For immediate release - October 2009, London, UK.
Ariel Prize singles out Cannes award-winning film ‘Map of the Sounds of Tokyo’, post produced at Molinare using Mistika
“Mistika, with its versatility and efficiency, delivered the
results in our time demanding world of cinema post production.”
- Carlos Cervera, Production Manager, Molinare, Madrid.
Madrid, Spain, 28 October 2009:
Spanish feature film titled Map of the Sounds of
Tokyo (Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio), post produced at Molinare
using Mistika, is a candidate for nomination of the Ariel
Prize 2010 awarded by the Mexican Film Academy. The film was
also one of three films selected as finalists by the Spanish
Film Academy as potential Oscar nominees to represent Spain in
the category of Best Foreign Language Film. Although one of the
other films was selected for an Oscar nomination, it is an
incredible accolade for the film to be chosen by the Spanish
Film Academy as one of Spain’s top three films. The Ariel Prize
Award 2010 will take place in Mexico in March next year with
nominees being announced in February 2010.
Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, which has also recently won a
coveted technical artist Cannes award, was written and directed
by internationally acclaimed Director Isabel Coixet and produced
by Jaume Roures, Javier Mendez and Bernat Elias. Director of
Photography, Jean Claude Larrieu shot the film using the RED One
Camera in 4K.
Complete post production of the film was achieved using Mistika
at Molinare, which involved conforming; the creation of digital
effects; colour grading; Digital Intermediate (DI); as well as
the coordination and supervision of the photochemical laboratory
through to delivery of the final version. Mistika’s real-time
play-out and 4K resolution, especially in relation to RED One
Camera footage, enabled the Mistika artists to conform; colour
grade and post produce directly from the R3D files with no need
to convert the RED raw file footage in external tools.
Carlos Cervera, Production Manager working on the cinema project
at Molinare confirmed: „Owing to the fact that Mistika enabled
us to work directly with the RED raw files meant that our colour
grading time was significantly reduced by three weeks and we
were way ahead of schedule. Mistika, with its versatility and
efficiency, delivered the results in our time demanding world of
cinema post production.” The post team at Molinare benefited
from Mistika’s functionality and remarkable speed for this
project especially with regard to Mistika’s ability to handle
RED raw data files in 4K in real-time.
The film is about Ryu, a solitary woman, whose fragile
appearance is in stark contrast with the double life she leads,
working at a Tokyo fish market at night and sporadically taking
on jobs as a hit-woman. Map of the Sounds of Tokyo was released
for public viewing at cinema circuits from 22 August 2009. To
view a trailer of the film, please visit the official website:
www.mapofthesoundsoftokyo.com
CREDITS
Title: MAP OF
THE SOUND OF TOKYO
Director & Writer: ISABEL COIXET
Director of Photography: JEAN CLAUDE LARRIEU (A.F.C.)
Camera: RED ONE CAMERA
Producer: JAUME ROURES
Executive Producer: JAVIER MÉNDEZ
Line Producer: BERNAT ELIAS
Post Production Company: MOLINARE
Post Production System: SGO MISTIKA
Post Production Producer: CARLOS CERVERA
Colour grading: PAULA MORON
FX and postproduction Supervisor: FERRAN PIQUER
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SGO is a leading European developer of high-end solutions for the post production and broadcast industries and has been distributing and providing system integration and developing solutions for the film and media industries since 1993. Mistika, SGO's high-end post production system offers a complete solution and industry-leading performance for post production across all genres from advertising, film and TV productions. Customers include Videomedia, Molinare Madrid, Concrete Post Production, Brighton TV, El Colorado, Thomson Technicolor Madrid, Real Madrid Televisión, PICTORION das werk GmbH and OPTIX Digital Pictures. www.sgo.es.
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About Film Director Isabel Coixet |
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International acclaim came in 2003 with the intimate drama Mi Vida sin Mí [My Life without Me]. This Spanish-Canadian production, that received support from filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar´s production company El Deseo, was a great success at the Berlin International Film Festival. And this film received the Best Adapted Script Goya Award. Coixet continued to work with Polley in a new film, La Vida Secreta de las Palabras [The Secret Life of Words] premiered in 2005 with Tim Robbins and Javier Cámara in the leading roles. This film received four Goya awards: Best Film, Best Director, Best Production and Best Script.In 2005, Coixet joined 18 other internationally renowned filmmakers, including Gus Van Sant, Walter Salles and Joel and Ethan Coen, for an innovative collective project called Paris, Je T’aime, starring Miranda Richardson and Sergio Castellitto, in which each director explores a different district of Paris.
For further information about Coixet, please visit
www.mapofthesoundsoftokyo.com |
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