ANIMATION
WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 3.9 - December 1998
People
Musical Chairs.
San Francisco-based animation studio (Colossal) Pictures has signed
two new directors to its roster: Jim Matison and Flavio (Kampah).
Matison, based in San Francisco, has been a freelance director for the
past five years, working with SGI, Mondo Media, Protozoa, Wild Brain and Nickelodeon.
He previously worked with (Colossal) starting in 1989 as a staff production
artist, and went on to direct Crazy Daisy Ed, a stop-motion segment
on Liquid TV, as well as several music videos and commercials. Flavio
(Kampah), based in Los Angeles, is a designer who has worked in the fashion
industry before joining the agency, Pittard Sullivan. He is now creative director
of his own company, Visionaires. Other directors on (Colossal)'s roster are
Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, Charlie Canfield, Tom Rubalcava, Margeigh Joy,
John Kricfalusi, Chuck Gammage and Lidia Pryzluska. . . . .
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| Margaret Loesch is the new president and CEO of Odyssey Cable Channel. |
Loesch's New Odyssey. Respected TV executive
Margaret Loesch, who moved to the Jim Henson Company a year ago as president
of its television group, has been named the president and CEO of the 30-million
subscriber Odyssey cable channel. This comes after an announcement that Hallmark
and The Jim Henson Company have bought a "substantial" stake in
the religious network. Loesch's new responsibilities include developing original
programming from Hallmark, Henson, Odyssey and National Interfaith Cable Coalition
(NICC) and integrating it with the already well-established libraries of Hallmark
and Henson. While the channel won't completely abandon religious programming,
Odyssey will try to seek more adult and children viewers through family-oriented
programming. The network hopes to have these changes in place by April 1999.
Loesch's 28-year television career includes many executive roles at Marvel,
Hanna-Barbera, NBC, and most famously, her development and founding role of
the Fox Kid's Network in the early `90s.
Film Roman Names New President. Los Angeles-based Film Roman has brought
Mark Lieber on board as the new president of domestic television development
and distribution. Lieber's responsibilities in this newly created position
include directing the development of all proprietary television product (both
animation and live-action), as well as overseeing the distribution of Film
Roman's proprietary series through broadcast, cable and syndication in the
US He joins Film Roman from PolyGram Television, where as senior vice-president
of children's programming, his division developed and sold Maisy to
Nickelodeon and produced and distributed Barney's First Adventure as
a simulcast to PBS/Fox Kids Network.
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