Babel wins Golden Globe and receives 7 Oscar nominations

LASERPACIFIC MELDS A VARIETY OF FORMATS
FOR BABEL

LaserPacific devised a unique and transparent workflow solution that seamlessly melded a wide variety of film formats for cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC and director Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu on their most recent collaboration, Babel. Iñárritu and Prieto chose to photograph parts of the story in Super 16, 3-perf Super 35 and 35 mm anamorphic format, depending on the emotional intent of the scene, its location, and its place in the overall flow of the story. LaserPacific devised a method of translating the images into the digital world that allowed the filmmakers to carefully craft a distinctive look for each sequence while maintaining an overall visual continuity within a common 1.85:1 aspect ratio.

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Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC receives Oscar nomination for “Best Achievement in Cinematography” for The Black Dahlia

ZSIGMOND'S IMAGES + LASERPACIFIC DI TECHNOLOGY = A MODERN FILM NOIR CLASSIC: THE BLACK DAHLIA

LaserPacific’s unmatched color science and superior service in the high end digital intermediate arena were put at the command of world-renowned cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC for The Black Dahlia, Brian De Palma’s film noir set in 1940s Los Angeles. LaserPacific’s work on the film was preceded by a “shootout” in which identical test footage was scanned, manipulated and output back to film, and then examined by Zsigmond, who wanted to ensure the highest possible quality for his first foray into DI.

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