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Nina Saxon, one of the entertainment industry's leading designers specializing in main and end titles, title sequences, and animated motion graphics logos for major motion pictures, television movies and TV programs, as well as for entertainment...
Fourteen producers representing eleven projects in TV, film, and documentary have completed the Producers Guild of America (PGA) 15TH annual Power of Diversity Master Workshop. The eight-week workshop, led by PGA-member Chairs Sasheen R. Artis and Matt Johnson, teaches master classes...
The Hollywood Professional Association (HPA) has announced that Robert Legato, the legendary visual effects supervisor and renowned creative, will receive the organization’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the HPA Awards during a gala evening at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles on November 21st...
Cinema Audio Society President Karol Urban, CAS, announced that the organization will honor multiple CAS and Oscar® nominated Sound Mixer Tom Fleischman, CAS with the Cinema Audio Society’s highest accolade, the CAS Career Achievement Award, to be presented at the 56th CAS Awards on Saturday,...
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) celebrated this year’s Emmy®-nominated Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists at a special reception at Cal Mare hosted by Beverly Center on Sunday, August 11, 2019. The Emmy party, red carpet and livestream took place...
“While this half-measure is a step forward in protecting the personal safety of and reducing employment discrimination for transgender people, in revising its birth name policy, IMDb admits to invading the privacy of performers and putting them at risk for discrimination. IMDb can make no...
Six months after its launch, creative post-production boutique 1606 Studio has completed the initial build-out at its space in a century old structure in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood. It’s also finished a slew of projects for Bay...
Bi-coastal original music and sync licensing company, The Music Playground, has promoted LA based Deborah Cally to VP of Licensing.
Handling creative pitching, deal negotiations, and business development with an array of clients, Cally has been integral to the growth and success of The...
axle ai, Inc will be partnering with Nvidia, Digital Domain and the Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs Association to host a panel at Santa Monica’s Expert Dojo the evening of August 19th. The panel consists of Darren Handler of Digital Domain’s Digital Humans group, Rick Grandy from Nvidia, and Sam...
Lewie Carson is a junior compositor at Method in Melbourne, where he has worked on several studio films including Men in Black: International, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, Tomb Raider, Christopher Robin, Aquaman and A-X-L. Originally from Melbourne, Lewie completed Rising Sun Pictures’...
eTribez, the company behind an unprecedented, end-to-end, Cloud-based Production Management Platform called eTribez Production Management, has announced that...
Vertuoso, the entertainment industry’s first creative and production agency focused solely on “Vertical Storytelling,” predicts unprecedented potential new growth opportunities within the mobile entertainment arena. Since its launch in late 2017 by...
Red Giant is once again taking on what is arguably one of the greatest TV series ever made with the latest edition of its popular YouTube tutorial series, Cheap Tricks, diving into the mind-blowing visual effects of Game of Thrones. In part one of the series...
Berklee Online is paving the way for a new era in a music industry that historically lacks female representation and leadership. Over the past decade, the award-winning online school of Berklee College of Music has been making conscious...
The success of Scottish director, Steven Lewis Simpson's movie adaptation of the best-selling novel by Kent Nerburn, Neither Wolf Nor Dog, defies logic - Hollywood logic that is. It was audience-financed, shot in 18-days in one of the US's poorest region with an average crew of 2 and a...
Joana Vicente and Cameron Bailey, Co-Heads of TIFF, today announced that Academy Award®–nominated New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi will be honored with the TIFF Ebert Director Award at this year’s new TIFF Tribute Gala awards event. The award recognizes and honours a distinguished filmmaker...
Wibbitz, the leading automated video creation company, today announced its partnership with BMGPM, the Production Music arm of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), one of the world's biggest music publishers. The partnership will make BMGPM’s vast library of premium production music...
Sim has completed a major expansion of its post production facility in New York City. Additions include three broadcast audio mix suites, one with Dolby Atmos capability, an ADR/VO recording studio, two broadcast color correcting bays and an online editorial finishing bay. The new resources are...
International music shop Butter Music and Sound announces their new partnership with “A Very Special Christmas” (AVSC), representing its extensive holiday music catalogue for music licensing. Butter will...
U.S. digital advertising revenues reached a landmark high of $28.4 billion in the first quarter of 2019. This is the industry’s strongest Q1 on record, according to the latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report figures released today by ...