OCTOBER 27, 2000
Stephen Dickstein has filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against his former employer, bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, and three other defendants. Dickstein, who’s credited with playing an integral role in the success of Propaganda Films’ commercial operation at its president, was fired from the company last year. Regarding that termination, the lawsuit alleges fraud, breach of an employment contract, breach of contract to terminate only for good cause, and failure to provide severance pay….Director Thom Higgins has left bicoastal RSA USA after two and a half years to join bicoastal M-80, part of the Stoney Road family of commercial production companies owned by Michael Romersa….Comedy director Tom Schiller has signed with bicoastal Coppos Films for exclusive commercial representation in the U.S….
OCTOBER 27, 1995
Director Michael Gersh, a co-founder of production house Big Picture, New York, has departed that company for start-up commercial and music video house Sweet Dreams, New York….Rhythm & Hues, Los Angeles, has shifted Lisa O’Brien, executive producer overseeing computer graphics for commercials, to a newly created position: executive producer of the company’s interactive division….The Cutting Vision, New York, has hired filmmaker Abraham Lim as an Avid editor to handle its growing list of commercial editorial and interactive multimedia assignments….Production house Creative Film Management, New York, has hired James Kadonoff as its new executive producer, replacing Jane Bostedt, who has gone freelance….
