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Several artisans from the commercialmaking community have teamed with Los Angeles-based talent management firm MBST Entertainment to launch a screenwriting competition targeting ad industry professionals. Organizers of the contest, which is dubbed The Crossover Festival, have also enlisted the...
In "CCA Shuts Down, Has No Plans To File For Bankruptcy" (8/23, p. 1), Washington D.C. lobbyist and CCA chairman David Carmen was also identified as a founder/partner of bicoastal Anonymous Content. According to Anonymous Content, Carmen is neither a founder nor a partner in the company. He...
SAN DIEGO—Video On Demand (VOD) is most widely thought of in terms of digital cable TV homes being able to immediately access and view feature films. But generally overlooked in the VOD equation are the applications and implications that the medium carries for the advertising community and...
HOLLYWOOD—Director Robert B. Martin, Jr. has launched Goose Creek Micro (GCM), a new division under his Hollywood-based feature and short film banner Goose Creek Productions. GCM will specialize in the conception and production of advertiser-supported short films and other non-traditional forms...
Due to inaccurate information provided to SHOOT for the spotlight "Harley's House Acts Responsibly For Miller" (8/16, p. 14), some of the credits for Avenue and SOMERsault, Chicago, were incorrect. For the editorial credits, Phil Lee and Chris Segrich of Avenue were Avid editors. Under the...
Right now we're smack in the middle of this transition of moving from analog to digital in motion pictures," says Matthew White, VP of the film library at National Geographic Television & Film (NGT&F), Washington, D.C. "Everybody is tooling up, and many people have a different feel for...
Though unlikely to be arriving at a theater near you anytime soon, the recently completed documentary feature The Trials of Henry Kissinger makes for riveting cinema. Directed by New York-headquartered documentarian Eugene Jarecki, the picture was inspired by journalist Christopher Hitchens'...
Richard Yelland, founder/chief creative officer of Curtis Birch Advertising, Venice, has entered into an alliance with Roaring Tiger Films (RTF), the San Francisco-based production services outfit headed by president/executive producer Carey Crosby. Per the deal, RTF will market Yelland as a...
Members of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers' (AICP) Florida chapter have re-elected the group's officers, starting with president Massimo Martinotti, president/director of Miami-based Mia Films. Also coming back to serve for the 2002-'03 term—which expires at the end of June '...
Executive producers Kelly Fuller and Dawn Rix—whose last staff positions had them producing at bicoastal tomandandy—have partnered to launch music/sound design house, Chemistry.
The new venture will tap into the freelance talent pool for both composers and sound designers with whom Fuller...