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Theatrical trailer for Christie Cinema Projectors programmed in pre-show screenings in cinemas worldwide

Christie Cinema

2023

0:45 min

The Making Of

This was a very unique production. Our client Christie is a world leader in projection technology, and supporter of the next generation of filmmakers, including as a sponsor of our outreach program, Open Gate Filmmaker Lab. At a screening event for Open Gate, we connected with the Christie team, who had an idea for bringing in young filmmakers to help produce a theatrical trailer for their cinema projectors. We loved the idea, and came up with a plan to use a Pitch Competition for post-secondary film students, wherein the winning pitch would have their story brought to life, and the student would get to work on set during production. We received submissions from schools across Ontario. The winning pitch came from Humber film student Mila Paulman, whose story followed a young boy from his imaginary play at home to being magically transported to the cinema, where his pretend story was playing on the big screen.


Producing for theatrical projection was a fun challenge that gave us the opportunity to work with some of the best technology and talent in the industry. We were fortunate to work with Arri Rental to shoot on the incomparable Arri 65. We filmed in 1 day at the Playhouse Cinema in Hamilton, which had the perfect classic cinema aesthetic we were looking for. For post-production, we reached out to heavy hitters Company 3, who were excited to pitch in on this project and brought in Bill Ferwerda for colour and the team at Sound Dogs for sound design and mixing. Since the trailer must look and sound amazing on the big screen in a variety of sound and picture formats, top level finishing and versioning was essential!


Mila worked on set with us to ensure that her vision was maintained, and attending post sessions as well. We're excited to follow her career post-graduation!

Credits

Executive Producer - Kyle Sawyer Producer - Katie Billo Production coordinator - Lindsay Klein Actors - Shiloh O’Reilly, Wyatt Lamoureux, Fegan Decordova ACTRA Toronto Casting - Ian Bender, CDC, Ashley Hallihan, CDC Director - Kyle Sawyer Director of Photography - Paul Duck 1st AC - Shane Pikelin 2nd AC - Vy Nguyen DMT - Matt Gesualdi Gaffer - Stefan Kuchar Grips - Paul Seaton, Max Wentzlaff Sound recordist - Troy Shantz Set decorator - Hilary Arellano Art PA - Leah Klein HMUA - Ty Wilson PA - Jeanine Neves Offline editor - Kyle Sawyer Post finishing - Company 3 Colourist - Bill Ferwerda Producer - Gino Carletti Sound design - Sound Dogs Sound editor - Dashen Naidoo Re-recording mixer - Alan deGraaf

Press


"Igniting the next generation of cinema" - Christie Digital "Spotlight", Dec 7, 2023


"Next-gen filmmaker is creative force behind new trailer" - Christie Press Release, Dec 11, 2023


"Supporting the next gen of filmmakers" - Company 3, December 15, 2023



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