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During a California Legislature informational hearing last month in Los Angeles (SHOOT, 12/14, p. 1), Frank Scherma, co-proprietor of bicoastal/international @radical.media, and the recently elected national treasurer of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), gave a...
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Digital effects designer/Inferno artist Cassie Scroggins of Minneapolis-based Hi-Wire worked on an open for DragonflyTV, a new PBS children's program created by Twin Cities Public Television (TPT). Geared toward children ages 9-12, DragonflyTV is based on the kid'...
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New York-based Zona Design created and produced a promo package for American Classics, a four-hour mini-series which aired recently on The History Channel. Zona's package included logo design for print, billboards and on-air, as well as opens, bumpers, bugs...
Hill, Holliday, Connors, Cosmopulos, Boston, has appointed Bryan Sweeney senior VP, director of broadcast. Most recently he was executive producer at Arnold Communications, Boston.
Larry Donabedian has joined Doner, Detroit, as VP/creative director. He comes...
A petition asking the federal government to impose countervailing tariffs on U.S. films produced in Canada with Canadian government subsidies has been withdrawn, at least for the time being, by its backers—the Film & Television Action Committee (FTAC), Made in the USA and the Screen Actors...
Kabuki, the highly stylized form of Japanese theater, doesn't often appear in advertising, but the art form figures prominently in a new, nearly four-minute Internet film advertising Polaroid's Mio, a new, high-end instant camera that takes wallet-size photos. The short film was done via Leo...
As a creative director, you might not run towards Sears as a creative opportunity," relates Dan Fietsam, senior VP/creative director at Young & Rubicam (Y&R), Chicago.
But Fietsam has had a significant hand in changing that perception—and more importantly, many prospective...
Decibel Architects Music and Sound Design, the Los Angeles shop founded in 1994 by composer/sound designer Tom Page, has added composer/producer John Author. Already Page and Author have teamed on several projects, including Suzuki ATV for Colby & Partners, Santa Monica; Farmer's Insurance...
Amy Russo has come aboard editorial shop Terminal as a producer. She joins the Santa Monica-based spot editorial house, where she will work closely with executive producer Michael Gresch on projects for editors Lee Cowan, Jonathan Del Gatto and Mark Goodman.
Prior to becoming a Terminal...
Composer Alex Berglund has officially come aboard Echo Boys Music & Sound Design, Minneapolis. He had been composing there as a freelancer since April 2001, scoring several projects—in both spot and longform formats—during that time.
A recent graduate of the University of Minnesota...