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Home » Technicolor – PostWorks New York Services Three Films Screening at Camerimage

Technicolor – PostWorks New York Services Three Films Screening at Camerimage

Technicolor – PostWorks, New York, provided post production services for three films screening this month at Camerimage, the world’s leading international film festival celebrating cinematographers and the craft of cinematography. They include Fading Gigolo¸ whose director, John Turturro, will receive the festival’s Special Award for an Actor-Director, as well as Inside Llewyn Davis and Lee Daniels’ The Butler, which will compete for the festival’s coveted Golden Frog Award in its Main Competition. The 21st Camerimage International Film Festival will be held November 16 – 23 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

Technicolor and Technicolor-PostWorks New York have a long history of support for Camerimage and the films that screen there. In 2010, Technicolor-PostWorks introduced Keanu Reeves to the organizers of the festival, which later served as the backdrop for his documentary on digital cinematography, Side by Side. The documentary debuted at Camerimage last year and the facility is currently re-mastering the project to 35mm film for presentation at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“For many years Technicolor-PostWorks has taken a great interest in helping out Camerimage by connecting us with key filmmakers and pertinent content,” said Camerimage Festival Office Manager Kazik Suwala. “This year the relationship continued through an introduction to John Turturro and his new feature Fading Gigolo. We are grateful for their support.”

For Fading Gigolo, Technicolor – PostWorks provided a range of services, including 35mm film processing, dailies production, editorial finishing and digital intermediate color grading. Final color grading was performed by Senior Colorist Tim Stipan, working under the direction of Turturro and cinematographer Marco Pontecorvo, AIC.

Fading Gigolo was the fourth film directed by Turturro to be finished at Technicolor – PostWorks. The facility provided similar services for his films Mac, Illuminata and Romance & Cigarettes. “Over the years John has taken an increasingly active role in the post production of his films,” observes Charles Herzfeld, Senior Vice President of Feature Sales. “He guides the process.”

Technicolor – Post Works also provided conform and digital intermediate color grading for Lee Daniels’ The Butler. Director Lee Daniels is another longtime client of the facility —TPNY provided similar services for Daniels’ films Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphireand The Paperboy. Both Precious and The Butler were shot by Andrew Dunn, BSC and were graded by Stipan.

Inside Llewyn Davis, shot on 35mm by Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC, is the latest film from directors Joel and Ethan Coen. Technicolor – PostWorks provided an advanced dailies workflow and final color grading under the guidance of Technicolor supervising digital colorist Peter Doyle.

About Technicolor – PostWorks New York
Technicolor – PostWorks New York is the East Coast’s most comprehensive digital motion picture and post-production facility, employing an exceptional team of artists, engineers and project managers to serve our clients through the film and TV finishing process.

Offering data workflows, film processing, telecine/scanning, non-linear editorial and HD picture finishing, digital intermediate and film recording, high-volume encoding and high-speed data transmission, as well as comprehensive film and TV sound services on nine mix stages, Technicolor – PostWorks New York serves as one source for every post production requirement.

For more information, visit www.technicolorpwny.com.

 

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.

U.K. Extends COVID Insurance Scheme; Distributes $21 Million in Cinema Grants

The U.K.’s insurance scheme for film and television has been extended until April.

Known as the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme, the groundbreaking £500 million ($676 million) fund assures productions that they’ll receive financial support in case of COVID-related losses. The program has so far accepted 100 qualifying productions.

To read the full article in Variety, click on this link. 

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.

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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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