AFCI Names 2017 Board of Directors
The Association of Film Commissioners today announced the appointment of new officers to its 2017 Board of Directors. They include:
Production & Post-Production
Creating an ACES Workflow
Award-winning cinematographer Theo Van De Sande ASC was an early supporter of the Academy Color Encoding System, using version 0.2.2 on civil war drama Deliverance Creek in 2013, which was nominated for the ASC Award for Television. Since then he has been a staunch supporter, using ACES on numerous TV shows and pilots. When he was offered the chance to shoot Bad Santa 2 for Miramax, he turned again to ACES for his color-processing pipeline.
Rising Sun Nominated for VES Award
Rising Sun Pictures has been nominated for Outstanding Compositing in a Photoreal Feature in the Visual Effects Society’s 15th Annual VES Awards. The nomination comes for the studio’s work on the Quicksilver Extraction sequence from the 20th Century Fox film X-Men: Apocalypse. Nominees include Alana Newell and compositors Jess Burnheim, Andy Peel and Matthew Shaw.
Digital Theatre’s Education Mission
Digital Theatre’s recording of the live production of Frantic Assembly and State Theatre Company South Australia’s acclaimed performance of Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell will be available to Digital Theatre’s worldwide education audience from February 22. This will be the second Frantic Assembly production (following Lovesong) to appear on Digital Theatre’s education platform, DT+.
ASC Announces 2017 Feature Film Nominees
The American Society of Cinematographers has announced nominees in the Theatrical Release and Spotlight categories for the 31st Annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography. Winners will be named on February 4 at the Society’s awards gala held at Hollywood & Highland’s Ray Dolby Ballroom.
Firefly Cinema Announces V6 of Dailies, Grading Workflow Suite
Firefly Cinema today announced version 6 of its comprehensive color grading software suite which includes: FirePlay (for playback), FireDay (for digital dailies) and FirePost (for color finishing), which have been used on hundreds of feature films including Planetarium, The History of Love, Belle and Sebastien.
Red Helium Sensor Earns Unprecedented DXOMark Rating
DxO Labs has announced that Red's new Helium sensor has earned an unprecedented 108-point DXOMark sensor score, setting a new benchmark in image quality. DxOMark sensor scores are determined by a panel of imaging experts who use a systematic testing process to measure the ISO sensitivity, noise and color sensitivity of each camera's Raw sensor performance.
Pathé Wepler Cinema Installs EclairColor
CinemaNext has equipped Paris’ Pathé Wepler Cinema with EclairColor projection technology. In conjunction with the installation, Eclair’s post-production teams have remastered Lisa Azuelos’ Dalida, opening in cinemas across France January 11, using EclairColor digital color technology.
Chronicling an Australian Legend
Red Dog: True Blue is the iconic Australian story of friendship and adventure between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend. The film is the prequel to 2011's Red Dog. Both films were directed by Kriv Stenders, written by Daniel Taplitz, and photographed by Geoffrey Hall. The film features wide desert vistas of Western Australia. It was shot full 2.40 anamorphic using an Alexa XT with a Cooke Anamorphic/i lens package from boutique rental house HyperFocal of Sydney.
Arri New Co-Partner of Berlinale Talents
Arri will support the 2017 Berlinale Talents program with several events focusing on technical innovation in image and light design as well as digital post-production. These include, among others, a workshop with leading experts at the camera studio and a case study on a large TV drama series production.
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