APRIL 29, 2000 After years of running solo tabletop director shop Sato Films, Santa Monica, Gary Sato has switched representation to Green Dot Films, Santa Monica….Director Boris Damast has joined bicoastal Celsius Films for exclusive representation in the U.S. He will work out of the company’s newly opened Los Angeles office….Lux Pictures, Venice, Calif., has entered into an agreement to handle exclusive U.S. spot representation for several directors at London-based Frontier Pictures: Michael Abel, Robert Dowling, Grey Lipley and Aernout Overbeeke. Conversely, most of Lux’s helmers now become available for U.K. agency work via Frontier….Director Joe Chapura has joined Sandbank Films, New York. For the past four years, he had been with New York-based Big Picture Communications (BPC)….
APRIL 29, 1995 Mark Miller, an 11-year Unitel-Hollywood veteran, has been promoted to the presidency of the company….Creative Film Management (CFM), New York, has signed Ken Olin, who comes to commercials knowing both sides of the camera….Henninger Media Services, based in Arlington, Va., with facilities in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Va., will open a 7,500-square-foot post house in Baltimore in June….After a two-and-a-half-year affiliation with bicoastal @radical.media, director/cameraman John Danza has joined Ben Moon, a production company with bases in New York and Chicago….Still photographer Firooz Zahedi has joined Nolan/LaMonte Films, Venice, Calif., for exclusive representation as a commercial director….Jim Bresnahan has joined Blue Sky Productions, Ossining, N.Y., as an animator….
