PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Bicoastal Anonymous Content hired former HKM EP Lisa Margulis. She replaces Shelly Townsend, who headed to bicoastal Headquarters.

Area 51 Films of Santa Monica signed director/DP Blair Hayes for commercial representation.

Chicago/LA-based Backyard Productions hired Dan Bryant as COO/exec producer. He comes from Santa Monica-based Swietlik.

Believe UK hired Janie Balcomb, from London's Spectre Films, as co-MD. Balcomb joins Mark O'Sullivan in the London offices.

Bicoastal Coppos Films signed director Maria Demopoulos.

Portland-based prodco Food Chain Films signed director Andrews Jenkins who is also repped by Industry Films in Canada.

Bicoastal Gartner signed film-maker Michael Apted for US commercial representation.

The Haus, NY signed Brazilian director Pedro Becker for commercial representation.

Bicoastal HSI Productions signed directing siblings The Brothers Strause.

Barcelona-based prodco The Lift signed four directors for the Spanish market: Agust Baldursson, BIG TV!, Jason Moyer, and duo Vogel.Villar-rios.

Hollywood's Oil Factory signed video and doc director Doug Pray.

Australia's Republic Films singed director Charlie Watson for representation in Oceania.

LA's Rock Fight signed Argentinean directing team Peluca for the US. They're signed to Buenos Aires prodco Peluca, and London-based Brave Films for the UK.

LA-based RSA took on satellite company transmission@RSA USA, which includes exec producer Brian Farhy, and directors Sean Mullens and Wayne Holloway. The trio had worked under the moniker Brand, a satellite of NY's Headquarters.

Bicoastal Smuggler signed Daniel Levi for the US. He is repped by Independent in the UK and Gatehouse Films in South Africa.

POST / AUDIO / ANIMATION

NY's The Anx welcomes EP Michelle Brunwasser to its Manhattan office. She moves from The Tape House offices.

Black Logic, NY, a Tape House visual effects company, signed Kuan Lin to its roster of CG artists.

blue, London, hired award-winning sound designer Ian 'Arg' Hargest.

Bicoastal Face the Music signed club resident and radio host DJ Ed Ma as composer.

NYC's Fearless Music signed award-winning composer Michael Bacon for commercials.

GVFX, a Toronto visual effects house, appointed Ron O'Brien as president and CEO.

Radium appointed EP Michele Jeffers as head of the episodic and features division.

Rushes Post Production, London, re-appointed Sharon Hill as head of library and archives. Hill returns from Channel 4.

London's Smoke & Mirrors hired 3D animator Rebekah King-Britton. She heads the 3D department with Phil Johnson.

Spontaneous Combustion hired assistant producer Michelle Carman.

Hollywood-based animation house Super 78 hired CG supervisor and art director Robert Rose.

Santa Monica-based Terminal added editor Nicholas Erasmus to its roster. Erasmus comes from Superior Assembly in LA.