DURING THEIR FOUR WHIRLWIND DAYS in L.A., a Chicago sales contingent saw 19 producers, several with possible projects for the state, says Local 476’s Mark Hogan. He was accompanied by Teamsters 726’s John Coli and IFO director Betsey Steinberg on their latest sales mission.
Any new projects heading our way? Not immediately, although the team received several encouraging “definite maybes.” Hogan was impressed by the large number of former Chicagoans in high positions, or people who have worked on movies in Chicago and want to return with business, he says.
GROSSMAN & JACK TALENT hosts at party at The Underground July 23 to officially announce the opening of two new divisions: G&J Models, headed by print model guru Katherine Tenerowicz and Agency Galatea, a personal management service guided by Marie Anderson.
Model and talent gurus Tenerowicz and Anderson are former owners of talent agencies that were ultimately merged into other entities and absorbed by Ford Models. Anderson was persuaded to return to Chicago last year after several years in L.A.
“BEING BUCKY,” director Scott Smith and producer John Fromstein’s award-winning feature-length doc about the U of W “Bucky Badger” mascot, screens in L.A., July 21-22, and in San Diego, July 23.
NO SLOWDOWN FOR MICHAEL NEUMANN’S One World Productions. The director/cameraman has enjoyed one high profile job after another since early June, when he went to L.A. to shoot a music video of reggae singer Ziggy Marley’s for airing on Nickelodeon shows.
Then came a dozen one-minute pieces for Kraft’s website on fruit and vegetable preparation, shot on the Red, for Euro RSCG exec producer Monica Wilkins and producer Marianna Perrin.
A four-minute film for the Chicago 2016/Leo Burnett followed that. Newmann shot triathlon gold medalist Brian Clay using a 75-ft. super technocrane in front of the Buckingham Fountain at sunrise. Surely the Olympics committee in Switzerland who saw it was very impressed.
ANOTHER SPOT HOUSE joins Liz Laine Reps’ roster: L.A.-based Salt, a diverse creative agency offering directorial, sound, editorial, design and visual effects services.
SHORT FILMS FROM ADFOLK are being sought by AICP/Midwest and the Midwest Independent Film Festival to screen at the first annual Advertising Community Shorts Film Night at MWFF Oct. 6. Deadline is July 31.
Here’s the deal. You can enter as many shorts as you’d like for one $25 submission fee. Films must be all from the same filmmaker; the filmmaker is gainfully employed in Midwest advertising and/or production; film was produced in the Midwest or has strong Midwest roots; and it is not a commercial or spec spot.
Sponsors are Fletcher Camera, Optimus and Resolution Digital Studios. For details see
