Over the past decade, actress Greta Gerwig has appeared in some 40 movies, cementing her growing reputation as one of Hollywood’s brightest and most engaging new stars. Her acclaimed performances incl ...
January 19, 2018
Editor Kevin Tent has a long-standing relationship with director Alexander Payne. The two collaborated on the features Sideways, Nebraska and The Descendants, so it comes as no surprise that Tent woul ...
January 17, 2018
At big studios, an internal pipeline team and proprietary project management tools are usually a given. However, for smaller shops building everything from scratch isn’t always realistic. When I joine ...
February 22, 2018
Lucas Wilson is the founder and executive producer of LA-based Supersphere (superspherevr.com). The company has been producing VR and AR experiences for almost three years. Here, he looks at how advan ...
January 31, 2018
NEW YORK CITY — Audio post studio HOBO (www.hoboaudio.com) recently teamed up with mixer Tom Paul of Gigantic Studios on a new documentary for Netflix. Voyeur tells the story of a motel owner with an ...
January 25, 2018
Damon Cardasis is the director of the new independent film, Saturday Church, which was released on January 12th. The feature centers around a 14 year-old-boy, who is struggling with gender identity an ...
January 18, 2018
Dan Coles, senior colorist at Technicolor London, has deep experience in grading both feature films and TV productions. He loves the creativity and challenge of grading and creating a ‘look,’ and make ...
LOS ANGELES — Last year’s television epic, The Young Pope, was a true international effort. The 10-part series, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, was co-financed by Sky Italia, Canal+ and HBO. Production ...
NEW YORK CITY — Spanning 18 hours over 10 parts, The Vietnam War is arguably the most ambitious documentary directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick have undertaken. Burns, Novick, producer Sarah Botstein ...
TORONTO — Guillermo del Toro’s latest film The Shape of Water is set in 1960s America, a time when the US was competing with the Soviet Union to send a man into space. Elisa (played by Sally Hawkins) ...
January 30, 2018
STUDIO CITY, CA — On February 18th, the Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) will present Kathryn Bigelow with its annual Filmmaker Award. The Academy Award-winning director of such films as Detroit, Z ...
February 1, 2018
Eric P. Sherman is the CEO/Founder of Bang Zoom! Studios (www.bangzoomstudios.com) in Burbank, CA. Here, he looks at some of the latest trends in audio post and whether or not technology should trump ...
January 12, 2018
Chris Bond is the Founder of Thinkbox Software (www.thinkboxsoftware.com) and Director of Product Management, Amazon EC2 at AWS. Here, he looks at the power, flexibility and cost savings that cloud re ...
Lenny Mastrandrea is the Senior Colorist/Head of Color at Nice Shoes (http://www.niceshoes.com) in New York City. Nicknamed “The Maestro,” Mastrandrea has a passion for discovering the potential withi ...
January 23, 2018
Marc Petit is the General Manager for Unreal Engine Enterprise, Epic Games (www.unrealengine.com). Here, he looks at the use of game engines as realtime production tools.
Brian Nilles is the Chief Strategy Officer for OptiTrack (http://optitrack.com), a developer of 3D tracking systems. Here, he looks at some of the opportunities location-based VR offers and its potent ...
Kevin Baillie is the CEO of Conductor (www.conductortech.com), a company that encourages the use of cloud-based rendering solutions. Here, he details how studios can benefit from the idea of using the ...
David Sallak is the VP/CTO, M&E for Sunnyvale, CA’s Panasas (panasas.com), the provider of high-performance storage solutions. Here, he looks at how studios might employ cloud storage to make the ...
The past couple of years have been monumental for the growth of virtual reality (VR) as a medium. VR has given rise to new ways of creating and experiencing stories, both visually and aurally, allowin ...
January 15, 2018
TORONTO — Visual effects supervisor Dennis Berardi and the team at Mr. X Inc. recently provided services for Guillermo del Toro’s latest film, The Shape of Water. The feature film tells the story of a ...