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The Canadian production industry seems to be rebounding from what was, by most accounts, a rough year for business in 2001, caused in part by a faltering economy that was shaken even further by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.
"The phones stopped ringing," recalls executive producer...
Della Femina Rothschild Jeary and Partners, New York, has promoted senior VP/creative director Jeff Linder to the position of executive VP.
Ann Lemon has joined The Romann Group, New York, as its third creative director. She moves there from an associate...
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New York-based Rhinoceros Visual Effects and Design (RVED) created "Illusions" for Mazda out of Doner, Southfield, Mich. In the :30, a gray Mazda MPV winds around a scenic road emerging from such locations as waterfalls, foliage and tunnels, as a sporty red Miata...
AT&T Wireless's mLife campaign has in essence been Lynn Roer's life for the past few months. Roer, senior partner/co-director of broadcast production at Oglivy & Mather (O&M), New York, has been overseeing production on the mLife commercials, which launched the new tagline for AT...
3 Fingered Louie, the New York-based creative editorial facility, has hired editor John Anklow. He joins a team of cutters comprising Wendy Rosen, Jon Smalheiser and Dave Smalheiser.
With a 1989 degree in English from Colorado College securely tucked away, Anklow began his career as an...
Most people like to think of themselves as originals.
While this may sound like a Yogi Berra quote, it was, in fact, the ironic truth faced by the creative team at Young & Rubicam (Y&R), New York, as it wrote the lyrics for a new, music-driven Dr Pepper campaign celebrating...
Producer Kelley McDermott and visual effects artist/designer Aylin Sweeney have joined the staff at New York-based visual effects and design house Splash. The new hires bring the firm's total number of employees to nine.
McDermott comes to Splash after three years with visual effects/live...
Directors John St. Clair and Warren Kushner have joined bicoastal Bedford Falls. St. Clair comes aboard for exclusive representation in North America. Kushner is being handled primarily in the U.S., with Bedford Falls also looking to open up some opportunities for him internationally. The two...
Todd Field—whose feature directing/writing/producing debut, In the Bedroom, garnered five Academy Award nominations last week, including for best picture and best adapted screenplay (co-written by Field and Robert Festinger)—has signed with bicoastal/international @radical. media for exclusive...
Nearly a year after the announced merger of The Whitehouse Post Productions Ltd., London, and The Lookinglass Company, Santa Monica and Chicago (SHOOT, 3/9/01, p. 1), the resulting international editorial house, which operates under The Whitehouse banner, has launched a New York shop.
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