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Another Sanatorium opportunity The Era Nowe Horyzonty festival (Wrocław, July 22 – August 1) will feature two screenings of “Hourglass Sanatorium” which we have digitally renovated. The screenings are on July 23 and 30. For more information click here.
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Orange Mini Rock This time with a rock spin – Orange’s commercial directed by Jacek Borcuch and shot by Damian Pietrasik. Creative idea came from Leo Burnett agency, we postproduced it, and it is on air now.
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Baroque continues The Plus network’s latest installment in their baroque campaign is on air now – Liczydło. It is yet another of our collaborations with Andrzej Mroziński from PZL agency, and you can view it in our commercials portfolio section.
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Beats of freedom Congratulations to the creators of „Beats of Freedom. Zew wolności” – Wojciech Słota and Leszek Gnoiński – for the warm reception their film enjoyed during this year’s Karlove Vary film festival (July 2-10). We are happy that we had our own contribution to this original production, making Digital Intermediate and digital copies for cinema distribution.
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Digital exper It is worth reminding everyone that we are THE experts in digital cinema in Poland. For a while now we have been receiving orders for digital masters and digital copies with distribution keys. We have tons of experience in this field. You can find out more by clicking here.
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Business Mangle New commercial for Orange directed by Joanna Rechnio, shot by Witek Płóciennik. We did full post production of the spot, working together with Euro RSCG agency and Lemon production house. On-line edit was supervised by Jacek Skrobisz. Check it out in the portfolio section.
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POST-WORK We light, paint, cut and renovate. No doubts about it by now. Our colourful ads have appeared in the latest Polish Film-makers Association’s magazine as well as FilmPro magazine. We are also present in the Polish Film Art Institute’s catalogues.
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UNESCO seminar We participated in a seminar on “Digitizing audiovisual resources from the pre-digital era (film and television production)”, organized by the Polish UNESCO Committee at the National Library on June 23.
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Maxer bar is no blah, blah Two faces of a commercial for a new chocolate bar Maxer from Nestle. Simple lines by Piotr Sitko, directed and shot by Andrzej Sawczuk, creative idea by Fire Fly Creation. „MAXER XXL. Kawał wafla. Zero pitu pitu” – you can see it and hear it in our commercials portfolio section.
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School Film Festival in Chimne We have joined an initiative by the Polish Film Art Institute – the School Film Festival. One of its elements was a visit to places associated with film-making, and on June 14 we hosted a group of school students at our facility on Syta Street, to tell them about the process of post production.
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Allegro Shopping on Allegro is better. Commercials directed by Tomasz Matuszczak and shot by Wojciech Zieliński accompany Allegro’s latest image campaign, and they show how to avoid shopping nightmares. Check for yourselves in our commercials portfolio section.
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Venice in Gdyni The Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia has come and gone.
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Plus with wings We have finished yet another commercial for Polkomtel, with co-operation from Andrzej Mroziński from the PZL agency – this time it’s the “MixPlus Ptaki” campaign. Check it out in our commercials portfolio section.
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Seksmisja as new We have finished the digital reconstruction of another feature as part of the Kino RP project. This time it was a 1983 cult movie “Seksmisja”, directed by Juliusz Machulski, with cinematography by Jerzy Łukaszewicz. And the good news is that there will be a great opportunity to see the digitally refreshed version of the film on a large screen – on Thursday, May 27, at 4:30pm the new “Seksmisja” will have its special screening in Gdynia’s Multikino cinema complex as part of numerous events which accompany the 35th Polish Feature Film Festival.
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Gdynia in May This year, the annual Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia will be held earlier than usual – in May, starting on Monday, May 24. As in previous years, it is an opportunity to showcase some of our new Digital Intermediate post productions – the films are hot off the line! This time round, five features that we have worked on have been accepted into the Main Competition:
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Steve returns to Chimney Our favourite Canadian “import” has returned! Steve Kent – it is him we are talking about, of course – is with us again, and as of the first days in May is colour grading at our Syta Street facility. Steve will stay with us until the end of the year, utilizing his wisdom and talent in support of our own colour grading team.
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Chimney nominated for PISF awards! On May 26, during the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, the Polish Film Art Institute (PISF) will hand out its Awards for the third time at a special ceremony. The Awards have 12 categories, and they honour people and institutions which contribute most to the development, promotion and popularization of film culture in Poland. This year, a new category was added – Digital reconstruction of Polish cinema classics. We have been nominated for an award in this very category for our digital reconstruction of “Hourglass Sanatorium”. The second nominee is Grzegorz Molewski for his pioneering efforts in the area of digital reconstruction of Polish films. It was his idea to create the Kino RP project, which we are member of, and our work on “Hourglass Sanatorium” was part of this project.
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Lady Gaga returns with special effect The Chimney Pot’s Swedish team has done post production for Lady Gaga’s latest, almost 10-minute long video for „Telephone”, a song she recorded with Beyonce. Our friends from Stockholm worked really hard on special effects, and thanks to their efforts the clip looks very impressive. Jonas Akerlund directed the video. It is worth noting that last year the Chimney team received MTV’s Video Music Award 2009 for special effects to another Lady Gaga video, „Paparazzi”. The “Telephone” video has already been called a “superproduction” – you can check it out by clicking here.
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Minutes and Bats We have completed yet another post production of commercial campaigns for Orange. We worked on two spots for the “Minutes” series. The complete world of little balls (“little minutes”) in the Orange Pop Starter and Orange Pop Spun-out Minutes Sony Ericsson commercials were created entirely in 3D graphics environment. The creative idea came from the Leo Burnett agency, and the works were supervised by our own Marcin Drabiński.
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