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Calabazitaz Tiernaz, the Mexican directorial collective led by brothers Everado and Leopoldo Gout, has signed for exclusive U.S. representation with cYclops, New York. The Gout brothers function as the principal helmers and driving force behind the collective, which also draws on contributions...
Digital visual effects studio Radium, with bases of operation in San Francisco and Santa Monica, has brought veteran editor Bill Weber on board. Weber will work primarily out of Radium's San Francisco shop, joining fellow cutter Alan Chimenti.
"It's important that editors and visual...
Partners Ronan Nagle, Ben Starkman and JJ Lask have bowed production company All Day Buffet, New York. Nagle will serve as executive producer, and Starkman will be director/DP. Lask, who is co-principal/editor at New York-based editing house P.S. 260, will not be involved in day-to-day...
501 Post, Austin, the six-year-old creative editorial and postproduction boutique, has hired two new editors, Travis Aitken and Luis Lacau. The cutters join editor Gavin Tatro on staff, bringing 501's editorial roster total to three.
Texas-native Aitken comes aboard the company after a...
Visual effects artist Jeff Campbell has left Toybox, Toronto, to join visual effects/design facility Spin Productions, Toronto and Atlanta. As Spin's new partner/Inferno artist, Campbell will work out of the company's Canadian office. Toybox and sister company Toybox, Vancouver, B.C., fall under...
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producer Gary Rose has left Moxie Pictures—the bicoastal company he co-founded with director Dan Levinson—to become a partner/executive producer at Go Film, the bicoastal shop launched nearly three years ago by executive producers/partners Robert Wherry and Jonathan Weinstein...
Baker Smith of Santa Monica-based Harvest has been named the best commercial director of 2002 by the Directors Guild of America (DGA). He won the honor on the strength of five entries: "Black Bands" and "Visigoths" for sports and movie channel Canal+, via agency BETC Euro RSCG, Paris; FOX Sports...
Executive producers Skip Short and Lance O'Connor have teamed with director Klaus Obermeyer Jr. to form Aero Films, a satellite of bicoastal Flying Tiger Films. The new venture has additionally signed director Ken Arlidge for exclusive spot representation, and expects to bring on more helmers...
MARCH 6, 1998/Tony Kaye & Partners, London and West Hollywood, has entered into an agreement with Tokyo-based agency Dentsu. Kaye directors will become involved in certain Dentsu creative assignments from their inception, while Dentsu will gain from sending two creatives to work out of Kaye'...
Just days after panicked Americans—fearing an imminent terrorist attack—stripped hardware store shelves clean of duct tape and plastic sheeting in February, the Advertising Council, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, launched a...