After a two-year hiatus, Camp Kuleshov–the competition designed to let assistant editors at AICE-member houses showcase their editing chops–returned to the Southwest. The event turned out to be a celebratory occasion not only for AICE’s Dallas chapter but also for Red Car’s Dallas shop.
Red Car talent swept the top honors–first, second and third place–in meeting the contest challenge to select from a list of feature films and then create a trailer changing the genre of one of those movies. This year’s field of films consisted of three of last year’s Best Picture Oscar nominees: The Artist, The Help, and Midnight In Paris.
Red Car’s Agnes Calka, a rookie in the AICE event, took first place with Masque, an adaptation of The Artist as a superhero action film. “The first time I saw The Artist it was on a pirated Blu-ray and all the titles were in Mandarin so I thought it actually was an action film,” explained Calka, adding “That made it really easy for me to pull this one off.”
William Franklin of Red Car placed second with his trailer Help Us. He turned The Help into a science fiction thriller. Franklin quipped, “”With effects and sound design, you can pretty much tell any story you want–that’s why I never believe anything I see on FOX News.”
And completing the Red Car trifecta was Edgar Garza whose action trailer of The Midnight Job in Paris placed third. Garza took Midnight in Paris, a film without high-speed chases and explosions, and made it just that. “Whenever you’re watching a Woody Allen movie set in France, you’re just waiting for the scene with the Eiffel Tower bursting into flames,” said Garza, “I just gave the audience what they wanted.”
Camp Kuleshov was held at Ku De Ta in Dallas. First prize was an Avid Media Composer donated by Avid. Second prize was Adobe Production Premier. And third prize was a $250 Apple gift card.
As part of the proceedings, AICE Dallas donated more than $500 to North Texas Food Bank, along with about 120 pounds of non-perishable food items. Another $500 went to Capital Food Bank of Austin.
Member houses participating in the event were 3008, Reel FX, Imagemaker Post, Red Car Dallas, Fast Cuts, Beast Austin and 1080. Lynn Louria, executive producer at 3008 organized this year’s competition which was celebrated on the same night in Dallas and Austin.
To view the winning trailers, click here.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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