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Bill Wages ASC is glad to be shooting USA’s Necessary Roughness on location in his hometown of Atlanta Georgia instead of commuting to far locations. Necessary Roughness is a series about a female psychologist whose main practice is the fictional NFL team the New York Hawks. “Atlanta for New York ” Wages laughs. “You gotta love Hollywood’s creativity.” “Actually we really do get a lot of mileage out of the various local locations ” he says. “Since she treats other sports and show business patients we end up with a wide variety of subjects – and an even wider variety of challenges.

Over the last few months The Foundry’s look development and lighting tool Katana has been adopted by a growing number of studios of all sizes around the globe. The software which was originally developed by Sony Pictures Imageworks is showing a truly global presence and the list of clients now also includes Mikros Image in Paris Fido in Stockholm Newbreed in Montreal and most recently the famous Tippett Studio in Emeryville California. Sanjay Das CTO at Tippett Studio says “We really looked at Katana as a game changer for us.

Siren Digital a film TV and new media production group in Hollywood has chosen a Digital Vision’s Nucoda color grading system with DVO toolset and Precision control panel for their digital intermediates and technological operations. Continuing a long-standing collaborative relationship the team at Siren has worked with Digital Vision over many years beginning with installations of Nucoda in Santa Monica and extending overseas to large-scale facility build-outs in Korea and China.

Film is dead at least according to a survey of film festival organizers that Quvis Technologies CEO Kenbe Goertzen discussed recently at the International Film Festival Summit in Austin Texas. As a whole film festival organizers say that they do most of the judging in digital formats and believe that digital formats specifically a Digital Cinema Package offers the best viewing experience for their audience.