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eDIT, a Frankfurt-based nonprofit organization, and the Visual Effects Society (VES), headquartered in Santa Monica, are poised to strengthen their working relationship and grow their reach in the...

The status quo has been maintained in two key respects relative to the American Association of Advertising Agencies' (AAAA) annual Television Production Cost Survey. The first aspect that remains...

Director Jonathan Darby has come aboard bicoastal Original Film for exclusive spot representation in North America. He was formerly handled for commercials by Piper Productions, which closed...

OCTOBER 9, 1998/Jan Wieringa, who became president/CEO of Harmony Pictures four and a half months ago, has begun to make her imprint on the bicoastal house, initiating changes that include a new...

BeachHouse Films, a Santa Monica shop headed by executive producers David and Patti Coulter, has added three directors: Des Mullan, Bill Werts and the mono-monikered Karsten.

Mullan is well...

If you think cats aren't very sociable animals, "Party," directed by Dave Merhar of bicoastal HSI Productions for agency Berlin Cameron/Red Cell, New York, will definitely change your mind. The :...

Bicoastal Elias Arts has signed Fischerspooner, the buzz band whose electronically driven songs—which are the centerpiece of spectacular multimedia shows—made a major impact on the Downtown...

Animation director Jan Carlée, best known for his long tenure at Blue Sky Studios, Harrison, N.Y., has joined San Francisco-based animation/multimedia studio Wild Brain. Carlée has worked...

Digital visual effects studio Radium has promoted Aladino V. Debert to head of CG for its facilities in Santa Monica and San Francisco. Formerly CG supervisor for Radium's Santa Monica shop,...

Director Ulf Johansson, who left the directorial collective Traktor (repped by bicoastal/international Partizan) this past summer, has teamed with executive producer Philippa Smith to open Smith...