Video Post & Transfer, Dallas, Texas, has added post producer Vivian Marks and senior Inferno artist Scott Balkcom. Marks formerly served in the same capacity at View Studio, Hollywood, while Balkcom was digital editor at Crawford Communications, Atlanta….Editor Robbie Proctor has joined San Francisco-based Phoenix Editorial. He previously edited at Rocket Post, also San Francisco….Sideshow Post, New York, has opened graphics division Sideshow Motion Design. Spearheading the new unit is design director Jie Shen, who was formerly senior broadcast designer at FOX News Channel’s New York-based graphics department…. VTA, Atlanta, has added Symphony editor/artist Andrew Satinoff. He was most recently senior offline editor/Symphony editor and artist at Todd-AO/ Editworks, Atlanta….Manhattan Transfer-Miami, has named John Berthier VP of engineering. He comes over from telecine manufacturer Cintel, where he had held the same title at the Chestnut Ridge, N.Y., office….Graphic artist Taron (Timur Baysal) has joined Computer CafE, Santa Monica, as animation director. He departs Station X, also Santa Monica, where he was a CG artist for two years….After spending ’99 as a matte artist at Van Nuys, Calif.-based Illusion Arts, Rocco Gioffre has rejoined Santa Monica-based R!OT’s feature film visual effects department (formerly POP Film) to serve in the same capacity. Gioffre had worked at POP Film from ’96-’99….Eric Wilson has joined Blue Sky Studios, Harrison, N.Y., as computer graphics producer for its effects and spot animation divisions. Wilson was a project supervisor/computer graphics director at Entertainment Design Workshop, Sheffield, Mass….Universal Music Publishing Group, Los Angeles, has promoted Tom Eaton and Marisa Porter to associate director of motion picture and television music….Hollywood motion graphics firm yU+co has added visual effects artist Todd Mesher to head up its newly expanded 2-D visual effects department….BVP Media, Denver, has hired Sue Tiezzi as producer of video, film and interactive projects. Prior to joining BVP, Tiezzi spent 13 years as an independent producer in the Denver area….Lesley Freedman has rejoined McHale Barone, a New York-headquartered TV and radio commercial music and comedy production shop, as casting director following a six month sojourn….Ann S. Turner has been appointed general manager/VP, Americas Region, Entertainment Imaging division, Eastman Kodak Company. Turner will oversee the division’s operations in 40 states located in the Eastern, Midwest and Western regions of the United States, most of Canada, Mexico, and all of Central and South America. Turner is stationed in New York, at the Rochester, N.Y.-headquartered Americas Region office….East Side Mix, New York, has promoted Kathy McCarthy to VP of audio marketing, Colleen Tracey to the newly-created position of operations manager, and added Ray Negron as assistant operations manager….Bicoastal Pittard Sullivan has promoted Jeremy Berg to lead producer from producer of its interactive and convergent media division in New York. Berg’s previous roost was as associate producer at Universal Studios On-Line, Los Angeles….Venice, Calif.-based music and sound design house Machine Head has added producer Gabrielle Dotson. She had been executive producer at Wojahn Bros. Music, Santa Monica….
