| | | | | Mel Brooks To Receive 41st AFI Life Achievement Award
 America's Highest Honor for a Career in Film to be Presented June 6, 2013; Tribute will Air on TNT and Turner Classic Movies
Sir Howard Stringer, Chair of the American Film Institute’s Board of Trustees, announced today the Board’s decision to honor Mel Brooks with the 41st AFI Life Achievement Award, the highest honor for a career in film. The award will be presented to Brooks at a gala tribute on Thursday, June 6, 2013 in Los Angeles, CA.
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| | | | 2012 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards Announce Nominees
The Hollywood Post Alliance has announced the nominees for the 2012 HPA Awards. The Awards honor excellence in post production and bring recognition to the achievements of individuals and companies who are engaged in significant and revolutionary work in post production. The nominees in the 12 craft categories were chosen from a field of talented and innovative entries in color grading, editing, sound, and compositing for motion pictures, commercials and television. This year marked the largest number of entries in the Awards' history. The winners of the 2012 HPA Awards will be announced at a gala evening at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA on November 1st, 2012.
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| | | | Universal 100th Anniversary Collection Limited Edition Available on Blu-ray™ and DVD November 6th, 2012
 A Selection of 25 of Universal's Most Iconic Films Together for the First Time in Celebration of the Studio's Centennial Anniversary
The Universal 100th Anniversary Collection includes an exclusive "100 Years of Universal" 72-Page collector's book chronicling the history of Universal over the last 100 years including rare photos and memorabilia from the studio's archives. The collection also includes an exclusive 15-track music CD containing a selection of the most popular music scores from Universal films including Psycho, The Sting, Jaws, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Out of Africa . Featuring hours of bonus features including an exclusive bonus disc, including 8 "100 Years of Universal" featurettes, vintage cartoons and rarely seen shorts from the Universal archives.
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| | | | Kirk Talent's Office Destroyed by Fire
 The Vancouver-based talent agency has managed to not miss a beat with clients and its services offered
Lesa Kirk is devastated to announce that her newly renovated offices at Kirk Talent were destroyed by fire. The building that Kirk Talent operates out of located at 70 Second Avenue East in Vancouver experienced a serious fire on Thursday evening, July 19th. Kirk Talent had gone through a major renovation and moved into this office just a year and a half ago. Despite this hardship suffered by the company—the talent agency hasn’t missed a beat with its client and services, which they are able to keep up with through virtual communications.
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| | | | 2011 Hollywood Post Alliance Awards Winners Unveiled
 The Post Production Community and Industry Innovators Receive Honors in Gala Evening
Tonight, during a gala evening of celebration at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Post Alliance® – the professional organization for the post production community - presented the Sixth Annual HPA Awards to a sold out audience of industry insiders and luminaries. Individuals were honored in 12 creative categories as well as a number of special awards for Engineering Excellence, Lifetime Achievement and Creativity and Innovation, which had been announced earlier. The HPA Awards honor the best of the best talent working behind the scenes in motion pictures, television and commercials as well as the most innovative technologies in post.
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| | | | Green Dot Films’ Cohen Cooks Up Mom-And-Pop Shop Success For Google Chrome
 LA-based Green Dot Films director Omri Cohen captures entrepreneurial and culinary creativity in the new :60 “Austin” for Google Chrome – Small Business out of agency GOOD/Corps, Los Angeles, CA. The spot features Austin, TX couple Daniel and Jennifer Northcutt discussing their evolving journey to create an artisan sausage restaurant where musicians and artists come to satiate both their creative and culinary appetites. The documentary-style footage fused with Google application screenshots sheds light on the young couple as they venture to start a family and a business out of pure passion.
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| | | | Autodesk Presents Visual Effects Software for Digital Entertainment Creation
New Versions and New Product Launch Raise Creative Bar and Help to Improve Efficiency
Autodesk, Inc., will participate in the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show in Las Vegas, April 18-23, 2009. At NAB, Autodesk expects to unveil a new product and showcase its latest visual effects, finishing, color grading and animation solutions for film, television and commercial post-production.
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| | | | Final Cut/LA Welcomes Editors Matt Murphy & Dean Gonzalez
Final Cut/Los Angeles has expanded its team again with the signing of Editors Matt Murphy and Dean Gonzalez. Murphy just completed a spot for Jawbone via ad agency Crispin Porter & Bogusky. Gonzalez is working on music videos for 9th Ward and LL Cool J, as well as spots for Adidas and Jimmy Choo.
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| | | | Smoke & Mirrors New York Adds Kirk Balden
Smoke & Mirrors New York proudly welcomes award-winning VFX Supervisor/Senior Flame Artist, Kirk Balden into the fold. Most recently, Kirk was a VFX supervisor/Flame/Smoke artist at LA-based A52 where he worked on notable projects for Microsoft, Nike, Lexus, Jeep and the main title sequence for HBO's Emmy nominated original program, Rome.
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