Digital Cinema Report: Macao Digital Cinema Festival Convenes May 27 in China
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Guangdong’s Dadi Digital Cinema China has more than 300 digital screens, installed by Barco. Guangdong is China’s most populous province with over 90 million inhabitants. Barco also installed about 300 digital cinema systems for Jinyi Zhujiang Movie Circuit, China's sixth largest cinema chain and has signed a contract for the deployment of 100 digital cinema systems for Zhejiang Time Cinema, China's seventh largest cinema chain.
Dark is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and is one of a select few members of the Consumer Electronics Association’s Academy of Digital Pioneers, a group recognized for their efforts implementing Digital Television in the United States. Dark also received one of the International Electronic Cinema Festival's top honors: The Pioneer Award, bestowed in recognition of extraordinary contributions to the success of HDTV. Dark also serves as the Artistic Director for the Macao China International Digital Cinema Festival, which he co-founded in 2009 to showcase films from around the world.
Recognized globally as an expert in emerging technologies, Dark has spoken to audiences at events including: MIPCOM, ASBAA-Hong Kong, Tokyo International Film Festival, Banff World Television Festival, National Association of Broadcaster's Convention, International Electronic Cinema Festival, Infocomm, Consumer Electronic Show, HDExpo, World Television Forum, CreaTVty Zurich, Canadian Association of Broadcasters Convention, Hollywood Post Alliance, New York State Bar Association, Bear Stearns Media Conference and NATPE. Randall recently gave a Key Note address at the Creative Storage Conference in Las Vegas, the HD Summit in Los Angeles and the Production Innovations Forum in Toronto, Canada.
Regarded as an authority on a number of aspects of international, military and aviation history, Greene has been developing, writing and producing documentary television programming on these subjects since 1994. Projects developed by Greene have been filmed in Russia, the Ukraine, Britain, Germany, Israel and the People’s Republic of China.
Also with the cooperation of Yunnan provincial authorities, and a number of Chinese governmental institutions and agencies, Greene has co-written and is developing a digital 3D motion picture project for the large and giant/Imax screen, Himalaya – The High Road to China 3D, an aerial adventure that will portray China’s fabled Second World War trans-Himalayan aerial supply route.
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2010 Festival Overview and Gallery
The inaugural day of the Macao China International Digital Cinema Festival and Entertainment Technology Expo is complete and is being touted by its founders and participants as a huge success.
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Studio Daily: Field-Testing the Panasonic AG-3DA1 3D Camcorder
Veteran cinematographer Randall Dark isn’t content with existing technology. A pioneer in HDTV production since 1986, Dark says he’s always keeping his eye out for something that will rev up his creative gears and throw him into a new world of images, workflows, and storytelling possibilities. When he saw the first images of Panasonic’s new AG-3DA1 3D AVCCAM camcorder, he knew he had found it. “That thing looks like Wall-E,” he remembers thinking. “Physically, seeing that camera, I was excited.”
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Digital Cinema Report: First Macao China International Digital Cinema Festival a Success
Its founders and participants are calling the recently completed Macao China International Digital Cinema Festival and Entertainment Technology Expo a huge success. The Festival began with ceremonial Chinese pomp and circumstance, except the traditional ribbon cutting was replaced with a film cutting.
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Maxell congratulates Randall Dark on the success of the Festival
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Festival opens doors for collaboration between US and China
Filmmaker Randall Dark recently returned from China, where he served as the artistic director for the inaugural Macao China International Digital Cinema Festival and Entertainment Technology Expo with a 3D Summit (www.macaodigitalcinema.com). Dark says the purpose of the event was to showcase American and Chinese feature films and documentaries, as well as to host panels that address increasing globalization, technological expansion and changing standards. 3D was a hot topic, he notes.
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Digital Cinema Report: Macao Digital Cinema Festival Convenes May 27 in China
With a population of 1.3 billion people – a full 20 percent of the world population – China represents an enormous market for cinema and the country has a thriving movie industry of its own. And the country has already embraced digital cinema.
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Macao Digital Times: Festival brings Hollywood experts to Macau
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Interview Jeff Greene
China's leading internet entertainment magazine interviews Jeff Greene about the Macao digital cinema festival and 3D summit.
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CubicVue
Award winning, motion picture director and 3D pioneer Randal Kleiser, who also serves as the Chief Industry Liason of CubicVue, will present a prototype of CubicVue, the latest advancement in high quality glasses-free 3D technology, at our festival in Macao.
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Ten Questions with Randall Dark
As a new on-going series for the Maxell blog, we’ll be speaking with professionals throughout the pro media industry, asking Ten Questions for everyone to learn from.
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LaCie Sponsors Latest Randall Dark Production Multimedia
Visionary Randall Dark is at it again. The high definition pioneer is currently in pre-production on a new feature film, Page Hill Battle. While there are many cool things happening with this project, we’d like to highlight one in particular – Dark is using all LaCie products to store, share, and edit his work. LaCie is also an official sponsor of the production, along with Maxell.
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WealthTV taps Randall Dark Productions for 3D Content
WealthTV, the premier luxury lifestyle and entertainment network, today announced that it has concluded a deal with Randall Dark Productions to produce a travelogue in 3D. The initial 3D episode scheduled for airing on WealthTV later this summer, will capture the awe-inspiring natural wonders of the Smoky Mountains along with thrilling theme park attractions and exciting entertainment found in three Tennessee cities.
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Festival chairman Jeff Greene meets SARFT vice minister mr. Zhang Peimin
Beijing China: in late March 2010, Macao International Digital Cinema Festival Chairman Jeff Greene met with vice minister Zhang Pimin of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to discuss the Digital Cinema Festival and Macao 3D Summit.
