Street Talk
Bicoastal/international Chelsea Pictures has joined forces with Sydney-based Luscious International to create a division, Luscious@Chelsea. The new venture gives the Aussie shop a stateside office while Chelsea gains an Australian foothold. Luscious’ directorial roster includes Richard Gibson, James Holt, Michael Joy and Damien Toogood. Exec producers Katy Greene in Los Angeles and Andrew Morris in Sydney–along with Chelsea partners/executive producers Allison Amon and Lisa Mehling–will manage Luscious@Chelsea…..Director Justin Reardon has joined bicoastal Anonymous Content for U.S. spot representation. Reardon, who had been at Turnpike Films, Santa Monica, also gains representation in the U.K. and Europe through Anonymous Content’s deal with Independent Films, London….Roe Bressan, former managing director of The Whitehouse, New York, has launched Navigating, a production and postproduction management consultancy. Among her first clients are editorial house Consulate, New York, the bicoastal repping firm Kingdom, and Big Foote Music, New York….Nexus Productions, London, has added Cyril Houplain to its directorial roster. Houplain’s credits include a promo for French author/singer Matthieu Chedid that was featured in both onedotzero and Resfest. It went on to win second prize at Le Club des Directeurs Artistiques and was selected to appear at Annecy and several other festivals…..Jeff Nodelman has joined New York-based The Creative Group as creative director in charge of animation. He had been at Noodlesoup Productions, an animation studio that he founded in New York. Nodelman and Noodlesoup recently agreed to part ways. Noodlesoup is currently ramping up its original content development, and will continue to be active in commercials….Commercial editor Chris Hafner–who recently departed Brass Knuckles, the Venice, Calif.-based editorial house that he founded–has teamed with Oak Park, Mich.-based post house GTN to launch Ringside Creative. The new venture, based at GTN’s Oak Park studio, offers creative editorial, motion graphics design, print design and related creative services to ad clients on a national basis. The Ringside Creative staff will include GTN creative editors Chris Chynoweth, Charlene Dwyer and Sarah Fisher, and GTN’s Jeff Dobrow, who as creative director will lead the design group….
