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Nominations Announced for the 94th Annual Academy Awards

 

 

 

The nominees for the 94th Annual Academy Awards were announced this morning, February 8, 2022. The 94th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 27, 2022, at the Dolby® Theatre at Hollywood & Highland® in Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. We send our congratulations to all of the nominees.

 

Here are the nominees in the design and technical categories:Read More »Nominations Announced for the 94th Annual Academy Awards

Apply for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative University Scholarships by Feb. 28, 2022

The American Theatre Wing is now accepting applications for its 6th year of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative University Scholarships – established for high school seniors from populations historically underrepresented in the theater industry. Students can apply to study any aspect of theater from stage management to arts administration, design to performance, etc. The deadline for all submissions is Monday, February 28, 2022.Read More »Apply for the Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative University Scholarships by Feb. 28, 2022

Actors’ Equity Association Announces New Public Health Consultants

Actors’ Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional stage managers and actors in live theatre, has announced that a team of doctors led by Dr. Mark Cunningham-Hill—and includes Dr. Laura S. Welch and Dr. Steven J. Anderson—are the new public health consultants for the union, effective immediately. This team also advises the American Guild of Music Artists and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society on COVID-19 safety.Read More »Actors’ Equity Association Announces New Public Health Consultants

Lightswitch Evokes Magic of Machu Picchu with Chauvet Professional

Describing it as the “sweat of the sun,” the Incas revered gold as far more than a symbol of wealth and power. To them, the glittering metal was a gift bestowed directly from the gods that radiated mystical, restorative powers from its shimmering surface.

An ancient myth? Perhaps. Still, it’s one that visitors to Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru will readily understand. Named after a 15th-century Incan citadel in the Peruvian Andes, the exhibit, which opened at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, showcases a dazzling collection of 192 gold artifacts crafted by this vanished civilization.Read More »Lightswitch Evokes Magic of Machu Picchu with Chauvet Professional

Dodd Technologies and Elation Proteus Meet Lofty Challenge at College Football Playoff in Indianapolis

Dodd Technologies, a full-service live events production company in Pendleton, IN, near Indianapolis, had a busy start to the year thanks to the College Football Playoff national championship game, which took place at Indianapolis’s Lucas Oil Stadium on January 10th. Dodd worked on several projects associated with the game including a remarkable high-rise ballet lit using Elation’s 50,000-lumen Proteus Maximus™.Read More »Dodd Technologies and Elation Proteus Meet Lofty Challenge at College Football Playoff in Indianapolis

Heavenue Launches Cloud-Enabled Platform to Deliver Immersive Live Shows

 

Heavenue, an entertainment-focused platform delivering high-fidelity, immersive live shows from the cloud, has opened in New York. Founded by Alex Coulombe, CEO, the early development platform has already been used by the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky in its R&D Lab, exploring old and new media, a virtualized rendition of Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol in a hybrid live stage and virtual theater performance. Here’s a video trailer of the production that aired in December 2021:

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Metropolitan interactive & Mitsubishi Electric DiamondVision Partner on Boston’s WynnBET Sports Bar

Metropolitan interactive doing business as Metinteractive, which provides strategic solutions for architecture, communication, and technology, partnered with Mitsubishi Electric DiamondVision to deliver the massive LED video canvas showcased in the WynnBET Sports Bar at the new Encore Boston Harbor hotel and casino.Read More »Metropolitan interactive & Mitsubishi Electric DiamondVision Partner on Boston’s WynnBET Sports Bar

ELS and Elation Light Inaugural Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Tennessee

Extreme Lighting & Sound (ELS) recently wrapped up its first season presenting Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Fairview, Tennessee. The dazzling drive-thru holiday light show featured atmosphere-generating effects from a large amount of Elation lighting gear along with custom pixel products and proved a huge success.Read More »ELS and Elation Light Inaugural Holiday Wonders at Bowie Nature Park in Tennessee

Streaming Video Production for Pentatonix’s The Evergreen Experience Relies on Blackmagic Design Cameras

Pentatonix’s The Evergreen Experience concert was shot with Blackmagic Design’s URSA Broadcast G2 and URSA Mini Pro 12K cameras in Blackmagic RAW by video production company MixOne Cinema. During the performance, which was streamed across four time zones on premium social live media platform Moment House, Grammy Award winning a cappella group Pentatonix performed songs from its latest album Evergreen. Among the many advantages Moment House brings to both creators and fans is the focus on providing cinematic experiences with high quality, Hollywood level imagery from multicamera productions. MixOne Cinema, which specializes in high profile entertainment events, was chosen to produce the performance and used Blackmagic Design products to achieve a high-quality look.Read More »Streaming Video Production for Pentatonix’s The Evergreen Experience Relies on Blackmagic Design Cameras