VENICE, CA — Terry Clotiaux has joined digital production company Digital Domain (www.digitaldomain.com) as vice president of feature film production. The company has also promoted long-time VFX marketing director Joanna Capitano to executive producer, and elevated the division’s other executive producer, Lisa Beroud, to a member of the company’s senior management team.
A veteran VFX executive who has worked on more than 35 feature films in a 25-year career, Clotiaux comes on board to oversee all feature films in production at Digital Domain’s California and Vancouver studios. He was EP of Digital Domain’s feature film division from 2007 to 2009, where he worked on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and 2012. He rejoins the company most recently from Prime Focus Group, where he was president of global VFX production. There he oversaw VFX work on feature films, including Avatar and Tree of Life, and 2D-to-3D conversion on features including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 1 and 2, Shrek and Star Wars Episodes I and II.
Clotiaux also served as senior VFX producer at Sony Pictures Imageworks/Columbia Pictures, overseeing work on Spider-Man 3, and has been a VFX producer for Warner Bros. Pictures, 20th Century Fox, InterMedia Films and Columbia Pictures/Tristar.
Capitano, who has been with the company since 1993, has been a driving force behind bidding and overseeing many of the 100 feature film productions on which Digital Domain has worked.
Beroud is a 25-year veteran producer of visual effects, live action feature films and commercials. During her tenure at Digital Domain she was the VFX producer on the Oscar-winning Curious Case of Benjamin Button as well as TRON: Legacy, Zodiac, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Oblivion. She is currently the EP of VFX on Ender’s Game.