Archive for February 1st, 2010

Film Master Helps Facilities Deliver Some of the Hottest Films Unspooled At Sundance

February 1, 2010 (Stockholm, Sweden) Digital Vision, whose highly regarded color grading and enhancement products are part of the workflow at leading facilities around the world, congratulates the filmmakers and films that screened and competed at the Sundance Film Festival, just wrapped in Park City, Utah. more

Film’s Composer Doro Tachler of ‘My Favourite Things’ to Perform Live; Q & A with Director Ricky Shane Reid

Brooklyn, NY – (February 1, 2010) – Hailed for its visual beauty and intensely revealing performances, “At the Foot of a Treeâ€? (www.atfoat.com), the feature film from Brooklyn-based Director Ricky Shane Reid, will make its US Premiere as an official selection of the 12th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival (IndieFest), which takes place February 4-18, 2010 at the Roxie Theater (www.roxie.com). Filmgoers will have two opportunities to catch “At the Foot of a Tree,â€? with 9:30pm screenings at the Roxie on Sunday February 14th and Wednesday February 17th — each followed by a Q&A with the director. more

Hollywood, CA, February 2, 2010 – Eden FX, currently celebrating its 10th Anniversary Year, is marking the occasion as a leading contributor of award-winning visual effects, with work on 12 high profile network or cable television series, along with two Visual Effects Society (VES) Award nominations. John Gross, founder and Visual Effects Supervisor, Eden FX, made the announcement. more

February 1, 2010 – Grass Valley™ high-definition production and distribution technology once again played a big part of the live Grammy® Awards telecast, presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). This year’s 52nd annual gathering of the music industry’s finest was broadcast on CBS on Sunday, January 31 from the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

This year, for the first time ever, the Grammy HD telecast featured a 3D video made by Michael Jackson, before his death for the environmentally conscious song “Earth Song.� [The video was to be used during Jackson’s comeback concerts in London in July 2009.] The video was broadcast in 3D using the Grass Valley Kalypso™ HD Video Production Center, as part of a ceremony honoring Jackson with a lifetime achievement award during the live telecast. more

Artist owned-and-operated bi-coastal effects boutique Brickyard VFX recently contributed VFX to the 2010 ad campaign for Titleist via ad agency Arnold. The multi-spot campaign was directed by @radical.media’s Greg Kohs and began breaking before the New Year, with the last spot, “Yardage Book,� breaking on Jan. 30.

Promoting Titleist’s acclaimed golf balls, the campaign delivers customer testimonials from both pro and casual golfers that instill trust in the Titleist brand. “Leadership TV� is comprised of spots like “Moment,� in which international PGA stars like Padraig Harrington, Geoff Ogilvy and Steve Stricker, are seen on the green proclaiming their reliance on Titleist products for everything from tournament preparation to the “defining moment� of the game. more

SAN ANTONIO – February 1, 2010 – NewTek Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced that TriCaster™ portable live production system is being used by the Steve Harvey Morning Show to live stream video from the nationally-syndicated radio program. The live stream, which airs Monday through Friday from 5:00 to 9:00 a.m. CT/6:00 to 10:00 a.m. ET on www.steveharvey.com, has attracted 508,000 viewers since it debuted and continues to attract approximately 20,000 more followers each week. more

Renowned A Band Apart Executive Producer Michael Bodnarchek back in action

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT TAPS HELLO VIKING AGENCY, STUDENTS, SCHOLARS AND ALUMNI FOR THREE EDGY NEW SPOTS DEBUTING JAN. 17 ON ESPNU; 3 SCRIPTS, 144 INTERVIEWS, 34 PEOPLE AND 22 LOCATIONS CAPTURED ON NEW HD CAMERA IN 2 DAYS!

MINNEAPOLIS/ BURLINGTON, VT., — January 11, 2010 — A perennially top-ranked university is getting three new visually compelling television spots produced by a legendary Executive Producer and a pioneering advertising agency. The University of Vermont (www.uvm.edu), long known as one of the nation’s leading small liberal arts and research colleges, literally put its best face(s) forward — including 34 students, scholars, alumni and 22 locations over a two-day period in late November — for the three edgy, new 30-second spots, which are scheduled to air during 2010-2011 telecasts of men’s and women’s basketball games, men’s hockey games, and men’s Lacrosse games on ESPN, ESPNU, NESN, Comcast SportsNet New England, and MSG (Madison Square Garden) TV. more

Vizrt announces that Sakshi TV, a news channel based in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, has based its live weather graphics operation entirely upon a Vizrt workflow. Sakshi TV, which is owned by Jagati Publications, is a HDTV channel launched on March 1, 2009 to serve the needs of people in the Andhra Pradesh region of India. more

Los Angeles – The Digital Cinema Society (DCS), a nonprofit educational cooperative with an international membership now nearing 5,000 invites its members to participate in RED day on Saturday 13th February 2010 at the new RED Studios in Hollywood. A special half day morning session will be devoted exclusively to Digital Cinema Society members. more

— Audio-Technica provides over 250 mics for the live broadcast of the GRAMMY® Awards, as A-T maintains its definitive presence at high-profile awards shows —

— A-T’s new AT4050ST Stereo Condenser Microphone and AT4081 Bidirectional Ribbon Microphone were selected as new additions to A-T’s GRAMMY backline complement —

STOW, OH, February 1, 2010 — For the 13th year in a row, Audio-Technica maintained its status as the hallmark of superior sound at the GRAMMY® Awards Show, known throughout the industry as Music’s Biggest Night®. This year at the 52nd Annual GRAMMYs, held January 31, 2010, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, a special emphasis was placed on live performances. For the live show and broadcast, Audio-Technica supplied over 250 of its acclaimed microphones, including an impressive array of hard-wired mics and Artist Elite® 5000 Series UHF Wireless Systems. more