IABM, the international trade association for suppliers of broadcast and media technology, has announced the shortlisted entries for the NAB Show 2019 edition of its BaM Awards®. With more than 160 entries–a record number–the judges have shortlisted a total of 40 entrants across the nine BaM™ Content Chain categories that accurately model the structure of the industry today, together with a 10th award recognizing an outstanding project, event or collaboration.
The panel of 40+ non-affiliated, expert judges is now scrutinizing the shortlisted entries. Visits to the stands of shortlisted companies will take place once NAB Show 2019 opens to complete the judging process. The eventual winners will be announced at the IABM BaM Awards® Party on Tuesday, April 9, which is being held in Ballroom B at the Westgate hotel adjacent to the Convention Center from 6-8pm.
“Once again, we have had a difficult job paring down so many high quality entries to produce this shortlist,” said John Ive, IABM director strategic insight, chair of the judging panel. “The BaM Content Chain model has given us an excellent framework to assess the potential impact of entries across the flow of the new content factory and it is heartening that innovation continues to drive our industry forward in every part of the content chain. The shortlisted entries are all of the highest quality–now it is down to the judges to select the very best of the best.”
The shortlisted companies (and product/service names where they are not embargoed until the show opens) are:
Create
- LEDGO Technology Limited – Dyno D600C RGB LED Panel Light
- Opus Digitas, Inc. – User-Generated Video (UGV) management platform
- Ross Video
- Shure
- Teradek – Bolt 4K
Produce
- Adobe
- Grass Valley
- Marquis Broadcast – Postflux for Premiere Pro
- Lawo AG – A__UHD Core
Manage
- GB Labs – Mosaic Automatic Asset Organiser
- Piksel
- VoiceInteraction
- Yella Umbrella – Stellar – Timed Text – In a Browser
Publish
- AWS – Secure Packager and Encoder Key Exchange (SPEKE)
- Broadpeak – CDN Diversity™ technology with Priority feature
- Red Bee Media – World’s First Software-Only Playout Deployment
- Telestream – OptiQ
Monetize
- Amagi – THUNDERSTORM DAI-as-a-Managed Service platform
- Paywizard – Singula™
- Qligent – Vision-Analytics
- Veritone
Consume
- Broadpeak – nanoCDN™ with ultra low latency and device synchronization
- Verimatrix – nTitleMe
- Vista Studios – User Experience
Connect
- Alteros – GTX Series L.A.W.N. Direct-to-Fiber venue-wide wireless mic system
- Cerberus Tech – Livelink Platform
- DVEO – Windows® Application for Reliable Live Video Transfers over Public Internet — PC DOZER™: APP
- Embrionix
Store
- GB Labs – InFlight Data Acceleration (IDA)
- OWC – ThunderBlade™
- Rohde & Schwarz – SpycerNode
- Symply – SymplyWORKSPACE
Support
- Microsoft – Avere vFXT for Azure
- PHABRIX – Qx IP V3.0
- Skyline Communications – DataMiner Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Management and ST2110 Media Flow Tracking
- Touchstream
Project
- GrayMeta – Videofashion – Monetising archives with GrayMeta
- MediaKind – Enabling a world-first: 6K tiled 360-degree live sports streaming success
- Vista Studios – User Experience
- Zhejiang Radio and Television Group – 32 Camera 4K IP Flagship OBVAN
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 2019.
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