Top editor and Relish cofounder Chris Van Dyke has left the post shop less than two years after its launch.

According to Van Dyke, who has been at School Editing since Labour Day, the decision to change jobs was about career development. ‘I feel rejuvenated,’ he says. ‘I wanted to create a different career path for myself and associate myself with certain people in the industry, with School.’

Van Dyke is already hard at work and recent spots include ‘duck’ for Heinz Ketchup with Radke Films through Leo Burnett.

Van Dyke’s departure comes at a time when Relish, a division of The Players Film Company, has spun out its commercial editing division to include long-form productions, particularly those being shot by Players’ feature film arm 49th Parallel.

The shop is currently working on Nothing, the third feature by Cube director Vincenzo Natali, and will also edit 49th Parallel’s next two Ginger Snaps sequels, slated to go to camera in the fall.

Ford unhitches from Trailer Park

Trailer Park founding executive producer Dan Ford has hitched a new ride with Wayne Fenske across town at LTB Productions.

Ford, who along with Tom McLean, spun Revolver Films into Trailer Park nearly four years ago, joined LTB earlier in the summer to pursue new opportunities and challenges, he says.

‘I’d been there for eight years. It was just time,’ he says. ‘For me it was more about the future. What’s going to happen in the next five or 10 years? I think I have better control over that [at LTB].’

Partners’ harvests Produce

The Partners’ Film Company has launched yet another satellite commercial house. The new company – dubbed Produce Film Company (as in the produce section of your local grocer) – is being headed up by Partners’ veterans Lina Della Serra and Madelaine Atkins.

Produce’s predominantly American roster includes directors Rob Lieberman, Nick Piper and Bob Rice. The shop will also represent a pair of Canadians, both director/cameramen, Miroslaw Baszak and Bill Heath.

‘These directors are excellent presenters. They’re solid on a production level,’ says Atkins, who spent 20 years at Partners’ as an executive producer.

‘To a one, I’ve been impressed with the way they approach the job, pitch for it, execute it, and they cross the spectrum [in styles]…we’re not going after a certain corner of the market.’

The new prodco has set up shop in the Partners’ building.