Datos Media, a Danmon Group company based in Madrid, announced the acquisition of VANTeC during IBC2015.
Based in Oporto, VANTec is a leading Portuguese systems integrator with over 20 years of experience in designing and integrating virtual studios, robotic cameras, and real-time 3D graphics.
“VANTeC products and services blend in very effectively with our existing range of equipment and capabilities,” commented Tomas Nielsen, CEO of Datos Media. “Combining our respective skills through this acquisition enables us to give media organizations and creative professionals wider choice, greater flexibility and higher operational efficiency. VANTeC will have access to all the accumulated expertise of Datos Media, including our proven experience in studio systems integration, post-production workflow management and broadcast-quality digital content archiving.”
“We have established a strong presence in the Portuguese broadcast sector,” added VANTec managing director Alex Roriz. “Becoming part of the Danmon Group strengthens both our visibility in the international media marketplace and our ability to provide complete creative solutions. This blends in well with the increasing demand for fully integrated systems operating under a single unified user interface.”
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 โ and those many "Babadook" memes โ 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 โ "Bah-Bah-Doooook" โ 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