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Partners and Creative Directors Adam Gault and Ted Kotsaftis of NYC-based creative studio BLOCK & TACKLE are pleased to announce several key appointments to their growing team. The new additions include Producer Dorian Carli-Jones, Designer/Animators Mike Russo and Alex Winakor, and Intern...
Red Giant today announced VFX Suite, an all-new suite of keying, tracking, cleanup and visual effects compositing tools, all right inside Adobe® After Effects®, part of Adobe Creative Cloud®....
Production company and content creation studio HOSTAGE FILMS has signed Doug Sherin and Kim Griswold of OPTiONS to represent HOSTAGE FILMS on the West Coast. HOSTAGE FILMS is the director-driven production company of internationally acclaimed, award-winning talent Ruben Latre and founder/EP...
The principals of London-based creative technology company Splash Worldwide strongly believe that creativity is business critical. Across the global marketing industry where obsession with awards programs is fairly universal, the minds at marketing news publication The Drum wisely launched The...
Since 2013, Los Angeles-based BEMO has earned a reputation as a talent-rich creative studio known for artistic ingenuity and technical problem solving for design-driven animation, visual effects and immersive projects. Maxon...
The Television Academy announced today that Ken Jeong and D’Arcy Carden will present the nominations for the 71st Emmy® Awards from the Wolf Theatre at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center on Tuesday, July 16, at 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m. ET.
Television Academy Chairman and CEO Frank...
The SIGGRAPH 2019 Production Sessions program reveals lineup of behind-the-scenes looks at the “making of” the year’s biggest productions in film, streaming, cable, games, and VR...
Chicago-based Periscope Post & Audio has expanded to the West Coast, opening a 22,000 square foot sound and picture finishing facility in Hollywood. The new site, located at 6860 Lexington Avenue near Highland, will offer a full range of post services including dailies, editorial, color...
Adelaide native Chris La grew up enamored with movie magic. As a young man in 2016, he took a step toward turning his infatuation into a lifetime career by enrolling in Rising Sun Pictures’ Graduate Certificate Program in Compositing and Tracking. Conducted on the premises of the award-winning...
Sound production for Columbia Pictures’ new action adventure Men in Black: International ™ was completed by Sony Pictures Post Production Services on the studio lot in Culver City. Three-time Academy Award®-winning sound designer/supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer Paul N. J....
The One Club for Creativity announced the latest group of Portfolio Night All-Stars, the top young creative as selected by industry professionals from each of the cities around the world that participated in its recent global...
To move beyond stereotypes, one must appreciate the realities within them. It also helps to have a sense of humor. With his new short, F the Plus: Stories of Failed Asian Excellence, writer/filmmaker Warren Lam executes a tricky move: taking on Asian stereotypes, while making the story...
Photographer/Director Dick Patrick was awarded the Golden Egg Award at the 51st Anniversary DSVC 2019 The Dallas Show held Saturday, June 8, 2019 at the South Side Ballroom.
The Dallas Show is the leading juried competition + awards show for professionals in the Southwest. DSVC...
People really, really love Cafe Rio. But for fans of the Mexican fast-casual favorite, that love tends to manifest in some unusual ways. Still, Cafe Rio wanted to show some appreciation to their community, so they enlisted a few fans (and their tweets) to help demonstrate how intense (and...
The Hollywood Section of SMPTE®, the organization defining the future of storytelling, will explore the advent of fully immersive virtual reality at its monthly meeting, Wednesday, June 19, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles.
Star Trek ...
Sound production for Her Smell¸ writer/director Alex Ross Perry’s new film about a self-destructive punk rocker named Becky Something (Elisabeth Moss), was completed at Goldcrest Post in New York. Ryan M. Price served as supervising sound editor, sound designer and re-recording mixer on...
Lola Lott, charlieuniformtango principal/CEO, announced the completion of an impressive list of work and strategic creative...
“The Invisible Man and The Blind Girl” is an award-winning short narrative film that follows a lonely man, William, who has become invisible to everyone but a blind girl. When he discovers that he can help her regain her eyesight, it comes at a cost that threatens their newfound friendship—but...
“The Sympathy Card” (Broken Gates Film / There You Are Productions) is a feature-length LGBTQ+ genre film that unravels an unconventional comic lesbian love triangle where three women navigate same sex marriage, cancer and deathbed ordered hall passes. Written, directed and edited by...
Vagabond Partner/Executive Producer Gabriel Carratu ventures to Spain from his long-term base in Latin America to spearhead the opening of a new office in Barcelona and further expand the company’s reach in Europe. Carratu and Vagabond Founder/Managing Director Lorenzo Benedick have wrapped up a...