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    StormStock’s Lisius wins cinematography honor at International Innovation Film Fest

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    "Prairie Wind"
    ARLINGTON, Tex. --

    Prairie Pictures cinematographer and StormStock founder Martin Lisius was awarded “Best Cinematography” honors at this month’s International Innovation Film Festival in Bern, Switzerland. The award was presented for his short film Prairie Wind, which he shot and produced on 16K video. The film features storms he captured over a three-month period in America’s “Tornado Alley” region of the Great Plains. “Storms offer us a glimpse of what our world once was, and inspires us to protect and preserve what remains,” Lisius said.  “I wanted to create a medium as large as the sky. 16K offers the tremendous resolution depth needed to pull that off.”

    Lisius shot the production utilizing a 16K camera system and workflow he developed. During postproduction, 12,000 stills were stitched together to create one 15,985 x 5792-pixel image using a Mac Pro workstation. Each shot required five days to prepare, with the computer running around the clock.

    Elements from Prairie Wind are available for license exclusively through StormStock, and can be delivered to clients on 16K, 8K, 4K or HD.

    The International Innovation Film Festival is a creative program dedicated to highlighting innovations that redefine how stories are told. Combining expert presentations about leading-edge technologies, the festival presents thought-provoking films from around the world.

    Prairie Pictures’ StormStock is a noted storm footage library. Since 1993, their team has filmed hurricanes, tornadoes, storm clouds, blizzards and flooding on premium formats.

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    Football Practice Preps Nikki Glaser For Hosting The Golden Globes

    Thursday, December 26, 2024
    Nikki Glaser stands on the field after NFL football game between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Denver Broncos, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)

    What do Tom Brady, Taylor Swift and comedy have to do with learning about football?

    In the case of Nikki Glaser, it is all intertwined.

    Glaser has become a familiar face to football fans this season. Her breakthrough performance at the Tom Brady Roast on May 5 paved the way for five appearances on Amazon Prime Video's "Thursday Night Football" postgame show.

    Before last Thursday's game between the Denver Broncos and Los Angeles Chargers, Glaser said doing her "Late Hits" segment was a no-brainer following her success at the Brady roast.

    "The football audience is kind of familiar with me already. It's one that is OK with me not knowing every detail about football or expecting me to be an expert about it because I was who I was on the Brady Roast. I kind of admitted to not really following football that much," Glaser said. "And I became a fan of Tom Brady and the sport in doing it through that process. So then I was like, 'Let me just keep learning about football through joking about it.' And that was kind of my goal."

    Glaser admits her knowledge of football is not all the way there yet. Still, it is further ahead than it was a year ago when she started casually watching Chiefs games due to Swift's relationship with Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce.

    And mostly then, it was to see when Swift appeared on screen.

    However, Glaser decided to start learning more about the game, which she compared to trying to learn a new language.

    "I went my whole life putting on blinders because I was just scared to look stupid if I tried to learn. I always thought football fans would be really judgmental and cruel about my lack of knowledge. But they're not," Glaser said. "They're eager for you to understand and... Read More

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