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NEW YORK-Nitza From, owner/editor at New York-based editorial boutique Salamandra Images, has been elected president of the Association of Independent Commercial Editors (AICE) East Coast chapter by its board of directors, which was itself elected by the general membership at a...
LOS ANGELES-Giuseppe Rotunno, A.S.C., A.I.C., will receive the International Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers at the 13th Annual A.S.C. Outstanding Achievement Awards, to be held here Feb. 21 at the Century Plaza Hotel.
Over the past 40-...
Nitza From, owner/editor at New York-based editorial boutique Salamandra Images, has been elected president of the Association of Independent Commercial Editors (AICE) East Coast chapter by its board of directors, which was itself elected by the general membership at a meeting last month....
Roughly 200 attendees representing advertisers, ad agencies, production companies and post houses learned about DTV and its potential impact on advertising during a Dec. 15 DTV conference hosted by the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP) Minnesota chapter. AICP estimates that...
National Sound has hired audio post engineer Bill Cavanaugh, who, since joining the New York-based facility, has worked on promos for PBS and Lifetime Television.
At National Sound, Cavanaugh will be involved in engineering production, as well as working on promos and spots.
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MENLO PARK, Calif.-In the video-technology arena, 1998 was marked by numerous acquisitions, most notably Avid Technology's purchase of Softimage and Autodesk's announced plan to acquire Discreet Logic. As the year drew to a close, two more such announcements were made.
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Gidget, the past year's most famous Chihuahua (and most fascinating, according to People magazine), makes another appearance in a Taco Bell spot created by TBWA/Chiat/Day, Playa del Rey, Calif. "Serenade," directed by Traktor out of bicoastal/international Partizan Midi Minuit,...
Director Paul Street-who made a major international splash with his 1997 Ford Puma spot, "McQueen," which incorporated footage of late actor Steve McQueen from the '68 film Bullitt-has again teamed with Young & Rubicam, London, and post/effects facility Rushes, London, to...
Pat Swinney Kaufman became the deputy commissioner/director of the New York State Governor's Office for Motion Picture and Television Development after Republican Governor George Pataki was elected in 1995. She recently sat down with SHOOT at her office in Manhattan to discuss,...
With the arrival of nonlinear finishing systems, a number of creative editorial boutiques are now providing online editing for their clients. Some of the new nonlinear systems, such as Avid Technology's Symphony, Discreet Logic's Smoke and Softimage's DS, are available at prices...