ASSIMILATE Congratulates SCRATCH Artists on Festival de Cannes 2013 EntriesSanta Clara, CA, May 14, 2013- At the 66th Festival de Cannes, May 15 - 26, several films on the competition roster have been created by filmmakers whose post-production companies used ASSIMILATE's SCRATCH DI software in their digital workflows for conform, color grading, and finishing, and/or SCRATCH Lab for their production dailies or VFX reviews. The Cannes Film Festival is the world's premier showcase for independent and international filmmakers. http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html
ASSIMILATE congratulates Alchimix/Wallpaper (France) Arane Gulliver (France) Cosmo Digital (France), Mikros Image (France), Jeffrey Flohr (USA), Cinecolor Argentina, Technicolor France, In The Mood (France), Basecamp (Malaysia), Fundacion Universidad del Cine (Argentina), Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica (Mexico), Gary Jackemuk (USA) and, Ludovico Bettarello (Italy) for their high-quality post-production and/or dailies of the following features, short films and documentaries accepted by the Festival de Cannes 2013 and related venues.
In Competition:
La vie dAd le (2012), drama directed by Abdellatf Kechiche. 15-year-old Ad le dreams of finding the love of her life. When she meets Thomas - a dark, handsome, friendly stranger who falls for her instantly - her dream seems to have come true. But an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it begins. Mikros used SCRATCH Lab for the VFX data management.
Post Production Facility: Mikros Image (www.mikrosimage.eu)
Un Certain Regard:
The Bling Ring (2013), feature film directed by Sofia Coppola. Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
Post-Production: Jeffrey Flohr, DIT for dailies and DI, including conform, color grading and finishing. (jeffreyflohr@gmail.com)
Wakolda(2013), feature film directed by Lucia Puenzo. The true story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all times. Cinecolor Argentina did the conform, color grading, and finishing.
Post-Production facility: Cinecolor Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina), (www.cinecolor.com.ar)
Les Salauds (2012), drama-thriller, directed by Claire Denis. Marco is determined to exact a terrible vengeance for the violence done to his family. But he hasn't reckoned on betrayal or falling in love. Mikros Image used SCRATCH Lab and SCRATCH for the grading on set, conform, and final color grading.
Post Production Facility: Mikros Image (www.mikrosimage.eu)
Out of Competition:
Blood Ties (2013), crime thriller directed by Guillaume Canet. Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Post Production Facility: Technicolor France (www.technicolor.com/fr)
Le Dernier Des Injustes (2013), a documentary directed by Jean Claude Lanzmann. More than twenty-five years after Shoah, Claude Lanzmanns new film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the Final Solution like never before. The conform was done on SCRATCH by Mikros Image.
Post Production Facility: Mikros Image (www.mikrosimage.eu)
Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Directors' Fortnight):
La Fille Du 14 Juillet (2013), comedy directed by Antonin Peretjatko. Boy meets girl and he becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Cosmo Digital used SCRATCH for conform, color grading and finishing of La Fille.
Post Production Facility: Cosmo Digital (www.cosmo-digital.com)
Un Voyageur (2013), documentary directed by Marcel Ophuls. Marcel Ophuls shares his memories, stories that are incredibly rich and fascinating, in a cheerful and bittersweet trip in Cinema history. Marcel talks with and about personalities like Jeanne Moreau, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick, his friend Fran ois Truffaut, and more.
Post Production Facility: In the Mood (www.inthemood.fr/)
The Congress (2013), drama directed by Ari Folman. Robin Wright receives an offer from Miramount to be scanned so that her alias can be freely exploited in all films produced, even the most down-market ones. For 20 years she disappears to return as guest of honor at the Miramount-Nagasaki Convention in a transformed world of fantastical appearances. Mikros did the data management of VFX on SCRATCH Lab.
Post Production Facility: Mikros Image (www.mikrosimage.eu)
Les Apaches (2013), drama directed by Thierry De Peretti. While thousands of tourists invade the beaches of Corsica, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening, they spend the night at an unoccupied luxury villa where they steal some objects of no value and two prize rifles. Cosmo Digital used SCRATCH for conform, color grading and finishing of Les Apaches.
Post Production Facility: Cosmo Digital (www.cosmo-digital.com)
The Cin fondation Selection:
Ma ana Todas Las Cosas (2013), short film directed by Sebasti n Schjaer. Julia and Diego spend a weekend watching his nephew in a house far from the city. All proceeds normally until a hospital visit by Julia modifies the course of the stay and of their relationship.
Post-Production: Fundacion Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires, Argentina), (www.ucine.edu.ar)
Contrafabula De Una Ni a Disecada (2012), short film directed by Alejandro Iglesias Mendizabal. Gizella turns 15 today; shes becoming a woman. Her strict and bourgeois parents have organized a fancy dinner-party to celebrate with their closest friends.
Post Production: Centro de Capacitacion Cinematografica (CCC Mexico) (www.elccc.com.mx)
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