IABM has announced the shortlisted candidates for its 2017 Game Changer Awards. More than 100 high quality entries were received–a record for these awards. The judging panel faced a tough job in reducing these to the entries that made the shortlist below. Key judging criteria were: innovation; newness; impact; benefit; value; and potential new opportunities offered by the entry.
“The record number of entries this year, and their high quality, reflects the ever-accelerating rate of innovation in the broadcast and media technology supply industry as companies strive to gain and maintain a competitive edge,” said John Ive, IABM director of strategic insight and chairman of the judging panel. “Such was the quality and range of innovation on show that we have expanded the number of shortlisted entries in each of the 10 categories to four.”
An independent panel of 40 expert judges will now come together to choose the winners in each category, which will be announced at the IABM Game Changer Awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 25, LVCC Room N235/7, 5.30-6.30pm. The event is open to all IABM members and trade press journalists.
The winning entries will be automatically submitted for the IABM’s prestigious Peter Wayne Award, with the winner announced at the IABM Annual International Business Conference and Awards in December 2017.
Many of the products and services shortlisted will only be revealed by the companies who entered them at NAB Show 2017 itself, hence we cannot reveal these before the show. However, the companies responsible for the shortlisted entries are:
Acquisition & Production
Atomos
Axon Digital Design
Grass Valley
SimplyLive LTD
Audio
Alteros, Inc.
Riedel Communications
Solid State Logic
The Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group
Content & Communication Infrastructure
Embrionix
Evertz Microsystems Ltd
Guntermann & Drunck GmbH
Signiant
Playout & Delivery Systems
ChyronHego
Cobalt Digital Inc.
Evertz Microsystems Ltd
ONEtastic
Postproduction
Digital Anarchy
InSync Technology Ltd
Snell Advanced Media (SAM)
Vizrt
Project, event or alternative product/service
Sobey – CCTV (China Central Television)
Grass Valley
Groupe Media TFO
VITEC
Services
Gearhouse Broadcast
Imagen Ltd
Verizon Digital Media Services
Visbit Inc.
Storage
Dell EMC
G-Technology
Quantum
Tedial
System Automation & Control
Arvato Systems
NewsMaker Systems
Prime Focus Technologies
SDVI Corporation
Test, Quality Control & Monitoring
PacketStorm Communications, Inc.
TAG V.S.
The Telos Alliance TV Solutions Group
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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