Archive for August 3rd, 2011

LOS ANGELES—Sonzero Films has signed with New York boutique talent management agency House of Cards for East Coast representation. Global beauty director Jim Sonzero, renowned in the world of fashion and beauty, has worked for many New York-based beauty brands including L’Oreal, Garnier, Revlon and Maybelline. He recently directed a series of spots for Neutrogena and New York agency Roberts + Langer DDB starring Hayden Panettiere and Emma Roberts.
Headed by co-founders Anya Zander and Emilia Ferreira, House of Cards represents some of the top talent in the advertising industry including Tool, Nomad and Bully Pictures. “Anya and Emilia are fresh, vibrant and enthusiastic. They are the future of our business,” said Sonzero. “I am over the moon to be represented by them.”

“Jim is one of the top beauty directors in the more

(ROCHESTER, NY) Philippines-based SQ Film Laboratories, Inc. has become the newest member of the KODAK IMAGECARE Program, a quality assurance plan for film laboratories initiated in 1996 by Kodak and prevalent throughout 31 countries worldwide today. SQ Laboratories, Inc. was recently accredited for its Camera Negative Processing operations, indicating to filmmakers that critical film handling and quality standards are being maintained by the facility.

With over 40 years of industry experience, SQ Laboratories, Inc. continues to demonstrate its commitment to film and film quality. The lab employs 30 full-time individuals, including a number of highly-skilled technicians and artists who comprise many decades of expertise.

“The Program has developed very specific efficiencies for the laboratory staff to follow,” says Angelo Santos, managing director of SQ. “These standards have built up our employee’s confidence, morale and the triple ‘I’s': Intensity, Integrity and Intelligence. Simply put, more

ROCHESTER, NY, August 3, 2011 — The 2011 recipients of the Kodak Scholarship Program have been announced, and will be screened at this year’s UFVA conference in Boston, Mass. Kodak’s annual, international competition is designed to recognize superior filmmaking skills and creativity of the next generation. The 2011 student winners, as judged by renowned cinematographer Robbie Greenberg, ASC, hail from schools around the globe.

“The quality of work being done by these students is outstanding,” says Greenberg. “The seriousness and poignancy of the subject matters the students explored was also impressive.”

The 2011 winners are:

• Gold Award for Excellence in the Craft of Filmmaking: Robert Hlozanka, from the Tomas Bata University in Zlin in the Czech Republic for The Mill. The award includes a $5,000 Kodak motion picture film product grant and a $1,500 cash tuition award. The Mill centers around a village priest more

EMP Museum

Many seek nirvana but the Vista Spyder actually helps achieve it at EMP’s exhibition Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses. To do this, integrator Advanced Broadcast Solutions (ABS) employed the Spyder X20 1608 video processor to feed the enormous new indoor LED screen, which features content of the band Nirvana at the Seattle pop culture museum.

Recently unveiled alongside the Nirvana exhibition – the most extensive collection of the celebrated Seattle grunge band’s memorabilia – the 60-foot by 33-foot curved 7mm LED screen spans the width of the Sky Church live performance and exhibition space. Displaying concert footage, short films, and live feeds of museum events and programs, the screen also provides video support for after hours’ private functions and live concerts.

“The Spyder feeds a giant multimedia presentation system,” explained more

POTTERS BAR, United Kingdom — Effective immediately, Bruno Hochstrasser returns to HARMAN’s Studer as General Manager, reporting to Andy Trott (VP and General Manager, Mixing and Microphones & Headphones).

Bruno Hochstrasser joined Studer in 1971 and was highly instrumental in Studer’s domination of the high-quality, recording studio tape machine market with iconic models like the A800 (he was actually the product manager for its launch in 1978!), amongst many others.

In 1990, Bruno became President of Studer. During the 1990s, the company reinvented itself following the demise of tape, and Bruno led Studer to become the digital mixing console brand it is today. Less than two years ago, Bruno decided to go into semi-retirement but remained connected with the company as a brand ambassador, mainly in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

“Bruno is today’s Mister Studer,” said Andy more

Improved Web-based render job “control center” and programmable API speed and simplify Render Rocket’s cloud-based rendering service

LOS ANGELES – Aug 3, 2011 – Render Rocket LLC, an advanced cloud-based rendering services company, announced that it is launching a new version of Mission Control, its Web-based “control center” for starting, monitoring, controlling and downloading render jobs. Launching at SIGGRAPH 2011, Mission Control 3.0 will enable individual artists and animation studios working with Render Rocket to experience a more streamlined user interface, faster file transfer times, multi-user access and a programmable cloud rendering API for integrating Mission Control directly into 3D tools and production pipelines. Render Rocket will be attending SIGGRAPH 2011 to showcase all of Mission Control’s latest features.

Render Rocket is a cloud-based, high-end rendering service that provides professional-grade rendering power on-demand to any 2D or 3D production team regardless of its size or location. Those more

MOUNT OLIVE, NJ, AUGUST 3, 2011 – Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC (IMT), a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division, and a leader in advanced digital microwave systems serving the Broadcast, Sports & Entertainment and MAG (Military, Aerospace & Government) markets, today announced that it has achieved ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management certification for its Mt. Olive, New Jersey production facility.

The ISO 9001:2008 standard is a set of international quality practices that ensures the use of effective processes that are consistently monitored and continually improved. The certification validates a quality management system that promises customer satisfaction from effective implementation of the system and confirms an organization’s solid foundation for consistent improvement through data use and analysis.

IMT consolidated and expanded its production capabilities in November 2010. The new 65,000-square-foot facility in Mt. Olive is home to IMT’s research and development, application engineering, manufacturing assembly, electronic testing and customer technical support services. IMT’s range of products for commercial and government customers include wireless camera systems, portable video transmit and receive systems, airborne video downlinks, and central and diversity receivers.

“IMT continually strives for excellence and we are thrilled that the hard work and dedication of our employees has earned us this highly respected industry achievement,” says Integrated Microwave Technologies President Stephen Shpock. “While we have received this certification, it does not mean our ISO journey ends here. IMT will continue to operate with a set of principles that ensure a common sense approach to the management of our business activities to consistently achieve customer satisfaction.”

About Integrated Microwave Technologies, LLC
Integrated Microwave Technologies (IMT) is a Business Unit within the Vitec Group’s Videocom Division. The company comprises the leading microwave brands Nucomm, RF Central and Microwave Service Company (MSC), offering broadcasters worldwide complete broadcast solutions. Nucomm is a premium brand of digital microwave video systems (including COFDM and VSB) for portable and fixed link applications. RF Central is an innovative brand of compact microwave video equipment for licensed and license free broadcast applications. MSC is a premier provider of engineering, integration, technical support, installation and commissioning services. IMT is an ISO 9001:2008 certified QMS organization and recipient of multiple industry awards for design and innovations.

More information can be found at www.imt-broadcast.com.

A Snapshot of The Vitec Group
Vitec is an international Group principally serving customers in the broadcast, photographic and military, aerospace and government (MAG) markets. Listed on the London Stock Exchange with 2010 revenue of £310 million, Vitec is based on strong, well known, premium brands on which its customers worldwide rely. Vitec is organised in three divisions: Imaging & Staging, Videocom and Services.

Imaging & Staging designs, manufactures and distributes equipment and accessories for photography, video and events.

Videocom designs and distributes systems and products used in broadcasting and live entertainment, film and video production and MAG.

Services provides equipment rental, workflow design and technical support for camera, video, audio, fibre optic and wireless technology used by TV production teams and film crews.

More information can be found at www.vitecgroup.com.
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SIGGRAPH 2011: Booth #1015
For Immediate Release

SIGGRAPH Attendees Will See How mocha Pro Enhances Stereo Conversion Workflow; Newest Version Improves Nuke Roto Support

GUILDFORD, UK (August 2, 2011) — Imagineer Systems (www.imagineersystems.com) today announced it will showcase its newest versions of mocha™ and mocha Pro™ and unveil future technology demos of mocha AE™ during SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver next week. In its booth #1015, Imagineer Systems will demonstrate the newest release of mocha Pro, the planar tracking, roto and removal tool that dramatically reduces the manual labor associated with visual effects and stereo conversion projects. The newest release greatly improves roto support for Nuke compositing workflow, an especially important workflow feature that greatly enhances 2D-3D conversion pipelines.

Imagineer Systems also announced that executives from the company will be showcasing a technology demonstration of mocha AE v3 that features exciting new 3D layer and more