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PISF camera at Syta Street A Polish Film Institute (PISF) crew has visited our house with a camera to make a film about Chimney’s involvement in the restoration of old Polish cinema classics, and to show how we work on digital reconstruction. It is worth reminding that in 2011 The Chimney Pot received The Institute’s Award in the category of “Digital reconstruction of Polish cinematography’s masterpieces” during the 36th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia. You can view the material here.
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BRIEF Magazine on Chimney We strongly encourage a look at the January issue of the BRIEF Magazine. Inside, you will find an article on Chimney titled “A house on three legs” and an interview with Jędrzej Sabliński titled “Post production under one roof”. The Chimney Pot’s Managing Director has been nominated for the BRIEF Magazine’s “Advertising Industry’s Man of the Year 2011”. The popular publication’s traditional paper form has now been joined by its digital version for iPad. It is definitely recommended reading!
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More creativity and animation from The Chimney Pot From the very start to 2012, Jerzy Kępiński and Mateusz Masłowski join The Chimney Pot team as Creative Directors, enlarging our portfolio. Kępiński and Masłowski will be responsible for TCP’s creative product and client support (animation direction, creative supervision). The team, known as Jerz von Matt (JvM), has been operating in the advertising industry since 2003 – first as creatives for S&F Warszawa / Berlin, Touchpoint/DDB, Grey, Y&R, and later as creative directors at Ogilvy Interactive and Wunderman/Y&R. JvM’s first collaboration with TCP was a production for the National Stadium and a commercial “Serce I Rozum” for TP S.A. Meanwhile, 3D animation team The Bug (headed by Adam Torczyński), which was incorporated into TCP structure last year, moved to Syta 68A as of January 2012. Together with Chimney’s own graphics department, they form one cohesive organism, working under one roof and offering clients a full spectrum of computer animation services.
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Special production for ING Bank Śląski Do you remember the feature “Baby są jakieś inne”, the way it was filmed, and the number of special effects we created for it? Here we had been asked to do a similar job, but this time for a series of commercials for ING Bank Śląski. The spots are a collaboration by Brain agency, Banana Split production house and The Chimney Pot. Naturally, we handled the whole post production process which in this instance played the main role as it required our involvement right from the very start of this production. Here is how it worked. The passenger carriage was in a studio, surround by greenbox. Scenes with passengers were filmed in this set up. The backgrounds – scenery seen through the train’s windows – were filmed separately. Then, our Chimney specialists performed compositing of the highest level – placing the backgrounds into the train’s windows, removing tracking points, adding reflections in windows, adjusting colours and making all those tricks look real. Go to our Portfolio to see the results!
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Beautiful series by Winiary We have done post production on a whole series of 30” and 15” commercials for our regular customer – the Winiary brand. The spots come from Legend Group agency and Graffiti Film production house. Top class artists were invited to work on them – Wojtek Smarzowski (director) and Piotr Sobociński Jr (DOP). The Chimney Pot handled comprehensive post production, and the result is a series of commercials which are very pleasant and nice to watch. Check them out in our Portfolio .
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Merry Christmas Dear All,
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KINOPOLSKA 2011 Festival in Paris Between December 7 and 13, 2011, Paris played host to KINOPOLSKA film festival. We had a very strong representation there with productions which Chimney had worked on: “The Hourglass Sanatorium”, “Eroica”, “Jowita” and “Niewinni czarodzieje” (our digital reconstruction) as well as “The Suicide Room” (special effects + DI) and “Lęk wysokości” (DI). The festival’s opening gala was attended by, amongst others, Roman Polański, Jerzy Skolimowski, Andrzej Żuławski, Jacek Bromski and Agnieszka Odorowicz. The festival was kicked off by our digital reconstruction of “Niewinni czarodzieje” by Andrzej Wajda. After the screening, we heard a lot of positive comments about our work!
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"Camouflage" after digital reconstruction On December 12, 2011, Warsaw’s Kultura cinema hosted the official premiere of yet another digitally reconstructed masterpiece. The 1976 classic, "Camouflage" (Barwy ochronne), received the digital treatment from out team who worked very closely with Krzysztof Zanussi and Jerzy Zieliński. The film’s director made a special appearance at the event telling the gathered audience about his ordeals with state censors as the film was made during the communist regime. The Chimney Pot was represented by Łukasz Rutkowski, the head of the reconstruction team, who said: “One of the biggest difficulties our team had to deal with was the removal of a thick scratch line which ran through one of the more significant shots. The scratch line was visible on the screen of one minute, but it took us two weeks to fix, the job being done manually, frame by frame.”
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Golden Eagles - recognition for The Chimney Po(s)t We are very happy to announce that our “newspaper” The Chimney Po(s)t received a recognition award at this year’s edition of the National Advertising Competition Złote Orły (Golden Eagles) 2011. Our self-promotional publication was nominated in the “Own Advertising” category, and the award ceremony was held on December 12, 2011, in Warsaw. The recognition award was accepted by Hanna Sawicka, the project’s coordinator. Let us just remind here, that Jędrzej Sabliński was the publication’s creative author and its editor-in-chief, Jan Białek made the cover, the drawings were made by Krzysztof Grochowina, while the text was from Konrad Sawicki who worked on it with the TCP crew. Congratulations to all!
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"Guide to the Poles" - documentaries go worldwide The Institute of Adam Mickiewicz has commissioned five documentaries in a series under one title – “Guide to the Poles”. The films – “Beats of Freedom”, “Political Dress”, “Toys”, “Art of Disappearing” and “Art of Freedom” – are aimed at helping to understand modern-day Poles, mainly by foreigners, but also by themselves. The post production of all – by The Chimney Pot! The complete film set was screened at the KINOPOLSKA 2011 festival in Paris, December 7-13.
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Our presentations at Camerimage 2011 There were a lot of interesting meetings, lectures and workshops at this year’s Plus Camerimage festival. The Chimney Pot actively participated, too. On December 1, there was a seminar dedicated to “The Suicide Room”, and it was titled “Film as a challenge”. Participants included Radek Ładczuk and Bartek Pietras as well as our team’s Adam Torczyński, the co-author and co-director of computer animation in this now famous film by Jan Komasa. And on December 2, cinematographer Jerzy Zieliński had a lecture on hyper-realism in “Baby są jakieś inne” – he was accompanied by Jacek Skrobisz, VFX Supervisor at The Chimney Pot.
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"The Suicide Room" awarded at Camerimage The city of Bydgoszcz played host to yet another International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, Plus Camerimage 2011 (Nov. 26 – Dec. 3). We were very happy to hear the jury’s verdict – the Polish Films Competition was won by “The Suicide Room” directed by Jan Komasa with cinematography by Radek Ładczuk. And who won the Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition? Radek Ładczuk for “The Suicide Room”!!! That’s a great satisfaction for Chimney – we worked on the special effects and Digital Intermediate for this stunning production. Congratulations!
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"Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" from The Chimney Pot Have you yet seen “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”? It’s worth it! The special effects and full DI were done by our colleagues from The Chimney Pot Stockholm. Check out fascinating “VFX Breakdown” which shows their work. Our Warsaw team has prepared analogue and digital distribution copies of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” for Polish cinemas. Recommended viewing!
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Codex Day - open day at Chimney On Wednesday, November 23, Chimney and Panavision Polska held a special open day at our Warsaw headquarters dedicated to the multiple uses of the Codex system which we have recently purchased. The aim of this initiative was to answer the question: how to deal with footage shot with the digital ARRI ALEXA film camera? The day’s programme included: workshops with the camera and file recorder, comparison of images from ArriRAW and ProRes files, and a seminar on the logistics, back-up and costs of post production in the Alexa/Codex file environment.
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Video clip with Kasia Nosowska Nature 2000 is the European Union’s programme for the creation of a common system of regions where nature is protected. The initiative has received a boost with a new advertising campaign consisting of a video clip featuring Kasia Nosowska, 2x30” clips and 11 interactive films for the internet. Adverting agency and Blast Factor production house have both engaged in the campaign. We handled the post production. The video clip had been shot with a number of different cameras making it difficult to bring all the footage to one common format and to edit it aesthetically. There is not a single frame of 3D graphics in the entire clip. See the effects of our work for yourselves.
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Morgenstern's last picture We have had yet another premiere of a digitally reconstructed film. This time, on November 14, the large audience at Warsaw’s Kultura cinema saw Janusz Morgenstern’s “Mniejsze niebo”. The director and his DOP, Ryszard Lenczewski, actively participated in the picture’s reconstruction, supervising the whole process and its final pre-release screening. As it later turned out, “Mniejsze niebo” was the last picture that the director had worked on. Popular “Kuba” died on September 8.
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"Tomorrow will be better" in cinemas Since November 11, selected Polish cinema theatres have been screening the latest film from Dorota Kędzierzawska and Artur Reinhart, "Tomorrow will be better" (Jutro będzie lepiej). This production is also touring the country as part of the “Photosensitive Poland” project (Polska Światłoczuła). The Chimney Pot is the picture’s co-producer and author of full Digital Intermediate. Highly recommended viewing!
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The Chimney Pot Award at Mediaschool The 18th International Film and Television Schools Festival – MEDIASCHOOL 2011 – was held in Łódź on October 26-29. We participated in the event by funding a special award from The Chimney Pot. It went to Grzegorz Jaroszuk for his “Opowieści z chłodni”. We congratulate the winner and wish him further successes with future films. You can read about other productions awarded by the festival jury by clicking here.
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Our special screening of ”Baby są jakieś inne” On Monday, October 17, we had the great pleasure to present at Złote Tarasy’s Multikino cinema in Warsaw our most spectacular post production effort to date in a feature film – Marek Koterski’s “Baby są jakieś inne”. We invited friends from the Polish film-making and advertising industries for this special screening. Before the show, the Chimney team told the gathering about their work on the film – the very complex special effects, 3D animation, complex DI process and the preparation of distribution copies. We also showed a special film presentation about the feature’s post production, made specifically for that night’s screening. You can see it by clicking here.
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New colour grading with Nucoda Colour grading has always been Chimney’s special area of expertise, earning us the reputation of being the best place for colours in Poland. As you may be aware, we have had Nucoda Film Master, one of the best colour grading tools in the world, at our disposal for a long while now. We also offer colour grading with Spirit daVinci 2K+. And now we have increased our capabilities with the second Nucoda system dedicated to work on commercials. The new equipment, with new and better features, is set up in a separate comfortable room dedicated to our clients from the advertising industry. Try it out now!
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First CODEX in Poland How do you manage with your footage if you shoot with digital ARRI ALEXA camera? Thanks to the purchase of Poland’s first Codex The Chimney Pot now offers the best professional solutions in this area. Our new machine works with ARRI RAW files in the best possible quality that comes out of ARRI ALEXA. It also allows the creation of RAW-derived files for editing purposes which helps the editing process by keeping the same file names and timecodes for both ARRI RAW and edit files. We offer full equipment package – on-camera recorder, computer for the shoot, docking station for datapacks as well as 4 datapacks, each 25 minutes long. The new Codex has already proven its worth in the post production of Małgorzata Szumowska’s latest feature “Nowhere” as well as recent commercial for Grolsch. Give our new machine a try!
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3D city in NERO’s new “Guilt” video The Chimney Pot Warsaw took part in the post production of a video clip for “Guilt”, a new single by a British electronic band NERO. The video was directed by Christian Larson, famous for his work on numerous prestigious productions. Our bit was to create a city in 3D, and the work was done by our team of computer graphics artists led by Marcin Drabiński, the Polish side of the project being coordinated by Ewa Karpiel. Check out the video in our Portfolio .
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Munk's "Eroica" digitally restored On Monday, October 10, renovated version of “Eroica” had its official premiere at Warsaw’s Kultura cinema. The Andrzej Munk masterpiece was digitally reconstructed in our post production house. We managed to transfer the old and damaged negative to digital format, and renovate the images, so that current and future cinema goers could enjoy the picture in its best quality. Let us remind here, that The Chimney Pot is this year’s winner of PISF Award in the category of “Digital restoration of Polish cinema masterpieces”. Lately, our image reconstruction specialists have finished their work on Andrzej Wajda’s “Ziemia obiecana”, adding to the total of fifteen classic Polish features in our digital restoration portfolio.
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EP2C workshop presentation On Thursday, October 6, we had the pleasure to play host to more than twenty participants in the international EP2C Post Production Workshop which took place in Warsaw between the 4th and the 9th of October. We were invited to take part in this prestigious event in the form of a case study of “The Suicide Room” by Jan Komasa. The most important elements of our presentation included: company presentation, general information about the film – what kind of material we had to work on, Digital Intermediate process presentation, computer animation part of the film and special effects. Apart from presentation stills which had been prepared by us, workshop participants could view finished film parts in our cinema theatre to see the effects of our work.
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Our work at the Lyon Festival The Lumière Film Festival in Lyon (3-9.10.2011) is one of very few in the world to include a section for digitally reconstructed films. This year’s edition featured “Jowita” by Janusz Morgenstern, in its renovated form, of course. The picture was screened on October 4. It is our reconstruction effort, and this recognition makes us very proud.
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Our (large) input in "Baby są jakieś inne" On October 3, 2011, Marek Koterski’s latest feature “Baby są jakieś inne” had its official premiere. Chimney had an enormous input in the creation process of this production. To give you some idea of the scale of the project, let us say that out of the total of 443 individual shots that comprise the feature as many as 341 included complex special effects, making up 70 of the 90 minutes of the movie’s length. Apart from special effects, we also contributed 3D animation (by The Bug), complex DI and distribution copies.
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Chimney for Onet.pl Our advertising portfolio has increased by a new spot for Onet.pl. The commercial is part of a wider campaign which communicates the introduction of a new visual identification system and Onet brand’s positioning. Chimney took part in most production stages of this project – from briefings to the shoot. Complex post production took more than three weeks. In that time, we worked on the re-creation of cameras and sets in 3D allowing full control over 3D projections inserted into the room. Those projections were then overimposed onto the real life footage. We take this opportunity to thank the director (Kuba Łubniewski), the agency (Scholz&Friends) and Tank Production house’s production department for the very pleasant co-production and atmosphere!
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Recognition for Chimney's Managing Director Jędrzej Sabliński, The Chimney Pot’s Managing Director, has been nominated for the “Man of Advertising 2011” award by Brief magazine. Each year, this popular publication covering the marketing and sales market in Poland celebrates its birthday by handing out its own People of the Year awards to those who have made special contribution to the development of their respective markets in the last 12 months. This year, Jędrzej Sabliński is one of three people nominated in the advertising section. We are very happy with the fact, congratulate the nominee, and we keep our fingers crossed!
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Tiger with animation from The Bug We are very happy to report on our work on a very interesting project for Maspex, the manufacturer of Tiger energy drink. The job consisted of a series of commercials titled “Tiger – Power is Back”. The spots are a combination of real-life footage and Game Cinematic-styled animation. Each of them shows the story of a different hero who comes out on top of every seemingly dead-end situation thanks to Tiger. The dynamic animation job was done by The Bug, a team of animators who have been an integral part of Chimney for several months now. We handled full post production of the whole campaign, of course. Check out the fruits of our work in Portfolio .
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Chimney in Autodesk Post & VFX Show Reel We hear that some people have missed our appearance in Autodesk Post & VFX Show Reel 2011. It’s something to be proud of, so we take this opportunity to remind everyone that we made it into this prestigious show reel for the second year running. The featured spot was one for Telekomunikacja Polska, with camera work by Artur Reinhart. Its 3D-generated content, including screens and other elements were the idea and work of our own Marcin Drabiński. It is a great honour to be featured in the reel and amongst such exclusive company! Meanwhile, our team is working on materials for Autodesk Post & VFX Show Reel 2012. Check out the Autodesk clip, starting at 39 seconds into it.
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Summer with "Cinema without subtitles" Polish Filmmakers’ Association has prepared a special treat for cinema lovers for the three months of summer. The “Cinema without subtitles” series of events features Polish cinema masterpieces in their new, digitally reconstructed versions. The features are screened at the Association’s cinemas in Warsaw (Kino Kultura) and Łódź (Kino Polonia). The list includes many titles which we have worked on at Chimney – “Wesele”, “Jowita”, “The Saragossa Manuscript”, “Vabank”, “Seksmisja”.
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"Land of Oblivion" goes to festivals Michale Boganim’s ”Land of Oblivion” is an international production with strong Polish accents – Apple Film Production co-produced the picture, Leszek Możdżer wrote the musical score, Andrzej Chyra plays the main character, and Digital Intermediate was done here at Chimney. The feature will be screened at this year’s festival in Venice (31.08-10.09) as part of the prestigious International Film Critic’s Week, and it will compete for the Golden Lion of the Future award. Later, it will go to Toronto, for the festival there (08-18.09). Good luck!
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The successes of "Lęk wysokości" After succeeding at Polish film festivals, Bartosz Konopka’s “Lęk wysokości” has been noticed abroad. The picture won the best debut award at the Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia and the best picture award at the Ińsko Film Summer festival, and now it has been invited to the debut competition at the 35. International Film Festival in Montreal (August 18-28). We are very happy to see the successes enjoyed by this talented director with his film which had its Digital Intermediate done here at Chimney.
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Holiday Plus Mobile phone operator Plus is continuing its successful co-operation with the theatre-comedy team Mumio. PZL agency and Film Produkcja production house have created a new series of commercials with an offer for the summer holidays, with – traditionally – Chimney handling the whole post work. Fans of the characteristic ads can view them in our Portfolio .
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Our work at New Horizons On July 21-31, Wrocław will play host to the 11th International Film Festival - New Horizons. It will feature productions which we have worked on. New Polish Films competition section will include Łukasz Barczyk's "Italiani" (our colour grading and digital master), Bartosz Konopka's "Lęk wysokości" (our Digital Intermediate) and Jan Komasa's "The Suicide Room" (our Digital Intermediate and special effects). Come down to Wrocław to enjoy the films, and we keep our fingers crossed for their creators in the competition.
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Chimney in social awareness campaigns No-one needs convincing that mortality rates on Polish roads are very high. Still, there are many who need constant reminders that the hazard levels depend on their own actions. That is why we have joined two social awareness campaigns promoting safe driving – “Orlen – Safe roads” and “I’m not speeding” – contributing our post production. View the ads in our Portfolio – and drive safely!
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Winiary for summer Once again, we worked on Winiary’s commercials. The brand’s summer campaign promotes its garlic-and-herbs sauce and sandwich mayonnaise. Television ads have been prepared by Legend Group agency and Red Carpet production house. We did post on them – professional as always – and the effects are a very pleasant viewing experience. Check them out in our Portfolio .
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Justyna Kowalczyk in Polbank’s summer campaign What is Justyna Kowalczyk doing in summer? The creators of Polbank’s summer campaign aimed to provide the answer. Addapter agency proposed the creative idea which relies on the outstanding successes of our multi-medal-winning sportswoman, which have earned her a good raise for sure… We added our online to the spot, and the end results can be viewed in our Portfolio .
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Era changes to T-Mobile T-Mobile’s take-over of Era, with its subsequent re-branding campaign, was big news in the telecommunications and advertising industries. We have contributed to this much talked-about event with our post production of an exceptionally long – 90-second – commercial prepared by G7 agency and Dynamo production house. Go to our Portfolio to see the spot.
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New from Orange We are very pleased when satisfied customers return to us. Such is the case with mobile phone operator Orange for whom we have done yet another post production of their commercials. This time including our 3D graphics. Orange’s campaign promotes new price plans: Dolphin, Pelican and Panther. The creative idea for the spots came from Leo Burnett agency. You can view them in our Portfolio .
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"Saga of the Prehistoric Forest" on Planete We are very happy to announce that the 10-part nature series "Saga of the Prehistoric Forest" will be aired by PLANETE television channel. This fascinating feature-series will be shown on Tuesdays, beginning on July 5 until August 2, two episodes at a time at 8.45pm and 9.45pm. The Saga is one of Poland's most ambitious nature film productions ever. We had worked on it for several years. Ever since the first episode, our post production input included: one-light transfers, editing, online, colour grading as well as creation and insertion of superimposed text. Check out the trailer .
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MdM is back Fans of cult tv comedy shows such as “Za chwilę dalszy ciąg programu” or “MdM” will be very happy to see Mann and Materna again on television screens. The gentlemen are back for a series of spots in Kredyt Bank’s latest advertising campaign prepared by Just agency and Opus Film production house. Post production is ours, of course. You can enjoy the comedy duo in our Portfolio .
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Small brewery with big beer If there is anyone who still doesn’t know where Łomża is, they should see commercials for a “small brewery with big beer”. Łomża Brewery is taking advantage of the latest market trend favouring small local breweries, and it’s advertising itself with commercials prepared by Grey agency and Blast Factor production house. Add to that our post production and our 3D graphics, and success is guaranteed! Check out our Portfolio .
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Andrzej Wajda praises our restoration - It is a very important and good thing, and the right path to follow, that our films can be shown in such digital versions - said Andrzej Wajda before the screening of "Niewinni czarodzieje" (Innocent Sorcerers). The audience which gathered at Warsaw's Kultura cinema on Monday, June 13, had the unique opportunity to see this cult feature in perfect quality after our restoration work on it. - This digital version, with its precision of the image, makes me feel as if this were almost a futuristic film. And it fits the film very well, it looks as if it had been made just recently. - said Wajda, sharing with the audience his positive feelings.
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Successful Festival in Gdynia 36. Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia ended with success for features which we have had the pleasure to work on. They are: “The Suicide Room” by Jan Komasa, with Radosław Ładczuk’s cinematography – The Silver Lions award, as well as awards for sound and costumes (our DI and special effects), “Lęk wysokości” by Bartosz Konopka, with Piotr Niemyjski’s cinematography – awards for debut and make-up (our DI), and “Wymyk” by Greg Zglinski, with Witold Płóciennik’s cinematography – awards for screenplay, debut and supporting female role (our DI). CONGRATULATIONS!
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Our presentation at Gdynia Festival On Saturday, June 11, a technical presentation was held at Gdynia’s Gemini Multikino cinema complex, dedicated to “Baby są jakieś inne”, Marek Koterski’s latest feature. It was organized as part of a seminar series called “How is it done?”, a new initiative at this year’s 36. Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia. The presentation was opened by the film’s director, Marek Koterski, later joined by our representatives (Jacek Skrobisz, Jędrzej Sabliński and Kamil Rutkowski). We told the large audience gathered for this occasion about the post production process and complex special effects required for this production. You will find snapshots from this presentation here .
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Our award!!!
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The Chimney Post It's out now! Hot off the press, our own newspaper THE CHIMNEY POST has arrived at our office, and it's everywhere. From Monday, we will be handing it out at the Gdynia Feature Film Festival. It will be also distributed at other future events. So look out for it! We will do our best to make sure The Chimney Post reaches as many readers as possible!
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Pure classics at 36. Gdynia Festival New section has been introduced to this year's Gdynia Film Festival (6-11.06.2011), with a name that says it all - "Pure classics". The section will feature Polish cinema's masterpieces in their "pure" - or "clean" - versions, after they had been digitally reconstructed: „Do widzenia, do jutra” (dir. Janusz Morgenstern, DOP Jan Laskowski), „Eroica” (dir. Andrzej Munk, DOP Jerzy Wójcik), „Faraon” (dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz, DOP Jerzy Wójcik, Wiesław Zdort), „Niewinni czarodzieje” (dir. Andrzej Wajda, DOP Krzysztof Winiewicz) and „The Saragossa Manuscript” (dir. Wojciech Jerzy Has, DOP Mieczysław Jahoda). It is our great pride and honour that all of these classics have been "cleaned" by us at Chimney! Find out more about the Festival by clicking here .
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Hyundai with Karolak Hyundai has chosen popular actor Tomasz Karolak as the face of the car manufacturer’s advertising campaign. The series of funny commercials has been prepared by Bimers agency and Blast Factor production house, with us handling (perfect) post production. You can see the effects in our portfolio Portfolio .
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PISF Award nomination The Chimney Pot has been nominated for the Polish Film Art Institute (PISF) Award in the category of "Digital reconstruction of Polish cinema masterpieces". It is a great honour for us, a recognition of the effort which we have been putting into this field over the past several years. The official award ceremony will be held on June 6 in Gdynia during the opening gala of the 36. Polish Feature Film Festival. It is worth mentioning that last year we recieved a nomination in the same category, too.
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Digital reconstruction of „Jowita” Warsaw’s Kultura cinema theatre hosted yet another premiere of our digital reconstruction job yesterday. Thanks to our efforts, “Jowita”, directed by Janusz Morgenstern, with cinematography by Jan Laskowski, could shine again after 44 years – returning to its original glory and freshness to much enjoyment by the film’s creators present at the screening.
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Winiary's spring campaign The Winiary brand's spring campaign concentrates on its traditional products: borscht, żurek (rye flour soup), bouillon and vinaigrette salad sauce. The promotional campaign features television ads which have been postproduced by us at Chimney. Creative idea came from Legend Group agency. Go to our Portfolio to view the spots.
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RMF FM energy We have postproduced a television commercial for RMF FM radio station. Apart from standard work, we have also created some interesting 3D graphics. The campaign's creative authors are Ambasada agency and Film Works production house, and the spot was directed by Bartek Cierlica. Check it out in our Portfolio .
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Our work at the Gdynia Festival We now know the titles which will run in the main competition at the 36. Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia (06-11.06.2011). The list has made us proud as we worked on five of the twelve competing productions: "Sala samobójców" (The Suicide Room) – dir. Jan Komasa (DI + special effects), "Lęk wysokości" – dir. Bartosz Konopka (DI), "Wymyk" – dir. Greg Zglinski (DI), „Italiani” – dir. Łukasz Barczyk (colour grading + digital master) and "Daas" – dir. Adrian Panek (recording to film). We wish all the film-makers the best of luck in the competition!
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RWE Blue current The first serious sales campaign has hit the Polish energy market. RWE Polska has decided to follow this route to attract small and medium-sized companies. The cleverly designed ads, created by San Markos agency, came to Chimney for post production and 3D graphics. To view them, go to our Portfolio .
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Szymon Majewski as the face of PKO BP Another star promotes a financial institution. Top Polish comedian Szymon Majewski has lent his face to Bank PKO BP. Our involvement in this campaign was our post production and 3D graphics. Will humor carry bank advertising in the Polish market – that remains to be seen. But the spots are worth checking out in our Portfolio .
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Banderas for BZ WBK For its latest advertising campaign, the BZ WBK Bank reached for world-class top actor – Antonio Banderas. The series of ads was filmed with the Arri-Alexa digital camera. Chimney worked on the post production and 3D graphics for the commercials. You can view the results in our Portfolio section .
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Edyta Górniak at Chimney Edyta Górniak has visited our house. The famous Polish singer personally supervised the post on Soraya's latest spot which she stars in. The campaign for "Anti Ageing Make-up Sceniczny" was prepared by Tandem Taren-to, and the television ad was made by Konrad Aksinowicz (director) and Marek Rajca (DOP). Next up for Soraya will be another television spot - this time starring Krystyna Janda. The Edyta Górniak commercial can be viewed in our Portfolio .
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“Constans” – our latest reconstruction Tonight – at the Kultura cinema theatre – will see the premiere of yet another Polish cinema classic digitally restored by us. This time it is “Constans”, directed by Krzysztof Zanussi, with cinematography by Sławomir Idziak. The collection of our reconstructed feature films just keeps on growing. Come and enjoy!
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Another spot for Eastern Regions “Beautiful East” is a big project, and the latest installment in this campaign promoting Poland’s five eastern districts has just been aired. This time round, the commercial spot’s main character is a moose – the work of Bimers agency, Blast Factor production house and our own 3D animation team.
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Masterpiece on big screen again "The Saragossa Manuscript" - the cinema classic digitally reconstructed by us - returns to the big screen! On Monday, March 21, the film's gala premiere will be held at Warsaw's Kultura Cinema.
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Suicide Room This year’s Berlinale saw the world premiere of „Suicide Room”, a directorial debut by Jan Komasa. The feature film is our most complex and special post job to date, as it contains 20 minutes of computer animation and some 200 scenes with special effects. The scale and the complexity of work – animation, SFX, colour grading – required extraordinary involvement from our specialists, but it also allowed them to demonstrate their talent, our technological capacity and perfect project management. “Suicide Room” was also an opportunity to begin co-operation with The Bug – a team of computer graphics artists and animators headed by Adam Torczyński. The film’s Polish premiere is on Monday, February 28.
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Steve Kent is back Steve Kent, our Canadian colour grader, has returned to us after a short visit back home, and he’s supporting us with his talent again. Experience his magic touch on your next project!
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Award for „Las” Piotr Dumała’s “Las” has won the Golden Tape 2011 award! The picture was named the best Polish film to hit Polish cinema screens in 2010 by film critics from the Polish Film-makers’ Association, affiliated to the International Federation of Film Critics FIPRESCI. We are happy that we contributed to this amazing production with our Digital Intermediate. Congratulations!
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Beautiful premiere On Monday, January 24, we celebrated a very successful repeat premiere of a old classic at Warsaw’s Kultura cinema theatre, attended by a large audience and the feature’s creators. Janusz Morgenstern’s picture “Do widzenia, do jutra”, with cinematography by Jan Laskowski, had been seriously damaged over the past 50 years, but we managed to restore it to its former glory, and give it a new breath of life. It’s our big success and a great pleasure.
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Cooking with Winiary Our commercial portfolio is turning very culinary… This time we present the post production of an ad in Winiary’s latest campaign – “Love through Cooking”. The commercial, directed by Łukasz Zadrzyński and shot by Marian Prokop, is auguring the third edition of a lottery organized by Winiary.
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Sunny Danonki We have finished work on another post production for a Danone brand – a commercial for Danonki. The first film, in a whole series, directed by Michał Gazda and shot by Piotr Szczepański, can be viewed in our commercial portfolio.
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Knorr – new campaign Knorr’s Poland-wide commercial action is out of the blocks – “Knorr. From the Love for the New”. It’s a reminder campaign featuring Knorr’s new products launched in 2010. You can check out the first two of the ads containing our animation in the portfolio section. It’s yet another of our post productions for Lowe GGK agency.
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Another Polbank Running is a bit like life - sometimes up the hill, sometimes on a steep curve... In our commercial portfolio you can check out the latest spot in Polbank's advertising campaign featuring our champion ski runner - the ad is titled "Konto Zmienność". It was directed by Tomek Konecki and shot by Piotr Janowski. This post production was our another project for Addapter agency and Cut Cut production house.
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Weekend in cinemas "Weekend", a feature directed by Cezary Pazura, with cinematography by Grzegorz Kuczeriszka, opened in cinemas on Wednesday, January 6. The last stage of the film's production - Digital Intermediate - was done under our roof. We handled the colour grading and all of the cinema distribution materials for the feature.
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The Big Wyprz Plus network has just started its "Wielka Wyprz" - or "Big Sale" campaign, with selected cell phone prices slashed. The campaign is supported by ads featuring comedy troupe Kabaret Mumio. Once more it was our pleasure to post produce a spot for the Polkomtel brand with PZL agency. The end result is in our portfolio.
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New Year's Authorities In the New Year, we present the latest spot in Żywiec's campaign - it comes from Just agency, and we have just finished its post production. The ad, directed and shot by Łukasz Kośmicki, is a "summary" of all of the previous installments in the Authorities campaign, featuring well-known figures, people of success and authority, and it's also a staring point for the next 12 months for the brand. You can view it in our portfolio.
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Christmas with spices We have just finished post production of two commercials for Kamis’ Christmas campaign. In the leading roles: cinnamon and cloves. The spots were directed by Tomek Nalewajek and shot by Dominik Danilczyk. Can Christmas by spiced with joy? Check it out in our portfolio.
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Restorated “Wesele” On Monday, December 13, Warsaw’a Kultura cinema theatre staged the official premiere of digitally reconstructed “Wesele”, directed by Andrzej Wajda, with cinematography by Witold Sobociński. This is our latest reconstruction effort, and it joins a fast growing list of such projects. And there is more to come soon.
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The Golden Frog for Venice The 18th International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography “Plus Camerimage” ended in Bydgoszcz last Saturday, with Artur Reinhart taking the Golden Frog Award for his camera work on “Venice”. This recognition makes us doubly happy as we worked very closely with Artur in the feature’s post production. We congratulate the award-winning cinematographer, all of Chimney’s Digital Intermediate crew as well as our colourist Wiktor Sasim who colour graded the film. Well done!
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Another Chimney DI in cinemas “Joanna”, directed by Feliks Falk, with cinematography by Piotr Śliskowski, opens today. We invite everyone to the cinemas – the film’s Digital Intermediate is our work!
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Christmas Gnomes Plus network has begun its Christmas campaign – Christmas Multitude of Talks. It is yet another edition of commercial spots featuring comedy team Kabaret Mumio. The creative idea came from PZL, and we contributed post production. Gnomes in Plus’ sales centers? Why not. See for yourselves in our portfolio.
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Four Hearts “I love Love your heart. For good health!” – that’s the slogan of the latest campaign kicked off by the Ministry of Health, with an aim to raise public awareness of heart disease prevention methods. We post produced four spots which will be screened as part of the campaign. You can check them out in our portfolio.
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First again! „Baby są jakieś inne” - that's the latest picture from feature director Marek Koterski, with cinematography by Jerzy Zeliński. The film was shot on 35 mm and HD-SR, and for the first time in Poland we handled one-light transfer in HD (so-called HD-Dailies) with sound synchronisation! We are breaking new grounds once again! More work is yet to come, with DI treatment and special effects.
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Polbank Champ Another of Polbank's advertising campaigns is up and running - this time Justyna Kowalczyk is promoting "Champion's Personal Savings Account". The commercial is another of our cooperations with Addapter agency and Cut Cut production house. And it's a successful combined effort - as you can see for yourself in our commercial portfolio.
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On the wings of DI On November 5, "Skrzydlate świnie" (or "Pigs with Wings") opens in cinemas - a feature directed by Anna Kazejak, with camera work by Michał Englert. And it's yet another project in our long and fast growing collection of DIs. See it on the big screen!
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Our features at Camerimage We know the titles which will run in the Polish Feature Film Competition at this year’s Camerimage Festival (Nov. 27 – Dec. 4), and we are very happy to see there two features which received our Digital Intermediate treatment – they are “Venice” by Jan Jakub Kolski, and “Jutro będzie lepiej” by Dorota Kędzierzawska. Both pictures have been shot by Artur Reinhart. We will keep our fingers crossed!
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The “Manuscript’s…” second coming On October 20, The Łódź Film School held a celebration to honour the return to the big screen of digitally restored “The Saragossa Manuscript” by Wojciech Jerzy Has, as part of the filmmaker’s retrospective. Our work on the classic feature was an adventure for us, and we are proud of the effects!
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Integrated beauty Creative idea from Change agency, sense of style from director and DOP Mark Dawid and our post production – that’s the latest commercial for Amica. The campaign is for the Integra line of ovens. The spot, which you can see in our portfolio, has been described by many as poetic, moody and showing an oven in a completely new dimension. Check it out for yourselves!
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Halo Granie We have finished post production of another series of commercial spots for Orange’s „Halo Granie” campaign. What do you need to do to listen to your favourite music in your phone instead of the typical tone when waiting for connection? You will find some ideas when you visit our commercial portfolio.
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Vabank movies on big screen again Yesterday, Warsaw’s Kultura cinema staged the official premiere of digitally reconstructed Juliusz Machulski’s features, "Vabank" and "Vabank II”. The two comedy classics returned to their original shine and cinema screens thanks to our efforts.
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Autumn with Actimel We have just finished posting another of Danone’s productions – the “Actimel Garden” commercial spot, directed by Marek Mainguy and shot by Arek Tomiak, is a warm, autumnal creative idea from Young&Rubicam. As always, you can check it out in our portfolio.
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Be creative Another installment in the ad campaign for “Orange dla Firm” (Orange for Companies) from Euro RSCG agency is hitting the market – the 15-second Sony Ericcson tag is on the air, as well as the 30-second spot focusing on a very entrepreneurial hot dog stand owner. We fully post produced both of the ads. You will find the results of our work in our portfolio. And stay tuned – there is more to come.
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The Saga of the Prehistoric Forest on national television! At long last we can view “The Saga of the Prehistoric Forest” series on TVP, the national broadcaster! It is one of the most ambitious productions ever in the history of Polish nature films. We had worked on it since 2002. Ever since the first episode, our post production work included: one-light transfers, editing, compositing, colour grading and credits’ creation. The series’ creators – Jan and Bożena Walencik – show the Białowieża Forest through the eyes and lives of animals which become each episode’s main character: Wolf, Ant, Crow, Żubr (European bison), Beatle, Boar, Bank Vole, Beaver, Owl and Lynx. It’s on TVP1, Sundays at 3:45pm. Highly recommended viewing!
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3D Turtle New animated film in 3D opens in Polish cinemas today "Sammy's Adventures", directed by Ben Stassen. Our input here is the digital distribution of the movie in Poland!
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Beautiful East We have finished post production of a film which is part of a large project called "Beautiful east" promoting five regional districts in Poland's east. For a good start, here is a spot with Beaver as the main character which we worked on with Bimer agency and Blast Factor production house - check it out in our commercial portfolio. You can find out more about the project by clicking here.
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Buy now Internet auction service Allegro.pl has just started their latest advertising campaign with a spot which we postproduced. Three new clips, directed by Tomek Matuszczak and shot by Wojtek Zieliński, show how irritating traditional shopping can be sometimes - and you can see them in our portfolio.
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„Jutro będzie lepiej” in Pusan Dorota Kędzierzawska’s feature film „Jutro będzie lepiej”, with Arthur Reinhart’s cinematography, will be screened during the International Film Festival in Pusan, South Korea (October 7-15). We handled the film’s Digital Intermediate production. Your can read more on the story by clicking here.
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„Jestem twój” opens in cinemas “Jestem twój” directed by Mariusz Grzegorzek, with cinematography by Szymon Lenkowski, opens in cinemas today. It is yet another of our Digital Intermediate productions. We encourage everyone to see it, as the feature is getting more and more good reviews!
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Festival of Abundancy We have finished yet another post production of a Knorr commercial. The new spot for Gorący Kubek full of noodles, directed by Kal Karman and shot by Wit Dąbal, is ready for viewing in our portfolio.
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„Venice” Award „Wenecja” (Venice) directed by Jan Jakub Kolski, with cinematography by Arthur Reinhart, has won the Jury’s Special Award for Best Artistic Contribution at the 34th Montreal World Film Festival. We are very excited by this recognition, as we contributed our DI and special effects to the feature. Congratulations!
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Fantasy choice Danone’s latest commercial, which we have fully postproduced, has just hit the TV screens. It’s a combined effort from director and cinematographer Ronald Koetzier, Young&Rubicam agency and Graffiti Film production house. So what does the new Fantazja look like? Find out for yourself by visiting our commercials’ portfolio.
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