VETERAN COLORIST BOB SLIGA was snapped up by Apple Computers and is now working for the computer giant in Cupertino, Calif. He heads up Apple’s 2K Final Touch color correction software.
Sliga had become a specialist in the software, which Apple purchased from Silicon Color a few months go. He had freelanced for the past 18 months, after a lengthy stint as Film& Tape Works’ colorist.
A THIRD DI ROOM is in the works by a hush-hush group of post veterans, to be completed this month. Its entry will give the city its third DI operation, along with I-Cubed’s and Highly Defined, when it opens in a few months.
IPA MEMBERS will have a chance to meet and greet new IFO director Betsy Steinberg March 15 at a lavish reception hosted by the Four Seasons hotel, and hear her plans first hand for elevating Illinois film business.
Want to attend? Join IPA at the door, or sign up at www.illinoisproductionalliance. org. Businesses, $250, individuals, $100.
Membership fees help lobby the legislature for a permanent film tax incentive to keep us competitive with other states.
A KEY POSITION AT HI-TIDE MEDIA was filled by Carrie Holecek VP/ production/executive producer, who returns to the Midwest from L.A. She was formerly VP/production and business development at L.A.’s Post Logic Studios. “I am ready to dive into the Chicago market,” she says.
During her 12 years in L.A., she headed Company 3’s features department, and worked at Technicolor DI and EFilm. Earlier, Holecek worked in Minneapolis at Fallon and Campbell Mithun Esty.
CUTTERS added award-winning Nadav Kurtz who had started his career as an assistant there in 2000 before spending five years at Outsider. Among his credits, Kurtz edited and co-produced Malik Bader’s “Street Thief.” Last summer he directed an original stage play and a short film.
At the same time, Cutters hired L.A.-based Peter Tarter, for its Santa Monica office. Most recently Tarter freelanced with Jigsaw.
IN MEMORIAM. A memorial service for Dale Juhlin, a television pioneer and owner of a production company, will be held March 4 at Olson Funeral Home, 6471 N. Northwest Highway, 1-3 p.m.
Mr. Juhlin started his lengthy television career at Ch. 9, where he became VP/executive producer-director for WGN Continental Productions. During the course of his career, he had directed thousands of commercials.
He continued to produce and director shows, commercials and corporate films under Dale M. Juhlin Productions and later directed nightly live studio shows for SportsVision, an early entrant in the pay-TV market.
He is survived by his brother Wayne, a writer/performer, sons Gregg, a video editor for TeamWorks, and Dag, a local musician and writer, and daughter Donna Smith, a production coordinator at Event Engineering.
CHICAGO FILM ARCHIVES received a commitment from Draupnir LLC in up to $10,000 in matching funds every year for the next five years and is seeking one-time donations.
Other much appreciated donations: L.A.’s Ascent Media donated two Mark 4 telecines for film-to-tape transfer as part of its restoration mission, while Colorlab of Maryland committed an annual in-kind preservation services. To donate $ or time, call 773/478-3799, or see www.chicagofilmarchives.org.
