Filmotechnic USA, known for its fleet of high performance camera car systems, has named Jeanine Wojtanowski head of rentals and customer service. This follows an overall expansion of the company with new fabrication/staging facilities in Hawthorne, Calif., adjacent to Space X. With two fully equipped facilities in Los Angeles and Detroit (servicing Chicago and New York). Filmotechnic has a fleet of 12 high speed camera cars, 12 Russian Arms (lengths from 9 feet to 25 feet) and 16 gyro-stabilized heads. The lineup of equipment allows filmmakers solutions to every camera tracking need on all types of platforms.
Wojtanowski comes from a family well versed in marketing; her parents (Jerry and Carol) owned their own advertising company that they included the whole family in, and her brother (Jeff) is in digital media marketing. For the last eight years, Wojtanowski served as general manager at Pursuit Systems, Inc., a camera car rental service.
At Filmotechnic, Wojtanowski said she was drawn to Filmotechnic’s people, resources, and R&D which continues to expand those resources. She cited VP/driver/fabricator Dave MacDonald. “For over twenty years, Dave has become a trusted resource for production companies worldwide. His work in fabrication along with his knowledge of rigging, fabrication, picture vehicles and camera car driving is rarely surpassed.” Other key members of the Filmotechnic USA team include longtime general manager John Urso, shop foreman Paul Murufas, Flight Head techs Josh Knight, Drew Dumas and Michael Dzialowski, stunt car drivers Steve Holladay and Ele Bardha, precision driver Bruce MacDonald and Russian Arm operators including Russell Prior and Dan Crosby.
Filmotechnic is a leader in R&D of camera car systems and technologies. Founder Anatoliy Kokush is a two-time Academy Award Winner in the 78th Annual Scientific and Engineering Awards. The Academy awarded Kokush, Yuriy Popovsky and Oleksiy Zolotarov the Sci-Tech Award for the concept and development of the Russian Arm Gyro-Stabilized Camera Crane and Flight Head. The Academy also awarded Kokush a second Sci-Tech Award for the concept and development of the Cascade Series of motion picture cranes including the Traveling Cascade Crane.
