FEBRUARY 25, 2000 Director James Dalthorp, formerly of now defunct 1/33 Productions, has joined Santa Monica-based Area 51 Films….Visual effects design, telecine, compositing and finishing house 525 Studios, Santa Monica, has entered into a strategic alliance with Paris-based Buf Compagnie, a leading 3-D/visual effects studio that’s active in spots on both sides of the Atlantic….Bicoastal Villains has hired Stephanie Seligman as its New York-based executive producer….Editor Mauro Camoroda and executive producer Amy Burlaga have joined the San Francisco facility of bicoastal editorial house Crew Cuts, which also maintains shops in New York and Santa Monica….Phil Price, president/creative director of Click 3X, New York, is leaving the digital effects studio to form an as-yet-unnamed broadband content venture….
FEBRUARY 24, 1995
Michael Matassa, president of boutique Brick House Editorial, Atlanta, will join editorial house Red Car as assistant editor at its office in Hollywood, while keeping Brick House open and functioning with some new staff members….Former Chelsea Pictures West Coast head of production Cathy McLaughlin has joined Velocity Film, Hollywood, as an executive producer for the bicoastal production house…..Big Fish Films, Dallas, has made the first of several moves toward gaining a higher profile by hiring Lola Lott as national director of sales and marketing. Lott replaces Big Fish’s Southwest rep Jack Reed, who departed the company….Computer animation and effects company InSight Pix, Venice, Calif., has added animator Aliza Corson and producer Jane Stephan….Editel/Los Angeles, a postproduction facility in Hollywood, has added four to its roster: special projects producer Electra Lang, Henry artist/compositor Wayne Shepherd, producer Melissa Hagman and Mac artist Edmund Gutierrez….
