PRODUCTION

Sparksworks completed a documentary The Lives of Victory Homes, worked on a DVD for Totem Ocean Trailer Express, and a CD for Services Group of America.

Rocket Pictures—A nationwide tour is underway as the company documents 35 works in progress being built by Habitat for Humanity; projects have just been completed for products of Le Mystere and the American Heart Association.

Production Foundry recently completed production on Promises Made, a short by Chad Ross.

Ann Coppel Productions—In November, her award-winning documentary A Journey of Spirit will play in Palm Desert, CA; Buenos Aires, Argentina; and San Jose, CA. The company also just completed a six-part training series on DVD for the TEREX corporation, and is in production on a Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center project.

SUPPORT SERVICES

Jodi Rothfield Casting—Recent casting projects include: a new puppet character for Sesame Street, principal casting for Toyota and Raymond James Investments, and SAG feature Alone.

Alphacine completed digital-to-film transfers for: Game 6 by Michael Hoffman; Ballet Russes" documentary which world-premiered at Sundance 2005; Three of Hearts" documentary which premiered at Toronto; The Real Dirt on Farmer John (Audience Award winner Slamdance 2005); Kids in America opening in November; and North by Northwest’s The Cutter and End Game.

POST-PRODUCTION AND MUSIC

Pure Audio completed audio for radio campaigns for Burgerville (Creature), T-Mobile, Washington Lottery (Publicis in the West), and Darigold (Dave Syferd); designed a mnemonic and provided sound design and mix for six TV spots for Western Wireless (Fad); and completed original sound design for Miller Lite TV (Digital Kitchen).

Digital Kitchen produced an opening title sequence for Ghost Whisperer, a new CBS TV series; produced the Emmy-nominated opening for Fox Network’s House profiled in Fast Company magazine’s October 2005 issue; produced the opening title sequence for new Fox show Kitchen Confidential.

INDUSTRY NEWS

Northwest Film Forum—David Russo is the next recipient of the Start-to-Finish Grant. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s New Faces of Independent Film, The film he will produce is titled #2.

Adventure Divas—Holly Morris, co-creator of the PBS series Adventure Divas: A New Kind of Pilgrimage has just come out with the book Adventure Divas: Searching the Globe for a New Kind of Heroine.

Washington State Film Office—Grey’s Anatomy, the hit series on ABC came in to film second unit in mid-September. Déjà Vu, the Touchstone/Bruckheimer feature returned briefly to film in Seattle. In September, the Film Office and industry members testified before a senate committee about the state of the local film industry. The Film Office hosted a "Film Fundamentals Workshop" on October 20th to educate communities, businesses and agencies on how to work with filmmakers.

To have your work considered for this section, please drop an email with a bulleted list of highlights to Suzy Kellett at the Washington State Film Office at suzyk@cted.wa.gov.