Street Talk
Mark Sitley has joined Euro RSCG MVBMS, New York, as executive creative director of production. He was formerly director of production, North America, for Fallon, Minneapolis and New York….Director Johan Kramer has signed with bicoastal/international Chelsea Pictures for U.S. representation....
Santa Monica-based Area 51 Films has named staff executive producers Preston Lee and Phyllis Koenig to serve as its co-management team. They succeed managing director Mark Thomas, who is exiting the company. Lee joined Area 51 a year ago while Koenig came aboard in early 2003 with director Craig...
Mark Thomas, managing director of Area 51 Films, Santa Monica, has confirmed that he is in the process of leaving the company he's been at the helm of for the past seven years. Thomas hopes to make an announcement shortly regarding his future plans….Noted still photographer Timothy White has...
Three executives from Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York, have left the agency to form their own boutique shop. Jason Gaboriau, a former VP/associate creative director, Charles Rosen, formerly director of new business development, and strategist Doug Cameron, are opening Amalgamated, a New...
The anti-runaway movement scored a major victory last weekend. As the legislative session was in its 11th hour on Saturday (5/31), the Illinois Senate passed a bill offering a tax credit to eligible longform and shortform shoots in the state. The thumbs up from the Senate followed passage hours...
Helen MacKenzie has been named head of production, commercials, at Framestore CFC, London….Doner, which is headquartered in Southfield, Mich., is closing its Baltimore outpost at the end of August….Homestead Editorial, New York, has opened aWounded Knee, an independent film division. The new...
Noted still fashion photographer Elaine Constantine has come aboard bicoastal Moxie Pictures for U.S. spot representation. She is no stranger to the ad arena, having helmed commercials for the Japanese and U.K. markets. At press time, she was slated to embark on her first American spot, a Moxie-...
Director Leonardo Ricagni has signed with A Band Apart, Los Angeles, for commercial and music video representation. Sister company Bikini Films, London, will also represent the director. Additionally, in conjunction with Mojo Film, Montevideo, Uruguay, a company in which Ricagni is a partner, A...
Last Night … At HKM—which was formed when bicoastal HKM Productions absorbed the roster of now defunct Ritts/ Hayden (SHOOT, 1/10, p. 1)—parted ways with HKM last month. Sonia Taylor, former head of production at Ritts/Hayden and a junior executive producer at Last Night, said that future plans...
Feature filmmaker Peter Sollett, who's gained acclaim for his Raising Victor Vargas, is coming aboard bicoastal Moxie Pictures for exclusive representation as a spot director….Good Films, New York, has signed director Paul Riccio. He had been with Czar Films, New York….Production house veteran...