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Bully Doc Wins Stanley Kramer Award from PGA
The controversial documentary Bully has received official plaudits from the Producers Guild of America. Writer-producer-director-cinematographer Lee Hirsch and writer-producer Cynthia Lowen will receive the 2013 Stanley Kramer Award award at the PGA Awards ceremony on January 26. Harvey and Bob Weinstein …
Assimilate Starts Scratch and Scratch Lab Direct Rentals
Assimilate announced this week that it would begin offering a rental option for its Scratch and Scratch Lab products via its website. Customers can use a credit card or PaylPal account to rent Scratch or Scratch Lab for anywhere from …
JVC Updates GY-HM600 Camera Firmware
JVC announced a new firmware update (version 0104) for its GY-HM600 ProHD camera today. The firmware improves the camera's autofocus and signal-to-noise ratio, JVC said, as well as flash-band compensation for dealing with banding effects on the CMOS sensor. Two …
Academy Announces Documentary Shortlist
Following a controversy-fraught screening season in which members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' (AMPAS) documentary branch waded through well over 100 DVD copies of eligible films, AMPAS has pared its for-your-consideration shortlist to just 15 titles. …
More from Sundance: Spotlight, New Frontier, Midnight Movies
On the heels of yesterday's announcement of the competition line-ups at Sundance comes a heaping helping of more film titles on the roster for the festival in snowy Park City, UT. The "Spotlight" line-up is films that have already …
Sony Strives to Sign More Theaters for 4K Projection
Sony's F5 and F55 4K camera announcements were music to the ears of the company's digital-cinema division, which is working to get theaters switched over to digital exhibition before virtual-print-free arrangements run dry — and would like to have more …
Discovery Networks Picks Up First Reality TV Series Produced by Cinesite
Cinesite, a visual effects facility in London that has worked on Skyfall, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, has sold its very first television series to Discovery Networks. Against expectation, …
The Imposter, Searching for Sugar Man Lead Cinema Eye Award Nominations
The Imposter, about a French con man, and Searching for Sugar Man, about the Mexican-American singer-songwriter Rodriguez, each earned five nominations for the Cinema Eye Awards, which has become, over its six years in existence, a reliable barometer of quality …
Five (or So) Questions for The Foundry and Luxology
The Foundry and Luxology surprised many in September when the two companies announced they would join forces to co-develop future products. During the excitement we got The Foundry's CEO Bill Collis, Simon Robinson, a Foundry co-founder and its chief scientist, …