Bird Cam 

By Michael Goldman

The upcoming documentary Raptor Force, part of the PBS Nature series, features footage captured using miniature cameras mounted on large hawks as they...

Dr. Strangelove Returns 

By Michael Goldman

New York's Cineric recently created a new black-and- white film print of Stanley Kubrick's classic 1964 anti-war film, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned...

Online Opportunities 

By Cynthia Wisehart

Over a nearly 40-year history, leading filmmakers have been generous with us giving interviews that were directed at their peers and, as a result, took...

Out and About 

Industry events...

Mammoth HD Footage Library Releases 15 New Collections 

Mammoth HD adds 15 new collections featuring the works of Adam Sampson, Sondra Brunone, and J.Michael Media. The new collection titles include Alaska Pipeline and Glacier Melt ...

KWTV Outfits New Skynews9 HD ENG Helicopter with Fujinon HDTV ENG-style Zoom Lens 

Griffin Communications’ Oklahoma City television station News 9 KWTV recently acquired a new state-of-the-art Bell 407 helicopter equipped with Fujinon’s HA42x13.5BERD HDTV ENG-Style zoom lens...

Suspense Thriller Shot with Panasonic AJ-HDC27 VariCam 

The full-length feature Dismal, a thriller that plunks two suburbanites down in the middle of 100,000 acres of murky swampland, recently wrapped postproduction for submission to the Sundance Film Festival, its first stop on the festival circuit. A production of 1944 Films, Dismal was shot with the Panasonic AJ-HDC27 VariCam HD cinema camera....

M2 Uses Nucoda Film Master to Grade Death of a President 

Digital Vision, a leading developer of advanced digital media applications specialising in film and video solutions, announced that London postproduction facility M2 used the Nucoda Film Master system to grade the provocative Borough Films/Channel 4 feature-length doc-u-drama, Death of a President....

Fade to Black:
Rodrigo Prieto, Cinematographer 

By Michael Goldman

Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, (pictured left) is living proof the new generation of cinematographers won't be abandoning film any time soon. Prieto's head...

Have Server, Will Travel 

By Michael Goldman

Independent filmmaker Lance Weiler known as something of a self-styled technical iconoclast adopted a guerrilla approach to both making Head Trauma and...