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The Virginity Hit

The Virginity Hit movie reminds the mature moviegoers that when it comes to one of the most important rites of passage in life the very first time remains unforgettable as ever. Produced by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell the movie looks at the entire fiasco in a different angle by shedding the touch of hilarity to the dreaded situation.

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Directed by: Huck Botko and Andrew Gurlan
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DI Colorist: Will Cox
DI Online Editor: Ben Laffin

Works of Art

In a sumptuously filmed New York, Art is a struggling actor, running to casting calls during lunch breaks from a boring job. Tired of being typecast and ignored, his friend offers him the acting job of a lifetime. While pretending to be someone else, he runs into the one real thing he has been missing all along.

Works of Art has had the honor to screen at the following festivals:

- 28th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (World Premiere)
- 5th Disorient Asian American Film Festival Oregon
- 7th BEFILM The Underground Film Festival in NYC
- 26th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival

Upcoming festivals include:

- 33rd Asian American International Film Festival here in NYC
- 9th Asian Film Festival of Dallas
- 10th New York International Latino Film Festival presented by HBO
- 30th Hawaii International Film Festival

The film has also been screened for Asian Heritage Month at the Borough of Manhattan Community College as well as for the Sulu Series at the Bowery Poetry Club.

Directed by: Andrew Pang
Online Editors: Ben Laffin and Joseph Lee
DI Colorist: Charles Rokosny
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Howl

Final Frame Post also provided the Digital Cinema Packaging (DCP) services for Howl, a Sundance dramatic entry about the young Allen Ginsberg finding his voice, the creation of his groundbreaking poem HOWL, and the landmark obscenity trial that followed.

Cast includes; James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels and directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. >> Read More

Bass Ackwards

A man coming off a disastrous affair with a married woman has a lyrical, strange and comedic cross-country journey in a modified VW bus.

Nominated in the NEXT Category at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival >> Read More

Directed by: Linas Phillips
DI Colorist: Will Cox

Peter and Vandy

‘Peter and Vandy’ is a love story told out of order. Set in Manhattan, the story shifts back and forth in time, juxtaposing Peter and Vandy’s romantic beginnings with the twisted, manipulative, regular couple they become. The film explores the question most couples ask themselves… ‘How the hell did we get this way?’

Peter and Vandy was nominated for the 2009 Sundance Grand Jury Prize >> Read More

Feature Narrative
Directed by: Jay DiPietro
DI Colorist: Will Cox

You Won't Miss Me

A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital

Winner of the Gotham Award for “Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You” >> Read More

Feature Narrative
Directed by: Russo-Young
Edited by: Gil Kofman and Ry Russo-Young
Colorist: Sandy Patch

Life During Wartime

Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill (Hinds), Trish (Janney) is about to be married again. Bill is a pedophile, so Trish couldn’t be more excited to have Harvey (Lerner), a “normal” father figure for her two sons. But when Bill is released from prison and the boys finally meet their future stepdad, the family is forced to decide whether to forgive or to forget. Trish’s sister, the virginal, angelic Joy (Henderson), is also haunted by ghosts of lovers past. On leave from her degenerate husband, Allen (Williams), and her job at a New Jersey correctional facility, Joy unwittingly leaves behind a trail of shame and exposed secrets wherever she goes. In one of the film’s most stylized sequences, the image of Joy walking the dark streets of Miami in her nightgown maintains her innocence against a backdrop of self-affliction and desire.

Life During Wartime won the Golden Osella award and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was nominated Best Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival >> Read More

Directed by Todd Solondz
DCP Packaging

The Missing Person

Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man’s identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by a large reward, Rosow is charged with bringing the missing person back to his wife in New York City.

The Missing Person won Russian Film Critics Award – Special Mention at the Moscow International Film Festival, and Noah Buschel was nominated the Breakthrough Director Award at the Gotham Awards >> Read More

Feature Narrative
Directed by: Noah Buschel
Edited by Mollie Goldstein
DI Colorist: Will Cox

Stingray Sam

A dangerous mission reunites STINGRAY SAM with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. >> Read More

Feature Mini-Series
Directed by: Cory McAbee
DI Colorist: Will Cox

Bart Got a Room

While Danny’s father and mother independently search for love, Danny is on his own desperate quest to find a prom date. Danny’s search becomes progressively more pathetic once he and his family learn that Bart, the school’s biggest dweeb, not only secured a date for the prom, but got a hotel room as well.

Bart Got a Room won the International Film Guide Award at the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival >> Read More

Directed by: Brian Hecker

Sorry, Thanks

Reeling from a brutal break-up, Kira (Kenya Miles) sleeps with Max (Wiley Wiggins), a charming but disheveled wreck already committed to long-term girlfriend Sara. Max (no emotional sophisticate) becomes obsessed, mostly with Kira, but vaguely with his curious lack of conscience as well. Kira, fighting to win a job she hates and running aimless romantic loops, faces the precarious double challenge of choosing a next step and charting a course back to sanity. Good luck leading with your heart, when your heart is an utter emotional idiot. >> Read More

Directed by: Dia Sokol

Strange Powers

Strange Powers will show at the Athens International Film Festival in September 2010.

Opening in theaters 2010:

Oct 27 to Nov 9: New York’s Film Forum
November 4 – Toronto, ON – TIFF Bell Lightbox
November 5 – Los Angeles, CA – Laemmle’s Sunset 5
November 7, 8, 9 (Sun-Tues) – Austin, TX – Alamo Drafthouse Ritz
November 12 – The Roxie, San Francisco, CA

Ten years in the making, Strange Powers is an intimate documentary portrait of songwriter Stephin Merritt and his band the Magnetic Fields.

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Digital Intermediate services provided by Final Frame Post
DI Colorist: Stewart Griffin

Striking a Chord

Striking a Chord brings the audience right into the army bases in Iraq. The film shows the boredom and isolation, the effect of repeated deployments, and the need to create experiences that bring the troops some consolation. Long lines of soldiers waiting to speak with Nell Bryden and the band after every concert attest to the effect of the music on the troops. Their fervent applause and heartfelt comments show how deeply they respond to the concerts.

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Directed by: Susan Cohn Rockefeller
HD AVID Colorist: Charlie Rokosny

Burma Soldier

“Burma Soldier” tells the unforgettable story of a former junta member and Burmese soldier who risks everything to become a pro-democracy activist.

“Burma Soldier” provides a rare glimpse of a brutal dictatorship seen through the eyes of a courageous former soldier who, quite literally, swapped sides. The documentary will offer an exclusive and rare perspective, from inside the heart and mind of a former Burmese soldier who lays bare an understanding of a brutral regime and the political and psychological power of the junta over this country.

A LeBrocquy Fraser / Break Thru Films production for HBO.

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DI Colorist: Stewart Griffin

Colony

COLONY will be running at both the Arclight Hollywood and the IFC Center in NYC over the next couple weeks as part of the IDA’s Docuweeks. Directors, Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell will be present to answer questions at select screenings. Purchase tickets and find out more information by clicking here

The unexplainable phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder has left landscapes of empty beehives all across America, threatening not only the beekeeping industry but our food supply. As scientists and beekeepers search for the cause, Colony captures the struggle within the beekeeping community to save the honeybee and themselves, through the eyes of veteran beekeeper Davis Mendes and Lance and Victor Seppi, two young brothers getting into beekeeping when most are getting out. As Mendes tries to save the nation’s collapsing hives, the Seppis try to keep their business alive amidst a collapsing economy.

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Directed by: Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell
Post Production Services: Final Frame Post
DI Colorist: Stewart Griffin

Pressure Cooker

“Pressure Cooker” has been nominated for a 2010 EMMY Award – Exceptional Merit in Non-Fiction Filmmaking >> More Info

“Pressure Cooker” follows the lives of Philadelphia high school students competing to win culinary arts scholarships. << Read More

Directed by: Mark Becker, Jennifer Grausman
Post Production Services: Final Frame Post
On-Lined and Color-Corrected

Finishing Heaven

Finishing Heaven documentary has been nominated for a 2010 Emmy in the Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming category >> More Info

“Finishing Heaven” follows director Robert Feinberg as he struggles to complete the film he began nearly four decades ago.

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Directed by: Mark Mann
Post Production Services: Final Frame Post
DI Colorist: Charlie Rokosny

Circo

Aaron Schock’s moving documentary tells the story of the Ponce family, who have run Circo Mexico, a traveling circus, for more than 100 years.

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Directed by: Aaron Schock
DI Services provided by Final Frame Post
DI Colorist: Will Cox
DI Online Editor: Joseph Lee

SoLa: Louisiana Water Stories

A beautiful, provocative film about Southern Louisiana – “SoLa, Louisiana Water Stories” – about man’s relationship with water in a part of the world where everywhere you look you’re surrounded by bayou, swamp or wetlands, the Mississippi River or Gulf of Mexico. >> Read On

DI Colorist: Stewart Griffin
DI Online Editor: Joseph Lee

The Naturalized

More information coming soon…

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Directed by: Aaron Lubarsky
HD FC Colorist: Stewart Griffin
HD FC Online Editor: Joseph Lee

Camp Victory, Afghanistan

Variety Review of “Camp Victory” >> Read More

NY Times Article on “Camp Victory, Afghanistan” >> Read More

Camp Victory was recently featured in Time Out New York’s Human Rights Watch Film Festival catalogue

Camp Victory, Afghanistan is a verité documentary that tells the story of several U.S. National Guardsmen stationed in Herat, Afghanistan and the Afghan officers assigned as their mentees. These Americans along with a band of Afghans have been given the enormous task of building the 207th Corps of the nascent Afghan National Army into an institution capable of providing security, stability, peace and justice to a tattered, volatile nation. Although the United States has poured military aid into Afghanistan, money alone does not produce an army; people do. And these Afghans and Americans have more in common than anyone would expect. With lives on the line and the military budget ballooning, can a modern Afghan army be created when 80% of the enlistees are illiterate; all are impoverished; the weaponry is second rate; and the enemy is elusive, dangerous, and lawless?

Using nearly 300 hours of verité footage shot between 2005 and 2008, Camp Victory, Afghanistan, directed by Carol Dysinger, is the first film to examine the reality of building a functioning Afghan military—the initial critical step toward bringing stability and peace to Afghanistan.

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Directed by: Carol Dysinger
DI Colorist: Will Cox
DI Editor: Joseph Lee
DI Colorist: Will Cox

Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work

June 11, 2010 – NY Times Review >> Read More

Best Documentary Editing Award (Penny Falk) at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival

A rare, brutally honest glimpse into the comedic process and private dramas of legendary comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers as she fights tooth and nail to keep her American dream alive.

Directed by: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
DI Colorist: Stewart Griffin
Supervising Colorist: Will Cox
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Inside Job

Festival de Cannes — Special Screenings

The global financial meltdown of 2008 resulted in millions of people losing jobs and homes. It had something to do with brokerage firms, banks, lending companies. That’s about all most of us know and comprehends, but this Sony Pictures Classics release documents the criminal fraud and greed of the financial services industry. Most impressively, it makes it understandable to those of us who don’t know much at all about economics.

“Inside Job” presents a stunning array of interviews with a broad range of participants and commentators: hedge fund managers, business-school faculty, Justice Department officials, Federal Reserve chairmen, Congressmen and even a Wall Street “Madam.” However, “Inside Job” is no talking-heads drone. It’s a lively, droll and acidic shakedown of the insiders who perpetrated this crisis.

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Directed by: Charles Ferguson
DI Colorist: Will Cox
Post Production Supervisor: Alan Oxman
DI Online Editor: Ben Laffin
DI Online Editor: Joseph Lee
DI Producer: Caitlin Tartaro

The Cove

“The Cove” won the 2010 OSCAR for Best Documentary Feature category

Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renown dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.

The Cove has won a multitude of other awards including; Directors Guild of America, Audience Award 2009 Sundance, Cinema Eye Honor winner for Best Feature and many more >> Read More

Directed by: Louie Psihoyos
DI Colorist: Will Cox

Missed Connections

Accepted into SILVERDOCS – a documentary film festival run by AFI and the Discovery Channel.
The Screenings:
AFI-DISCOVERY CHANNEL SILVERDOCS FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, June 25 at 12:00 pm
Sunday, June 27 at 1:45 pm
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A 2010 Tribeca Film Festival Shorts in Competition: Documentary

Once found on the back pages of local papers, “Missed Connections” is a forum on Craigslist where those who regret their timidity make appeals to the Ones Who Got Away. This documentary short peers inside these popular online messages-in-a-bottle, asking whether love lost can be found again? >> Read More

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Directed by: Mary Robertson
DI Colorist: Joseph Lee

American Mystic

A 2010 Tribeca Film Festival World Documentary Feature Competition Entry.

Set against a vivid backdrop of bucolic rural landscapes, American Mystic weaves together the stories of three young Americans exploring alternative religion. Chuck is a Native American sundancer and new father striving to balance his religious practice and family responsibilities in the South Dakota badlands; Morpheus is a pagan priestess who finds spirituality in the earthy terrain of California mining country; and Kublai explores Spiritualism in upstate New York, a modern incarnation of the area’s storied history of religious revivalism. >> Read More

Directed by: Alex Mar
DI Colorist: Charlie Rokosny

Sons of Perdition

A 2010 Tribeca Film Festival World Documentary Feature Competition Entry.

“There are no monogamists in heaven,” proclaims Warren Jeffs, the notorious (and now incarcerated) leader and “prophet” of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. For decades, the church’s followers have practiced polygamy, believing dozens of young wives and scores of children bring them closer to God, but as Jeffs’ cultish influence over the community grows, they soon find themselves sacrificing their freedom of thought.

But what was life like in the sheltered world the Jeffs created? What does it mean if you leave? For a group of teenage boys, the desire for autonomy means banishment from their homes and families. >> Read More

Directed by: Tyler Measom, Jennilyn Merten
DI Colorist: Stewart Griffin

The Tillman Story

The story of professional football star and decorated U.S. soldier Pat Tillman, whose family takes on the U.S. government when their beloved son dies in a “friendly fire” incident in Afghanistan in 2004.

Nominated for feature documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival >> Read More

Directed by: Amir Bar-Lev
DI Colorist: Will Cox

My Perestroika

Follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times — from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.

Nominated for Feature Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival >> Read More

Directed by: Robin Hessman
DI Colorist: Will Cox

I’m Dangerous With Love

I’m Dangerous With Love follows a recovered-addict-turned-healer who resorts to outlaw behavior in order to save others. >> Read More

Directed by: Michel Negroponte
DI Colorist: Will Cox

Racing Dreams

A feature documentary following three young racers as they compete in the World Karting Association’s National Pavement Series. Clocking speeds up to 70 mph, these kids chase the National Championship title and take one step closer toward their dream of someday racing in the big show… NASCAR.

Racing Dreams was the winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Best Documentary Award, among others. >> Read More

Directed by Marshall Curry
DI Colorist: Will Cox

No End In Sight

The American Occupation of Iraq – The Inside Story From the Ultimate Insiders

No End In Sight was nominated for an Oscar in 2008, won the NSFC (National Society of Film Critics) Best Non-Fiction Film award, and won the 2007 Sundance Special Jury Prize award >> Read More

Directed By: Charles Ferguson

Murder Ball

A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs – overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Murder Ball was nominated for an Oscar, and won several awards including; Sutherland Trophy – Special Mention from the British Film Institute Awards, Best Documentary from the Gotham Awards. >> Read More

Directed by: Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead is a feature documentary about one man’s journey to health during a 60-day juice fast and road trip across the U.S. >> Read More

Directed By: Joe Cross

Terra Antarctica

This National Geographic-sponsored documentary explored the Antarctic Peninsula by sea kayak, sailboat, foot and small plane, observing the fast changing evolution. >> Read More

Directed By: Jon Bowermaster

Art, Architecture and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum

Art, Architecture, and Innovation: Celebrating the Guggenheim Museum documents Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, whose iconic spiral form presented a groundbreaking environment for the exhibition of art when it opened in 1959. This 27-minute documentary film explores the beginnings of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; chronicles the building’s conception, construction, and critical reception; provides thoughtful analysis of Wright’s architecture; and reflects on the museum’s significant presence in New York and the art world through the 21st century. >> Read More

Directed by: Thomas L. Piper, David Sampliner, Rachel Shuman
DI Colorist: Will Cox

Inside with Lisa Ling

Lisa Ling investigates the world around us as we’ve never seen it before. In this series, she takes viewers into hidden realms within our borders and to the front lines of today’s issues

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DI Services provided by Final Frame Post
DI Colorist: Ben Laffin

Hard Time

Hard Time follows one year inside a Georgia maximum security prison. With unparalleled access and depth, this six-hour series gets up close to the lives of inmates and officers living in a hidden world behind bars. With over 300 hours of footage, our cameras were witness to the entire range of life in prison — from escapes to very personal transformations.

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Colorist Services provided by Final Frame Post
HD Final Cut Colorist: Charlie Rokosny

Uprising

2-Hour Special “The Uprising” Premieres on Sunday, August 8 at 8 PM, Animal Planet.

Animal Planet explores the possibility of an animal uprising with dramatic reenactments, first hand accounts and commentary by animal experts. THE UPRISING features surprising examples and emerging patterns of animal aggression and asks the question – is the animal kingdom out for blood? Narrated by Richard Belzer, THE UPRISING closely examines cases involving fatal interactions between animals and humans. From feral dogs to cougars, coyotes to pythons, monkeys to elephants – creatures big and small are making a deadly impact on human life. Even the traditionally amenable appear to be turning on man like never before.

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Produced for Animal Planet by KPI
Executive Producers for KPI: Vincent Kralyevich and Kristine Sabat
Executive Producer for Animal Planet: Melinda Toporoff

The Electric Company

Sesame Workshop’s “The Electric Company” Receives 5 Emmy Awards and Announces Production of Third Season to Air on PBS Kids Go!

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Sesame Workshop, the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street¸ is also behind the hit show The Electric Company. The series is designed to combat the literacy crisis facing America’s six-to-nine year-olds

Post Production Services: Final Frame Post
Offlined and Onlined
Colorist: Charlie Rokosny

Clash of the Gods

- Television Series by KPI TV for the History Channel

The truth behind the Myths

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Afghan Warrior

- Special for National Geographic, NGT

Reza Deghati is famous for his images of Afghanistan and its people and this NatGeo Special takes you through war-torn Afghanistan as Reza returns the scene of his famous photo

Mystery Quest

- Series for The History Channel

MysteryQuest is a new series that dispatches teams of experts throughout the world to try to solve some of mankind’s strangest and most persistent mysteries. >> Read More

Clash of the Titans

- Series for History

Anatomy of a Closet

- Fashion Documentary Pilot for Ovation TV

Surviving Ancient Alaska

- Naked Science Series for National Geographic Channel

Prehistoric Alaska was a punishing, raw and frigid obstacle course. Living on this ancient, unforgiving terrain was a monumental task

2012

- Discovery Channel

Home for the Holidays

- HGTV Special

Viewers will get an inside look from their favorite HGTV personalities on how they celebrate the holidays.

County Jail

- The Discovery Channel

The Jail opens its doors to reveal the violent and unpredictable world of prison life

Operation Falcon

- The Discovery Channel

Operation Falcon, the largest fugitive hunt in US history where U.S. Marshals hit the streets in Miami, New Orleans and D.C. with a single focus: find the guns, drugs and violent felons that fuel America’s crime.

Uncommon Courage

Uncommon Courage is documentary for the Smithsonian HD channel about a previously unsung hero of the Korean War U.S.M.C. Major Chew-Een Lee.