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www.postmagazine.com 6 POST AUGUST 2017 BITS & PIECES SANTA MONICA, CA — Killer Tracks (www.killer- tracks.com) has announced that it has released a new collection of music, I Can, We Can and Love +, from Mike Peters, of the band The Alarm, as part of its continuing Killer Tracks Artists Series. A percentage of the revenue from the licens- ing of the songs will go to Mike Peters' Love, Hope, Strength Foundation which "leverages the power of music to expand the bone marrow registry." Two more songs will be released later this year. The songs were written and sung by Peters, whose band The Alarm produced more than 5 million records worldwide and 16 Top 50 UK singles. Peters is himself a cancer survivor and the subject of a new documentary, The Man in the Camo Jacket, directed by Russ Kendall and produced by Jonathan McHugh, Jonathan Platt, James Chippendale, Alex Colletti and Stash Slionski. The film chronicles Peters' eight-year battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. A special screening of the film was held earlier this month at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, followed by a short musical performance and Q&A. To date, Love Hope Strength has added over 150,000 individuals to the bone marrow registry, and has created over 3,100 potential life-saving matches for patients around the world. According to Carl Peel, VP of production at Killer Tracks, the songs included on I Can, We Can and Love +, "are very inspiring and motivating" and are "fantastic additions to our Artist Series. We are very excited to collaborate with Mike and support the work of his wonderful foundation." KILLER TRACKS' NEW ARTIST PARTNERSHIP LEGEND 3D BOLSTERS EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT TEAM WITH SEVERAL KEY NEW HIRES LOS ANGELES – 3D conversion, VFX and VR studio Legend 3D, Inc. announced multiple additions to its executive leadership team as the digital media studio looks to strengthen its resources and expand its global footprint. Legend 3D has contributed to a number of blockbuster films, such as Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, Ben-Hur and Ghostbusters. Under the leadership of CEO Aidan Foley, who joined the company this past December, Legend has just added eight experi- enced executives in the digital enter- tainment industry to its team. Richard Baker, chief creative officer, has more than 15 years of VFX expe- rience as the former creative director and senior stereographer for Prime Focus World's Stereo Conversion division. He brings a wealth of 3D con- version expertise, having supervised such films as Beauty and the Beast, World War Z, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Barry Stagg, chief marketing offi- cer, brings more than two decades of marketing communications experi- ence to the Legend team, having han- dled marketing communications for such studios as Warner Bros./Lorimar Television, Fox Family Worldwide, Ascent Media, 4Kids Entertainment and Norman Lear's Tandem/TAT/ Embassy Communications. Scott Willman, named chief in- formation officer, has played pivotal roles for both major film studios and tech companies, and has supervised 3D output on 15 major theatrical films and has served as the sole 3D supervisor on films for 20 th Century Fox, Lionsgate and New Regency Enterprises. In 2013, Scott founded Dimension X with production part- ner (and wife) Heather Willman, to provide a full range of 3D services directly to studio production teams and visual effects companies. As Legend's new vice president, production, Crys Forsyth-Smith brings more than 20 years experience in all aspects of production, including visual effects, from budgeting, scheduling and on-set work to crewing, pipelines and stereo deliverables, including serving as VP, production for Method Studios, as VFX producer at Sony Pictures Imageworks and as produc- tion manager for several companies including Digital Domain. Prasanna Kodipadi, vice pres- ident, international operations, is an experienced veteran of motion picture production services. Kodipadi joins Legend from Stereo D, where, over the past five years, he served as creative outsource supervisor, as well as a compositor. With 15 years' experience in onset production, post production, anima- tion, visual effects and virtual reality, Chris McClintock, Senior Producer has worked on blockbuster hits such as Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. Lisa Sepp-Wilson joins the Legend family as head of VFX production — Toronto. Her extensive VFX back- ground includes over 20 years of onset production, post production and animation in both Vancouver and Toronto, two Gemini and Leo Award wins and several Emmy and Visual Effects Society Award nominations. Simon Kern, stereo supervisor, brings a decade of VFX profession- al experience to the Legend team, developing new tools, pipelines and techniques while working directly with clients to bring their vision to life on such films as Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, Scott Waugh's Need for Speed and Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, which won the Advanced Imaging Society's '3D Scene of the Year'. All these new hires (except for Sepp-Wilson) will be based at the new Legend Studio offices on the Columbia Square campus in Hollywood. The company moved in to the 27,000 square feet of state-of- the art award-winning LEED building this past November. Stagg McClintock Forsyth-Smith Sepp-Wilson Kodipadi Willman Kern Baker Mike Peters