Stephanie Seligman, exec. producer on the East Coast and overall head of production for A Band Apart Commercials, bicoastal with a Minneapolis office, has left the company. At press time, she did not know her immediate plans. She said her departure was due to a difference in management style and philosophy between her and exec. producer Michael Bodnarchek, a co-founder of the shop….Word is that director Bobby Sheehan has an Ace up his sleeve….Duck Soup Studios (formerly Duck Soup Produckions), Los Angeles, has expanded its roster, securing three directors, including noted animation helmsman Sam Cornell….Myles Tierney, an Associated Press television producer, was shot and killed Jan. 10, when his car was hit by gunfire while on assignment covering the civil war in Sierra Leone. Tierney, 34, previously worked in the New York post community and was a former partner/editor at The Cutting Vision….Feature and television director Lesli Linka Glatter, repped through New York-based Creative Film Management International, is set to helm her first commercials: a Procter & Gamble package out of Leo Burnett Co., Chicago, slated to be shot in Australia in late January….Credits for three of the four Silver winners for best cinematography in the fourth annual International Automotive Advertising Awards were not available in time to make last week’s story (1/8, p. 1). The winners were: director/DP Peter Smillie of Smillie Films, Santa Monica, on Lexus’ "Capture" and "Escape," via Team One Advertising, El Segundo, Calif.; director/DP Samuel Bayer of bicoastal Mars Media on Team One’s "Carcass" and "Steeplechase" for Lexus; and DP John Simpson on Toyota’s "Winning Style" for Saraceno Productions, Sydney, Australia….
