Archive of the Film Festivals/Screenings Category

Mexico City-based Animation Studio to Install Up to 100 Seats of StudioCAP Cloud-based Software to Realize Faster, and More Cost-Effective Project and Asset Management

VANCOUVER, B.C and MEXICO CITY, MEXICO—September 28th 2011—Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF)—Thinware Media Ltd., developers of StudioCAP workflow automation and asset management for animation studios, Ànima Estudios, one of the top animation production studios in Mexico and Latin America, today announced a software sales agreement to install up to 100 subscriber seats of StudioCAP cloud-based licenses. This addition will give Ànima Estudios artists never-before-available access to files and animation elements via ‘The Cloud’—for increased productivity and more accurate check-in and check-out—from virtually any location.

StudioCAP (CAP=Computer Aided Production) is a completely new workflow automation and asset management solution for animation studios. Its cloud-based system will enable Ànima Estudios to more efficiently store, track, and move its 2D and 3D CGI (computer more

MOSCOW, RUSSIA – What began six years ago as simply a “creative outlet” for rising filmmaker/animator Ian Chisholm, Clear Skies III, the third film in the machinima series about the space adventures of the crew aboard the battleship Clear Skies, has steadily built a huge online audience thanks to its memorable storyline and characters, and creative use of the iPi Soft’s Desktop Motion Capture system, which played an integral role in bringing Chisholm’s vision to life.

“I started the Clear Skies series about six years ago,” Chisholm says. “I’d just started doing some basic video work when I discovered I could use blue screening to composite video footage together. I’d always wanted to tell a full story, and by using the Eve Online graphics engine for exterior space and ship shots, and the Half Life 2 more

Christie® used the occasion of the “IBC Big Screen” theater screenings at RAI Amsterdam last week to deliver the world’s first mass-audience demonstration of a 3D High Frame Rate (HFR) D-Cinema system using a single projector – the Christie Solaria™ Series CP2230 projector – in combination with other currently-available components.
“The RealD XL Cinema System and International Datacasting’s SuperFlex® Pro Cinema™ Event Player (PCEP) are available today, along with Christie’s DLP® projectors, providing cinema owners and content owners with the foundation they need to realize new revenue streams from the projection of “alternative content” sporting and theatrical events in 3D HFR,” said Dr. Don Shaw, director, Product Management, Christie Entertainment Solutions.
Content showing the world-famous Cavalia equestrian production company in action was flawlessly projected in 3D at 60 frames per second (FPS) during Dr. Shaw’s “Exhibitor Considerations for High Frame Rate 3D Technology” seminar, using the aforementioned suppliers and more

The Original iPhone Film Fest, the groundbreaking online contest showcasing iPhone filmmaking, has extended its submissions deadline to October 31st, 2011. In recognition of advertising’s massive talent base, the submission categories include a call for brand films and music videos.

Festival entries will be judged by a stellar panel of industry experts including the latest addition to the jury: WDCF Executive Creative Director Court Crandall. “It’s no longer about access in the entertainment industry,” notes Crandall. “It’s about ideas. Where you once needed an agent, studio and big name actor to get your film screened at the festival, now all you need is a brilliant premise and a phone in your pocket. That’s pretty damn exciting.”

Other judges are rockstar members of Maroon 5, author/Creative Director Jimmy Siegel, BBDO’s Regina Ebel, Cutwater’s Chuck McBride, BAFTA Chief Executive Christina Thomas, Oscar-nominated more

AJA Video Systems announced that production company American Zoetrope used the AJA Hi5-3D Mini-Converter to enable convenient, cost-effective post-production reviews of stereo 3D sequences for Twixt, the 2011 thriller from Director Francis Ford Coppola that premiered at the Toronto Film Festival earlier this month.

Twixt, staring Val Kilmer and Elle Fanning, is a 2D feature that includes six minutes of stereo 3D in various sequences throughout the film. During post-production American Zoetrope had a SIM2 projector for screenings and needed a solution to feed it the proper signal for playback of stereo 3D material. “We had heard about AJA’s Hi5-3D and it looked like exactly what we needed,” said Post Production Supervisor James Mockoski.

AJA’s Hi5-3D Mini-Converter automatically combines left and right-eye SDI inputs into stereo 3D output that can be quickly and easily viewed on a 3D monitor more

New York, NY: Wild(child) Editorial has signed alumnus Nick Tomnay for commercial representation in the US. The Aussie native, who did a four-year stint at the NY-based spot house, reconnects with Wild(child) after moving to LA in 20010 to direct and edit his debut feature film, ‘The Perfect Host,’ starring David Hyde Pierce. Tomnay, who also wrote the script for the film, recently returned to New York to cut a spot for Wild(child), rekindling his love of the city and passion for the commercial genre.

Yvette Pineyro, owner of Wild(child) Editorial, a 100% minority woman-owned company, helms her Flatiron-based boutique’s team of in-house editors, as well as the select roster of international talent that it represents in the US commercial market. She first signed Nick to her staff of spot editors in 2005, soon after he moved to New York from Sidney. In 2008 Tomnay began editing more

The Tucson Film & Music Festival (TFMF) is excited to unveil the anchor films for the seventh annual event running from Oct. 6-10, 2011. Topping the line up are three documentaries that expose real-life narratives that prove that truth is often stranger than fiction.

The Opening Night film is the Arizona Premiere of the critically acclaimed documentary film Better Than Something: Jay Reatard, about the controversial and prolific rock musician Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, better known as Jay Reatard. This intimate portrait, captured just months before his untimely passing, brings us incredibly close to Jay’s complicated punk-rock world in Memphis, Tennessee.

Bloodied but Unbowed, a chronicle of the late 70s/early 80s Vancouver punk rock scene, is the Special Presentation Centerpiece film for TFMF. The documentary tells a tale of rebellion and music in a fiercely independent scene created from more

NEW YORK – September 13, 2011: At the premier of blockbuster movie “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2” — which took place at New York’s Lincoln Center Plaza on July 11th — K-array’s Redline series of loudspeakers were on hand to ensure that VIPs, international media and invited guests could hear things loud and clear. The event, which required intelligible audio in three distinct areas including the red carpet area, the tented VIP area and all along the Plaza and Broadway, employed the entire family of Sennheiser-distributed K-array Redline series loudspeakers, including the KR100S, KR200S and KR400S.

Lou Mannarino, veteran audio engineer, sound designer and president of NY-based L&M Sound and Light, knew that K-array was the only loudspeaker that could fit the bill given the unique challenges that the outdoor event presented: achieving outstanding audio quality at more

Keith Driver has a word for anyone who thinks 3D filmmaking is a passing fad. “Joe Six-Pack, living in his double-wide, can go down to Wal-Mart, buy a 3D TV, put it up, and watch NASCAR. Game over, it’s done. Anybody who doesn’t realize that just has a bias against the technology.

It’s available to the masses – ‘Hey, why not in 3D?’ We have a Vizio TV here” – “here” being the Mission Valley offices of 3D Film Factory, where Driver serves as lead stereographer – “that we picked up at Wal-Mart for something like $650. There’s nothing tricky about it. You can select either 2D or 3D just by pushing a button on your remote. And while you used to have to have active 3D glasses that cost $80-$150, this TV works with the same glasses you get in the movie theater. There are buttons for more

Small Post-Production Facilities Now Able to Build Powerful, Low-Cost Shared Media Workflows

Bright Technologies, Inc., developer of advanced technology for shared media, is using IBC 2011 [booth #7.A10] to announce the availability of its new BrightDrive Astella media file server for post-production workflows using FalconStor’s HyperFS file system. The development widens Bright’s market and enables more post facilities to benefit from cost-effective shared storage.

BrightDrive Astella is an all-in-one-box media file server that enables small facilities or dedicated departments from larger companies to embrace the full functionality of Bright’s field proven file server technology at an affordable price point. By making it available for HyperFS, Bright is enabling customers to share content through Fibre Channel or Ethernet. In addition, because HyperFS has a single licensing scheme for Windows, Linux and Macintosh, BrightDrive Astella customers can benefit from increased cost efficiencies.

“We are always looking at ways to more