Ang Lee to Receive IBC’s Highest Accolade
Director Ang Lee will receive the IBC2016 International Honor for Excellence, the highest award IBC bestows.
Director Ang Lee will receive the IBC2016 International Honor for Excellence, the highest award IBC bestows.
Roundabout Entertainment recently collaborated with Paramount Pictures and Park Circus on a luminous, 4K-restoration of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 classic Romeo and Juliet. The restored film is currently enjoying a new theatrical run as part of Shakespeare Lives, a worldwide program of special events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the Bard’s death. The project was made possible through funding from the British Council and the British Film Institute.
LipSync Post will see four of its post-production projects premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, building on the success of two film projects featured at the festival in 2015. LipSync Post provided full post-production and equity investment services for The Limehouse Golem, City of Tiny Lights, The Journey and Trespass Against Us.
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced that Ang Lee's highly anticipated Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk as a special world premiere presentation of the 54th New York Film Festival, October 14, at AMC Lincoln Square.
Mixing Light has teamed up with Gaiamount, the leader in China’s growing video, television and film production resources market, to offer a variety of Mixing Light courses to Chinese media professionals, both online and during Beijing's BIRTV 2016 trade show.
Downtown Film Festival Los Angeles announced today its first slate of more than 100 films included in the 2016 line-up. The festival is being held September 21-28 at Regal Cinemas L.A. Live. Advance ticket sales will begin next week.
The Arc/k Project, a new nonprofit focused on digital preservation, has developed a unique plan for creating three-dimensional records of the world’s most endangered cultural assets while providing Hollywood filmmakers with a new and better way to incorporate exotic locations and artifacts into their productions. Employing the latest photogrammetric imaging technology, the Arc/k Project is constructing precise 3D models of landmarks and historically valuable objects, many of which are under imminent threat from terrorist activity, global warming, environmental degradation and other factors.
Motion Picture Sound Editors and Cinema Audio Society are event sponsors for the third annual Mix Presents Sound for Film, an all-day exhibition and conference spotlighting technologies and techniques behind sound for picture from production to playback. The event will be held September 17th at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City.
When FuseMedia of Aspen, Colorado was founded a decade ago, it was among the first companies dedicated to the production of online video. According to production director Chris Macdonald, FuseMedia has been committed to creating "engaging, brand-specific, and emotionally packed" high definition video as a marketing tool for business across the Rocky Mountain West. Now the company has moved into 4K production.
Roundabout Entertainment has appointed post-production veteran Carl Moore as senior producer for feature film services. Moore, who has helped guide more than 50 films through finishing, will work with clients in planning for post, and will manage projects through final editorial, color grading and delivery. Moore formerly served as a digital intermediate producer at Modern VideoFilm, where his credits included The Young Messiah, Self/less and Veronica Mars.