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    Cine Gear announces 2016 Technical Award winners

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    HOLLYWOOD, Calif. --

    Cine Gear announces the recipients of the 2016 New Technologies Awards as judged by a team of impartial experts at the 2016 Expo event. The panel reviewed and evaluated nearly 100 entries to determine this year’s honorees.

    Winners in the Camera and Accessories category include Thales Angenieux for their Angenieux 44-440mm Optimo A2S Zoom Lens and Zacuto for their Gratical Eye Micro OLED Electronic Viewfinder.

    The profuse lighting category was won by AC Lighting Inc. for the Chroma-Q Space Force LED Lights. The ARRI Trinity Camera Stabilization System that upgrades the artemis and other classic stabilizers to facilitate drop-down camera moves, earned the Best Camera Support nod.

    Sony Electronics took home the Post Production Monitor award for its PVM-X550 55” Trimaster EL 4K OLED monitor. In the Post Production Systems category, Codex came out on top with their Codex Production Suite solution to streamline and simplify workflow.

    In the Other Technology category, Direct Hit FX wowed judges with their Rapid Reload LFH and BFH Bullet Hit Squibs that are sure to be a hit for body- or costume-mounted pyrotechnics.

    Other worthy products received Honorable Mentions. Cinemoves got the nod for the CineCube Battery Pack System. TiltaMax was recognized for the FIZ (Focus, Iris, Zoom) unit and RED MDRs (Motor Driven Rollers). In addition, That Cat Camera Support’s Silent Cat Camera Sliders and the 360 Abyss Underwater Housing from 360 Heroes, landed Honorable Mentions.

    The 2016 Cine Gear Expo Technical Awards were presented to the best debuting products unveiled between June 8, 2015 and May 1, 2016. Winners were selected on site by a panel of industry experts with an eye toward the latest in technology. All exhibiting manufacturers were invited to enter products. Cine Gear Expo will be held again in Hollywood on June 1-4, 2017.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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