Chicago-based hybrid production and post studio Odd Machine, founded by director/DP Seth Henrikson, editor Chris Shegich and colorist Debra Shegich, has brought on board executive producer Tom Leonard. With 25 years’ of experience in the advertising and entertainment business, Leonard has worked at such shops as Digital Kitchen, Rhythm + Hues, Pittard Sullivan, Butler, Shine & Stern, and Imaginary Forces…..New York-based digital studio Click 3X has opened a new audio postproduction division, Sounds Like Click (SLC), which will provide sound design, mixing and original music services to current Click clients as well as build its own base of clientele spanning the commercial, interactive, entertainment and gaming markets. SLC is home to senior sound designer/mixer Brian Scibinico, whose team recently took home an Emmy for sound design in the Outstanding Individual Achievement In a Craft: Music & Sound category for their work on the History Channel series WWII in HD. SLC is headed up by Click 3X president/partner Peter Corbett. John Levy, whose former roosts include Sound Lounge and HSR, will rep the new division….
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 and Mario Feil, as well as such up-and-coming filmmakers as Glenn Stewart and Chris Fowles.
Nakamura Whitehouse, 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