Archive for July 6th, 2009

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, July 6, 2009 – The Evil City Film Fest initially founded in 2005, is now the Royal Flush Festival (RFF), a brand new force in the independent film, art and music scenes that will rock its way from New York City’s East Village with a program of over 100 independent films, music videos, live music performances, and underground art openings from October 15-18, 2009. RFF’s main venue will be the Anthology Film Archives, located at 32 Second Avenue. more

Leading Australian Post House Relies on Bones Dailies to Deliver High Quality Dailies to 20th Century Fox

DFT Digital Film Technology, provider of high-end post production solutions announced that leading Australian post house Cutting Edge utilized the Bones Dailies post production workflow solution to deliver dailies for 20th Century Fox X-Men spin-off prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine. more

Bicoastal production/design studio Blind helps usher in a newly re-branded and re-named Syfy Channel (fka SciFi) in the animated :15 IDs, “Horse� and “Windmill,� working directly with NBC Universal/Syfy Channel, NYC. Making the ordinary extraordinary, Blind’s cleanly rendered :15s feature a horse morphing into a rocket ship, flowers into windmills, a Winnebago into a castle and a lion into megaphones. The 4-ID campaign illustrates the channel’s July 7th content shift from science fiction only to science fiction and additional non-sci-fi shows such as the political mystery/drama, Warehouse 13. more

The Brief:

Absolute New York‘s VFX Supervisor and Lead Flame Artist Dirk Greene and his team’s dogged pursuit of seamless perfection is on display in the latest spot for global investment experts State Street, via The Gate Worldwide. more

Customized Color Correction For RED Feature

NEW YORK: Riding the positive industry feedback wave for his hit screenplay for The Wrestler, Robert Siegel recently put the finishing touches on Big Fan, his maiden directorial effort which he also scripted. Starring Patton Oswalt, and shot with RED by Goodbye Solo DP Michael Simmonds, the film received solid notices at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. more

The Brief:

Crossroads director Nick Lewin in collaboration with Ogilvy London released a dramatic :60 that perfectly captures the spirit of Ford’s kinetic Design campaign, which emphasizes sleek designs that are meant to evoke movement even when the vehicles are at a standstill. more

Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry (www.thefoundry.co.uk), today announced that Weta Digital, New Zealand’s premier multi-award winning VFX studio, has purchased a site licence of Nuke to enhance its in-house pipeline. more

Hot new LA post production house chooses Quantel for data-centric workflow

LIGHTIRON Digital, LLC, a new file-based post production company headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, has purchased a Quantel Pablo 4K non-linear color correction and DI system. LIGHTIRON will deploy the Pablo on a wide range of data-centric projects from studio features, commercials, music videos, stereoscopic 3D, independent films and episodic television. more

Anonymous Content recently added award-winning writer, director, and cinematographer Cary Fukunaga to their commercial division after originally being repped solely by their management arm. The young talent, whose most recent work, the feature film Sin Nombre, won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award and the U.S. Dramatic Excellence in Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival, will add another visionary director to Anonymous’ ever-growing roster. more

Streamlined, Updated, Expanded & User Friendly

NEW YORK: The Audio Engineering Society Web Development Team has completed a massive overhaul of their website’s 12-year-old design. Distinguished by a sophisticated user interface, drop down menus and enhanced social networking, audio/visual and search capabilities, the user-friendly site allows content from lower levels to ‘float’ to the home page and provides quick access to all areas of the website. more