HARRISON, N.Y.-Blue Sky VIFX has promoted producer Christopher Scollard to senior producer. He is based in the bicoastal company’s Harrison facility.
Since joining Blue Sky VIFX in 1995, Scollard has produced commercials for Diet Coke via Lowe & Partners/SMS, New York; Honeycomb via Grey Advertising, New York; Gillette via BBDO New York; Black Flag for Young & Rubicam, New York; Scrubbing Bubbles via Foote, Cone & Belding, Chicago; and Capri Sun through Ogilvy & Mather, New York.
At Blue Sky VIFX, Scollard has also served as the digital effects producer for the features Star Trek: Insurrection, Alien: Resurrection, Mouse Hunt and independent features Lulu on the Bridge and Just The Ticket. He is currently working on Fight Club, a David Fincher-directed feature slated for release later this year.
Prior to joining Blue Sky VIFX, Scollard spent a year and a half at Young & Rubicam, New York, as an assistant producer, where he worked on campaigns for Sears, Kraft Foods, American Home Products, Benadryl and Molson.
Before his stint at Young & Rubicam, Scollard spent three years as a New York-based cinematographer. During that period, Scollard also was a part-time instructor at the New York Institute of Technology, teaching evening courses in film and video production. Scollard was a full-time student at Columbia University’s graduate film school studying towards a master’s of fine arts degree, during the same period.
Scollard spent six months as a director/writer/producer at the Hawthorne office of the Swiss-based multinational CIBA-Geigy Corp., before he embarked on his career as a student and instructor. While at CIBA-Geigy, Scollard ran the company’s in-house promotions department.
Before his stint at CIBA-Geigy, Scollard served as a traffic coordinator for a year at New York-based Telstar Editing. Prior to Telstar, Scollard spent a year at Queens-based Arriflex camera rental company Rossell CPT as assistant to the president/prep technician. Scollard served for a year as a tape librarian/assistant producer in the computer graphics department at now defunct Editel/New York, before landing at Rossell CPT.
