FotoKem has announced that two talented final colorists, Jesús Borrego and Ara Thomassian, have joined FotoKem’s Keep Me Posted (KMP.)
Los Angeles native Borrego grew up loving art and photography, originally setting his sights on a career in music recording. After earning his degree in Sound Engineering, he made the shift to post production, handling film dailies at Technicolor Hollywood. While there, he became a color assistant, and learned the craft of color grading from senior colorists. Most recently, Borrego has worked as a colorist at Warner Bros. and Light Iron/Panavision. His recent credits include numerous features for Blumhouse (The Visitor, There’s Something Wrong with The Children, and Unseen), and episodic tv such as Crypt TV’s Stereoscope and Sacrifice for BET+. His previous credits include Bosch: Legacy (associate colorist) and Halt and Catch Fire (pre-colorist).
Thomassian has over a decade of experience in color grading and is a member of the Colorist Society International. His recent credits include the documentaries Women in the Front Seat and Zero Gravity, with additional color credits spanning such diverse titles as Empire, Bosch, Next, American Horror Story, What We Do in the Shadows, and the Deadwood movie.
Borrego and Thomassian join a roster of talented artists, producers and technologists based at KMP in Burbank. The FotoKem family of companies includes Keep Me Posted, L.A. Studios, Margarita Mix Hollywood, and Margarita Mix Santa Monica. Headquartered in Burbank, FotoKem also has facilities in Atlanta and New Orleans.
“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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