Avid Customers Embark on Journey to Park City
for Sundance Film Festival
Educational workshops, podcasts from Avid filmmakers and advice on the art
of editing
for aspiring storytellers on the agenda
Park City, Utah January 19, 2007 Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID)
today announced that a wide variety of creative storytellers who used Avid®
systems will take center stage at this year¹s Sundance Film Festival in Park
City, Utah from January 18-28. Avid tools were used in nearly every category
of competition this year, including Short Films, Dramatic Competition and
World Cinema and several of this year¹s entries were shot, edited and/or
output to HD. For those who can not attend the festival, Avid will provide
updates as well as host a number of podcasts and blogs on its newly-launched
independent film Webpage at: www.avid.com/indie.
Annie Sundberg, a 2007 Independent Spirit Award nominee and Director of the
2007 Sundance film The Devil Came on Horseback said, ³There are a lot of
tools available to filmmakers today, but I still prefer to use Avid on
projects that require a professional edge. When I¹m cranking in the edit
suite with my editor, I want to make sure what I am using is reliable,
transparent and able to deliver the highest-quality project every time. Film
editing is an art form and I can¹t afford to have technology interrupt my
creative flow and cause things to go wrong in the 11th hour.²
The entries at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival that were created using Avid
systems include documentaries, short films and feature-length dramas, such
as:
Bugmaster by director Katsuhiro Otomo, using Avid Media Composer®
Adrenaline? and Symphony? Nitris® systems;
Broken English by editor Andrew Weisblum, using Avid Xpress® Pro and Avid
DS Nitris systems;
Crazy Love by editor David Zieff, using Avid Xpress Pro and Media Composer
Adrenaline systems;
Clubland by editor Scott Gray, using a Media Composer system;
Dark Matter by editor Pam Wise, using an Avid Film Composer® system;
Death to the Tinman - by director Ray Tintori and editor Par Parekh, using
Avid Xpress Pro, Symphony Nitris and Digidesign® Pro Tools® systems; click
the following link to listen to the podcast: Avid Podcast Episode 005: At
Sundance: Bringing Death to the Tin Man to Life.
Delirious by editor Paul Zucker, using Avid Xpress Pro and Media Composer
Adrenaline systems;
The Devil Came on Horseback by director Annie Sundberg and editor Will
Cox, using Avid Xpress Pro and Symphony Nitris systems;
Eagle vs. Shark by editor Yana Gorskaya, using Avid Xpress DV software;
For the Bible Tells Me So by editor Nancy Kennedy, using Avid Xpress Pro
and Symphony Nitris systems;
Four Sheets to the Wind by editor David Michael Maurer, using Avid Xpress
Pro and Symphony Nitris systems; click the following link to listen to the
podcast:. Avid Podcast Episode 006: At Sundance: Four Sheets to the Wind
Grace is Gone by editor Joe Klotz, using Avid Xpress Pro software;
The Good Life by editor Sean Hubbert, using a Media Composer system;
I Just Wanted to Be Somebody by director/editor Jay Rosenblatt, using an
Avid Xpress system;
King of California by editor Glenn Garland, using a Media Composer system;
On The Road with Judas by director/editor JJ Lask and editor Jason Kileen,
using Media Composer Adrenaline and Avid Unity? systems;
Padre Nuestro by editor Aaron Yanes, created using Media Composer
Adrenaline and Avid DS Nitris systems;
The Signal by producer/editor assistant editor Alex Motlagh, using Avid
Xpress Pro and Symphony Nitris systems;
The Ten by editor Eric Kissack, using a Media Composer Adrenaline system;
Weapons by editor Jay Rabinowitz, using a Media Composer system;
Year of the Dog by editor, Dody Dorn, using an Avid Media Composer
Adrenaline system.
Jason Kileen, editor of the film On the Road with Judas, which was edited at
New York Post Production house PS260, said, ³Without Avid Unity, we couldn't
have been nearly as efficient in the cutting room. By sharing media and
making cuts simultaneously with director JJ Lask, we were able to make
creative collaboration on this film possible and seamless.²
Avid¹s Presence at Sundance
³For the past 13 years, Avid has been an official provider of the Sundance
Film Festival and has armed storytellers with the valuable insight,
direction, and tools to make moving and inspirational films,² said Ian
Calderon, Director of Digital Initiatives for the Sundance Institute. ³As
our relationship with Avid continues to flourish, we look forward to working
together to promote the new and exciting ways that indie filmmakers can
benefit from digital filmmaking, push their creativity to the limits, and
explore new mediums.²
Avid will have a presence at the New Frontier on Main (formerly known as the
Film Center) and will offer storytelling workshops that will help editors to
improve and hone their craft. At its booth in the New Frontier, Avid will
demonstrate how its cross-platform, software-only editing solutions Avid
Xpress Pro and Media Composer are changing the ways that next-generation
professionals can tell their stories. In addition, Avid will offer the
following workshops:
Understanding the Art of Editing Tuesday, January 23 Friday, January 26;
10:00 AM 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM 4:00 PM, daily. Join veteran film,
television, and music editor Norm Hollyn of the USC School of Cinematic Arts
for an interactive seminar. Using finished scenes and a Media Composer
system, Hollyn will show attendees how to bring characters to life, and
highlight the various nuances of creating memorable characters and story
lines. Norm is the author of The Film Editing Room Handbook. Registration is
required.
Tapeless Workflows for Independent Post Tuesday January 23 Friday 26;
2:30 PM 2:00 PM, daily. With endless capture mediums available to
filmmakers today such as optical discs, solid-state memory cards and
magnetic disk drives - tapeless camera systems are revolutionizing
independent filmmaking. In this session, Avid experts will teach attendees
how to plan and manage a tapeless project from pre-production to final
delivery, including best practices for editing with Sony XDCAM and Panasonic
P2 media. Registration is required.
All workshops will be held in the Avid Classroom in Workshop Area B at the
New Frontier, on the Lower Level of the Main Street Mall. For more
information or to sign up for classes, visit: http://festival.sundance.org.
Avid at the New York Lounge
Avid is also collaborating with ARRI and post production facility PostWorks,
New York at Sundance to demonstrate and discuss the latest advances in film,
camera, and editing technology at the NY Film Lounge at 545 Main Street.
Join industry experts from January 19 26, 9:00 AM 5:00 PM daily. Topics
to be covered will include: Tape-based RGB DI workflows and Solid State and
Disk-based HD formats.
About Avid Technology, Inc.
Avid Technology, Inc. is the world leader in digital nonlinear media
creation, management, and distribution solutions, enabling film, video,
audio, animation, games, and broadcast professionals to work more
efficiently, productively, and creatively. For more information about the
company¹s Oscar®, Grammy®, and Emmy® award-winning products and services,
please visit: www.avid.com.
© 2007 Avid Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Product features,
specifications, system requirements, and availability are subject to change
without notice. Avid, Digidesign, Film Composer, Pro Tools, Avid Xpress,
Media Composer, Symphony, Nitris, Adrenaline and Avid Unity are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of Avid Technology, Inc. or its
subsidiaries in the United States and/or other countries. Avid received an
Oscar statuette representing the 1998 Scientific and Technical Award for the
concept, design, and engineering of the Avid Film Composer system for motion
picture editing. Digidesign, Avid¹s audio division, received an Oscar
statuette representing the 2003 Scientific and Technical Award for the
design, development, and implementation of its Pro Tools digital audio
workstation. Academy Award and Oscar are trademarks and service marks of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Emmy is a registered trademark
of ATAS/NATAS. Grammy is a trademark of the National Academy of Recording
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