Louisiana Production Company Uses High-Tech Lab for Science Fiction Shoot Bullet Films based in Lafayette Louisiana shot scenes for its science fiction film Judgement Day at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise (LITE) facility. The movie scheduled for release in November spent a week at the high-performance computing and visualization facility in part to take advantage of the computing power LITE offers. “The computing power available for film work at LITE would cost a huge amount of money in Los Angeles ” says the film’s director and producer Justin Jones. Bullet’s parent company Active Entertainment’s president Ken Badish says “This facility and its people hold great promise for the film industry. LITE’s assets coupled with the state’s tax incentives combine to make it a very attractive place for the entertainment business. Our production and post-production activities have been helped enormously with the assistance of local film industry officials like Lafayette city-parish president Joey Durel who has provided ongoing meaningful assistance in helping us deliver great film entertainment.” Officials for Active Entertainment its post and CGI company Sweetpost Productions and LITE say they see this endeavor as the beginning of a partnership that will see LITE become more involved in production and design of special effects of other films that shoot in the Lafayette area. Bullet Films production manager Brian Garland says it is a multi-month operation. He expects the production and post-production companies to grow and expand with a consistent lineup of feature film product and television series along with significant growth in the post and CGI company. LITE executive director Carolina Cruz-Neira says the film offers an opportunity to further raise the profile of LITE and what it can offer the film industry. “The film industry is one industry we thought from the very beginning was a natural fit with LITE’s visualization and supercomputing capabilities. We are the only facility of its kind in North America available to film and other private companies offering the technological and computing advantages needed by filmmakers that reduce risk and costs.” LITE chief operating officer Henry Florsheim says he expects to partner with Sweetpost Productions and similar film companies on some of the more technologically challenging aspects of film work such as special effects rendering pre- and post-production set design and other support for Louisiana’s growing film and entertainment economic sector. He says having the movie filmed on site at the facility is the answer to a question he fields all the time. “People are always asking me ‘When it is going to be Lafayette’s turn?’ in regard to the high number of movies made in Louisiana. So when the people at Active Entertainment approached us it was really a no-brainer. Besides it kind of nice to have a movie set in a place local people will recognize.” Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise www.lite3d.com AttachmentSize Sachtler Cine HD 30 Digital Cinema.swf24.59 KB
