Symply Inc. has been launched with a focus on making high-performance, complex “rich media” storage better for everyone, from a single editor to an entire facility.
The new company, Symply Inc., assembles an all-star team of industry talent, with proven track records and decades of product design, solution engineering and media storage expertise. Symply creates exceptional new storage products that are “made for media,” offering the highest levels of performance and functionality in new, approachable configurations. An employee-owned storage design company with locations in Los Angeles, New York and London, Symply designs, engineers and supports storage solutions, working closely on development and production with technology partner, Promise Technology.
“Symply is a different kind of startup. We started with a well-defined goal and product direction, and then brought together a team of proven experts to deliver real storage solutions to the most pressing problems that creative teams face today; and we do it in a new, innovative way,” explained Alex Grossman, CEO of Symply Inc.
“This partnership is the dream team of talent for creating rich media storage,” said James Lee, CEO of Promise Technology Inc. “The executives at Symply aren’t just experienced in the category; they helped create it. They have great vision about what the rich media market needs and the future technical direction. We’re absolutely thrilled to team up. The ultimate winner is anyone working with video.”
Symply will unveil its new products at NAB 2016 in Las Vegas, in booth #SL9321.
In addition to Symply products, Symply assumes all sales and field engineering responsibilities for Promise Technology’s current rich media product line throughout the Americas, the U.K., France and Germany. Promise Technology will cover sales and support for rich media product lines in all other world regions.
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this — and those many "Babadook" memes — unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More