New York-headquartered commercial house Shooting Gallery Productions is in the process of launching a music video division….The New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE ) has elected its slate of officers set to serve two-year terms starting January 2001. Chris Franklin, editor/owner of Big Sky Editorial, New York, is the president-elect. He will succeed Nitza From, president of New York-based Salamandra Images. Burke Moody, editor at Philadelphia-based Seventh Art, has been named a chapter VP and will take over for Roe Bressan, the former managing director of Red Car, New York. Re-elected were chapter VP David Friedman and treasurer Mitch Garelick. Friedman edits at New York-based djm Post Production, while Garelick is general manager of Horn/Eisenberg Editorial & Graphics, New York….Santa Monica-based creative, editorial, design and interactive shop ARTiFACT and Peter Kagan, CEO of [+] iTV, Santa Monica, have agreed in principle to form a joint venture: ARTiFACT [+] iTV. Kagan is also well known as a commercial director with Santa Monica-based Stiefel+Company….Michael Boyd Music, San Francisco, has opened a New York office. Composer Michael Boyd will shuttle between the two locations as projects dictate, with creative director Hector Perez and producer Savoy Hallinan manning the West Coast operation….Director Mo Husseini, formerly of Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions, San Rafael and Los Angeles, has joined kaboom productions, the San Francisco production house founded in ’97 by director Jim Barton….
