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Home » Goldcrest Post Helps Send Six Films to Sundance

Goldcrest Post Helps Send Six Films to Sundance

NEW YORK CITY—January 7, 2021— Continuing its long-time support for independent film, Goldcrest Post provided post-production, sound, and/or picture services for ten films screening in this year’s Sundance Film Festival. They include four films taking part in the U.S. Dramatic Competition, and one each including in the NEXT and Shorts tracks. All are world premieres. The festival will be held via a new proprietary streaming platform from Jan. 28 to Feb. 3.

Steve Iwamoto and Constance Wu appear in I Was a Simple Man by Christopher Makoto Yogi, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Eunsoo Cho. All photos are copyrighted.

 I Was a Simple Man (U.S. Dramatic Competition, World Premiere). Director and Screenwriter Christopher Makoto Yogi’s story of a Hawaiian family facing the death of their eldest, while haunted by ghosts of their past.

Goldcrest Post provided color grading and finishing services; Nat Jencks, Colorist; Wade Rudolph, Producer.

Grace Van Patten appears in Mayday by Karen Cinorre, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Tjaša Kalkan.

Mayday (U.S. Dramatic Competition, World Premiere). Director and Screenwriter Karen Cinorre’s exhilarating tale of a woman who is transported to a dreamlike and dangerous land where she joins a team of female soldiers engaged in a never-ending war.

Goldcrest Post provided color grading and finishing services; Marcy Robinson, Colorist; Wade Rudolph, Producer.

Chris Abbott and Jerrod Carmichael appear in On the Count of Three by Jerrod Carmichael, an official selection of the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Marshall Adams.

On the Count of Three (U.S. Dramatic Competition, World Premiere). Director Jerrod Carmichael’s story of two best friends with a pact to end their lives when the day is done. 

Goldcrest Post provided ADR, editorial conforming, and deliverables; Kris Chevannes, ADR Mixer; Ethan Leight, Producer.

A still from Cryptozoo by Dash Shaw, an official selection of the NEXT section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute.

Cryptozoo (NEXT, World Premiere). Director and Screenwriter Dash Shaw’s fanciful story of “crypto-zookeepers” struggling to capture a legendary dream-eating hybrid creature called a Baku.

Goldcrest Post provided sound editorial, ADR, and mixing services; Ryan M. Price, Re-Recording Mixer/Sound Designer/Supervising Sound Editor; Kris Chevannes, ADR Mixer Nicole Tessier, Producer.

My Name Is Pauli Murray (Premieres, World Premiere) Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen’s documentary feature about Pauli Murray, a legal trailblazer whose ideas influenced RBG’s fight for gender equality and Thurgood Marshall’s landmark civil rights arguments.

Goldcrest Post provided color grading, picture finishing, sound editorial, and sound mixing services; Ken Sirulnick, Colorist; Mary Ellen Porto, Supervising Sound Editor; Ryan M. Price, Re-Recording Mixer; Ethan Leight, Producer.

White Wedding (Shorts, World Premiere). Director Melody C. Roscher’s story of a tense Southern wedding where a biracial bride confronts her estranged black father after accidentally hiring his band to perform.

Goldcrest Post provided color grading and finishing services; Marcy Robinson, Colorist; Ethan Leight, Producer.

About Goldcrest Post

Goldcrest Post is a leading, independent post-production facility, providing one-stop creative solutions for feature films, episodic television, documentaries, and other projects. Conveniently located in New York City’s West Village, the company provides editorial offices, on-set dailies, picture finishing, sound editorial, ADR and mixing, and related services. Recent credits include The Queen’s Gambit, P-Valley, 40-Year-Old Version, Godfather of Harlem, Baby God, The Expecting, What Breaks the Ice and She Dies Tomorrow.

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About Dan Ochiva

New York City-based journalist and NYCPPNEWS founder Dan Ochiva writes and consults on film, video, and digital media technology.

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Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

NJ – Governor Murphy signs $14B Incentive Program Bill – the NJ Economic Recovery Act of 2020

 Film tax credits — amending existing programs to include provisions for so-called New Jersey film partners and New Jersey film-lease partners and allowing an additional $200 million of tax credits annually over 13 years.

Click this link if you want to read the full article on the Lexology site. http://bit.ly/35NtDx6

Film Commish announces date for production restart

In her December 18, 2020 news update, MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo announced that the Film Office is now accepting permit applications for production activity that begins on July 27th.

She also announced awards now (Awkwafina) and more. To read all of the Film Commish’s bloggy sort of news column, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Nikon to Stop Making Cameras in Japan

Nikon has fallen on hard times as of late as its camera sales have cratered, and now there’s a new indicator of how dire its financial situation is: the company is reportedly pulling the plug on making cameras in Japan after over 70 years of doing so.

To read the full article on Petapixel’s site, click here.

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

 

 

 

Union Health Plan Dodges Film Workers’ Suit Over Virus Relief

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Russo Brothers Received Close to $50 Million From Saudi Bank

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.

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