Montana Artists books clients

Montana Artists signed producer/UPM Tim Silver ("Community") and d.p. Grant Cruz ("Workaholics"). Agency reserved line producers Preston Stephen Fischer on Lifetime's "The Client List" and Tracey Jeffrey on Lifetime's "American Housewife."Montana also reserved makeup effects artist Barney Burman on NBC's "Grimm" d.p.'s Jesse E. Thorin Junior. on CBS' "Memorable" and Jamie Barber on Lifetime's "Blue Eyed Butchers" production designers Gae Buckley on NBC's "Isabel," Mark Hofeling on Disney Channel's "Teen Beach Musical" and Ryan Berg on Adult Swim's "Children's Hospital" costume designers Lorraine Carson on VH1's "Single Ladies," and Karen Malecki on USA's "White-colored Collar" editor Scott Powell on Fox's "Touch" and vfx supervisor Eddie Williams on NBC's "Community." * * * Sid Ganis, former prexy in the Academy of motion Picture Arts and Sciences, was named proper consultant at Dolby Labs, supporting their business associations while using film community. "Dolby can be a special company which has stood a profound impact on cinema," mentioned Ganis. "For me the very best enhancements make cinema magical and anticipate using my background enthusiasm to Dolby's efforts." Before presiding inside the Academy, Ganis held senior posts in the new the new sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros., Vital and 20th Century Fox. Ganis also hanging out it's of Marvel Entertainment, Center Theatre Group in La, the school of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Off-shoreline Film Archive. Since exiting the Academy, Ganis has elevated his profile among players inside the film biz, including China's Wuxi Studio. * * * Digital animation and visual design house Pixeldust Art galleries hired Dianna Costello as professional producer. Costello, who spent six years at motion graphics studio yU+co. and done PBS' NOVA series "The Fabric in the Cosmos," will oversee marketing and development as Pixeldust seeks to develop partners for output of nonfiction entertainment for television, museums, companies, gov departments and schools. "(Dianna will) be capable of mix her creative talents for project development along with her many years of experience just like a business development and marketing executive," mentioned Pixeldust leader/professional creative director Ricardo Andrade * * * Ali Ahmadi grew to become part of Litepanels, a Vitec Group brand, as senior product manager. Furthermore to heading the item management department, he's charged with enhancing the organization stick to the surface of market demands and product. Ahmadi's earlier gigs include stints at Sachtler, Vinten, Vinten Ramadec, O'Connor and Gas Bags. "(Ali's) understanding in the lighting marketplace will unquestionably result in products that will enable Litepanels' Introduced technology to go in new areas and extra our persistence for be an innovation leader," mentioned Litepanels global marketing V . p . Chris Marchitelli. * * * Grass Valley hired industry veteran Colin Hay to V . p . for Northern Europe, the middle East and Africa and charged him with customer relations, business development and customers management, verifying to Alan Wright, senior veep in the region. Hay formerly labored at Red-colored-colored Bee Media, where his accounts incorporated Disney, Microsoft, Orange, UKTV and Sky. "We plan to bring our file-based, IT-centric technology to help streamline workflows and improve productivity and Roi with a wider quantity of professional media organizations," mentioned Hay. * * * Veteran editor David Smalheiser has grew to become part of Gotham publish house outfit ShootersNYC, the boutique offshoot of Philadelphia-based ShootersINC. ShootersNYC is introduced by controlling director Rob Beckerman in addition to features the talent of editor Anthony Marinelli. Contact Peter Caranicas at peter.caranicas@variety.com