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Disney Kin Coopts Digital Camera's 4K Image Quality and Workflow Ease for
Rig Milestone
LAS VEGAS, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based writer-director
Joshua Weigel joins believers Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh in the
RED ONE Digital Camera merit book this week with his Best Film award over
the weekend for the futuristic "Stained," featuring distant-cousin-of-Walt
Melissa Disney, at the 6th annual 168 Film Festival (Apr. 11-12) timed film
producing event at the Alex Theater in Glendale, Calif.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080415/CLTU043 )
Oscar-winning directors Jackson and Soderbergh were the first
established filmmakers to embrace RED founder Jim Jannard's revolutionary
4K-capture HD camera, employing it on the New Zealander's 15-min. WWI
showcase "Crossing the Line" and the DP-director's upcoming Che Guevara
biopics "The Argentine" and "Guerilla." And now, with Red Digital Cinema's
highly anticipated return to the National Association of Broadcasters Show
floor (Apr. 14-17) in Las Vegas, Weigel's film about a resolute inmate
(2008 "Face of the NAB" cover girl Jenn Gotzon in a 168 Best Actress
performance) in a merciless society that segregates its undesirables has
emerged as the first production shot exclusively on the RED ever to win a
film festival.
"It's great of course that big budget movies with known directors are
being shot with RED, but it's equally important that the next generation of
up and coming superstars in the business are making RED their camera of
choice," said RED Digital Cinema's leader of the revolution Ted Schilowitz.
"We congratulate Joshua and his team on their win and can't wait to see
what he shoots next in 4K with RED."
Produced by Weigel, Aaron Moore and Jeff Bartsch and lensed by Brandon
Lippard in 168 Film Project's signature seven-day -- i.e., 168-hour -- race
to shoot, edit and score a short film created around Scriptures drawn from
a hat, "Stained" was one of the first entrants to wrap on time, according
to 168 founder and director John Ware.
"After seeing the finished product with its painterly touches and
extensive coverage, you wonder how it ever got completed by deadline," Ware
said of the 11-min., seven-award winner based on Gal. 3:28's declaration of
overcoming mankind's divisions. "But RED offers as many advantages in post
as it does in production."
Weigel, whose 1920s period piece "Snare" earned Disney a Best Actress
nod at last year's 168, migrated to RED this year "to create the best
possible image and get as close to film as possible. And the RED let us
explore something different. Plus, RED technicians Pete Brown and Chris
Armstrong were always a cell phone call away. My DP and I left the rest to
our editor Chris Witt, who was well prepped in advance and had no
problems."
168 jury member and executive producer Mark Clayman ("The Pursuit of
Happyness") likened "Stained" to "Blade Runner," with its dark,
RED-captured imagery that "definitely complemented the story."
For more information, visit http://www.168project.com or http://www.red.com.
CONTACT: Scotty Dugan, Dugan & Story PR, scotty@duganstory.com
John Ware, 168 Film Project, 818-557-8507, john@168project.com
Red Digital Cinema, 949-206-7900
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