Filmotechnic, a major provider of remote camera systems, has launched a sales division to meet demand for the new carbon fiber telescoping camera cranes named TechnoScope along with the new gyrostabilized Flight Head Colibri. Previously, all Filmotechnic USA equipment was only available for rental to filmmakers. The TechnoScopes, which were recently awarded a Cine Gear Expo 2021 Technical Award in the Support Technology category, are ultra-lightweight, extremely compact and user friendly. The cranes have a very small footprint in contrast to their telescoping range of 8m/ 27ft and 5.3m /17ft. Both units can be powered from batteries and are smooth and quiet in operation. They can carry a nose load up to 25kg / 55lbs, which pairs them perfectly with a Filmotechnic gyrostabilized Flight Head Mini IV or Flight Head Colibri but also with the popular DJI Ronin, Freefly Systems MoVI, Shotover G1 and ARRI SRH-3 remote heads…..
Flowics, creator of the platform for powering remote and in-studio production of live graphics and interactive content, has hired two sales directors–Sachin Agnihotri, who serves India and South Asia, and Sergey Pribyl whose territories are Eastern Europe and the Baltic region. Both positions are new. With Agnihotri based in New Delhi and Pribyl in Barcelona, Spain, each leads Flowics’ sales and business development efforts in his respective market, introducing the company’s Flowics Cloud Graphics and Audience Participation solutions to linear and digital broadcasters, sports organizations (leagues, teams, federations), and esports organizations, among other verticals in the live production industry. Agnihotri and Pribyl are also in charge of establishing partnerships with resellers and systems integrators in the regions to accelerate the adoption of the Flowics platform. Agnihotri has extensive experience of more than 20 years in the broadcast industry, working with clients in India and the Southeast Asia region. He has held sales roles at multiple companies in the industry, including KIT Digital, the systems integrator Benchmark Broadcast Systems, and most recently at TVU Networks. With nearly 20 years in the broadcast industry, Pribyl is a sales veteran with an engineering background, an entrepreneurial spirit, and cross-functional work experience across wide territories for EMEA markets. His most recent role was EMEA sales manager for VSN. He has also held sales roles at companies including Panasonic, Avid, and Snell Advanced Media (acquired by Grass Valley). Both Agnihotri and Pribyl report to Flowics CEO Gabriel Baรฑos….
New York Film Fest Preview: “The Brutalist,” “Nickel Boys,” “April,” “All We Imagine as Light”
When you think of blockbusters, the first thing that comes to mind might not be a 215-minute postwar epic screening for the first time at Lincoln Center. But that was the scene last week when the New York Film Festival hosted a 70mm print of Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist." The festival hadn't then officially begun โ its 62nd edition opens Friday โ but the advance press screening drew long lines โ as some attendees noted, not unlike those at Ellis Island in the film โ and a packed Walter Reade Theatre. Word had gotten around: "The Brutalist" is something to see. Corbet's epic, starring Adrian Brody as a Jewish architect remaking his life in Pennsylvania, is the kind of colossal cinematic construction that doesn't come around every day. Shot in VistaVision and structured like movements in a symphony (with a 15-minute intermission to boot), "The Brutalist" is indeed something to behold. It's arthouse and blockbuster in one, and, maybe, a reminder of the movies' capacity for uncompromising grandeur โ and the awe that can inspire. It's been fashionable in recent years to wonder about the fate of the movies, but it can be hard to placate those concerns at the New York Film Festival. The festival prizes itself on gathering the best cinema from around the world. And this year, the movies are filled with bold forays of form and perspective that you can feel pushing film forward. This is also the time Oscar campaigns begin lurching into gear, with Q&As and cocktail parties. But, unlike last year when "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" were entrenched as favorites, the best picture race is said to be wide open. In that vacuum, movies like "The Brutalist" and the NYFF opener, RaMell Ross' "Nickel Boys," not to mention Sean Baker's "Anora" and Jacques Audiard's... Read More