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Awards honour young talent
Dublin-based Daniel O'Hara won best young director award at Wednesday (19 May) night's Broadcast Young Talent Awards.
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Animation restored
Metro Broadcast has restored, mastered and authored the complete 85 x 24-minute animated classic Battle of the Planets for DVD. Metro's Steve Wilsmore used Archangel to clean film dirt, grain, scratches and flickers. Scratchbox was used on a round-the-clock basis, targeting specific problems on a frame-by-frame basis. The 25th anniversary ...
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NewsBBC dominates Bafta craft awards
Production staff working on BBC programmes picked up the lions share of winners trophies at last night's BAFTA craft award.
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UK Post reveals board
UK Post, the trade association for the post production sector, has revealed the members of its inaugural board.
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Avid wins news job at Meridian
ITV Meridian has chosen Avid to supply the newsroom technology for its new regional tapeless production centre. The initiative is being viewed as a blueprint for all ITV regional newsrooms across the UK and, if it goes to plan, could result in a multimillion pound contract for Avid Technology, ...
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Record results fuel Frontier expansion
london post house Frontier Post is investing£500,000 to expand its Wells Street facility after record turnover results, writes Rick Dacey.
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Resolution ups editing options
Post-production company Resolution has launched a new talent service aimed at attracting factual and documentary clients.
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One has new flame
Ascent Media-owned post-production facility One has bought a new Flame system based on SGI's Tezro workstation. The SGI Tezro allows data to be transferred between the various components at high rates and incorporates the bandwidth and capabilities for real-time data transfers of 2K resolution and greater.
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Mpc staff in rejig
MPC has shuffled some of its senior staff. Graham Bird has become head of production for commercials and television programmes with Alex Webster as his deputy, while Amanda Libotte has been made head of operations within the same area. Martin Hobbs has been appointed as head of production for film ...
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bda opens in Asia
Bruce Dunlop and Associates has set up a new business division in Singapore. Philip Kitcher heads the new office, bringing over 12 years' experience of working in Asia as executive creative director of Discovery Networks Asia, Singapore and Star TV and Turner Broadcasting, both Hong Kong. James Chung joins as ...
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BBC tech shortlist
The BBC has cut the shortlist of potential buyers for BBC Technology down to three. Accenture, CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation) and Siemens now remain as the companies that could win the right to buy the£250m a year company. The purchase brings with it a 10-year£2bn contract with the BBC ...
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Pinewood floats
Pinewood Shepperton film studio last week raised£46m through a share flotation on the London stock exchange. Nearly 28 million shares were sold
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NewsWorld at War producer honoured by Focal
World at War producer Jerome Kuehl was rewarded for his work on history programming with an award for lifetime achievement at last night's FOCAL International awards.
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NewsThee shortlisted for BBC Technology sale
The BBC has cut the shortlist of potential buyers for BBC Technology down to three.
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VTR plc results herald recovery
VTR plc has announced its interim results with a cautious belief that the post-production market is on the cusp of a recovery.
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Cash boost sees IMD rebrand as The Facility
Soho facility Image Makers Digital (IMD) is using a kit investment of£300,000 as the springboard to rebrand, writes Rick Dacey.
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Crews website closes down
Online crew-finding service NewsCrews.co.uk has been forced to close down because of reluctance from broadcasters to pay for the service and the unwillingness of crews to pay to register.
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World Cup restored
The Machine Room has restored footage from the first ever World Cup final to be shown on a giant screen on 20 May, to kick off Fifa's 100th anniversary. The footage of the 1930 final between Uruguay and Argentina was 'in a terrible state when it was found', according to ...
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Festival deadline
The closing date for submissions to the sixth Rushes Soho Shorts Film Festival is Friday 7 May. Bafta winner and Love Actually star Bill Nighy will be the festival spokesperson. Visit www.sohoshorts.com for details of how to enter. The festival runs from 31 July to 6 August.
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Lightworks buyer
Gee Broadcast Systems has purchased editing product developer Lightworks and its subsidiary Lightworks UK Ltd. Lightworks editing systems are regularly used on major film releases, recent examples being Moulin Rouge and Gangs of New York, on commercials and on television productions, such as Cold Feet. Lightworks will remain based at ...