Director Jeffrey Darling has come aboard bicoastal/international Believe Media. He formerly was represented via bicoastal/international @radical.media….Filmworkers Club, Chicago, and its 35mm motion picture film lab affiliate, Astro Labs, are building a digital intermediate pipeline to service independent film and advertising clients. The companies have acquired a da Vinci Splice, a telecine device that enables them to offer high resolution color grading and finishing services for film projects. Splice, which will be paired with the companies’ existing Spirit 2K film scanners, will also allow them to offer non-linear, in context color correction for SD, HD and theatrical spots. The companies’ DI pipeline will also employ Grass Valley/Thomson’s LUTher technology for color management. The DI service is expected to be fully operational by fall…..Bicoastal Post Logic Studios has brought colorist Corinne Bogdanowicz on board to join its Hollywood facility. She joins Post Logic from Pacific Title, where she first became involved in the world of DI….Creative director Steven Nasi and director of information architecture David Sansone have joined Agency.com, New York. They will work across multiple accounts, teaming with creative director Kate Cohen. Nasi comes over from Ogilvy & Mather, New York, where he was partner/associate creative director, working with clients including IBM, Time Warner Cable, American Express and Sprite. Sansome formerly served as director of user experience for the Freelancers Union. Prior to that, he was interaction design lead at R/GA, New York….
Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey Launch Production House 34North
Executive producers Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey have teamed to launch 34North. The shop opens with a roster which includes accomplished directors Jan Wentz, Ben Nakamura Whitehouse, David Edwards and Mario Feil, as well as such up-and-coming filmmakers as Glenn Stewart and Chris Fowles. Nakamura Whitehouse, Edwards, Feil and Fowles come over from CoMPANY Films, the production company for which Cicero served as an EP for the past nearly five years. Director Wentz had most recently been with production house Skunk while Stewart now gains his first U.S. representation. EP Clancey was freelance producing prior to the formation of 34North. He and Cicero have known each other for some 25 years, recently reconnecting on a job directed by Fowles. Cicero said that he and Clancey “want to keep a highly focused roster where talent management can be one on one--where we all share in the directors’ success together.” Clancey also brings an agency pedigree to the new venture. “I started at Campbell Ewald in accounts, no less,” said Clancey. “I saw firsthand how much work agencies put in before we even see a script. You have to respect that investment. These agency experiences really shaped my approach to production--it’s about empathy, listening between the lines, and ultimately making the process seamless.” 34North represents a meeting point--both literally and creatively. Named after the latitude of Malibu, Calif., where the idea for the company was born, it also embraces the power of storytelling. “34North118West was the first GPS-enabled narrative,” Cicero explained. “That blend of art and technology, to captivate an audience, mirrors what we do here--create compelling work, with talented people, harnessing state-of-the-art... Read More