Verizon Wireless is supporting most of the major tablets in the market and these are devices in interest of filmmakers and film fans. Therefore to learn more about this subject we interviewed Ken Muché who responsible for all public relations and philanthropy for Verizon Wireless in Southern California. Ken writes on a variety of topics, including corporate giving initiatives, and how customers are using the company’s 4G LTE network to enhance their lives at home, at work and in their communities. Ken also tweets about local Verizon Wireless happenings on Twitter, using the handle @vzwken. With twenty years’ experience in…
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On June 22, 2014 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival and Market named FOAD (Norway), directed by Farzad Samsami as the winner of HP’s 2014 Bridging the Borders Award, presented by Cinema Without Borders. The award ceremony was held at Palm Springs’ Camelot Theatre. The Editor-in-Chief of CWB, Bijan Tehrani, presented the award for this year’s HP Bridging the Borders winner. Farzad Samsami received a gift certificate for an HP ZBook 15 Mobile Workstation with a DreamColor color critical display panel. An approximate $3000 value, awarded from our generous sponsors.Farzad Samsami , an Iranian/ Norwegian filmmaker founded his production company…
Every January Cinema Without Borders offers its HP Bridging The Borders Award at International Palm Springs Film Festival. HP Bridging The Borders Award goes to a film that helps bringing people of our world closer together. HP Bridging The Borders Award is sponsored and its award provided by HP Workstation department. Filmmakers such as Andrzej Wajda, Ari Folman, Terry George and Kieron J. Walsh have won this award in previous years. We are planning to run five articles about HP Bridging The Borders Award and HP’s presence in film industry. For our first article we interviewed Rick Champagne is Worldwide…
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 8, 2014 — HP today introduced its most powerful Z Workstations combining increased system expandability, higher-speed memory and multicore updates, as well as access to the latest technologies to help customers future-proof their investment in HP’s broadest workstation portfolio. HP Z Desktops and HP ZBook Mobile Workstations are built to address the constraints of compute-intensive industries, including media and entertainment, graphic design, CAD, architecture, photography, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, scientific imaging, and oil and gas exploration. The new additions to the portfolio include: The new HP Z840, Z640 and Z440 desktop workstations feature the latest Intel Xeon…
Devin “Super Tramp” Graham is a YouTube celebrity who first started creating video content for a friend in college. Since his first video, he’s shot to internet superstardom, earning over 300 million views, gaining 1.78 million followers, and directing commercials for brands like Ford, Mountain Dew and Panasonic. Bijan Tehrani: How did you come up with the idea with these series of videos?Devin “SuperTramp” Graham: I was going to film school at BYU in Utah and my dream was to do feature films. At the time my roommatewas using YouTube and social media to basically promote their company. So from…
The rules of the game have changed, and now a low budget film isn’t one with a budget under $100,000, but a film made by spending $10,000 or less. An independent romantic-comedy out of Germany, Go With the Flo, had a budget of $10,000 and it is sure to regain its budget and make a profit. With the lack of good stories coming out of Hollywood, the door is open for small films with great stories to experience success. Go With Flo sticks to the classic rules of the romantic-comedy genre, while new Hollywood romantic comedies have failed in trying…
New HP’s Z Displays are promising higher quality and better performance for the filmmakers and editors. To learn more about this matter we interviewed Larry Mahoney, the worldwide product manager for HP’s Z Displays, stationed at the HP Workstation headquarters in Fort Collins, CO. Larry is responsible for the feature definition and lifecycle management for all HP Performance Displays – the HP Z Displays and HP DreamColor Display. Bijan Tehrani: I think the new announcement from HP is a very important announcement for filmmakers. As always, color accuracy is an important part of film editing and when you are getting…
Actiontec Electronics develops broadband solutions that connect people to the Internet, and a few of them such as ScreenBeam Pro, are in interest of film fans and film makers. To learn more about Actiontec products we interviewed Mike Ehlenberger, Vice President, Channel Sales at Actiontec.Mike Ehlenberger has over 15 years of sales and management experience, he is responsible for developing sales, channel, and go-to-market strategies for Actiontec’s retail, distribution, VAR, SMB, and CLEC businesses. Joining Actiontec in 2002, Mike spearheaded partner driven channel initiatives, including Retail CPE programs, which helped launch Qwest’s mass-merchant business. Prior to joining Actiontec, Mike was…
Burbank, CA, January 23, 2014—Cinema Without Borders, an independent publication dedicated to Independent and International Cinema, has declared ACER as the most innovative designer of consumer systems for filmmakers and film fans and awarded the company with its Seal Of Excellence. Acer is one the companies that first introduced tablets for high-end design and illustration many years ago. In recent years Acer has produced innovative, elegant, modern and unique designs in all areas of desktop computers, all-in-ones, ultra books and tablets. After years of Apple dominating new and creative designs in the computer/mobile world, now Acer has stepped into that…
Coming from a primarily CGI background my drawing skill sets developed after my skills in modeling, lighting, texturing and rigging. Because of this reversal in traditional vs. digital skill sets my traditional skills never have quite been as strong as my digital and therefore things such as quality 2d animation always felt a bit out of reach. However based on the simple fact that I am writing a review on a piece of software whose primary focus is 2d animation, things have obviously begun to change. Regardless of who you are, or what your background in animation is, there will…