East Los Angeles College, Cinema Without Borders and Southeast European Film Festival, LA, are proud to present the Southeast European Animation Day, the third edition of the annual East Los Angeles College International Animation Festival. The goal of the ELAC International Animation Festival is to give an in-depth and entertaining introduction to contemporary international animation. Screenings of short animated films from around the world, analyses and Q&A’s with a panel of well-known animation experts, and a tribute to an international animation artist working in the U.S. animation industry are all part of the festival program. Southeast European Animation Day will…
Author: Sam Tehrani
The Paramount Studios played host the 17th Cine Gear Expo over the weekend, and filmmakers of every aspect of production gathered to tour the latest innovations in cinema technology, as well as notable pieces of equipment from recent films, such as the Flying Cam 3.0 (“SARAH”) used in the recent Bond film, Skyfall. Guests were met with unique gadgets at every turn: from a motion-tracking, high-speed, robotic-armed camera, to Porsche mounted cranes. (video on the right) CWB’s Standout Exhibitor for Cinegear 2013 was Radiant Images. A company that started out of a garage with some lofty goals, Radiant Images has…
Most of my professional life I have worked on MACs and I like them, but I am not a die-hard MAC fanatic. When it comes to the list of those I love, my wife comes first. Then it’s Clara (my daughter), Fritz (my dog), my parents, my only brother, and Albert—our neighbor. But I would feel creepy saying that I love an inanimate object, even if it’s a MAC. I know a guy at work that broke up with his girlfriend when she got him a PC laptop for his birthday. He owns everything “i”: from the iPod, to the…
In the last few months, we’ve been receiving emails and telephone calls from independent filmmakers and students of filmmaking about affordable graphics cards for the systems they use for digital film editing. Most of these newcomers to the world of filmmaking had been using HD consumer camcorders, such as Cannon HF 20, to shoot their films in HD and, when editing on their desktop Windows systems, they had problems dealing with .mts files. Most of them claimed their computers had crippled after importing the .mts files into any of the well known Windows-based video editing programs, such as Adobe Premier…
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (The Brave-Hearted Will Take the Bride) is the biggest and longest running feature film in the history of Hindu cinema. Originally released in 1995, the blockbuster reached its 600 week (12 year) run in April of this year, securing its place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Yash Raj Films, the entertainment powerhouse with a freshly inked animation deal with Disney, released a massive 2-Disc DVD set of the super-hit which catapulted the careers of young stars Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan. Complete with behind the scenes footage, interviews, deleted scenes and award show highlights…