Dean Gentile has been named vice president operations of Digital Cinema Destinations. In the newly created position he reports to Chuck Goldwater senior vice president. Gentile joined Digiplex in 2010 and has had principal operating responsibility for the circuit's multiplex cinema locations in Connecticut New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
DPS Production Specialists of Burbank California has announced a strategic rental partnership with the newly formed Cineo Lighting to provide motion picture and television lighting products for its North American rental clients. We are very excited about the opportunity to provide Cineo Lighting's RPT based lighting systems to our film and television clients said Paul Kobelja vice president motion picture for DPS.
The Euromed Audiovisual III Programme of the European Union in collaboration with the European Audiovisual Observatory has just published a report on the film and audiovisual sector in Morocco. It follows a 2012 report on Egypt and is the second of a series of monographs prepared in the context of data collection on the audiovisual sector in the nine partner countries. Both reports are available only in French. According to the Ambassador E.
IndieFlix has launched a new app that enables for Xbox Live Gold subscribers in the United States Canada United Kingdom Ireland Australia and New Zealand to watch the IndieFlix library of film festival favorites and curated independent shorts features documentaries and web series through their Xbox 360. “We think the Xbox audience ‘gets’ independent film ” says filmmaker Scilla Andreen IndieFlix CEO and co-founder.
The Stadtkino in Hallein was built at its present location back in 1925. Between 1991 and 1993 the cinema was remodeled with two auditoriums. The Stadttheater in Gmunden built in 1872 has the status of a cultural center in the area around Lake Traunsee. The smaller of its two auditoriums with 89 seats is the only remaining movie theatre in Gmunden. The Top Kino in Vienna integrates a kitchen and bar and is a popular meeting place for cinema buffs culture connoisseurs and night owls. Today the theatres are linked using digital cinema technology.
Schneider Optics has announced that it is manufacturing and distributing an In-Camera Filter System developed by rental house Clairmont Camera for the Arri Alexa camera. Working closely with Schneider Clairmont Camera’s Andree Martin and Alan Albert designed custom assemblies that hold interchangeable Schneider filters in front of the Alexa’s CMOS sensor assembly. The kit includes a specially designed magnetic filter holder that replaces the light baffle in the Alexa camera.
Talamas Sales and Rentals in Boston recently took delivery of the new Fujinon PL 85-300 (ZK3.5x85) making it the first in the region to receive the HDTV PL mount zoom lens. Talamas already owns and rents out the Fujinon PL 19-90 Cabrio (ZK4.7x19) PL Mount zoom lens. “The new PL 85-300 is a perfect complement to our PL 19-90 ” said Dave Talamas president of Talamas. “The design of both Cabrio lenses provides exactly what the market needs.
Thinkbox Software has released Krakatoa SR a stand-alone version of Thinkbox Software's high-volume particle renderer for Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems that can be integrated with any 3D content creation application. Previously available for Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Maya 3D software Krakatoa is CPU-based highly optimized heavily multi-threaded and can be used successfully on most hardware running Windows or Linux operating systems including laptops and render nodes without dedicated high-end graphics accelerators.
Slate Media Group has appointed Rob DeMartin as chief operating officer and Jay Rubin as head of sound sales of its New York operations which includes post-production companies Technicolor – PostWorks PostWorks and Hula Post Production. DeMartin who brings more than 25 years of managerial and entrepreneurial experience across a range of industries will oversee day-to-day operations at all facilities. He reports directly to Slate Media Group CEO David Rosen. DeMartin previously served as chief operating officer of PostWorks for five years beginning in 2004.
Hollywood Locations is now representing the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority when film television and commercial productions wish to utilize Metro owned property. Hollywood Locations has represented and marketed the regional transit hub Los Angeles Union Station for more than the last 13 years negotiating and coordinating over 1 000 film and event productions at the historic property. Some of the latest features to have filmed at the station are The Dark Knight Rises Friends with Benefits and Gangster Squad to name a few.
