Street Talk
Trevor Beattie, chairman/chief creative officer at TBWA, London, is leaving the agency, along with Bill Bungay, deputy creative director, and Andrew McGuinness, the shop’s chief executive. It’s expected that the trio will open their own ad agency. Danny Brooke-Taylor and Tony McTear have been promoted to co-creative directors at TBWA….Documentary filmmaker Mark Lewis (The Natural History of Chicken) has signed with Area 51, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation in commercials….Director/cinematographer Reed Smoot, known for his work on large format Imax films, has joined Santa Monica-based MotivFilms for commercials and Imax projects….Bicoastal Stardust has hired Eileen Doherty as its West Coast executive producer. She had been working for the company on a freelance basis. Earlier Doherty was a writer/producer at MTV….Nonlinear editing pioneer Tom Ohanian–an Academy Award and two-time Emmy Award winner for his inventions of the Avid Media Composer, Film Composer, and Multicamera systems–has been named senior director of Autodesk Consulting for the media and entertainment industry (which would include the products in the Autodesk Media and Entertainment unit, formerly known as Discreet). Prior to joining Autodesk, Ohanian served as VP of product development at DMOD, after spending much of his career at Avid. An accomplished editor, designer and inventor, Ohanian is author of industry textbooks Digital Nonlinear Editing and co-author of Digital Filmmaking….Lachlan Murdoch, deputy COO of News Corp., will receive the Media Person of the Year Award at this year’s Cannes International Advertising Festival……Speaking of the Cannes Ad Fest, Team USA has been named for the ’05 Young Creatives Competition: Krista Lea Hogg and Justin Lesinski of West Wayne, Tampa, Fla., and Elena Fridman of Atmosphere BBDO New York. At Cannes, they will compete against teams from all over the world, having just 24 hours to complete an ad or a Web design assignment to be assessed by leading industry judges. For additional info about the Young Creatives program, visit the Canne Web site (www.canneslions.com)….