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Academy Winner John Knoll on Technology in Filmmaking

By • Mar 27th, 2012 • Category: Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
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Academy-award winner John Knoll works behind the scenes, but you have probably seen his visual effects magic in “Avatar,” “Rango,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Hugo,” Mission Impossible,” “Star Wars”  and many other films. Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic and in 2007 won an Academy award for Best Visual Effects [...]


Walter Murch on Technology, Editing & Filmmaking

By • Feb 26th, 2012 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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Meet  3 time Oscar-winning editor and sound engineer Walter Murch, who talks on how technology has changed film editing and how “digital revolution has invented the equivalent of aensthetic for the cinema.” Mr. Murch points out before the digital revolution film editors were “physically cutting through the substance of film.” Mr. Murch started his career [...]


Meet Paul Debevec – Hollywood’s Master of Light

By • Nov 3rd, 2011 • Category: Business & Tech, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, Los Angeles
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Meet Prof. Paul Debevec described as “Hollywood’s Master of Light” by MIT’s Tech Review.  His pioneering work at the intersection of technology and films has won him recognition and awards. In 2010 Debevec won an Academy Award in science and engineering for his digital facial-rendering technology. You can see Debevec’s digital innovation in virtual cinematography in [...]


Gerard Butler on Bollywood, India & Danny Boyle

By • Oct 2nd, 2011 • Category: Bollywood, Entertainment, Hollywood, India, People
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Gerard Butler talks about Bollywood, India and Danny Boyle. Many years ago, Mr. Butler auditioned for a Bollywood film, but did not land the part. That was 13 years ago. Since then he has gone on to make a name for himself in block-buster Hollywood films like “300.” Bollywood is on Mr. Butler’s mind, and [...]


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