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The importance of arts education to our industry and to society in general has been discussed in previous installments of this column, as well as chronicled in assorted SHOOT news stories. Suffice...

Version2. Editing, New York, has announced the addition of editor Carey Gries. He joins a roster that includes cutters Vito DeSario, Lin Polito, Mark Nickelsburg, Fred Jordan, Tina Mintus and...

Flipside Editorial, an editing/post/effects boutique with shops in San Francisco and Santa Monica, has brought on three editors who will be based at the latter site: Hank Polonsky, Tracy Hof and...

Hope springs eternal in spring. That's true even in these tumultuous times. The past year or so has seen many changes in the world of commercial production. Several prominent and longstanding spot...

Don't ask directing team Christoph Chrudimak and Moritz Friedel about what their nom de film, rad-ish, means. They're tired of the question and they say they don't know. "It has no meaning," says...

Baker Smith was shooting a Mini Cooper car spot when a call came in from his business partner/executive producer, Bonnie Goldfarb. "She was screaming into the phone," recounts Smith, partner/...

Few kids can predict their future careers, but the writing was literally on the wall of Stacy Wall's childhood bedroom in Winston-Salem, N.C. Posters of The Muppet Show characters and basketball...

Director Thom Higgins, formerly of bicoastal Bedford Falls, has joined Santa Monica-based Green Dot Films….Linda Ross, who came aboard bicoastal Neue Sentimental Film USA (NSF USA) as executive...

Joining J. Walter Thompson, New York, are director Richard Sabean and writer Jeff Watzman-as group creative directors working on the Domino's Pizza account. Both began...

Melissa Gilbert officially becoming president of the Screen Actors Guild after winning the much publicized rerun election could bode well for the ultimate passage of the deal negotiated last month...