SpeedGrade DI Goes to Sundance
Captain Abu Raed by Amin Matalqa Debuts at Festival
Park City, Utah: January 21, 2008 ...
Captain Abu Raed, the first feature film entry from Jordan,
will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23,
2008. Written and directed by Amin Matalqa, Captain Abu Raed
was shot on the ARRI D20 and finished with SpeedGrade DI.
Set in Amman, Jordan, Amin Matalqa's first
film tells the story of Abu Raed, a janitor at the airport.
The children in his neighborhood believe he is a pilot. Abu
Raed humors them with made-up stories of his travels but is
soon drawn into the painful realities of his young
listeners’ lives
Clark Graff of Gigapix Studios was
technical, production and post supervisor on the film. "When
we were shopping around for this project we decided that
SpeedGrade offered the feature set and capabilities we
needed," he explains. "Plus we liked the company. If we had
a question about an EDL, for example, we just sent it over
to Munich and the guys got right back to us. Open
communications and a vendor who listens to your ideas are
very important to us."
The film uses three main color moods and
achieving those looks required extensive use of SpeedGrade
DI's secondaries and tracking tools. "Our director had a
very clear idea of how he wanted the film done, right into
details which many directors are not aware of," says
colorist Mark Read. Specific musical instruments in the film
score and color schemes were associated with different
figures. "Mark was amazing," says Amin Matalqa. "I learned a
lot from him and just love what he did with the images. I
felt like I could stare at them forever."
Captain Abu Raed premieres at the Egyptian
Theater as part of the Sundance Film Festival on January 23,
2008, and opens in Jordan on February 6. Read the full story
at
spotlight.iridas.com/200801.
SpeedGrade DI 2007 is part of the SpeedGrade
family of non-destructive color grading applications. For
more information contact IRIDAS at +49 89 330 35 142, IRIDAS
USA at (818) 951-8927, or visit
www.speedgrade.com.
About IRIDAS
IRIDAS pioneered desktop film-resolution playback in 2001.
Its FrameCycler products are now the industry standard for
frame-based image review. In 2003 IRIDAS introduced the
first non-destructive color correction application. Today
SpeedGrade and FrameCycler provide the critical links in an
end-to-end pipeline for uncompressed content and color
metadata. IRIDAS' applications are used by filmmakers around
the world and most major animation and postproduction
houses. IRIDAS is an independent, privately held company
headquartered in Munich, Germany. For more information,
visit www.iridas.com.
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