Camera car systems company names Jeanine Wojtanowski head of rentals
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.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More