LOS ANGELES — The Visual Effects Society (VES) has announced its newly-elected board of directors. Jeffrey A. Okun, VFX supervisor, was re-elected for a third one-year term as board chairman.
January 31, 2011
NEW YORK — Earlier today, CNN reported that film composer John Barry died. Barry won Academy Awards for his work on Dances with Wolves (1990), Out of Africa (1985), The Lion in Winter (1968) and Born ...
MONTREAL — Matrox Video Products Group will be holding two live Webinars demonstrating its new Convert DVI Plus product, which takes computer-based content and converts it to broadcast-quality video. ...
January 28, 2011
VANCOUVER, BC — Visual effects company Zoic Studios (www.zoicstudios.com) has expanded to a bigger loft space in Gastown. The new space is located on the sixth floor at 375 Water Street and can accomm ...
NEW YORK — Independent film Restrepo, which recently won the “Grand Jury Documentary Prize” at the Sundance Film Festival, was finished at Goldcrest Post Productions using two Quantel Pablo systems co ...
CORAL GABLES, FL — Upstairs (www.upstairsefx.com) kicked off 2011 with deals that bring the talents of four editors to its team.
January 27, 2011
SECAUCUS, NJ — In one of its first post-acquisition meetings with the press, Grass Valley hosted an event at MLB Network, here, to not only talk about how their products are used in the workflow of th ...
January 26, 2011
BEVERLY HILLS — Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced this morning by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( www.oscar.com ) president Tom Sherak and 2009 Oscar winner Mo'Nique ...
January 25, 2011
SAN DIEGO — Sorenson Media ( www.sorensonmedia.com ) has released Squeeze 7, an upgrade to the company’s video encoding application. The new release is designed to save users time while boosting perfo ...
HOLLYWOOD — Nominees for the annual Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel were recently announced. Winners in various categories of “feature films,” “television” and “other” will be presented with ...
January 24, 2011