PRODUCTION COMPANIES

LA-based c.2K has signed director Christina Hodnet for commerical representation in the US. Hodnet was previously represented by Celsius Films in New York.

Complete Pandemonium has signed director Jacob Kornbluth for exclusive commercial representation.

Bicoastal Coppos Films has signed director/visual storyteller Jeffrey Karoff.

LA-based Duck Soup Studios has signed directing team Evil Cat Land, comprised of Walter Santucci, Pete Doan, Seth Strong and Layron DeJarnette.

US bicoastal Epoch Films has signed ex W+K creative director, now director Stacy Wall. Wall was formerly with hungry man developing long form projects.

London's H30 Films has added directors Matt Lipsey and Peter Lydon. Lipsey and Lydon come from TV.

Los Angeles' Metro Pictures has signed German commercial and promo director Cadmo Quintero for representation in the US and Asia. He directs in Europe non-exclusively through Hamburg-based companies Cobblestone and Erste Liebe.

Partizan USA has signed director Phil Brown. He is represented in Canada by Radke Films, Toronto.

Toronto's The Players Film Company has re-signed director Adam Massey. Massey left Players two years ago to join Toronto's Bedlam.

Propaganda Europe has signed Dominic Leung, Pat Holden and directing team US.

Spontaneous Combustion has signed director Bob Mowen.

Hollywood-based Tombo has signed director Branson Veal. He is repped by The Players Film Company in Canada.

POST/ANIMATION/AUDIO

Hollywood's Class-Key Chew-Po has signed animation director Chris Prynoski.

Click 3x has hired designer and visual effects artist Susan Armstrong. Armstrong come to Click from Eyeball|New York.

Los Angeles' The Content Project welcomes partner/executive creative director Steve Kazanjian and designers/brothers Chris and David Pagani.

Miss Jones, the Santa Monica-based design and visual effects studio, has signed director Barnaby Jackson.

New York-based Northern Lights Post has added comedy director Patrick Burns Jr. and producer Arthur Tremeau to its roster. Burns come from now-defunct Shooting Gallery, while Tremeau makes the move from Post Perfect.

Red Car NY has brought flame artist Joe Wenkoff on board. Prior to joining Red Car, Wenkoff spent the greater part of his career at Bob & Shiela's, San Francisco before venturing out to start his own Web and TV design company.

Hollywood-based REZN8 has hired senior visual effects supervisor Karin Joy. The addition of Joy follows the recent drafting of technical talents Don Brittain and Phil Brock.

Rushes Postproduction has promoted Jonathan Davies to the post of Promo Producer.

Stuart Waks and Co., Santa Monica has hired Tom Dunlap, a former broadcast producer at TBWA\Chiat\

Day in Playa del Rey and Frank Effron, an editor from the agency's in-house post facility, Venice Beach Editorial. Dunlap now serves as executive producer at SW & Co.

Austin's Tequila Mockingbird has announced that Billy Henry will head up the company's New York operations.

AD AGENCIES

Amsterdam's 180 has hired three new creatives: copywriters Robert Krause and Luca Grelli and Canadian art director Mario Guay, previously with Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam.

Deutsch LA has announced two promotions. Steffi Binder has been promoted from senior producer to executive producer and Tracy Jones from producer to senior producer. Binder joined Deutsch in 2000 as a senior producer. Jones has been producing with Deutsch since 1998.

Chicago's Foote, Cone & Belding has shuffled its executive staff. Dana Anderson has been named president-CEO from exec VP/managing director upon the departure of Brian Williams. And former exec VP/worldwide creative director of global brands Jonathan Harries has been giving the post of worldwide creative director and chairman of the Chicago office, replacing outgoing global creative chief Geoff Thompson. Williams has resigned and Thompson has retired from FCB.

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco has hired creative director Todd Grant.

Inter/Media Advertising has hired VP Kathryne Amendola in addition to promoting Erin M. Barr to senior VP, client services and Michelle Zygelman to VP, account supervisor.

Publicis New York has rounded out its executive team with the addition of co-presidents and executive creative directors David Corr and Lance Paull. The pair replaces Tony DeGregorio who left Publicis to take the chairman and chief creative officer posts at Tierney Communications, Philadelphia.

Wieden + Kennedy New York will be lead/managed by a triumvirate composed of Ty Montague, Buz Sawyer and Todd Waterbury, who comes from W+K HQ in Portland. He replaces outgoing creative director Amy Nicholson. Meanwhile, in London, W+K London has hired creative team Ben Walker and Mat Gooden.