IABM, the international trade association for suppliers of broadcast and media technology, has announced the shortlisted entries for the IBC 2018 edition of its Broadcast and Media awards (BaMs™). From a record number of submissions, the judges have shortlisted four entrants in each of nine BaM™ Content Chain categories that accurately model the structure of the industry today, together with a tenth award recognizing an outstanding project, event or collaboration.
The panel of 40+ non-affiliated, expert judges are now scrutinizing the shortlisted entries. Visits to the stands of shortlisted companies will take place once IBC 2018 opens to complete the judging process. The eventual winners will be announced at the IABM BaM™ Awards Party on Saturday, Sept. 15, 6-8 pm in the Forum.
“I’m again impressed with the quality–as well as the quantity–of the IABM BaM™ Awards entries for this IBC; it’s was a challenge for our judges to initially shortlist the top four in each category,” said John Ive, IABM director, strategic insight, chair of the judging panel. “The new BaM™ Content Chain model has ensured we include all the new developments across the broad spectrum of media and broadcast–and it is clear that innovation is driving profound changes, which these awards reflect. The task facing the judges in selecting the eventual winners will be tough indeed.”
The shortlisted companies (and product/service names where they are not embargoed until the show opens) are:
Create
- BR Remote Ltd – CamBall4 PTZ Camera
- Datavideo Technologies Europe BV – NH-100 Nighthawk Camera
- Rotolight – Anova PRO 2 professional LED lighting
- SHOTOVER Camera Systems – M1 Camera System
Produce
- Aperi – V-Stack
- IBM – IBM Watson Captioning
- Lawo – embargoed
- Suitcase TV Ltd – Iphrame Remote Commentary
Manage
- AWS Elemental – AWS Media Services
- Ooyala – Ooyala Flex Media Platform
- Microsoft – embargoed
- Piksel – Fuse Metadata Manager
Publish
- Broadpeak – nanoCDN™
- Edgeware – embargoed
- Harmonic – VOS360 media processing SaaS
- Limelight Networks – Limelight Realtime Streaming
Monetize
- Brightcove – SSAI
- Crystal – Crystal Connect
- Promethean.TV – Promethean Broadcast Centre
- Verimatrix – Verspective Intelligence
Consume
- Broadpeak – CDN Diversity™ Technology with Priority Feature
- Hexaglobe – Xtreme Player
- NPAW (Nice People At Work) – YOUBORA 2018
- Screen Subtitling Systems – Sasquatch
Connect
- Aspera – IBM Aspera On Cloud
- BT Media & Broadcast – Media Workflow Connect
- LiveU – LiveU Matrix
- V-Nova – P.Link Contribution Encoder with Machine Learning
Store
- Dell EMC – embargoed
- Editshare – Xstream EFS
- Quantum Corporation – Xcellis Scale-out NAS
- Rohde & Schwarz – embargoed
Support
- Exponential-e – Cloud Management Platform (CMP)
- Portrait Displays/SpectraCal – CalMAN Auto Calibration for LG OLED and Super UHD Displays
- TAG V.S. – MCM-9000
- Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group – Telos Infinity IP Intercom
Project, collaboration or event
- CBC & Bitmovin – Multi-platform distribution of broadcast content
- NEP – NEP Remote Commentary
- Telestream – Enabling New and Revolutionary Workflows for Real Time Remote Production of Live Events
- Verimatrix – Econet Media Brings Compelling TV Everywhere Service to Africa
The winning entries will automatically be submitted for IABM’s prestigious Peter Wayne Golden BaM™ Award, with the winner announced at the IABM Annual International Business Conference and Awards in December 2018.
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