DEFINITION July 2019

SET- UP | AWARDS PRESENTAT ION

TECH INNOVATION: THE WINNERS AWARDS After much deliberation and mulling over, our judges decided on the winners of our inaugural awards, which were revealed in our previous issue. To celebrate, we presented each winner with their beautiful slice of award glass at Cine Gear Expo on the backlot of Paramount Studios

WORDS & PICTURES JULI AN M ITCHELL H anding out awards is a great thing to do, everyone’s Vertovec who authored the Light Iron Color 2 for Panavision’s award for COLOUR SCIENCE. For Arri Rental’s LENS award, we made our way through the always busy Arri stand to present to the brains behind DNA glass, Christoph Hoffsten, Matt Kolze, Andrew Prior, Mike Sippel and Rafael Adame. They promptly put their award in the DNA lens exhibition glass case. On his own for the MOVEMENT award was Motion Impossible CEO, Rob Drewett, and of course his robot the Agito. For the LIGHTING award, we had a double date with the teams from Cineo Lighting and NBCUniversal who co-developed the LightBlade Edge Series. Shout out to Dennis Kelly, Aaron Rogers, Trisha Maas, Ashley Hutchings, Brandon Rensvold, Rich Pierceall, Chuck Edwards and not forgetting the mighty Tom Yuhas. The CAPTURE award went to Red for its Gemini sensor, which was presented to Cheri Quigley and Andrew Coonan at the Red annual studio party. The award was quickly sent to Uday Mather, Red’s head of Engineering, to take pride of place on his desk. For the CODEC award, we caught up with Sebastian Leske, Sony’s product manager of Venice and X-OCN. We presented him with the award in front of the crazy skater girl on the Sony stand. Michael Gailing, VP Marketing, Creative Solutions, (Teradek, SmallHD, Wooden Camera) enthusiastically received the PLAYBACK award. Two other awards are, as we write this, winging their way to their respective homes in North America’s west coast. The first went to Mark Tobin, CEO of Arraiy, who won in the VIRTUAL category (Cine Gear Expo isn’t the place for the virtual world). The other award is on its way to Radiant Images, who won our People’s Choice. We had more than 5000 entries for this award and Michael Mansouri’s shop in Glendale won it, see the picture of a delighted crew on page 14. happy, enthused and humble in equal measures. Backs are slapped and drinks are poured – especially at Cine Gear. We managed to present awards to Michael Cioni and Ian

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