WE ARE OUR BROTHER'S KEEPERS
This is the story of a 21st-century strikebreaker. But we begin our story many millennia ago, with the famous question, “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Cain’s query may have been just rhetorical, but we in the labor movement have a clear answer to it: Yes.
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WALTER MURCH CONTRACTS 'PARTICLE FEVER'
Given his passionate interest in science, it's no wonder that Walter Murch, A.C.E., CAS, MPSE, wound up editing the fascinating new doc, 'Particle Fever,' about the ground-breaking, Nobel Prize-winning experiment that helps explain the nature of existence. The film opened March 7 through Abramorama. The film follows six leading scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider (built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research from 1998 to 2008). This marked the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in history (costing around $10 billion).
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GRAVITATIONAL PULL: OSCAR'S FAVORITE EDITORS
On Saturday morning, March 1, the 14th Annual Invisible Art/Visible Artists program presented by American Cinema Editors (ACE) at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood featured a panel of the Academy Award-nominated editors for their work in 2013. Nominated for Best Achievement in Editing were Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E., Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., and Crispin Struthers for David Russell’s 'American Hustle'; Christopher Rouse, A.C.E., for Paul Greengrass’ 'Captain Phillips'; Joe Walker for Steve McQueen’s '12 Years a Slave'; Martin Pensa and director Jean-Marc Vallée (editing under the name John Mac McMurphy) for 'Dallas Buyers Club'; and, Sunday’s Oscar winners, Mark Sanger and director Alfonso Cuarón for 'Gravity.' Pictured: mark Sanger. Photo by Gregory Schwartz
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POST IS NO LONGER POST
At the Hollywood Post Alliance Tech Retreat, held at the Hyatt Regency in Indian Wells, California February 10-14, approximately 400 leading technology executives gathered to talk about pressing topics in today’s post-production environment. The refrain often heard was that post is no longer “post” but rather integrated throughout the production process, from previsualization to final delivery.
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