Archive for March, 2008

Short films are the vast, undiscovered country of filmmaking. Most viewers relegate themselves to feature films alone, inadvertently walling themselves off from the audacious power of the short film. It would be a supreme fallacy to assume that just because a short film takes a quarter of the time to tell, it must be a quarter as effective. Numerous short films compress, in mere minutes, the sort of mesmeric storytelling and muscular emotions that many feature films never come close to achieving.

Little Minx, a division of RSA films and an offshoot of director Ridley and Tony Scotts’ “Scott Free Productions� company recently selected five directors to tackle a series of short films based on the French parlor game “Exquisite Corpse.� The talented lineup of directors, who work in film, television and commercial production, were charged with only two golden rules: they must respond to the last line of text from the previous director’s script, and they must incorporate their interpretation of a “little minx.� The result was inspired, funny, tragic, mind-bending and unquestionably beautiful. more

Call for Entries Columbus International Film and Video Festival, aka The Chris Awards

Now with new lower entry fees!

56th Annual Columbus International Film & Video Festival

Call for Entry regulations and Entry Forms are available on our web site: more

Bicoastal Habana Avenue displayed elegant agility when it produced “Nine Lives,� the highly stylized, rock-n-roll open for ESPN’s “NBA Sunday� starring Tim McGraw and Def Leppard. The open is airing now on regular season games and will continue through the NBA Playoffs. more

Lighting designer Travis Shirley has tapped Coemar Infinity Wash XL fixtures for Enrique Iglesias’s world “Insomniac� tour based on his album of the same name. The international pop singer’s tour began in South Africa and Europe last year and will play South America, Central America, Mexico and the US before heading back to Europe and then the Middle East. more

Independent Sci-Fi Feature Uses HD Video I/O Device to Facilitate Screening Room Projection

AJA Video, a leading manufacturer of professional video interface and conversion solutions, today announced that its award-winning Io HD was used to facilitate both test and cast and crew screenings of the sci-fi indie feature, “The Gene Generation.� Io HD, the first device to natively support Apple’s newly introduced ProRes 422 post production format in hardware, delivers HD editing to the MacBook Pro and Mac Pro via its unique Firewire 800 (IEEE-1394b) interface. Starring Ling Bai and Perry Shen with a supporting role by Faye Dunaway, “The Gene Generation� will premiere in spring 2008. more

NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA, March 25, 2008 — In a unique application that underscores the continued worldwide adoption of JBL Professional VERTEC® line arrays, Ten Years After Audio (TYAA), one of the leading audio rental firms in Thailand, provided the live sound system for the recent Assanee and Wasan Ram-Rai Concert at Rajamangala National Stadium in Bangkok. TYAA deployed VERTEC line arrays throughout the entire venue. more

Cine-tal Systems (www.cine-tal.com), a leading manufacturer of image processing, display and collaboration solutions used in digital cinema and video production, has appointed Glen Green to the post of Vice President of Sales. Green, who has more than 30 years of experience with technology companies serving the film and video industry, will oversee the company’s sales and marketing efforts throughout the United States and internationally. Green will seek to expand Cine-tal Systems’ sales structure by building its internal sales team and developing its worldwide network of resellers. more

MAXmirror Combines High-Speed and Redundancy Required for Mission-Critical Broadcast Applications

MONTREAL, Canada, March 25, 2008 – Maximum Throughput Inc. (www.max-t.com), developers of ultra high-performance, software-based solutions for networked storage infrastructure and media management, will introduce the Sledgehammer MAXmirror configuration for creating fully redundant online storage at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 2008 convention being held from April 14-17 in Las Vegas. Maximum Throughput will be in Booth #SL11711 at the show. more

Teresis Media Management, Inc., the developer of the first and only complete video production asset management solution, announced its technology has been adopted by more than 100 television shows. The company claims the 100th show milestone validates the strength and value of its tapeless workflow technology, which helps producers cut budgets and reduce post-production time while raising the quality of the final product. more

NORTHRIDGE, CALIFORNIA, March 24, 2008 — Industry pioneer John Eargle was posthumously awarded the 2008 Technical GRAMMY® Award at the Special Merit Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on the evening prior to the 50th GRAMMY Awards Telecast. The accomplished engineer, musician and longtime JBL Professional consultant passed away May 9, 2007, leaving a legacy of achievement in the areas of music recording, loudspeaker design, and education. The Technical GRAMMY Award is presented by vote of The Recording Academy®’s National Trustees to individuals who have made contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field. more