is where online grocer FreshDirect went when it wanted to introduce...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

Space Division, a creative editorial and design company, has opened with two bases of operation in Southern California. The new venture was founded by creative director/editor Chris Willoughby and executive producer Leah Walsh, both formerly with ARTiFACT, a shop which recently pulled out of the...

Friday, Mar. 21, 2003

SHORT CUTS

Push Creative, New York, produced a series of vignettes celebrating Black History Month for The New TNN. The nine spots (three :30s, four :15s and two :05s) were created in collaboration with the networks in-house brand creative group and Push. Rudy Gaskins, Push'...

Friday, Mar. 14, 2003

LOS ANGELES—Palomar Pictures is winding down operations and will soon shut its doors. Staffers were informed of the decision last week. At press time, the Los Angeles-headquartered house was wrapping its spot commitments, producing jobs that were already in its pipeline. Once those projects are...

Friday, Mar. 14, 2003

NEW YORK—After 10 years with bicoastal Crew Cuts, most recently as partner/editor, Karen Kourtessis has left to join Post Factory—the New York postproduction facility founded in 1996 by director Alex Halpern. Kourtessis, who becomes a partner/ editor at Post Factory, also brings assistant editor...

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