Bicoastal shop Anonymous has added director Andrea Giacobbe, formerly of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films, and co-directors Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein, who helmed the feature On The Ropes, which won the Special Jury prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival…Director/actor/writer Peter Berg has come aboard New York-headquartered Shooting Gallery Productions as a spot helmer. He was previously available to direct commercials via bicoastal Tool of North America…Morton Jankel Zander, Los Angeles, has gone bicoastal, opening an office in New York….William Near, formerly executive producer of New York-based Populuxe Pictures, has joined Boston and Santa Monica, Calif.-based Picture Park as partner/executive producer. According to Near, director Wayne Gibson has also left Populuxe…. Henrik Klokker, of Copenhagen-based Easy Films, has signed with bicoastal Flying Tiger Films for U.S. representation….Cielo Films, Santa Monica, has signed director Michael Norman for U.S. and international representation…..Minneapolis-based director Eric Goldstein has joined TAG Pictures, New York. TAG’s affiliate Dogtag Films has signed director Liz Hinlein….Hael Kobayashi has been appointed director of animation and the creature development group at Industrial Light+Magic, San Rafael, Calif. He will manage ILM’s roster of animators, modelers, creature developers and viewpainters, in addition to overseeing the computer graphics department of Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions….Editor Travis Aitken has shifted from the Santa Monica facility of Mad River Post to its San Francisco operation. He remains available to work out of all the Mad River shops-in New York, Santa Monica and San Francisco….New York-based feature/TV composer Hayley Moss has joined Yessian Music for commercials. She gives the Farmington Hills, Mich.-headquartered company a foothold in Manhattan….Executive producer Michael Garrett has returned to AFI/Filmworks, Miami, after a two-year leave of absence….Jeffrey Berry, of SBK Pictures, Ardmore, Penn., is directing the IMAX short The Spirit of Silicon Valley, for the Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, Calif….
