DECEMBER 15, 2000
Lisa Prisco, who recently ended her four year tenure creative director at the Gap’s San Francisco-based in-house ad agency, has launched a directing career, signing for exclusive commercial and music video representation in the U.S. with Los Angeles-headquartered A Band Apart….Commercial editor Peter Odiorne has signed with Crew Cuts, New York. Crew Cuts also maintains shops in San Francisco and Santa Monica….Red Car, San Francisco, headed by managing director Jan Frei, has secured editors Peter Sorcher and Kerie Kimbrell. Sorcher comes over to the recently launched shop from Red Car, New York….Bicoastal/international Partizan has added executive producer Sheila Stepanek as executive producer. She will work out of the shop’s Los Angeles office….
DECEMBER 15, 1995
Frank Steifel, president of Hollywood-based Steifel & Company, has been elected to a one-year term as chairman of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP). He succeeds Nick Wollner, founder/partner of bicoastal Crossroads Films….Farhad Mann, Los Angeles-based director of several episodic television shows and made-for-TV movies as well as commercials, has joined production company Emerald Films, New York….Director Piers Plowden, formerly with Hollywood-based DNA, has joined bicoastal The Artists Company for representation throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe….Big Fish Films, Dallas, has signed director Rich Carroll for representation throughout the U.S., except in the Midwest….
