<a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw (www.chainsawedit.com., a leading independent provider of post production services for television, feature films and other media, has hired Boyd Stepan to head its newly-launched visual effects department.
Formerly a Lead Visual Effects Supervisor at Prime Focus/Post Logic Studios, Stepan brings broad experience as a visual effects artist and supervisor with credits ranging from “Avatar” and “Inglourious Basterds” to “Desperate Housewives” and the new AMC series “The Walking Dead.” At <a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw, he will perform hands-on work as a visual effects artist and will also be responsible for growing and supervising the department. <a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw‘s aim is to build a full service visual effects department to complement its creative editorial, editorial finishing and color correction services.
“We want to offer our clients the ability to take care of all of their post production needs within one workflow, both for the sake of efficiency and to ensure greater creative control,” said <a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw co-founder and Emmy-winning editor Bill DeRonde. “Boyd’s arrival brings us a step closer to that goal. He is a very talented and experienced artist who can help us build a visual effects department capable of delivering the quality our clients expect from <a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw.”
To support Stepan, <a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw has built a visual effects production suite equipped with an Autodesk Flame workstation. The system includes Autodesk’s latest generation software and full stereoscopic 3D capabilities. The company expects to add further staff and technical resources. The new department will offer a full slate of visual effects services including visual effects generation, titles and graphics, 3D integration, beauty work and digital clean-up.
Stepan began his career with Post Logic Studios in 2000 and was named a Lead Visual Effects Supervisor following its purchase by Prime Focus in 2007. As such, he coordinated visual effects work between Prime Focus facilities in Hollywood and India, supervising more than 80 artists involved in film and television projects. Recently, he has been working as a freelance visual effects artist at several Los Angeles area facilities. Most recently, he worked on the films Gulliver’s Travels (20th Century Fox), Skyline (Relativity Media) and Battle Los Angeles (Columbia Pictures) via Hydraulics.
Stepan said that he was excited by the opportunity to build a visual effects department at <a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw. “It is a wonderful opportunity to join a company that is growing, that understands today’s technology and the evolving needs of clients, and has a commitment to high quality work,” he said.
<a href="www.chainsawedit.com.>Chainsaw is located at 940 N. Orange Dr., 2nd floor, Hollywood, CA 90038. For more information, call 323.785.1550 or visit www.chainsawedit.com.
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“Ǝvolution” Comes Full Circle At The Chelsea Film Festival
The Chelsea Film Festival, running from October 16th through October 20th, 2024, at Regal Cinemas here in Union Square, is set to host the East Coast premiere of Ǝvolution, a thought-provoking experimental micro-short film that proves big ideas can come in small packages and in perfect circles.
In just 1 minute 16 seconds, this cinematic gem by Award-Winning Director Romina Schwedler, with original music by Argentine Composer Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, explores a cycle as old as time: life leads to progress, progress leads to destruction, and destruction, well, leads back to life. But is this vicious circle unbreakable? Ǝvolution suggests the answer is yes, unless we decide to open our eyes.
Inspired by the overwhelming number of recent events that threaten human existence, Ǝvolution, possibly the shortest film in this 12th edition of the festival, plays out entirely through the symbolism of circles, cleverly illustrating —in the blink of an eye— the repeating patterns of history, and confronting viewers with the uncomfortable truth that our so-called “progress” may, in fact, be guiding us to our own ruin.Premiering at the Regal 14 Union Square, New York City, on October 18, 2024, at 11 a.m., Romina Schwedler's micro-short, featuring Leah Young with cinematography by Alan J. Carmona, will be sure to spark conversations longer than the film itself! Forcing viewers to reconsider the true meaning of evolution, not just as a biological process, but as a reflection of our collective journey as humans.
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