Tag Archives: Filmmaking

$100,000 in Cash and Prizes at Stake for the Best Mobile Films     Seattle, WA (July 23, 2019)  –  FiLMiC Inc. (www.filmicpro.com) today announced that its annual Mobile Film Festival, #FiLMiCFest 2019 is open and accepting submissions. For this year’s Festival, FiLMiC Inc. has significantly upped the stakes, with over 30 sponsors, $75,000 in filmmaking gear prizes, and $25,000 cash ...

The Newport Beach Film Festival (NBFF), in partnership with Garage Team Mazda and REVERSE, recently announced the release of its official 2019 marquee trailer Play: The Power of Ideas. The promotional film features a young boy who is caught in the crossfire of his parents’ bitter divorce. In an effort to escape, he retreats into the comfort of his imagination. ...

Fremont, CA – January 29, 2019 – Blackmagic Design today announced that more than 35 films, episodic series and projects at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival were shot and completed using Blackmagic Design products. Blackmagic Design congratulates the many projects selected for Sundance that were created with its digital film cameras, Fusion Studio visual effects (VFX) and motion graphics software, DaVinci Resolve ...

  FiLMiC Pro LOG V2 Delivers Over 12 Stops of Dynamic Range for Newest iPhone X Models, Rivaling the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Partners with Luma Touch and VideoLUT to Integrate New LUT Packs   FiLMiC Inc. (www.filmicpro.com) announced today a significant leap forward for mobile filmmakers with the launch of LOG V2 for FiLMiC Pro. As the lines between ...

Fremont, Ca – October 11, 2018 – Blackmagic Design’s today announced that DaVinci Resolve was used to color grade the film ‘Benjamin’s Last Day at Katong Swimming Complex’. The film, finished in HDR, recently won the George Lucas Award at Japan’s most prestigious short film competition. The film, a visual ode to a simpler past, beat out 10,000 other submissions from 130 countries and territories to ...

Luma Touch Completes Storyblocks Integration; Provides LumaFusion Editors Direct Access to Over 14 Million Creative Media Assets   Sandy, UT (September 13, 2018) – Luma Touch (www.lumatouch.com) will be at IBC 2018 in Amsterdam next week with new versions of its industry-popular iOS editing app, LumaFusion. Created by video effects and editing industry veterans, LumaFusion was designed specifically for mobile ...

New partnership with TurboSquid offers endless creative options for production companies, creative agencies, and content creators completing projects on ever-tightening budgets New York City, NY – August 1, 2018 – Global content marketplace Pond5 has teamed up with TurboSquid, the world’s largest 3D marketplace, to offer more than 100,000 3D models to Pond5 customers — over 60,000 3D models are ...

Fremont, CA – May 17, 2018 – Blackmagic Design today announced that Academy Award-winning DP Claudio Miranda, ASC, (“Life of Pi”) uses DaVinci Resolve Studio and the DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel for editing and color grading as part of his work as a cinematographer, as well as on his personal projects. Known for his feature film work (“Tomorrowland,” “Oblivion,” “The Curious Case of Benjamin ...

Fremont, CA – May 15, 2018 – Blackmagic Design today announced that Los Angeles-based visual effects (VFX) house Trick Digital used its VFX and motion graphics software, Fusion Studio, on the film “The Last Movie Star.” Starring Burt Reynolds, “The Last Movie Star” follows an aging, former movie star as he faces the reality that his glory days are behind him. Also ...

Fremont, CA – May 10, 2018 – Blackmagic Design today announced that the thriller “My Daughter Was Stolen” used a variety of its gear throughout production and post, including URSA Mini Pro, URSA Mini 4.6K and Pocket Cinema Camera digital film cameras, DaVinci Resolve 14 Studio for color grading, editing and sound design and Fusion 9 Studio for visual effects (VFX). “We did ...

Boston-based sales and rental house, Talamas has added to its lens inventory with the purchase of a FUJINON Cabrio 25-300mm cine lens. Talamas believes its new zoom will see considerable use in both broadcast (cooking shows, concerts and other live multi-cam scenarios) as well as cine applications (commercials, indie-films, and television productions). The rental house started carrying the PL mount ...

Broadcast Pix™ today announced Magnolia Pictures’ The Square, which received a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nomination along with several other industry awards, used the ioGates cloud-based media management service to share dailies securely for production and editing approvals. “ioGates made everyone on and off set get access to the material on several platforms, and it worked very well without ...

Fremont, CA – February 5, 2018 – Blackmagic Design today announced that writer and director Hasraf ‘HaZ’ Dulull, has completed his first feature-length film, ‘The Beyond’, which was edited and graded in DaVinci Resolve 14. Furthermore, the sci-fi documentary film was shot exclusively with digital film cameras from Blackmagic Design, including the URSA Mini 4.6K and URSA Mini Pro. HaZ has drawn ...

Red Giant today announced that it will be co-sponsoring a music video contest from the band, They Might Be Giants. The contest calls on content creators everywhere to create a unique music video for the lead track, “I Left My Body” of the band’s latest album I Like Fun.  Contestants are encouraged to create unique and visually interesting projects that are ...

Portland, OR – November 8, 2017 – Red Giant has just announced the arrival of Universe 2.2, putting 11 new transition tools – 76 transitions and effects in total – into the hands of editors and motion graphics artists. In addition to brand new transitions, Red Giant has made updates to two existing plugins and added support for Avid Media Composer. The Universe ...

Portland, OR – November 8, 2017 – Red Giant today released “Hewlogram,” the newest Red Giant film starring David Hewlett, best known for his role as Dr. Rodney McKay in “Stargate: Atlantis.” The new film comes out alongside the release of Red Giant Universe 2.2, the latest update to Red Giant’s ever-expanding collection of GPU-accelerated plugins for editors and motion ...