September 2019 – Below the Line

FotoKem’s New Site In Santa Monica

September 28, 2019 Staff Comments Off

To further the company’s commitment to filmmakers in the Los Angeles area, FotoKem has expanded its creative post production services. Housed on the second floor of 1661 Lincoln Boulevard, just off the 10 freeway, above FotoKem’s premier mixing and recording studio Margarita Mix, the new facility provides a convenient location on the west side connected to the company’s Burbank and Hollywood sites. FotoKem Santa Monica features a DI color grading […]

ADG Awards 2020: Joe Alves To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

September 27, 2019 Staff Comments Off

Oscar-nominated Production Designer Joe Alves, best known for his work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the three Jaws films, will receive the Art Directors Guild (ADG, IAATSE Local 800) Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual ADG “Excellence in Production Design” Awards. The 2020 ADG Awards will return to the InterContinental Los Angeles Downtown in the Wilshire Grand Ballroom on Saturday, February 1, 2020. This is the first of four […]

Cine Gear Expo Returns To Pinewood Atlanta Studios

September 26, 2019 Staff Comments Off

For the second consecutive year with its hallmark industry leading exhibits, the Cine Gear Expo returns to the Atlanta area. The Renowned Pinewood Atlanta Studios will once again host the exhibition, as well as seminars and events, on October 4-5, 2019. The event brings the South’s filmmakers and content creators face to face with the world’s top technology, rental houses, guilds, associations, and trade publications, while hobnobbing with local colleagues. […]

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Rotolight Sues Vibesta B.V. And F&V Photographic Industry B.V.

September 26, 2019 Staff Comments Off

Rotolight, British LED lighting manufacturer and inventors of the acclaimed NEO range of LED lights, has escalated legal proceedings against Vibesta B.V., part of the F&V Group. Rotolight has now served a writ of summons and seeks an interim injunction for design infringement and slavish imitation of its product. This comes after the court granted a pre-trial seizure against Vibesta B.V. which was served by bailiffs at Vibesta’s premises on September 10th […]

MPSE To Honor Cece Hall With Career Achievement Award

September 26, 2019 Staff Comments Off

The Motion Picture Sound Editors (MPSE) has announced that it will honor Academy Award-winning supervising sound editor Cecelia “Cece” Hall with its 2020 MPSE Career Achievement Award. Hall will receive the Career Achievement Award at the 67th Annual MPSE Golden Reel Awards ceremony, January 19, 2020 in Los Angeles. Hall received an Oscar nomination for sound editing in 1987 for her work on Top Gun and won the Oscar four […]

2019 Primetime Emmy Awards

September 24, 2019 Staff Comments Off

Honoring the best in U.S. prime time television, the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards was held on September 22, 2019 at the Microsoft Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The Awards show was broadcasted live by Fox without a host for the fourth time in its history. Watched by 6.9 million viewers in the United States, it was the lowest-rated Emmy broadcast in history, amounting to a 32 percent drop from […]

Claire Scanlon, Duncan Henderson And Clara Le To Present At The LMGI Awards

September 20, 2019 Staff Comments Off

The 6th Annual Location Managers International (LMGI) Awards, honoring the creative use of filming locations that set the tone, enrich the character and enhance the narrative, will be presented in the following categories: Contemporary Film, Period Film, Contemporary TV, Period TV, Commercials and Film Commissions. Honorary Awards include the Humanitarian, Lifetime Achievement and the Eva Monley Award. Emmy-winning director Claire Scanlon (The Office, Set It Up, The Last Man on Earth), […]

2020 MUAHS Lifetime Achievement Awards Recipients

September 19, 2019 Staff Comments Off

Thomas Burman, Emmy-winning make-up artist, and Martin Samuel, Oscar-nominated film and celebrity hair stylist, will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Annual Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards, (MUAHS, IATSE Local 706) honoring outstanding achievements for make-up artists and hair stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials, and live theater. The black-tie awards gala returns to the NOVO by Microsoft in L.A. Live on Saturday, January 11, 2020. Thomas Burman […]

71st Creative Arts Emmy Awards

September 18, 2019 Mun Kang Comments Off

The 71st Creative Arts Emmy Awards were presented at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on September 14-15, 2019. The two-day gala filled the red carpet with nominees dressed in dynamic formal attire from elegant dresses to remarkable tuxedos. The annual awards honored outstanding technical and artistic achievement in television. The ceremony celebrated craftspeople in the facets of hairstyling, makeup, costume design, production design, cinematography, lighting design, editing, visual effects, […]

The ICG To Honor Patty Jenkins

September 17, 2019 Staff Comments Off

The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) will honor writer/director Patty Jenkins, best known for Wonder Woman, Monster and The Killing, with the inaugural Distinguished Filmmaker Award presented by Panavision, at the 2019 Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA) on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 5:00 PM in the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood. Jenkins is currently in post-production on the highly anticipated sequel Wonder […]