At the 65th Festival de Cannes, May 16 – 27, several films on the competition roster have been created by filmmakers whose post-production companies used ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® DI software in their digital workflows for conform, color grading, and finishing. The Cannes Film Festival is the world’s premier showcase for independent and international filmmakers.
ASSIMILATE congratulates Cosmo Digital (Paris, France), Cinecolor Colombia (Bogotá,
Colombia), Cinecolor Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Digital Cube (Bucharest, Romania), Filmosonido Chile (Santiago, Chile), Onemore Pictures (Rome, Italy), Raamw3rk (Gouda, The Netherlands), and Fundacion Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires, Argentina) for their high-quality post-production of the following feature and short films accepted by the Festival de Cannes 2012 and related venues.
Short Film Palme d’Or Competition
"Waiting for P.O. Box" (2012), short film directed by Bassam Chekhes. A surreal story dealing with bureaucracy and disconnect in Jordan. Barend Onneweer of post house Raamw3rk did the conform, color grading, titles, and finishing.
Post-Production Facility: Raamw3rk (Gouda, The Netherlands), www.raamw3rk.net
Un Certain Regard
"La Playa D.C." (2012), feature film directed by Juan Andres Arango. A young man flees war on the Pacific Coast and heads for Bogotá. The film blends images of the harshness of the road and the congested metropolis of Colombia’s capital city with memories of the coast and sea. Cinecolor Colombia did the conform, color grading, finishing, DCP mastering, and sound final mix.
Post-Production Facility: Cinecolor Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia) www.cinecolor.com.co
“Elefante Blanco” (2012), feature film directed by Pablo Trapero. This is the story of two friends, both Catholic priests, who are working on behalf of the poor and dispossessed in a slum of Buenos Aires overrun by powerful drug cartels and corrupt police. Cinecolor Argentina did the conform, color grading, and DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Cinecolor Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), www.cinecolor.com.ar
Film Market Premiere (Marché du Film)
"Fairy Tale" (2012), super-natural thriller directed by Ascanio Malgarini and Christian Bisceglia. Following a divorce, a mother and daughter move to an austere building of the fascist age, which hides a mysterious closet with dark secrets. Post facility Onemore Pictures did the conform, color grading, finishing, and mastering from RED RAW material.
Post-Production Facility: Onemore Pictures, www.onemorepictures.it (Rome, Italy)
Semaine de la Critique
"Horizon" (2012), short film directed by Paul Negoescu. The film asks the questions, if a fisherman mysteriously disappears in the depth of the Black Sea and there is nobody around to hear him, does he make a sound? Digital Cube did the conform, color grading, finishing, and DCP encoding.
Post-Production Facility: Digital Cube (Bucharest, Romania), www.digitalcube.ro
"Yeguas y Cotorras" (2012), short film directed by Natalia Garagiola. This is a story of feminine intrigue: Delfina and her two soul mates, who all spend one day together at her family’s manor house before her wedding guests arrive. Cinecolor Argentina did the conform, color grading, and DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Cinecolor Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), www.cinecolor.com.ar
"Los Salvajes" (2012), feature film directed by Alejandro Fadel. Five teenagers violently escape a reformatory school in an Argentinean province. They must pilgrimage a hundred kilometers on foot, across the hills, for the promise of a home to continue their days. A progressive voyage into the wilderness, that soon becomes a mystic fable about courage and grace. Cinecolor Argentina did the conform, color grading, and DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Cinecolor Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), www.cinecolor.com.ar
Quinzaine des Realisateurs (The Directors’ Fortnight)
"La Sirga" (2012), feature film directed by William Vega. A young woman flees a massacre in her Colombian village, and attempts to make a new life in the high Andes at a lakeside hostel, La Sirga. Cinecolor Colombia did the conform, color grading, finishing, with scanning of 2K material at Cinecolor Mexico.
Post-Production Facility: Cinecolor Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia), www.cinecolor.com.co
"Tram" (2012), animation short directed by Michaela Pavlatova. The film tells a slightly erotic story about the fantasies of a tram conductor. Cosmo Digital did the conform, color grading, finishing, and final DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Cosmo Digital (Paris, France) www.cosmo-digital.com
"NO" (2012), feature film directed by Pablo Larrain. Inspired by true events, an advertising executive creates a happy and positive message for a contender’s campaign that ousts dictator Augusto Pinochet. Filmosonido Chile did the conform, color grading, finishing, VFX supervision, and DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Filmosonido Chile (Santiago, Chile) www.filmosonido.cl
"Infancia Clandestina" (2012), feature film directed by Benjamín Ávila. Juan lives a clandestine life. Like his mother, father, and adored uncle, outside the home he has another name. He meets Maria, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of 1979, this film is one about love. Cinecolor Argentina did the conform, color grading, and DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Cinecolor Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), www.cinecolor.com.ar
Special Screenings:
"Villegas" (2012), feature film directed by Gonzalo Tobal. Two cousins drive together to their grandfather’s funeral in Villegas, a small inland town where they grew up together. The trip becomes an emotional journey, punctuated by reunions, the past, and the end of an era. Cinecolor Argentina did the conform, color grading, and DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Cinecolor Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), www.cinecolor.com.ar
ACID
"Stalingrad Lovers" (2010), feature film directed by Fleur Albert. The film explores the themes of drugs and social exclusion in the working-class area of Goutte d’Or in Paris.
Cosmo Digital did the conform, color grading, VFX, finishing, and DCP mastering.
Post-Production Facility: Cosmo Digital (Paris, France) www.cosmo-digital.com
The Cinéfondation Selection:
"Pude ver un Puma" (2012), short film directed by Eduardo Williams. An accident leads a group of young boys from the high roofs of their neighborhood, passing through its destruction, to the deepest depths of the earth.
Post-Production Facility: Fundacion Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires), www.ucine.edu.ar
“ASSIMILATE and its SCRATCH product line have been at the epicenter of the global digital cinema revolution from the very beginning, and the main catalyst for this revolution has been independent productions”, said Steve Bannerman, VP of Marketing at ASSIMILATE. “We’re honored that so many of the entries accepted at this year’s festival were conformed, color graded or finished in SCRATCH. We congratulate the artists who continue to push the envelope in digital storytelling, and we join the rest of the community in celebrating their accomplishments.”
About ASSIMILATE
ASSIMILATE is the premier provider of digital workflow and post-production tools, that have proven essential to the successful creation of thousands of studio and independent features, television shows, music videos and corporate video productions. The company’s SCRATCH products, running on Windows and Mac OS® X, are the heartbeat of today’s most demanding digital post-production and dailies workflows for 2D and stereo 3D productions. They equip Directors, DPs, DITs, and Artists with the state-of-the-art, intuitive, data-centric solutions they need to meet the continual challenges of increased creativity and productivity amid ever-shrinking budgets. ASSIMILATE’s SCRATCH® real-time DI system is the most comprehensive, end-to-end digital cinema and broadcast imaging tool for playback, conform, editing, color grading, compositing and finishing of RED RAW and all popular formats, such as ARRI RAW, Sony F65, Phantom, and more. SCRATCH Lab™ delivers a comprehensive toolset for the review, versioning, color correction, conform and output of on-set, near-location, or VFX dailies. ASSIMILATE, a privately held company, with headquarters in Santa Clara, California (USA) has offices in London, UK, Groningen, NL and Beijing City, CN and markets its products worldwide via a global reseller network. Learn more at www.assimilateinc.com
