Hollywood Industry Veteran Brings Extensive Production Expertise And Professional Relationships to New Role
Sony is proud to announce that production industry veteran Dan Perry has been named Director of the Digital Motion Picture Center. The DMPC, as it is known in the industry, is located on Stage 7 at Sony Pictures Entertainment and is designed to provide a unique creative environment for shooting and evaluating images of the highest-quality.
Perry will manage both the daily activities at the DMPC and the long-term vision for this one-of-a-kind facility, using his extensive experience in bringing new technologies to Hollywood’s brightest creative minds. During his 16-year career at Sony, Perry has been instrumental in creating widespread acceptance for landmark technologies in the motion picture and television industries, including Sony’s XDCAM system for reality TV and the HDCAM SR format for episodic television and motion pictures.
“Dan has great relationships in Hollywood with the Guilds, unions, post production houses and cinematographers,” said Alec Shapiro, president of the DMPC. “He has an intimate knowledge of our customers’ specific needs, and he understands the importance of tailoring solutions to meet these unique requirements. I’m confident that his efforts will continue to make the DMPC an invaluable resource for production professionals.”
In addition to Perry, the DMPC team includes Keith Vidger, Dhanendra Patel, Kazuo Endo, Joel Ordesky, Rob Willox and Jaclynne Gentry. Supporting the DMPC is a full roster of accomplished creative professionals like Curtis Clark, ASC; who plays a key role in developing and managing the DMPC’s educational curriculum.
Open since May, the DMPC offers weekly training classes on a range of topics including: camera operation, on-set color management, data handling, dailies creation, editing and color grading. Complementing Sony’s camera technology is some of the industry’s best equipment, including products from Adobe, Angeneiux, Anton Bauer, Assimilate, Avid, Black Magic Design, Chapman, Colorfront, Cooke, FilmLight, Fujinon, Leader, Leica, MTI, O’Connor, and YoYotta.
The DMPC’s weekly, hands-on training courses focus on Sony’s full range of Super 35mm cameras – most notably the groundbreaking F65 CineAlta™ Digital Motion Picture Camera. In addition to training, productions interested in the F65 for features and television can test the camera and the workflow of their choice at the DMPC.
For more information on the Digital Motion Picture Center, visit www.sony.com/dmpc.
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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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