Deluxe Entertainment Services Group (Deluxe) announced that Skip Kimball has joined color grading and post house EFILM as sr. colorist. Kimball brings to the company more than 30 years of experience spanning features, television, music videos, and commercials. He recently finished work on seasons 1 and 2 of the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things on Netflix for executive producer Shawn Levy, and is currently on Deadpool 2 for Twentieth Century Fox and director David Leitch. Other recent feature credits for Kimball include Downsizing and Nebraska for Alexander Payne; Logan for Twentieth Century Fox and James Mangold; and the Terminator 2 re-master for James Cameron and Lightstorm.
William Sherak, president of Deluxe Post Production, described Kimball as “an immensely talented artist that top directors, DP’s and producers have come to rely on for his expertise in making their projects look amazing. He’s a perfect fit for our client-first culture.”
Kimball credits Sherak with drawing him to EFILM. The two previously worked together on the re-issue of Titanic in 3D, which Stereo D converted for James Cameron. “William shared his vision for the Deluxe post operations which have worked on some of the top films and shows in the world, and it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”
Kimball joins EFILM from Technicolor, where he spent nearly six years as sr. colorist. His previous experience also includes over 15 years at Modern VideoFilm where he worked on dozens of projects including Gone Baby Gone, Tropic Thunder, and James Cameron’s 3D epic Avatar; and Anderson Video where he began his career and first learned his craft on 35mm film.
Kimball joins a deep bench of colorists at EFILM that includes Natasha Leonnet, Mitch Paulson, Tom Reiser, Jason Hanel, Kevin O’Connor, Steve Delman, Adrian DeLude, Ben Estrada, and Matt Wallach.
DOC NYC Unveils Main Slate Lineup: 31 World Premieres; 24 Films Making Their U.S. Debut
DOC NYC--the documentary festival celebrating its 15th anniversary in-person November 13-21 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Village East by Angelika, and continuing online through December 1--has unveiled its main slate lineup. The 2024 festival presents more than 110 feature-length documentaries (including yet-to-be-announced Short List and Winner’s Circle titles) among over 200 films and dozens of events, with filmmakers expected in person at most screenings.
Opening the festival on Nov. 13 at SVA Theater will be the U.S. premiere of Sinead O’Shea’s inspiring portrait Blue Road--The Edna O’Brien Story, a breakout hit from the recent Toronto International Film Festival that honors the legendary Irish writer, who passed away just a few months ago at the age of 93.
Closing the festival on Nov. 21, also at SVA Theatre, will be the world premiere of Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn’s Drop Dead City--New York on the Brink in 1975, a look back at the circumstances and players involved in NYC’s mid-70s financial crisis. The festival’s Centerpiece screening on Nov. 14 at Village East is the World premiere of Ondi Timoner’s All God’s Children (also part of the festival’s U.S. Competition), a chronicle of a Brooklyn rabbi and Baptist pastor who join forces to create greater unity between their two communities, against all odds.
Included are 31 world premieres and 24 U.S. premieres, with eight of those presented in the U.S. Competition, for new American-produced nonfiction films, and another eight featured in International Competition, for work from around the globe. The Kaleidoscope Competition for new essayistic and formally adventurous documentaries continues, while the festival’s long-standing Metropolis... Read More