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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...

Some things that happen in creative businesses are a lot like getting a bald spot—you can't see it, so you don't believe it's there, but to someone else it is perfectly obvious. Here are a few of...

NEW FACES

Jonathan Cude has joined McKinney+Silver, Raleigh, N.C., as group creative director. He had previously been a copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy, Portland,...

SHORT CUTS

Hornet Inc., a bicoastal commercial film and design company, completed "Instructoart," a series of eight promos for MTV. The humorous package focuses on...

HOLLYWOOD—Michael Crapser has been named executive producer at Motel Films, Hollywood, succeeding Kathryn Turk whose plans weren't known at press time. Crapser's last staff position was as partner...

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Federal legislation designed to provide wage-based tax relief for film and TV projects produced in the United States has been reintroduced in the Senate. Dubbed the Independent...

Fallon, Minneapolis, and director Scott Hicks of Santa Monica-headquartered Independent Media pulled some strings to create a magical new spot for PBS. The :30 "Puppet," part of the second round...