NOVEMBER 10, 2000
Ward Emling, director of the Mississippi Film Office, has been re-elected to a two-year term as president of the Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI)….After working for the past year and a half through his bicoastal house, Message, director Robert Black has joined Hollywood-based Orbit Productions, the commercial production shop of parent company Orbit….Two music/audio veterans from the Chicago community, Larry Pecorella and Bob Monachino, have partnered to launch SoundPunks, a shop that will produce music and sound design for Web sites….Directo Ned Ambler has signed with bicoastal Shelter Films for spot representation….Director/3-D animator Dave Foss and live action director/graphic designer Bil White have joined Hollywood-based Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials, a division of animation studio Klasky Csupo….Bicoastal RSA USA has signed directors Regan Cameron, Thomas Job and Carl Rinsch, and graphics director/designer Johnny Hardstaff….
NOVEMBER 10, 1995
Director Ron Ames, a Los Angeles-based director known his background in dialogue spots, has signed on with Five Union Square Productions, New York….Director Michael Moir, who was most recently represented by Spot Films, New York, has signed with commercial production house Independent Artists, New York….Backyard Productions, Chicago and Santa Monica, has produced another director from its own backyard: Don Rase, a longtime line producer/assistant director for the company….Peter Nusbaum has joined Tell-A-Vision Post, Hollywood, as a sound mixer and audio engineer, specializing in nonlinear digital editing….David Basta and John Lindahl have joined Lumeni Productions, Glendale, Calif., a motion graphics/special effects house, as computer graphics designer and animation cameraman, respectively….
