The film industry’s finest were honoured at the 93rd Academy Awards, a smaller than usual – but no less entertaining and celebratory – COVID-safe event at Los Angeles’ Union Station. Erik Messerschmidt ASC won the cinematography award for his magnificent lensing of Mank, his first Oscar win. Nominees in the category were Sean Bobbitt BSC … Read more
CUT ADRIFT Adam Suschitzky BSC and director Samuel de Ceccatty discuss filming a dramatic short in one shot with one lens on an impossibly complicated location. Tasked by Fujifilm with showcasing the capabilities of Fujinon’s new Premista 19-45mm T2.9 zoom, Adam Suschitzky BSC and director Samuel de Ceccatty went overboard in creating a dramatically teasing, technically ambitious short filmed in … Read more
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and the BFI have announced the launch of the UK Global Screen Fund, a one-year pilot fund designed to boost international development and distribution opportunities for the UK’s independent screen sector. The new £7 million fund will target support across the screen sector including film, TV, … Read more
Karol Cybulski has been promoted from junior colourist to colourist at the acclaimed studio, CHEAT, with a growing portfolio of grading high profile commercials as well as long-form narrative. Originally from Leicester, Karol moved to Berlin for her post-grad in colour grading and Science at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (DFFB) before joining CHEAT in … Read more
Top honours were handed out at the 36th Film Independent Spirit Awards ceremony to Nomadland, Sound of Metal, Promising Young Woman, Unorthodox and I May Destroy You. Crip Camp, Minari, Palm Springs, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Residue and Immigration Nation also received awards at the ceremony. British cinematographer Joshua James Richards, won the cinematography award for his lensing of Nomadland. The virtual ceremony was hosted … Read more
Sony has announced a series of new upgrades and innovations across the full range of its professional media products and solutions aligned with leading industry trends focused on IP, Cloud and Imaging. The market transformation is fuelled by the need to produce high quality content, from any location, through scalable and efficient workflows. Kajita Hiroshi, head of … Read more
Zeiss has added four new lenses to the Zeiss Supreme Prime Radiance family launched in 2019. The 18 and 135 millimetre focal lengths add telephoto and wide-angle specialties to the seven focal lengths available to date. The new 40 and 65 millimetre lenses enhance the standard range, meaning that the Zeiss Supreme Prime Radiance family, … Read more
Litepanels, a global provider of professional broadcast and cinematic lighting solutions and a Vitec Group brand, has announced the launch of the latest addition to its Gemini RGBWW LED panel range. Litepanels’ Gemini 1×1 Hard RGBWW LED Panel delivers an incredibly bright output of over 3000 lux @10ft/3m to produce one of the brightest and most accurate 1×1 panels. Like all LED panels in the Gemini range, … Read more
Technology platform disguise has announced that it is receiving research and development funding from Innovate UK to expand its work in virtual production. Innovate UK is part of the United Kingdom Research and Innovation organisation whose purpose is to accelerate UK economic growth by stimulating and supporting business-led innovation. It invests in the best game-changing … Read more
One of New York’s latest creative talent collaboration start-ups, Hotspring, has launched a global platform to service the increasing demand for remote VFX talent and to improve on the existing high-cost business model. Set to change what creative businesses are capable of achieving, Hotspring’s innovative approach makes it easier for creative studios to discover and work with global … Read more
IMAGO has announced that the IMAGO Education Committee Board has chosen Philippe Cordey SCS BVK as its next IEC Chairman. Cordey has gathered extensive cinematography experience during the last 35+ years shooting feature films, doc films and commercials. He has strong experience in associative work: former President of the Swiss Film Technicians Association (1989-1992), SCS … Read more
New Mo-Sys cinematic XR focus enables cinematographers to seamlessly pull focus between real and virtual worlds. Mo-Sys engineering has solved a major creative limitation when using an LED volume for virtual production. Cinematographers who needed to pull focus between real foreground objects – such as actors – and virtual objects displayed on an LED wall – … Read more
With a career spanning over six decades, pioneering director, writer and animator Terry Gilliam, known for his visionary body of work including Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Brazil, gave a masterclass with a difference to NFTS students to celebrate his highly acclaimed career and mark his recent milestone 80th birthday. In true Terry … Read more
Installed for China’s Consumer Rights Day Gala, a giant, 1000 square meter LED wall impressed viewers with incredible graphics, all powered by Pixotope. Broadcast live, the two-hour slot was dedicated to informing consumers of consumer habits and business practices from major brands. Great Wheel, a production company working within CCTV, designed and implemented the live graphics … Read more
Channel 4’s Lucy, the Human Chimp documentary aired in April with a mix of archive footage and newly filmed ‘jungle’ reconstructions, with the latter made possible by Bristol-based virtual production studio VERO. The film, which tells the real-life story of chimp Lucy’s return to the wild after being raised in human surroundings, required cutting-edge technology to … Read more
The BFI has announced Mia Bays as the new Director of BFI Film Fund for an initial three-year term. In this role Bays will lead the strategic and cultural direction of the BFI’s investment of National Lottery funds into supporting UK feature film production – which at approximately £30m a year represents the largest public … Read more
Cooke Optics has announced the appointment of Andy Buckland to the newly created role of director of product management. Reporting directly to Tim Pugh, CEO, Buckland’s new role includes responsibility for developing Cooke’s product roadmap, including launching forums to enable the design and development team to engage more effectively with our diverse range of customers and users. Buckland brings extensive experience from … Read more
dedolight will present their 3rd International Streaming Session on Monday 26 April 2021. This latest LiveStream will focus on reflected light and how this works with the dedolight Lighstream system. Dedo Weigert will be contributing pieces with other participants fromdedolight California, Dedotec Russia and the dedolight partner team in Düsseldorf, Germany. This is an interactive … Read more
Several years ago, IMAGO published a model contract for cinematographers with comments and a checklist or guidelines for working conditions. IMAGO’s proposal admitted expressly that it was not a standard contract, which could function in all countries, but IMAGO understood the former document as a “check-list” for member associations and an attempt to professionalise on … Read more
Light Iron senior colourist Nick Hasson has offered insight on his work for Netflix’s Yes Day. Directed by Miguel Arteta and shot by Terry Stacey ASC, the Netflix original feature Yes Day tells the story of a family of five — parents Allison and Carlos Torres (Jennifer Garner and Edgar Ramírez, respectively), and their kids Katie … Read more
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