We love movies – new and old, big and small. Our artists have done DIs for Oscar winning features like Little Miss Sunshine to promising indie features like the ones you’ll read about below. We are continually leaning in to the bleeding edge to bring our clients the best picture technically possible and are currently offering Digital Intermediates at up to 4K resolution from 16mm, 35mm, all Digital Cameras and 3D. No matter what format you shot, our creative and technical teams throw their passion and talent behind your picture.

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Sassy Pants

SASSY PANTS – dir Coley Sohn, dp Dennis Maloney
Featuring: Haley Joel Osment, Anna Gunn, Ashley Rickards, and Diedrich Bader
Format: Super 16mm
Finish: 2K Digital Intermediate

Based on Boutonniere, Coley Sohn’s award winning short film which premiered at Sundance in 2009, Sassy Pants stars Ashley Rickards (Awkward) as a teenage girl who attempts to get a job before going away to college. Complicating her plans of escape are an overbearing mom (Anna Gunn of Breaking Bad) and her gay father, played by Diedrich Bader (Napoleon Dynamite). Haley Joel Osment plays Chip Hardy, the father’s boyfriend, in a role that is a far from anything you’ve ever seen him in before.

Watch the Trailer!

UPDATE: Congratulations to Coley, Producers Pavlina Hatoupis and Adam Wilkins, and the rest of Team Sassy for acceptance to the 2012 Santa Barbara International Film Fest!!

Pursuit of Loneliness

PURSUIT OF LONELINESS – dir Laurence Thrush, dp Gary Young
Featuring: Joy Hillie, Suzanne Faha, and John Magginetti
Format: 5D and Varicam
Finish: HDCAM-SR

Congratulations to writer / director Laurence Thrush on Pursuit of Loneliness selection in the SUNDANCE 2012 NEXT category. When an elderly woman dies in a Los Angeles county hospital with no known next of kin, four strangers search for her family. Cinelicious VFX Supervisor Ben Looram provided all VFX work and color grading for this wistful film. Read more about the film on IndieWire.
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All American Tooles

ALL AMERICAN TOOLES – dir M. David Melvin, dp Joshua Hess
Featuring: Michael Trucco, Kurtwood Smith, Ivana Milicevic and Malia Fields
Format: 35mm Anamorphic
Finish: 2K Digital Intermediate

All American Tooles is a comedic short from writer/director M. David Melvin that explores irrational fear and paranoid parenting in a twilight-zonian suburban sprawl. The film was shot in stunning 35mm anamorphic by DP Joshua Hess and stars Battlestar Gallactica’s Michael Trucco, talented newcomer Malia Fields, Croatian mantrap Ivana Milicevic (Casino Royale), and industry vet Kurtwood Smith. Cinelicious provided tapeless digital film dailies as well as DI color grading and 2K DCP, HDCAM, Blu-Ray & DVD Deliverables. Read some of the buzz in The Wrap.

UPDATE: Congratulations to M. David Melvin and Cast, and Crew of All American Tooles for recently inking an international distribution deal through Shorts International and their acceptance into the following film festivals:

• Palm Springs International ShortFest
• Los Angeles Comedy Festival
• LA Comedy Shorts Festival
• Big Island Film Festival
• NYLA International Film Festival

From The Head

FROM THE HEAD – dir George Griffith, dp Martin Matiasek
Featuring: George Griffith, Matthew Lillard, Jeffrey Doornbos, and Samantha Lemole
Format: Super 16mm Anamorphic
Finish: 2K Digital Intermediate

From The Head is an indie feature from writer/director George Griffith, based loosely on his own real life experiences as a bathroom attendant in a New York City strip club in the mid-90s. George and talented DP Martin Matiasek wanted to shoot the rare, Super 16mm anamorphic format, as they were going for a “cinematic, yet gritty & realistic look”. They knew that would be difficult to achieve with a digital camera. The producers felt that their budget could not accommodate a film format so they were strong advocates for the RED camera. After a very creative and successful collaboration with the producers, Cinelicious presented a file-based, indie DI workflow that entailed scanning and grading all film to ProRes 4444, which saves time, money and SR tape costs. They ended up with full-bandwidth dailies and master files that were editable from a Macbook Pro laptop. Not only did they achieve the look they wanted creatively, but the producers were pleased with the bottom line.

UPDATE: Congratulations to George, the Producers, Cast, and Crew of From The Head for their recent Best Feature win at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.