Editor Tim Cahill has joined New York-based editorial, visual effects and design house Version2. He was most recently with 89 Editorial, New York, where he contributed to music videos for such acts as the Beastie Boys, as well as spots for TIAA-CREF, Motorola, Reese’s and ESPN…..
Jim Riche has come aboard the Nice Shoes family of shops, consisting of New York-based Nice Shoes, Guava and Freestyle Collective. He will serve as head of production for both Nice Shoes and Guava. Riche will oversee the companies’ production staffs, work to foster collaboration between the two studios, and capitalize on synergies between their services and artistic staffs. Additionally, Riche will be available as a visual effects supervisor for special projects; his first such job is an international campaign for an undisclosed client, with Nice Shoes supplying telecine and final editorial, and Guava handling shoot supervision and visual effects. Riche was formerly executive producer of Cibolo Films, San Antonio and Santa Monica, a Hispanic advertising specialty shop he founded in 1997. There he oversaw production of commercials for such advertisers as Levi’s, AT&T, Sprint, Coca-Cola, Ford, Chrysler and Fila. Riche also was the founder of New York-visual effects house Cause+Effects, where he worked on the show opener for The Late Show With David Letterman, promos for PBS, the Family Channel and Nickelodeon, and visual effects for spots promoting Norelco, Nyquil, Tylenol and Crest….
Flame artist Aaron Vasquez has joined visual effects/design/3-D house Click 3x, New York. He comes over from New York-based design shop Sideshow Creative. Vasquez is experienced in spots, broadcast graphics and title sequences…..
Simon Gosling has been named managing director of Cut + Run, London, where he will work closely with company founder Steve Gandolfi. (Editorial house Cut + Run also maintains offices in Santa Monica and New York.) Gosling most recently served as director of the commercial effects division at London boutique Clear. Prior to that, he was senior producer at The Moving Picture Company, London…..
The Dallas chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) recently held its first annual Trailer Park Festival. The Trailer Park competition originated with the AICE’s Chicago chapter, and has since spread to AICE groups in Los Angeles, New York, Detroit, Toronto and now Dallas. The event enables assistant editors at AICE shops to demonstrate their creative cutting prowess. For Trailer Park’s Dallas debut, assistant editors took the Oscar-winning The Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, and cut their own 90-second trailers to either sell or spoof the film.
“For our first competition, we had a modest eight entries, but they were very good,” related AICE/Dallas president Tom Acito of Red Car, Dallas. Several Dallas editors served as Trailer Park judges.
Grand prize winner was Jason Varian of Red Car, Dallas, for his comedic spoof. First runner up was Gray Wilcox of Fast Cuts Edits, Dallas, and second runner up was Jason Chrien of 501 Post, Austin.
