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Cornish Pastoral
TFuji At Cannes
his year’s Cannes Film Festival runs from May 14-25 and once again, Roger Sapsford will rep- resent Fujifilm UK at Cannes, and along with Lee Lighting
and Panavision will be chartering the luxurious yacht Alcina to entertain our friends in the industry. ■
JDigital Technology
ohn de Borman BSC (pictured below) has recently been in Ireland shooting Ella Enchanted on Fuji. Directed by Tommy O’Haver (Get Over It), Ella
Enchanted stars Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes, Steve Coogan and Joanna Lumley.
Like Dinotopia, which won an Emmy for best visual effects, this mod- ern day Cinderella-like tale used the blue and green screens for some of its digital special effects. ■
H werow Hweg (Bitter Sweet), written, directed and edited
Photos from top left:
Hwerow Hweg (Bitter Sweet) Executive Producer Stanley Bielecki; The stars, Robert Williams and Helen Rule; Jenny Martin and Soozie Tinn; Writer/Director/Editor Antal Kovacs with Angela Kovacs (Make Up/ Wardrobe); Philip Jacobs as Magnus in Hwerow Hweg (Bitter Sweet)
The film was shot on DV tapes. They can be just as effective as film, but you do have to light your shots. We used two ‘blondes’, two ‘red- heads’ and a set of DeDo lights, each with its own ‘dimmer’. DV produces excellent pictures even at low light levels, but not in the dark. I remember using a 10 Watt practical light bulb in shot to get the right light balance.
We have got some stunning shots throughout the picture, but it did not just happen. We had taken just as much trouble lighting every scene as we would have done for film. We used a Symphony for grading and mastered on Digital Betacam using Fujifilm D321 master tapes. It looks like a million dollars (as they say.)
Thefilmpremieredlastsummerin the House of Commons. It was well received by an invited audience. Gerald Kaufman, chairman of the House of Commons Culture Committee, praised the film for an ‘exoticism one does not normally associate with the British Isles.’
Nick Raynsford, the Local Government Minister, announced on November 5, 2002, that the
by Penzance-based Antal Kovacs, is a feature-length, bilingual contemporary love
story set and shot in West Cornwall. The cast includes Robert Williams, Helen Rule, Philip Jacobs, Soozie Tinn
and Joanna Graham. It’s produced by Paul Farmer, executive produced by Stanley Bielecki of SB International, and lit by George Greene.
Budapest-born Kovacs, a graduate of the St Martin’s School of Art and London School of Film Technique, first worked as an assistant director on films like Joanna, Blow Up and The Italian Job before eventually becoming a maker of documentaries, commercials and cor- poratevideos.AmemberofCornwall Media Resource, he gave Exposure the lowdown on Hwerow Hweg.
“Hwerow Hweg is the first feature film made in Cornwall by a Cornish cast and technicians in English and in Kernewek. Our intention was to raise the profile of the Cornish language and its recent revival.
Government recognised Cornish as Britain’s sixth official minority lan- guage and that it will be protected under the European Charter for Regional Minority Languages.
TChange Of Dates
Hwerow Hweg was selected for the
World Cinema: Reflections of Our Time
section of the Montreal World Film
Festival, and was screened there four
times. It has also been chosen for
international competition in the forth-
coming Celtic Film and Television
Festival in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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The Production Show
he Production Show, which is the UK’s largest broadcast and production exhibition, will be held from May 20 – 22 at the National Hall, Olympia,
London. Our good friends Ewart Needham and Jill James of TAPS (pic- tured right) will be having a stand at the exhibition where you can pick up an application form for the TAPS Writer of the Year Awards. ■
he British Society of Cinematographers has decid- ed to change the date of the BSC Operators Night to avoid it clashing with the
Camerimage Festival which has become such a popular event.
Camerimage runs in Poland from November 29 – December 6.
place on December 12 at Elstree Studios. ■
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