Noted director/cameraman Mike Rowles has joined The Artists Company for exclusive U.S. representation. He comes over from Frank, a satellite of Supply & Demand….Director Luciano Podcaminsky has joined LANDIA for representation in such markets as Argentina, Brazil and Spain. He used to be handled by Rebolucion in these territories. Podcaminsky continues to make @radical.media his stateside home….Tania Salter has joined Wing (formerly WingLatino) as VP of production. Salter joins from Grey Hong Kong, where she was executive producer, P&G for Asia One. She is based in New York and reports to Wing president/CEO Alain Groenendaal. Salter brings more than 16 years of global advertising experience to Wing, having worked with top brands such as Pedigree and Clairol for Grey London, China, Asia, and India. She is charged with heading and building Wing’s production team and will oversee the production of key projects in the U.S. Hispanic, Latin American, and general market…Antony Parchment has joined R/GA as group director, production. He will manage R/GA’s Verizon Telecom account, including site development and online advertising. He previously served as VP/director, Internet solutions technology, for Digitas Boston….Nashville-headquartered 615 Music has acquired noted production music library Kingsize Music NYC. The deal adds to 615’s cache of providing production music to the entertainment, broadcast and corporate industries. Under the aegis of CEO/founder Randy Wachtler, 615 recently earned distinction with a national Emmy Award for outstanding original song for NBC’s Today Show. Kingsize’s principals are Peter Primamore, Jay Stollman and Freddy Shehadi….Veteran commercial editor, producer, documentary filmmaker and musician José Luis Amador has signed with Post:Op in Dallas….
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