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Five Questions: Damian Wagner, Co-founder, KickStand
KickStand, the new audio studio founded by Damian Wagner and Kim Christensen in Venice, CA, specializes in advertising, TV and film, but has the chops to handle unconventional projects, too — Wagner's résumé includes a number of collaborations with contemporary …
BRW USA Signs Director Shyam Madiraju
Shyam Madiraju, a native of India with his own Mumbai-based production company, Gobsmack!, is now represented by BRW USA for commercial work in the U.S. and Italy. Madiraju started his career at Anonymous Content, and his work includes the short …
Q&A: Stephen Arnold’s Six-Strings
Call him a composer, a musician, a sonic stylist, or even just a "jingle writer." (That last one is how WIkipedia describes him.) Even if you don't think you know his work, you probably know his work — his clients …
Featured Tracks: FirstCom’s “Good Clean Fun” Collection from Kaliyo
FirstCom Music has 19 new releases this month, including "Good Clean Fun," a collection of original songs performed by Sarah Sharp and Andrea Perry of the Austin, Texas, duo Kaliyo. Much more textured and nuanced than the title's name suggests, …
Stalkr’s Fast-Paced Archival Montages Rev Up New Mazda Spot
With The Artist and Hugo winning big at the Oscars and Mad Men finally headed back to TV for a fifth season, it's hard not to be in a retro mood. Stalkr, the production company behind a hip new spot …
Making Brake an Indie Success Story
Just like actors, cinematographers tend to be typecast. I think I’m good at coming up with creative solutions given limited resources, but I don’t know what makes producers think I can shoot a decent feature in only two weeks' time. …
Five Questions: Editor Robin Burchill, Fluid
Editor Robin Burchill has made a career cutting spots, music videos, and the occasional feature film. She got her start at New York's Consulate in 1992, and later moved to Chemistri, where she cut spots for Old Spice, Lean Cuisine, …
VFX Supervisor Tim Burke on the Final Harry Potter
Tim Burke spent the last ten years immersed in the magical world of Harry Potter, a world that could not have been created without visual effects. He was visual effects supervisor at Mill Film for the second film, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, and has been the visual effects supervisor on each film since in the series of eight, receiving an Oscar nomination as co-visual effects supervisor for the third.
VFX Supervisor Rob Legato on Hugo
Rob Legato began his career in television, working as a visual effects supervisor on The Twilight Zone, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and receiving five Emmy nominations and two Emmys before joining Digital Domain in 1994.