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Today, the Visual Effects Society (VES), the industrys global professional honorary society, announced its 2017 Board of Directors officers. The officers, who comprise the VES Board Executive Committee, were elected at the January 2017 Board meeting. The officers include Mike Chambers, who was re-elected as Board Chair.
We are fortunate to have such esteemed leadership represented on the Executive Committee, said Eric Roth, VES Executive Director. Col ectively, these talented professionals bring passion, diverse experience and enormous commitment to our organization. We look forward to Mike Chambers continued leadership in taking the organization and our global membership to new heights.
The 2017 Officers of the VES Board of Directors are:
Chair: Mike Chambers
1st Vice Chair: Jeffrey A. Okun, VES
2nd Vice Chair: Kim Lavery, VES
Treasurer: Dennis Hoffman
Secretary: Rita Cahill
Mike Chambers, Chair
Mike Chambers is a freelance Visual Effects Producer and independent VFX Consultant, specializing in large- scale feature film productions. He has worked with numerous A- list producers and directors on dozens of VFX- heavy films, and his consulting service clients include most major studios and several VFX facilities.
Mike is currently in post- production on Dunkirk, his third col aboration with esteemed director Christopher Nolan, after The Dark Knight Rises and Inception. Other recent credits include Alice Through The Looking Glass and Transcendence. Mike has contributed to the visual effects efforts on many Academy & BAFTA award- winning films, and he has personally won two VES Awards for Best Visual Effects, on The Day After Tomorrow and Inception. He was also nominated for his work on I Am Legend. Mike has been a member of the VES for 20 years, serving multiple terms on their Board of Directors. He is beginning his third term as Chair and previously served on the Executive Committee as both Vice Chair and Secretary of the organization. He is also a longtime member of the Producers Guild of America.
2017 VES Board Officers
Jeffrey A.Okun, VES, 1st Vice Chair
Jeffrey A. Okun, VES, is currently working on Albert Hughes' The Solutrean for Studio 8 and Sony Pictures. He is known for creating organic' and invisible effects, as wel as spectacular tent- pole' visual effects that blend seamlessly into the storytel ing aspect of the project, and has won the VES Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects for his work on The Last Samurai. Okun has also delivered wide- ranging effects in award winning films such as Blood Diamond, Stargate, Sphere, Red Planet, Deep Blue Sea, Lolita and The Last Starfighter. Additionally, he oversaw the rush 3D conversion of Clash of the Titans.
Okun was recently elected Chair of the Los Angeles Section of the VES. He has also been named a Fel ow of the VES, as wel as the recipient of the Founder's Award. Okun also created and co- edited, the VES HANDBOOK OF VISUAL EFFECTS, an award- winning reference book covering all aspects of creating visual effects, techniques and practices. As VES Board Chair for seven years, Okun fostered a global community and focused attention on bringing business and creative education to artists, facilities and studios. Under Okun's leadership the VES was a key player in the creation of a worldwide software anti- pirating alliance with the US Government to insure that all facilities have a fair and level playing field from which to bid.
Okun created the visual effects tracking and bidding software that is in wide use within the industry today, as wel as the revolutionary visual effects techniques dubbed the PeriWinkle Effect (an underwater blue screen technique) and the Pencil Effect (which accurately predicts the final visual effects count and budget).
Okun is a member of the Visual Effects Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Science, and an associate member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
Kim Lavery, VES, 2nd Vice Chair
Kim Lavery is a thirty- year veteran of the industry, with experience with both production and post- production sides of filmmaking and visual effects producing. She was a news videographer and then aToday Show news anchor with an NBC affiliate earlier in her career. She then worked for Universal Studios, in Studio Operations on film production and shifted to visual effects in 1995.
Since then, Lavery has been instrumental in building out specialized visual effects boutique studios as wel as VFX Producing in the global market place with New Zealand. Her ongoing missions are mixing traditional art and technology and combining her passion with aviation. Her current involvements are with Aerial & AR/VR Cinematography. Lavery was recently named a Fellow of the VES, as well as the recipient of the Founder's Award. She has served as Co- Chair of the VES Awards since its inception in 2002 and has served on the Board of Directors for most of the last decade and is also currently serving on the VES Bay Area Section Board as Secretary.
2017 VES Board Officers
Dennis Hoffman, Treasurer
Dennis Hoffman is a visual effects veteran with more than 20 years of industry experience. Currently he is the President of Stargate Studios Vancouver, which is a member of a global network of companies of Stargate Studios, a ful service production, vfx and digital imaging company.
Prior to his association with Stargate, Hoffman was the Managing Director and Senior Vice President of Framestore in Montreal, where he oversaw numerous projects including Paddington, a Studio Canal project, The Legend of Tarzan, a Warner Bros Production and Pan, A Warner Bros/RatPac- Dune Production. Hoffman has held executive positions at a number of other vfx companies including Digital Domain, Deluxe owned vfx facilities, Method
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