Bicoastal HKM Productions has entered into a strategic alliance with New York-headquartered Filter Media, an enhanced television and convergence-strategy consulting and content-development firm. The relationship is designed to allow both companies to better pursue and deliver on enhanced TV commercial and video production initiatives….Steve Skibba, a former copywriter at Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore., and veteran TV/film composer Phil Rosenthal have teamed to launch V-72s Music+Sound Design, Los Angeles….Liberty Livewire Audio has restructured and renamed its Hollywood-based division formerly known as Soundelux Showorks West. The new moniker is Soundelux Design Music Group (DMG), which will provide music and sound design for commercials, trailers and new-media clients. Jeffrey Eisner continues as executive producer. Scott Gershin, supervising sound editor for American Beauty and Flubber, will serve as Soundelux DMG’s creative director. Bill Brown has been retained as music director. Becky Allen has been named business manager/producer for new media. And former independent rep Darlene Gorzela has joined as business manager/producer and will handle commercial sales for the division….Venice, Calif.-based Backyard Productions has named Kris Mathur executive producer. Mathur has previously worked as line producer for Backyard director Rob Pritts….Telecine artist Rob Lingelbach has joined 525 Studios, Santa Monica….Visual effects supervisor Dennis Berardi, and Chris Wallace and Sylvain Taillon, co-presidents/executive producers at Toronto-headquartered TOPIX/Mad Dog, have launched Mr. X, a studio providing computer-generated visual effects for feature-based entertainment. Berardi had been with Toybox, which has offices in Toronto, Vancouver, B.C., and Los Angeles, where he was serving in the same effects supervisor capacity….
