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Freedom Rock On March 12, another of our Digital Intermediate projects will hit Polish cinema screens. This time it is a documentary about the emergence of rock music in Poland – “Beats of Freedom – zew wolności”, directed by Leszek Gnoiński, with camera work by Wojciech Słota. The film was produced by The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and television channel TVN. It is a colourful collection of memories from musicians, journalists and people involved in Polish rock music, combined with archival material – pictures, concert footage and newsreels. It is an unforgettable trip in time, allowing a rare insight into how Polish rock created history. The film’s soundtrack is filled with powerful classic tracks from bands such as Maanam, Kult, Tilt or Republika. “Beats of Freedom” won the Special Award in November 2009 at the Polish Film Festival in Chicago. Now, it can be viewed in Polish cinemas in traditional 35 mm projection or from digital copies which have been made by us at Chimney.
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Orły 2010
This coming Monday, March 1, at 7PM, The Polish Theatre in Warsaw will stage the Polish Film Awards – ORŁY (the Eagles). The Awards were first introduced back in 1999 by the Polish Film Academy. We are one of the sponsors of this special film event, and one of our graphics artists – Paweł Falkowski – together with director Bolek Pawica created the ceremony's visual graphics design. The award statuettes will be handed out in 15 categories. You can find full information about the nominees at the Awards' official web page: http://www.pnf.pl/
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„Sanatorium pod klepsydrą” returns to cinemas Digitally reconstructed by us, „Sanatorium pod Klepsydrą” (dir. Wojciech J. Has) returns to cinema screens after 37 years! Kino RP group, which Chimney is part of, together with cinema theatre chains Multikino and Silverscreen shows reconstructed Polish classics every second Monday of the month.
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Chimney in media It began with a morning show on Radio Euro dedicated to special effects in films – our own Marcin Drabiński (3D Artist) and Jacek Skrobisz
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Commercial campaigns from Plus At the turn of the year, we worked on comprehensive post production of two major campaigns for Polkomtel. It was yet another very successful cooperation with PZL Agency.
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Masters, copies and keys – digital dimension of cinema Digital cinema, and consequently the distribution of digital copies, is making big leaps forward on the Polish cinema market – and we have our own undisputed contribution to it. Last September, we participated in a pioneering venture – Poland’s first digital distribution, handled by Syrena Films, of “Janosik. The True Story”, directed by Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik, with cinematography by Martin Štrba. We ended the film’s DI process with recording to film stock and, more importantly, with the making of a master for digital cinema. Then, “Janosik’s” digital copies, together with the key, were sent to cinemas around Poland, as well as the Czech Republic and Slovakia.But that’s not all – we also made digital cinema masters and distribution copies with keys for „The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler”, „Handlarz cudów”, „Beats of Freedom”, „Rewers” and „Rabbit à la Berlin”. Who will be next?
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Syta Street in first taxi zone In pre-Christmas rush some of you may have missed the good news that as of December 1 last year Warsaw authorities enlarged the so-called first taxi zone. The decision means that Syta 68A is now in the first zone – which translates into cheaper taxi fares if you come to us in a cab!
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The Year of Features – our DI A.D. 2009 The year 2009 was so busy feature-wise that it deserves a summary. Not only did we made Digital Intermediate for 11 films which were screened in the main competition at last year’s Polish Feature Films Festival in Gdynia. All in all, we worked on 22 features in 2009! So here it is – the long list of our DI titles: “Sweet Rush”, „Popieluszko. Freedom is Within Us”, „The Forrest”, „Janosik. The True Story”, „U Pana Boga za miedzą”, „ The Perfect Guy for My Girlfriend”, „General, The Attempt at Gibraltar”, „Chemia”, „I Am Yours” (RED), „Piksele”, „Demakijaż”, „Handlarz cudów” (RED), „Huśtawka”, „The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler”, „The Magic Tree”, „Rewizyta”, „Historia jednego listu”, „Zuzanna”, „Incydent”, „Esterhazy”, „War Games” and „Beats of Freedom”.
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Umocniony online After a five-year break, Jacek Skrobisz – one of the best on-line operators in the Polish post production industry – returns to Chimney. Jacek is a highly regarded specialist in special effects generated on Autodesk systems (Inferno, Flame and Smoke) and on Shake and Nuke. His talent and extensive experience strengthen our compositing section as SFX Supervisor.
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Radio Chimney This morning’s “Fourth dimension” talk-show on Polish Radio’s Euro 92 FM was dedicated to special effects in film productions. Our own Marcin Drabiński (3D Artist) and Jacek Skrobisz (SFX Supervisor) were invited to the studio to talk about their work and to share their experiences.
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Digital side of “Rewers” On November 13, “Rewers” (Reverse) opened in cinema theatres, directed by Borys Lankosz and with cinematography by Marcin Koszałka. The moving picture was a major winner at this year’s film festival in Gdynia, and it’s a Polish candidate for the Oscars®. Thanks to our efforts, “Rewers” also hit the cinemas in a digital format – we prepared the digital cinema master and distribution copies with digital keys. Colour grading for digital cinema was done by Steve Kent.
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Steve Kent at Chimney Our Canadian master of colour grading continues his stay at The Chimney Pot. Steve Kent has been working with us for many years now, adding his talent to numerous commercial and feature projects (including the reconstruction of “The Saragossa Manuscript” and “Wesele”), and sharing his knowledge and experience with our own colour grading team. Steve will end this year’s stay at TCP in December so we encourage everyone to take this opportunity and use Steve’s talents in the Spirit and Nucoda in the coming weeks.
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Mediaschool 2009 On October 24, the 16th International Film and TV Schools Festival "Mediaschool 2009” came to a close in Łódź. 32 film schools from 22 countries from around the globe took part in the event which ran from October 20.
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The Chimney Pot wins at MTV Video Music Awards 2009! The Chimney Pot Stockholm won the Best Special Effects award for their work on the Lady GaGa video “Paparazzi” (dir. Jonas Åkerlund). The project team comprised of: Peter Törnestam, Martin Nilsson and Markus Lundqvist (online), Anna Lindqvist (graphics) and Dave Hussey (colour grading). The “Moon Man” statuette, received at the September 13 Awards gala in New York, brings joy to all of us. Congratulations!!!
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Janosik - true digital story September 4 saw the Polish premiere of the latest feature from directors Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik, with cinematography by Martin Štrba – “Janosik. Prawdziwa historia” (Janosik. True story). We worked on the entire picture in Digital Intermediate technology. Ola Kraus colour graded the material in Nucoda Film Master. The whole DI process ended with recording to film stock and – more importantly – creation of a master for digital cinema. Yet again, we are participating in a pioneering venture – Poland’s first digital distribution, handled by Syrena Films. Our digital copies of “Janosik” (with digital keys) have been distributed to cinemas around the country. Additional copies have also been sent to cinemas in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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Our DI in Gdynia! 34th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia is getting closer every day – this year it will be held on September 14-19. Twelve of the features being screened during the Festival have been handled by us – we worked on them in the Digital Intermediate technology. Main Competition Panorama of Polish Cinema Come to Gdynia and enjoy the Festival!
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Jacek Skrobisz back at Chimney After a five-year break, Jacek Skrobisz – one of the best on-line operators in the Polish post production industry – returns to Chimney. Jacek is a highly regarded specialist in special effects generated on Autodesk systems (Inferno, Flame and Smoke) and on Shake. His talent and extensive experience will strengthen our compositing section, where he will act as SFX Supervisor.
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Water Campaign „Little water is a torture” – that’s the catch phrase from the latest Water Campaign by the Polish Humanitarian Action. Together with FireFly agency, we have created a television promo with striking visuals. Our graphics artists Janek Białek made a series of drawings which he later scanned and digitally animated. This original 25-second spot can be viewed in our Commercials Gallery section. The purpose of the nationwide PHA Campaign is to raise public awareness to the problem of drinking water access and deficiency. The promo’s visuals draw on the Chinese water torture where drops of water fall on a victim’s head at short intervals causing physical and psychological pain. The same level of pain can be felt when being denied access to drinking water. A dedicated web-page has been set up for the action: www.wodapitna.pl. The campaign will run until mid-August.
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The Saga of the Prehistoric Forest We are currently drawing to the end of a long-term feature project called
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Submarine Simplus We have finished yet another commercial in Simplus’ ‘feature film series’ campaign. After soap opera, western, thriller and French Revolution,
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Demakijaż after DI We have finished another DI job – the “Demakijaż” project. It came into being as part of the “30 minutes” program run by the Andrzej Munk young filmmakers’ Studio “Młodzi i Film”, part of Polish Filmmakers’ Association. “Demakijaż” consists of three half-hour stories: “Non stop kolor”
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Orange line of words Orange’s Line of Words is the latest tv commercial which we post produced for mobile communications company PTK Centertel. The spot was directed and shot by Łukasz Kośmicki. Our own Ola Kraus handled the commercial’s final transfer in the Spirit telecine. All of the special effects – the graphics, animation and online finish – were done by the head of our 3D team,
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U Pana Boga trilogy Friday June 19 was the opening night for the third installment in the popular trilogy from Jacek Bromski (director) and Ryszard Lenczewski (DOP) – “U Pana Boga za miedzą”. The title is another addition to our fast growing list of Digital Intermediate feature posts. The original material – shot on 35mm negative – was scanned and conformed. Wiktor Sasim colour graded the film in Nucoda. The finished picture was then recorded to film for cinema screenings. Parallel to that, we worked on the television series.
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Reconstruction of early Zanussi “Śmierć prowincjała” was made in 1965 by Krzysztof Zanussi as his director’s diploma film (Jan Hesse was DOP), and we have just finished its digital reconstruction. The 28-minute black-and-white piece was digitally cleaned – we removed scratches, repaired damaged frames, masked edit cuts and reduced strobing. On June 17, the film had its digital premiere screening at Dom Kultury “Świt”, the event being organized by the KINO RP group which we are part of. The showing accompanied a day-long seminar “Digital heritage – future culture” held in the Polish Parliament building. The seminar was organized by Polish Program Committee “Informacja dla Wszystkich” under
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New DI projects It is really hot season for us at Chimney, when it comes to feature film projects. We have just finished post production of three features in Digital Intermediate technology, and the films are now waiting for their cinema debuts. They are:
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Open’er is getting closer Heineken Open’er Festival in Gdynia is getting ever so closer – this year it will be held on July 2-5. The big music event has already earned the recognition as being one of Europe’s most important international summer festivals.
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Presentation at Forum Around Cinema 2009 The 27th Forum Around Cinema held its summer session at the town of Iława on June 2-4. The Forum’s second day focused on technological changes in the film industry, with the main theme of digital technology. Such focus prompted us to have our say in the discussion. In a special session held at Iława’s “Pasja” cinema theatre, Jędrzej Sabliński and Kamil Rutkowski presented our expertise in the preparation of film material for digital cinema. They talked about the preparation of copies in DCP (Digital Cinema Package) format, explained specialist terminology, and illustrated the subject matter with a 15-minute long digital screening of films made by us in 2K. Yet again, we proved that new technologies are no strangers to us.
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We are Post House of the Year! We have won major recognition at this year’s Polish Advertising Competition KTR where our company was named Post Production House of the Year! The gala finale was held on April 29 at Warsaw’s Golden Terraces Multikino cinema complex. This was the Competition’s sixth edition. Kamil Grzelak and his 3D graphics team also won the Bronze Award in the TV Craftsmanship – Special Effects category for Domiporta Businessman commercial (directed by Bartek Ignaciuk, shot by Marek Sanak).
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Support for social campaign “Don’t waste food. Trash your old habits” – that is the slogan of a nationwide social campaign organized by the Polish Food Banks’ Federation. The campaign’s aim is to raise public awareness on the negative ecological, social and economic effects of wasting food. As part of our support for this project we made free broadcast tapes with the campaign’s commercials for television screenings. And as the campaign’s partners we recommend a visit to its web page: www.niemarnuje.pl.
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Coal in Katowice On April 23, sixth Węgiel (Coal) Student Film Festival came to the end. It was part of open days at the Silesian University’s Radio and Television Department. The festival’s aim is to showcase short films made by film students from around Poland. Traditionally, our company funded the award for the winner in the best pictures category. This year, colour grading session in our telecine was won by Kacper Fertacz for his work on two films: “Grandma is going away” (directed by Tomasz Jurkiewicz) and “I know who did it” (directed by Jan P. Matuszyński). Our congratulations!
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Digital premiere of ”Tatarak” On Wednesday, April 22, Multikino at Złote Tarasy in Warsaw held the official premiere of ”Tatarak”, directed by Andrzej Wajda, with cinematography by Paweł Edelman. For this special evening, we prepared digital projection of the film according to DCI standards. Mr Andrzej Wajda publicly expressed his joy at the fact that his film can be presented at its premiere in such a modern way. We have also done full post production of the feature in Digital Intermediate 2K. Colour grading was done by Ola Kraus, under the watchful eye of the film’s D.O.P., Paweł Edelman. We also contributed special effects in online and 3D, as well as opening titles and end credits, created by Radek Rekita.
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Commercial for VH1 We can boast of VH1 Microcosmos commercial, one of the two spots which we have prepared for Lowe GGK agency. The main goal of this work was to process record covers to create an impression of depth and three-dimensionality by overlapping elements - the animation and compositing were done by Janek Białek. The Agency has entered this commercial in this year’s KTR contest. You can watch it on our web page in the Commercials Gallery section.
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New Simplus We have finished postproducion of next commercial project in high resolution – „Simplus Revolution” (directed by Maciej Kowalczuk and shot by Bartek Kaczmarek). Colour grading at Nucoda was done by Ola Kraus and online by Paweł Falkowski. For television purposes we made a PAL broadcast version, while for cinemas we recorded files in 2K.
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Chimney at Insight Out Our company took part international Insight Out workshops which are annually organized by HFF Film & Television University in Potsdam (http://www.insightout-training.net). On Moday, March 23, Jedrzej Sablinski and Kamil Rutkowski participated in a case study focusing on the film “Popiełuszko”. They discussed our Digital Intermediate 4K work on the picture. They had a multimedia presentation on the film’s post production, and excerpts were screened from a digital cinema projector. All workshops participants congratulated us the excellent screening and next successful
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Orange – post production from RED camera We have finished work on Orange’s “Road” commercial, directed by Kasia Adamik and shot by Adam Bajerski. The material was recorded with a RED camera. The whole post production process was handled in 2K resolution – from preparation of files for editing, done by Andrzej Kowalski, through colour grading of RAW files on Nucoda by Ola Kraus, to online finish by Paweł Falkowski. For television purposes, we made a PAL broadcast version, while for cinemas we recorded a 45-second cut in 2K.
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New ”Hourglass Sanatorium” The Chimney Pot belongs to KINO RP – a group of companies with goal
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Prize for ”Tatarak” Andrzej Wajda’s “Tatarak” was awarded the Alfred Bauer Prize at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival which closed on February 15. The name of the Prize honours the creator of the Berlinale festival, and each year the Prize goes to a film that “opens new perspectives in the art of filmmaking.”
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Another of our DI projects in cinemas January 29 saw the premiere of „Idealny facet dla mojej dziewczyny” (Ideal man for my girlfriend), the third production from the creators of „Lejdis” and „Testosteron” – screenwriter Andrzej Saramonowicz, director Tomasz Konecki and cinematographer Tomasz Madejski. The new film – like the previous two box office hits – was postproduced by Chimney in the Digital Intermerdiate technology. Colour grading was done in Nucoda by Ola Kraus, while opening titles, end credits and ‘cosmic’ interval titles were created by Paweł Falkowski.
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"Tatarak" at Berlinale Andrzej Wajda’s latest motion picture “Tatarak” has been selected for the main competition at the 59. International Film Festival in Berlin, this year held February 5-15. The film, shot by Paweł Edelman, ends a long break in Poland’s fight for the Golden Bear Award. We are proud of this selection as we played a major role in creating the film’s final look, contributing full post production in Digital Intermediate technology, as well as special effects from our 3D
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Esterhazy Bunny We have completed work on “Esterhazy”, an animated film directed by Izabela Plucińska. The screenplay was adapted from a German children’s book by the same title, written by Irene Dische and Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
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Nesvita by 3D We want to give a big round of applause to our 3D department for their work on the „Nesvita: my ideal breakfast” commercial which is part of a campaign
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Christmas Orange We have post produced a series of commercials for this year’s top-loaded Christmas campaign by Orange. It features the “Orange Christmas” ads
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New work from "Wilk" We met Mariusz “Wilk” Wilczyński while recording to film his animated work
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Next Autodesk upgrade Our brand new online systems : Inferno, Flame and Smoke have been upgraded to 2009 version. All of them offer work in HD resolution in real time. The new online systems are "fully optioned" with the latest sparks - SpeedSix Box, SpeedSix Raptor, GenArts Sapphire, Foundry Tinder, Foundry Furnace. They have AJA OEM 2K video cards so the systems can work with uncompressed HD material (4:4:4). Our new online stations work in all video formats up to 4K.
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Chimney goes RED Meeting our customers’ needs and expectations, we offer now full postproduction of R3D picture files from RED ONE camera. Do you trust the Avid? At Chimney, we edit RED material in the Avid. Colour grading is done in Nucoda, directly on R3D RAW files. This ensures you work on the best possible material that the RED camera can produce. And we prepare your material for editing faster than you would expect!
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Mediaschool 2008 On Saturday, October 25, XV International Film and TV Schools Festival
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"Popiełuszko" – another feature in 4K We are working on another 4K Digital Intermediate. It is “Popiełuszko”, written and directed by Rafał Wieczyński, and shot by Grzegorz Kędzierski on 35mm film stock. It will be a 160-minute feature about the life and tragic death of father Jerzy Popiełuszko. The film’s premiere is planned for February 2009.
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Commercial spots in high resolution We are proud to announce that we have postproduced two commercial projects, giving them full 2K and HD treatment from start to finish.
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Post Meridian at Chimney Post Meridian’s sound studio is already up and running under our roof.
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„Tomorrow it will be better” „Tomorrow it will be better” is the latest feature film from the magic pair of film-makers: Dorota Kędzierzawska and Arthur Reinhart.
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The Chimney Party September 5th was a very special day in the history of The Chimney Pot in Warsaw – we loudly celebrated the company’s 10th anniversary and the opening of our new house. Almost 400 guests walked the red carpet to the awaiting attractions – tasty international cuisine, exotic drinks, birthday cake, club music presented by Michael Moritz and DJ Ros & Wiosna, and the casino. The party went on for 7 hours, additionally fueled by the unseasonally warm weather.
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„Nieruchomy Poruszyciel” We have done some pieces of Digital Intermediate 4K technology – in the latest feature film from director Łukasz Barczyk,
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EURO 2008 in HD We invite all football fans to our new office at Syta Street – only here you can watch the Euro 2008 competition in HD format on the 70-inch Sony screen.
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New „loaded” online The opening of our new office at Syta Street has provided a good opportunity to launch our brand new online systems which have replaced the previous generation – Inferno 2008, Flame 2008 and Smoke 2008 now offer work in HD resolution in real time. The systems have been designed for powerful
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Our new house As of Monday, May 5, we opened our new headquarters located at 68A Syta Street, in the scenic surroundings of the fields of Wilanów. We now have much more space (1500 m² or 60% more than at Obornicka St.), more pleasant surroundings (lots of greenery) and some new equipment (the latest versions of Inferno, Flame and Smoke running on brand new computers).
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Eagles handed out On April 14, the Polish Film Academy held its 10th annual awards ceremony - Orły 2008 (Eagles). 28 features were in the competion this year.
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New "Glina" Crime series "Glina" (Cop), directed by Władysław Pasikowski, returns to tv screens.
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Restored "Sanatorium pod klepsydrą" on Kino Polska tv channel On March 26, at 8pm, tv channel Kino Polska will premiere digitally restored "Sanatorium pod klepsydrą", directed by Wojciech Jerzy Has, cinematography by Witold Sobociński. We started renovation work on the picture in High Definition in the fall of last year, using Spirit da Vinci 2K+, Digital Vision's DVNR grain reducer and Revival from daVinci. The archival film was digitally cleaned by us - we removed scratches, defects and repaired damaged frames.
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“Mała wielka Miłość” opens Yet another of our DI projects opened in cinemas
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Oscar for The Chimney Pot Oslo, too. This year, the American Film Academy's Award in the short animated film category went to the
Polish-British co-production "Peter and the Wolf", directed by Suzie Templeton. The animated film was
made by Poland's Se-ma-for Studio and Britain's Breakthru Films. This Oscar is also a recognition for The
Chimney Pot Oslo where the film's sound was produced.
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Our another DI in cinemas "Lejdis" (Ladies), the new comedy from director Tomasz Konecki and cinematographer Tomasz Madejski, hit Polish cinema screens on February 1.
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4K presentation in Paris We were invited to take part in the International Digital Film Forum (www.idiff.org) which took place in Paris in late January and early February.
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Oscar nomination for "Katyn"
"Katyń" in 4K has been nominated to this year's Oscars in the Best Non-English Language Feature category. Andrzej Wajda's epic story will be in competition with the following pictures: "12" by Nikita Michalkow (Russia), "The Counterfeiters" by Stefan Ruzowitzky (Austria), "Beaufort" by Joseph Cedar (Israel) and "Mongol" by Sergei Bodrov (Kazakhstan). The Academy Awards ceremony will be held in Hollywood on February 24.
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KIZI MIZI at Berlinale 2008 This year's International Film Festival in Berlin is drawing near. Berlinale Shorts - the festival's short film section - will include Mariusz Wilczyński's animation "Kizi Mizi" which we had an item on a short while ago. This animated short, together with another 28 films chosen from 1500 entries from 64 countries, is in competition for the DAAD Short Film Award and Prix UIP for the best European short film.
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International travels by "Pora umierać" "Pora umierać" (Time to Die) - directed by Dorota Kędzierzawska, and shot by Arthur Reinhart - has just had its American premiere at the Palm Springs Film Festival (January 3-14). Soon, it will be screened at three other international festivals - in Trieste, Santa Barbara and Göteborg. The film premiered in Poland on October 17, 2007. "Pora umierać" is one of our proud achievements - work on the film was a technological adventure, as the picture had been shot on Fuji colour negative, and we turned it into a black-and-white positive!
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4K presentation in Berlin and Paris Andrzej Wajda's "Katyń", with Paweł Edelman's camera work, will be shown at the 58th International Film Festival in Berlin, this year held on February 7-17. It is another opportunity for us to promote a production which we are very proud of, and which is also a European technological debut - a whole feature post produced in Digital Intermediate 4K technology. "Katyń" has been digitally processed in the highest resolution. The final 4K picture being screened in cinemas carries more than 14 million pixels in each frame, compared to "just" 3,5 million in the traditional 2K resolution. Thus, work in 4K allows for more details to be reproduced in the picture. It is made possible by a well-planned Digital Intermediate process involving work with the following systems: Arriscan, Nucoda Data Conform, Nucoda Film Master and ArriLaser. All of "Katyń's" production material took up approx. 24 TB of disk space - it was more than 1 million various computer files. Our 4K work had a successful presentation last September, at IBC in Amsterdam, and soon it will be showcased in Paris at the International Digital Film Forum (January 30 - February 1).
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New DI projects
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"Kizi Mizi" We have finished recording to film tape the latest work by Mariusz "Wilk" Wilczyński, "Kizi Mizi". Mariusz Wilczyński is one of the most active, talented and versatile animation artists to come out of Poland in recent years. He graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Łódź (Graphics and Painting), and his films are screened at the world's most prestigious festivals where they win him awards. Wilczyński has also made animated clips to music by Tomasz Stańko and Krzesimir Dębski. For more information about the artists visit: www.wilkwilk.pl.
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Fun in Full HD We have just purchased a 70-inch Full HD Sony Bravia television set, offering one of the largest viewing experiences available in such high quality. It is yet one more reason to visit our facility - for some fun in high definition. The Sony set has quickly become a popular success with our guests and customers, so we put at their disposal a fast growing number of computer games and quality features on Blu-ray discs.
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3D section is growing Our 3D graphics and animation section keeps on growing. Recently, the crew of Kamil Grzelak, Marcin Drabiński, Tomek Witkowski and Grzegorz Bałazy has been joined by another young graphics artist - Artur Szymczak. Artur has three years' experience in graphical work. We wish him a successful start to his new career in our team.
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Mediaschool 2007 The 14th International Film and Television Schools' Festival in Łódź closed on Saturday, October 20. Over the course of the event, members of the international jury saw close to 90 student films entered in the competition by film schools from all over the world. Traditionally, our company funded a special award for the highest ranked entry by a Polish film-maker. This year, the award went to "52 Procent" by Rafał Skalski from the highly acclaimed Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź. The film won Second Prize in the Festival's official competition. The Grand Prix was awarded to "Almost Six Feet Too Deep" by Matevź Luzar from the University of Ljubljana - Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Slovenia.
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IBC 2007 We had an unprecedented opportunity to present Chimney's achievements in Digital Intermediate technology at this year's IBC in Amsterdam.
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Rejuvenation of "Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą" We are renovating "Sanatorium Pod Klepsydrą" for the TV channel Kino Polska. The rejuvenation is being done in High Definition. It is our contribution to the promotion
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"Our" films at the Gdynia Festiwal Seven out of a total of 21 features being shown at this year's Polish Feature Films Festival in Gdynia have been handled by us. We have worked on them in the Digital Intermediate technology.
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New Film by Łukasz Barczyk We have done one-light transfers of Łukasz Barczyk's latest feature, "Nieruchomy poruszyciel". Filip Styliński and Łukasz Huptyś worked on the film.
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Colour grading off a projector Following the example of Western post production houses, we have installed a JVC full-HD digital projector for colour grading. It demonstrates outstanding colour and contrast stability, and produces great results when used for colour grading of feature films and cinema commercials. The projector has been carefully calibrated for a high-fidelity transfer of a colour-graded picture from the computer to the big screen.
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HD extensions Our HD services have been broadened recently:
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Expansion to the East Early this year, The Chimney Pot group branched out to Moscow and Kiev. The Moscow facility offers Nucoda Film Master, Millennium scanner and graphical stations. Kiev comes with the Spirit telecine, da Vinci 2K+ colour corrector as well as offline and online services. We also have a local 3D partner company there - Wizard
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New faces Our post production crew has been boosted by two graphics artists.
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3D section is growing Our 3D team - Kamil Grzelak, Marcin Drabiński and Tomek Witkowski - has been joined by another graphics artist, Grzegorz Bałazy. He is developing his skills under the watchful eyes of his experienced teammates.
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Commercial in HD Advanced technologies now make more frequent appearances in the production of Polish commercials. Recently, we have post produced one such commercial for Telekomunikacja Polska - "Screens" (Ekrany), directed and shot by Artur Reinhart for Testardo Red Cell agency. A Genesis HD camera was used on the set, equipped with a hothead which allows three-axis movement. Our graphics guys had to reproduce the camera's exact movements in 3D environment to insert screens visible in the finished commercial.
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