By Carolyn Giardina
SANTA MONICA --Karen Smith has been named managing director of Red Car Santa Monica. She comes from Los Angeles-based ad agency Dailey & Associates, where she served as senior producer on the Safeway account.
Smith brings about 20 years of advertising experience to her new position. Earlier she served as a senior producer at Team One Advertising in El Segundo, Calif., and before than, she produced via TBWA/Chiat/Day in Los Angeles.
Calling Smith “the best choice we could have made,” Red Car CEO Larry Bridges said, “she comes with incredible production knowledge, a wealth of contacts, and was a client at one point.”
“I’d like to grow the company,” said Smith, adding that she wants to see it continue as “the major player that it has always been in the business. It has a lot of cache, the Red Car name, I want to keep it growing…We are interested in branching out into new media.”
The Santa Monica location has already been reaching into new areas. It is handling production and post on the Emmy-nominated Stranger Adventures Web series–for which Bridges serves as creative director and executive producer. Red Car also recently began offering nonlinear computer-based color correction services.
Red Car maintains locations in Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Antonio, Santa Monica and San Francisco. With its “Red Car Anywhere” concept, editors are available at any location.
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
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