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The Top Products of NAB 2012

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The 2012 National Association of Broadcasters show which was held last month in Las Vegas was one of the most exciting and interesting NAB shows in recent years. According to show organizers attendance topped 90 000 for the second year in a row and there was a ten percent increase in both the size and number of exhibitors. As in recent years international attendees from 151 countries accounted for more than a quarter of the people there which always gives the show a very cosmopolitan feel.

Greentopia Film Festival Accepting Submissions

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The Greentopia | FILM Festival takes place September 12-14 in Rochester New York as part of Greentopia 2012 building in size and scope on last year’s inaugural event. One highlight will be the screening of Detropia winner of the Sundance Documentary Editing Award a film about the iconic arc of one of America’s great industrial cities. Detropia’s gutsy and colorful denizens struggle to make sense of and adapt to a tsunami of changes in a post industrial Motor City while building hope for a profoundly different future – a story relevant to cities like Rochester.

LiveAirShowTV Goes Behind the Scenes of Big Air Race

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

LiveAirShowTV has announced that its newest feature video takes a behind the scenes look at the much anticipated IMAX film Air Racers 3D which launched a limited premiere last week. 

Principal photography for Air Racers 3D took place during the 2009 and 2010 Reno National Championship Air Races. LiveAirShowTV broadcast the Air Races Live in 2009 and provided daily race week and post-event video reports in 2010. This first look at Air Racers 3D includes writer producer and co-director Christian Fry talking about the production and some of the unique aspects of how it was made.

Applications Open for Film Composing Competition

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

The Ohio Philharmonic Orchestra Cleveland has announced the Film and Composer Competition. The annual compeition takes place in September. Filmmakers are randomly matched with film score composers who then compose a music score for the short film. This unique competition aims at bringing together filmmakers and composers for an exciting collaborative film and performance event. Final film and score selections will be screened and performed by the Ohio Philharmonic Orchestra in a live performance. The early deadline for applying is May 30; the late deadline in June 15.

Benjamin Britten Opera to Screen in UK Movie Theatres

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Rising Alternative has announced the UK screening of Benjamin Britten’s most popular opera live from the world’s most prestigious opera house in collaboration with RAI. With a new production directed by the sensational Richard Jones and sporting a distinguished cast Peter Grimes live at La Scala promises to be an evening of psychological intensity evocative music and hard-edged realism. Interviewed by Time magazine the composer once described the opera’s subject as “very close to my heart – the struggle of the individual against the masses.

Court Gives Tax Victory to Documentary Filmmaker

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

In answering the question of whether documentary filmmaking can be considered a for-profit business documentary filmmakers have claimed victory against the IRS. The US tax court has ruled that Lee Storey can write off hundreds of thousands of dollars of business expenses from the production of Smile 'Til It Hurts: The Up with People Story. The IDA FIND NALIP WMM NAMAC and UFVA filed a friend of the court brief in the case.

RLJ Acquires Image Entertainment and Acorn Media Group

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Robert L. Johnson chairman of The RLJ Companies and founder of Black Entertainment Television has announced today that RLJ Acquisition has entered into agreements to acquire Image Entertainment and Acorn Media Group to create one of the largest independent distributors of digital and video content globally. The new combined company will be named RLJ Entertainment. Shares of the new company are expected to trade on the NASDAQ Stock Market.

Rushes Upgrades Networking with Brocade System

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Post-production and visual effects processing increasingly rely on 2K/4K film resolution high-definition CGI content and real-time digital end-to-end workflows. To address that challenge the post house Rushes (part of the Deluxe Entertainment Services Group) has deployed a Brocade BRCD -0.08% data center networking solution based on Ethernet fabric technology helping it meet growing demand and link seven data centers located across five buildings in the Soho area of London.

Sorenson Squeeze 8 Pro Now Available

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

Sorenson Media has announced the immediate availability of Sorenson Squeeze 8 Pro which gives video professionals unprecedented workflow functionality and control using the company’s video encoding and transcoding application. For the first time video professionals can work seamlessly within and between leading professional formats and non-linear editing systems – including the capability to easily output video to mezzanine formats including Avid DNxHD on Windows and Apple OS X systems and Apple ProRes for OS X systems.

Perkal Signs to Shoot Vampire Diaries

Mon, 04/30/2012 - 20:00 -- Nick Dager

When cinematographer Dave Perkal signed on for the new season of the highly unusual series The Vampire Diaries he made sure his camera package included 2575 heads from OConnor. “I’ve used OConnor on every production I have been involved in from the time I was a loader assistant and operator. Now that I’m a DP they are on my camera order every time. Leaving OConnor off would be like forgetting to order tripods ” he says. “Our show is a bit different from your normal television episodic ” Perkal says. “We opt for the more cinematic approach in our visual dialectic.

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