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JANUARY 23, 1998/Bicoastal OneSuch Films has launched ViewMasters, a new commercial production division in New York that will tap the city's independent filmmakers for spotwork. The shop opens with indie helmers Nancy Savoca and Jonathan Nossiter…. London-based director Mike Bennion has joined...
Jillian Henry and Adam Gross have joined the staff of bicoastal production company Minder. Henry will serve as managing director/ New York and executive producer; Gross, based in the company's Los Angeles office, will function as managing director/Los Angeles and executive producer.
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All good art forms have a practical side. In the case of poetry, its past is rooted in the art of selling. Poems have been used to hawk political ideals, romantic desires and even legal positions (you might remember, "If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit," from the legal mind of Johnnie L....
Food/tabletop director Bruce Nadel and his executive producer/partner Rick Katzen have entered into a relationship with bicoastal Cohn+ Co. Per the deal, Nadel gains representation in the U.S. commercial market under the banner Nadel@Cohn+Co. The director and...
Audio postproduction house RavensWork has broadened the scope of its services to encompass original music composition and sound design for commercials. Composer/sound designer Johannes Hammers—whose credits include spots for such clients as Nike, BMW, Jaguar, Jeep and Timex—has joined the Venice...
Editor Bob Morrow and managing director Eileen Terry have joined editorial/post house Red Car. Terry, who had been freelance producing in Hawaii for the past two years, takes the reins at the bicoastal/international company's Santa Monica operation. Morrow is based at Red Car, San Francisco; he...
Music scoring and design/visual effects company Fluid, New York, is hiring two new artists—Avid editor Scott Philbrook and composer Andrew Mendelson—and expanding its quarters. Fluid principals have batted around the idea of expansion for over a year, and opportunity finally came knocking in the...
Visual effects facility Click 3X, New York, has launched High Performance Media (HPM)—an interactive division designed to repurpose traditional television advertisements into Internet advertising counterparts. Once a commercial is complete, HPM—with the help of Internet technology partners...
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New York-based Spontaneous Combustion (SC) created visual effects and CG for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) "Verb: It's What You Do" campaign. "Discover" integrates computer animation with live-action sequences, which were directed by Danny...
After a year of freelancing, visual effects artist Sebastian Bilbao has decided to join graphics, animation and title design company Fish Media, New York, as its new 3-D supervisor. According to Wendy Brovetto, Fish Media's executive producer, hiring Bilbao is part of the company's strategy to...