Filmworkers, Nashville, Edits and Posts GARTH BROOKS: YANKEE STADIUM LIVE in 4K | Filmworkers, Nashville, provided editorial and post-production finishing services for Garth Brooks: Yankee Stadium Live, a 2-hour concert special that recently debuted on AT&T’s Audience Network. Produced and directed by Jon Small, the special was captured, finished and broadcast in 4K and documents the superstar musician’s two sold out shows from last summer, the first ever concerts for a country artist at Yankee Stadium, and Brooks’ first appearance in New York City in 19 years. Filmworkers’ Adam Little edited the show; Colorist Jimmy Cadenas applied the final color grade.
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Lucky 21's Chad Ostrom Directs New Spot For The Home Depot | “So Advanced” reveals how life’s joys can lead to unexpected messes, and the lab tested and life tested paint that handle it. Director Chad Ostrom’s new spot for The Home Depot and Glidden via The Richards Group highlights the beauty in everyday moments and the comfort in making a house a home – one that is colorful in all ways, and better for it.
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Vitamin Pictures Reboots | Design and animation studio Vitamin Pictures relaunches with a new look, and an expanded roster. The studio’s newly-added CGsupervisor, designer, illustrator and character animator were among a handful of artists who contributed to the company’s latest round of creative works.
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The Colonie Is Chicago's Big Winner At AICE 2016 - Creative Editors Brian Sepanik + Keith Kristinat Winning Top Honors | The AICE Awards Show has grown into the post production industry’s premier competition for excellence in post production, creative editorial, music, color grading, design and sound. The Colonie creative editors, Brian Sepanik, and Keith Kristinat, received top honors at the 2016 AICE event, earning the editorial and post house the distinction of taking home the most awards of any Chicago-based company at this year’s presentation.
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Filmworkers Partners with Top Directors for Effects-Driven Spots | Filmworkers’ Rob Churchill has become the go-to visual effects wizard for some of the top directors in advertising. He recently joined director Spike Lee in placing actor Samuel L. Jackson into a series of swanky digital office sets. He teamed up with director David McNally of CoMPANY Films to save a businessman from a shark attack. And, for good measure, he helped Hungry Man director Hank Perlman relaunch the Coneheads into outer space.
published 2 years ago read more |
Filmworkers' Knack for Developing Talent Continues with Colorists Jeff Altman and Matt Harger | Filmworkers has a tradition for developing post-production talent and now it has two new stars in the making. Young colorists Jeff Altman and Matt Harger are producing standout work, and developing strong followings among local agencies and filmmakers for their enthusiasm, knowledge of digital cameras from the Alexa to the iPhone, and their ability to quickly work with clients to reach desired creative goals.
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Filmworkers and Churchill Studios Stage Shark Attack for La Quinta | From my Samsung Galaxy Note. Awesomely massive. Massively awesome. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Keith Gayhart" <artisanspr@artisanspr.biz>
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Craig Leffel Joins Filmworkers for Color Projects | Craig Leffel Joins Filmworkers for Color Projects
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Colorist Jeff Altman Joins Filmworkers | Filmworkers has boosted its creative staff with the addition of colorist Jeff Altman. A Chicago native, Altman spent the past two years in New York, working on advertising, digital content and feature film projects. On the commercial side, he’s done work for Pepsi, Capital One, Verizon, Intel and Mountain Dew, among other brands. His long-form credits include the independent features 6 Years from director Hannah Fidell, slated to premiere at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival, and Nasty Baby from Chilean director Sebastian Silva, which debuted last year at Sundance.
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Bob Ackerman Cuts Joe Pytka's Gritty, Urban McDonald's Spot - Delivering A Compelling Cinematic-Style Story | Burrell Communications Taps The Full Service Company’s Editorial, VFX And Finishing Services For
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Filmworkers Supplies the Creative Spark for Elegant "Misfit" Campaign | In a true, tour de force effort, Filmworkers, in association with 2DS Productions, has produced an elegant and inspired advertising campaign for Misfit, a wearable fitness tracker with a sleek design.
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Documentary Editors Rock ‘Filmage’ Post Production with AJA Io XT | "Filmage: The Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL" began as a passion project for a group of creatives working at Dallas-based post house CharlieUniformTango , and quickly evolved into a full-fledged documentary production. Within four years, the film's directors Deedle LaCour and Matt Riggle, along with editors Justin Wilson and James Rayburn, had traveled the world, combining a love for old-school punk music with filmmaking chops to deliver an indie flick that recounts the history and influence of punk rock legends the Descendents. The film features a compilation of present-day interviews with band members and industry influencers, fan video submissions and archived tour media. Editorial for the film required a portable and flexible workflow, for which Rayburn turned to AJA’s Io XT Thunderbolt-enabled professional video device for on-the-go I/O.
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Filmworkers Appoints Derek de Board to Executive Producer | Filmworkers has promoted Derek de Board to Executive Producer. De Board, who marks his tenth anniversary with the company this month, will oversee production activities, lead a team of producers and schedulers, direct sales and coordinate joint projects with Filmworkers’ Dallas and Nashville facilities, as well as other members of the Filmworkers Group (which include Vitamin, Giannini Creative and Tree House Edit). He will also serve as Executive Producer of Churchill Studio, Filmworkers’ newly formed, in-house visual effects studio.
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Toyota Avalon Campaign, Edited By Territory’s Terry King For Burrell Communications, Takes Home The Silver 2014 National ADDY Award | Toyota Avalon Spot,"The Pick Up," featuring Golden Globe winner, Idris Ela behind the wheel in the first of a trio of action-packed, spy-themed spots from "Only The Name Remains" campaign.
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Filmworkers Launches “Churchill’s Studio” for Visual Effects and CG | Continuing its expansion mode, Filmworkers has formed a new in-house creative unit, Churchill’s Studio, focused on visual effects and animation. Headed by Visual Effects Director Rob Churchill, the new unit will provide services ranging from compositing and visual effects to full CG production.
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Filmworkers Uses Scare Tactics in New Campaign for Cedar Fair | Filmworkers’ new creative unit Churchill Studio encourages viewers to face their worst fears (while enjoying the thrill of their lives) in a new spot for amusement park giant Cedar Fair and Chicago agency Cramer-Krasselt. "Everything You Fear" is an all-CG spot introducing "Banshee," a new roller coaster debuting at Cedar Fair’s Kings Island park this summer.
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Designer/Animator Erik Edmonson Joins Filmworkers Nashville | Award-winning motion graphics designer and animator Erik Edmondson has joined the creative team at Filmworkers, Nashville. The arrival of Edmondson, whose work spans commercials, broadcast design, title treatments and graphics, will allow Filmworkers to expand its menu of services, adding design and animation to its core post production offerings, which include editing, color correction, visual effects and editorial finishing.
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Matt Egan, Filmworkers Celebrate “Modern. Southern. Music.” with Hayden Panettiere and Belk | Matt Egan has directed Nashville star Hayden Panettiere in a new ad for Belk that is part of the fashion brand’s “Modern. Southern. Music.” campaign. Filmworkers provided post production services for the glamorous commercial, produced by Coin-Operated Films, which captures the actress arriving on location at the newly-renovated Country Music Hall of Fame for an evening shoot.
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Mr. Wolf Sets Up Shop in Santa Monica | Creative directors Danny Yoon and Duy Nguyen, and executive producer Mike Pryor have renamed their boutique visual effects and post production company and moved it into new digs in Santa Monica. Formerly known as 1.1 VFX, the company will now operate as Mr. Wolf and work out of new headquarters located within the offices of commercial production company Bully Pictures. The new space includes a bevy of resources for visual effects, compositing, editorial finishing and digital color correction, as well as room for further expansion.
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Filmworkers Nashville Supports Award-Winning Campaigns for Lewis Communications and The Buntin Group | The advertising awards season is in full swing and Filmworkers, Nashville, is proud to have contributed to a number of local and regional campaigns that are bringing home the gold.
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Filmworkers Sinks Its Teeth into McDonald's Olympics Campaign | Filmworkers provided post services for a new Olympics-themed campaign from McDonald’s and DDB, Chicago, that has plenty of “bite.” The new spots connect the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi with the McDonald’s brand by showing medal-winning performances from past games, and consumers watching at home while enjoying McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. Each spot ends with a shot juxtaposing the winning athlete, celebrating victory by biting a medal, with a consumer, who is also celebrating by biting a McNugget. U.S. snowboarder Louie Vito, ice hockey player Patrick Kane and speed skater Shani Davis are among those featured in the ads.
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Whitehouse Post Gets a Taste of Gold with McDonald’s via DDB Chicago | The biting of the medal has become an iconic symbol of victory at the Olympics. Coincidentally, the iconic Chicken McNugget is sometimes used to celebrate life’s smaller victories. Whether you’re a world-class athlete or a child who’s scored his first goal...The greatest victories are celebrated with a bite.
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Filmworkers Recreates Chicago History for DDB and The Field Museum | Filmworkers helped Chicago agency DDB recapture the thrills experienced by visitors to Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair in a new ad campaign for The Field Museum.
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Taillight TV Launches Porchlight – A Turnkey Production Company Dedicated To Spots + Digital Media | Porchlight, a turnkey commercial production company dedicated to providing advertising agencies and brands with innovative spots and short-form content for broadcast and emerging media, has opened its doors in Nashville.
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Filmworkers Helps State Farm Spokesman Aaron Rodgers Find a Seat in “Grill Class” | Filmworkers provided post-production services with a distinctive Windy City accent for the latest spot from State Farm. Conceived by Chicago agency DDB, the spot features State Farm spokesman Aaron Rodgers, who finds himself wedged uncomfortably between a pair of Bears fans during an airline flight. The two fans are played by George Wendt and Robert Smigel in a reprise of their roles as “Bob” and “Carl” from a classic "Saturday Night Live" skit. Bob and Carl poke fun at Rodgers as the “discount double check guy” while tending a pair of tray table grills filled with sizzling brats.
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Noted Senior Colorist Lynette Duensing Joins Cinelicious | Next-gen postproduction company Cinelicious is excited to welcome senior colorist Lynette Duensing. Lynette is an internationally renowned color talent who recently returned from a year working abroad in Shanghai. She will be based out of Cinelicious Santa Monica for commercial projects and lend her signature eye for grading to longform via Cinelicious Hollywood.
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Rediscover The Lost Art Of Getting TogetherGrand Large Inc., announces director Gaysorn Thavat’s latest commercial, Chinet’s “The Lost Art of Getting Together”, which brings home the idea that the most memorable connections still happen face-to-face.
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Something’s Fishy: Filmworkers’ Fred Keller Grades New State Farm Campaign | Filmworkers colorist Fred Keller applied the final color grade to a new spot for State Farm that makes a point about life insurance through a touching graveside scene that’s not quite what it seems.
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Filmworkers and Vitamin Sign with Heart, Brains & Nerve for Midwest Representation | Filmworkers has contracted Nathan Skillicorn and his company Heart, Brains, & Nerve to serve as its sales representative in the Midwest. Skillicorn will represent Filmworkers and its affiliate, the hybrid production studio Vitamin for advertising projects.
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Filmworkers and Vitamin Go to Bat for Nutri-Grain | Filmworkers and Vitamin recently provided visual effects and post-production services for a new, national spot about a family of vampires who learn to love mornings thanks to Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain.
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Treehouse Scores for Russell Athletic | Treehouse editor John McStravick helped capture the spirit of team sport in editing a new campaign for sporting apparel innovator Russell Athletic®. Conceived by Dallas agency The Richards Group, the campaign includes broadcast and online ads and features high school football players discussing values that bind their teams and lead them to excel.
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Matt Egan of Filmworkers Gives Spy Novel the Star Treatment | Derek Haas has seen a lot of slickly-produced trailers full of pyrotechnics, special effects, and sexy women. They are often part of the marketing campaigns for the films whose screenplays he’s written, films that include 3:10 to Yuma and Wanted. But it’s unusual for one of his spy novels to get the Hollywood treatment.
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Filmworkers Nashville Adds Colorist Jimmy Cadenas | In the first step in a new effort to grow and expand services, Filmworkers, Nashville, has added Jimmy Cadenas as Senior Colorist. Cadenas spent the past seven years at Filmworkers’ facilities in Chicago and Dallas where he learned his craft from some of the industry’s top colorists, and worked on projects ranging from national television commercials to music videos and feature films.
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Filmworkers Puts FotoKem’s nextLAB® in the HouseFotoKem’s nextLAB®, a powerful end-to-end software solution for file-based film and television productions, has been put into service at Chicago’s Filmworkers Club, where it will be used on certain projects to help manage input from camera dailies, through the color pipeline, to delivery. Filmworkers Club is a highly respected facility, providing post production for spots, shorts, features, and television in the Midwest. The software platform was installed in the facility in March.
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The Colonie’s Tom Pastorelle Teams Up With HY Connect For Series Of Blue Cross Blue Shield Spots. | Editor Tom Pastorelle of The Colonie has joined with HY Connect to create a series of four spots for Blue Cross Blue Shield, "Parachute, Horse, Guide and Birthday,” which are currently running in Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
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500 and Counting: Filmworkers' Adam Little Edits Music Videos for Some of the Music Industry's Biggest Stars | From B.B. King and Bruce Springsteen to Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift, many of the biggest names in pop, rock and country have passed through Adam Little’s editing room at Filmworkers, Nashville. He is the “go-to” music video editor for many of the country’s top directors, and has been editing music videos, as well as commercials, television specials, and other types of projects, for more than sixteen years.
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Tale of Three Tellys: Sonixphere Scores Sonic Trifecta at 33rd Annual Telly Awards | Sonixphere, a global resource for everything related to music and sound, has won three 2012 Telly Awards for the music and sound design it created for the Illinois Lottery spot Cash For Life. The humorous :30, produced via Energy BBDO, garnered Silver Tellys (top honors) for Best Composition and Best Use of Music for a Local, Regional or Cable TV Commercial, and a Bronze Telly in Sound Design.
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Filmworkers Grades “Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout”Filmworkers recently took part in a unique event testing the performance of the current generation of digital motion picture cameras, from leading edge camera systems used to shoot Hollywood blockbusters to the humble iPhone. The Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout was produced by camera dealer Zacuto and crane manufacturer Kessler Cranes. Like similar events produced by Zacuto in the past, RGCSO features side-by-side tests of camera systems made by Sony, Arri, Red, Canon, Panasonic and Apple. Filmworkers provided color grading services necessary to make direct comparisons between the output of the cameras. Grading was performed by colorist Jimmy Cardenas with additional grading by colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci.
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Filmworkers Post H-E-B Super Bowl “Alien” Spot | Filmworkers provided post-production services for a spot for Texas grocery chain H-E-B in which aliens invade the Lone Star State in search of tasty, store-brand food. Matt McClain performed final color correction for the 60-second commercial which debuted in Southwest markets during the Super Bowl broadcast. It will also air during other high-profile events, including the Academy Awards. An extended version is featured on the H-E-B Facebook page.
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Giannini Creative Launches Dallas OfficeGiannini Creative, one of the advertising industry’s leading providers of creative retouching, CGI/3D art and pre-media services, has opened a production studio in Dallas.
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Colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci Joins Filmworkers | Colorist Brian “Crash” Carlucci, whose work spans four continents and is a frequent collaborator of some of the world’s top ad agencies and commercial directors, has joined Filmworkers, Chicago, as Senior Colorist.
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The Colonie’s Tom Pastorelle Edits New Series of Happy Meal Spots for McDonald’s | The Colonie’s Tom Pastorelle has edited four spots for McDonald’s and Leo Burnett Chicago, promoting McDonald’s latest Happy Meal food choices and toy products. The spots were produced by Creative Film Management with Director Thor Freudenthal and Producer Kelly Amato.
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Editor/VFX Artist Tim Moore Joins Filmworkers Nashville | Award-winning editor and visual effects artist Tim Moore has joined Filmworkers, Nashville. A multi-talented artist, skilled in a variety of editorial and visual effects platforms, Moore arrives from Storyville Post, Nashville, where he primarily worked on television commercials. His credits include campaigns for the Nashville Predators, Pigeon Forge and RBC, Bank. He recently won a Gold Addy for Special Effects, for his work on a campaign for the Tennessee Lottery and The Buntin Group.
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Vitamin, Filmworkers Deliver for Freschetta | In a new ad campaign for Freschetta, a woman goes on an Alice-in-Wonderland-like journey in search of a better pizza. The campaign, conceived by St. Louis agency Cannonball, was produced by hybrid production studio Vitamin, which worked with its affiliate, Filmworkers, to provide a unique one-stop solution for the campaign that took it from the drawing board to the screen.
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Director Matthew Egan Joins Filmworkers | Director Matthew Egan, a specialist in branded entertainment and other new media content, has joined Filmworkers as part of its newly-formed production division Filmworkers Media Content. Egan has directed web-based projects for a number of national brands including Target, POM Wonderful, Geico and Chicago-based designer Agga B. At Filmworkers MC, he will pursue similar work and will also team with Filmworkers and its affiliates Vitamin and Giannini Creative to provide packaged creative services for broadcast and interactive.
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Giannini Creative Joins Filmworkers Group | Giannini Creative, a collective of some of the advertising industry’s top artists specializing in creative retouching, CGI for character development, animation and print, illustration and pre-media, has joined the Filmworkers group of creative services companies.
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Filmworkers Colorists Subject of Fine Art Portraits | Colorists are used to making images look beautiful, but almost never do they find themselves in front of the lens, serving as the subject matter for provocative pictures. An exception to that rule is provided by an intriguing series of portraits created by photographer Dean George of colorists from Filmworkers facilities in Chicago, Dallas and Nashville.
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Vitamin Merges with Lift Motion | Digital production studio Vitamin and motion graphics and animation specialist Lift Motion, both affiliates of the post house Filmworkers, have merged under the Vitamin banner.
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