<a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood announced today that Liz Ralston, a veteran visual effects producer, has joined the <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood management team as Executive Producer. The announcement was made by Don Fly, President of <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Visual Effects Group. Ralston will oversee all feature production, marketing and client relations at <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood.
“We’ve worked with Liz as a client and were always impressed with her depth of knowledge and experience,” says Fly. “Everyone’s really happy she’s chosen to join us and make the switch to the facility side of the visual effects process. We have a lot of respect for her.”
Ralston has over twenty years of experience in visual effects production and facility management. Her most recent project, which just wrapped, is the upcoming release “Red Dawn.” <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood was the primary vendor on the project, with three other facilities sharing the additional work.
“Working with the <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood crew on ‘Red Dawn’ was a pleasure,” says Ralston, “so when Don brought up the possibility of coming on board, I jumped at it. I’m very happy to become a permanent member of the team. It’s a talented group of artists, and filmmakers are always happy when bringing their projects here.”
Ralston was the visual effects producer on “Babe,” the 1995 Oscar® winner for best visual effects. “Inspector Gadget,” “102 Dalmatians,” “Behind Enemy Lines,” “Idlewild” and “Land of the Lost” are among her other credits in that role. At Dream Quest Images, Ralston was the executive production manager on “Armageddon” and “Mighty Joe Young.” For director Mike Nichols, she produced the visual effects on “Charlie Wilson’s War” and the six hour HBO mini-series “Angels in America.”
A film school graduate of Southern Illinois University, where Ralston studied cinematography and focused on experimental animation, led her to a career in visual effects. She was a rotoscope artist at Roto Effects of America, a traditional optical effects house, where her first feature project was “Beetlejuice.” Ralston went on to work at deGraf/Wahrman, a cutting-edge computer graphics company where she was manager and producer. In 1991, she joined Rhythm & Hues as a producer, working on a variety of feature film and commercial projects over the next five years. She also held production executive positions at The Walt Disney Company, The Secret Lab and Imaginary Forces.
Currently in production at <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood are “Contagion,” “Green Hornet,” “Project X,” and “The Warrior’s Way,” in addition the just wrapped “Red Dawn.” At <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Vancouver, current projects include “Red Dawn” and “Green Hornet” in association with <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood, “Red” and commercials for “Nutrisystem” and “Shout.” Rok!t® Studio is completing main and end titles for “Gulliver’s Travels,” “For Colored Girls” and “Red August.”
About <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS
<a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Visual Effects Group ((www.cisvfxgroup.com)) is an award-winning international visual effects entity with facilities in Hollywood, Vancouver and Sydney. The company services high-end feature film, television, commercial and gaming clients in the global marketplace. <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Hollywood, founded in 1984, is one of the industry’s most respected visual effects facilities. In early 2008, the company launched <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Vancouver, in 2009 established Rok!t® Studio and recently launched <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS-Postmodern in Sydney. With its boutique accessibility, the company has the capacity to service its clientele wherever production is situated. <a href="(www.cisvfxgroup.com)“>CIS Visual Effects Group is a wholly-owned affiliate of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc.
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“ฦvolution” Comes Full Circle At The Chelsea Film Festival
The Chelsea Film Festival, running from October 16th through October 20th, 2024, at Regal Cinemas here in Union Square, is set to host the East Coast premiere of ฦvolution, a thought-provoking experimental micro-short film that proves big ideas can come in small packages and in perfect circles.
In just 1 minute 16 seconds, this cinematic gem by Award-Winning Director Romina Schwedler, with original music by Argentine Composer Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, explores a cycle as old as time: life leads to progress, progress leads to destruction, and destruction, well, leads back to life. But is this vicious circle unbreakable? ฦvolutionย suggests the answer is yes, unless we decide to open our eyes.
Inspired by the overwhelming number of recent events that threaten human existence,ย ฦvolution, possibly the shortest film in this 12th edition of the festival, plays out entirely through the symbolism of circles, cleverly illustrating โin the blink of an eyeโ the repeating patterns of history, and confronting viewers with the uncomfortable truth that our so-called โprogressโ may, in fact, be guiding us to our own ruin.Premiering at the Regal 14 Union Square, New York City, on October 18, 2024, at 11 a.m., Romina Schwedler's micro-short, featuring Leah Young with cinematography by Alan J. Carmona, will be sure to spark conversations longer than the film itself! Forcing viewers to reconsider the true meaning of evolution, not just as a biological process, but as a reflection of our collective journey as humans.
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