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San Diego Film Festival Hires Digital Operative for Online Support

Mon, 06/24/2013 - 10:14 -- Nick Dager

The San Diego Film Festival has hired Digital Operative to handle its online promotions, scheduling and ticket sales.

"The San Diego Film Festival is an invaluable platform for promoting the fantastic work of independent film makers, actors, producers and directors. The Digital Operative team is excited to help take the festival to a new level and create a stellar digital presence to grow the event," said B.J. Cook, president and co-founder of Digital Operative.

DP John Deeb Get Creative for Matt Pond Music Video

Thu, 06/20/2013 - 12:52 -- Nick Dager

When Florida-based director/cinematographer, John Deeb isn’t shooting spots for high-profile clients such as Hard Rock Hotels or Disney, he likes to expand the limits of his creativity with music videos like a recent one for indie rocker Matt Pond. To shoot Love to Get Used, a song off Pond’s new album, The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand, Deeb got to experiment with different techniques not always viable on commercial productions.

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JMR Electronics, Douglas Trumbull Push the Limits of HFR Cinema

Thu, 06/20/2013 - 11:49 -- Nick Dager

JMR Electronics recently designed and built a high performance server and storage system for the production of the world’s first high-frame-rate 3D movie. UFOTOG, a 10-minute short that tells the story of a man’s attempt to photograph alien spacecraft, is the work of director, visual effects pioneer and filmmaking visionary Douglas Trumbull.

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MTI Film Introduces Cortex to Mexico via Net Brains

Thu, 06/20/2013 - 11:37 -- Nick Dager

MTI Film has added Net Brains, a Houston-based systems integrator focused on Mexico and other Latin American markets, to its international reseller network. Net Brains will market and support MTI Film’s Cortex line of workflow solutions to broadcasters and film and television producers in its territory. It will also market Correct DRS, MTI Film’s film restoration platform.

AM Studios, Chennai, Mixes Maryan with Barco’s Auro 11.1

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 11:21 -- Nick Dager

AM Studios, Chennai, one of India’s most famous recording studios, has acquired a Barco Auro 11.1 system to enhance its 3D sound recording capabilities. The sound mixing for Maryan, an upcoming Tamil drama thriller film directed by Bharatbala starring Dhanush and Parvathi Menon was done using Auro 11.1.

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Occupy Cannes Documentary in the Works from Troma Entertainment

Wed, 06/19/2013 - 11:03 -- Nick Dager

Occupy Cannes attended the Cannes Film Festival to fight for the rights of independent artists and to call attention to the danger that international media consolidation poses to independent art and commerce. Four camera teams filmed material for an upcoming documentary about the Cannes Film Festival to be released by Troma, appropriately titled Occupy Cannes

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