The HPA and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers today issued the call for entries for the 2016 SMPTE-HPA Student Film Festival. The organizations will host the 2016 SMPTE-HPA Student Film Festival in conjunction with the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition on October 26 in Hollywood, California.
The Sim Group is hosting leading manufacturers of cameras, lenses, sound, grip and lighting, post-production gear and workflow systems today at the 11th Annual Sim Technology Showcase in Toronto. The popular event provides members of the production and post-production communities with a unique opportunity to examine innovative new products, witness leading-edge technology demonstrations and find out from the experts how these new tools and workflows can benefit their businesses.
The Motion Picture Sound Editors has announced the nominees for the 63rd MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Nominees represent the work of the world’s most talented sound artists and their contributions to the past year’s most outstanding feature film, television, animation and computer entertainment productions.
On the heels of the Goosebumps movie release on Blu-ray and DVD, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has joined together with Scholastic, the global children's publishing and education company, to donate 20,000 books to children in underserved communities as well as those recovering from crises or natural disasters in the United States. The books, featuring a selection of Goosebumps books by bestselling author R.L. Stine, are being donated through the Scholastic Possible Fund and will be distributed by Save the Children.
Today, Red Digital Cinema and Avid announced that Avid DNxHR and Avid DNxHD recording formats will be coming to Red’s DSMC2 line of professional cameras including, Weapon, Scarlet-W and Red Raven.
Kodak announced the Grand Prize winners of the Kodak Super 8 Filmmaking Challenge following last night’s screening of works from the 15 semi-finalists’ films at the Slamdance Film Festival. Kodak launched the Super 8 Filmmaking Challenge last November as part of the company’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Super 8. The Grand Prize Audience winners of Kodak’s inaugural online contest are:
Character FX artists from MastersFX have created the featured creepy doll Brahms, the title character starring in Lakeshore Entertainment and STX Entertainment’s horror film, The Boy. For The Boy, which opened January 22, MastersFX’s Vancouver Studio created the title character – a four-foot tall doll that seems to rule the household of a remote manor. In the film, a young American woman, Greta, (Lauren Cohan of AMC’s The Walking Dead), takes a job as a live-in nanny in rural England. She comes to find out that the child she was hired to care for is not an actual eight-year-old boy, but instead, a life-sized porcelain doll named Brahms.
Tokyo-based video production company Ellroy decided to see for themselves if zoom lenses from FujiFilm, for all their undoubted functionality, fall short when compared to single-focal length PL mount cine lenses in terms of image quality.
Twenty-one years after their first collaboration, Avid and Focusrite are in deep discussions once more, the results of which they look forward to announcing soon.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has named Randy Lake president, studio operations and Imageworks. Lake oversees all operations, strategy and planning for Sony Pictures Imageworks, post-production services, production services, global mastering and servicing, and asset management.
