Technical stuff

In the latest news from ACS France, two films in Competition at the Cannes film Festival. Presentation of both the Russian Arm VI - the most efficient and functional robotic arm on the market -, and the Mantis remote dolly system.

For those who haven’t seen it yet, you can see our demo presented for the NAB Show 2018 in Las Vegas. We thank Shotover for its presence by our side for this occasion.

As a child, Eric Gautier spends a long time in his grandmother’s flower shop in the Paris suburb of Bondy. He daydreams while devouring the Tintin comic albums (conceived and designed by Belgian artist-auteur Hergé), not knowing yet that his desire for cinema would be born right there in the midst of mortuary crowns and that, much later, he would say: "I owe everything to Hergé".

In the 1960s, the combined peculiarities of the Belgian and American administrations deprived Yves Cape of any kind of citizenship until he was to turn 16. Born in Belgium, the only son of an American father and a Belgian mother, young Yves had to carry a ‘‘Stateless’‘ safe-conduct – a traumatizingly pink document - until he was ordered to choose between being Belgian or American. He went for Belgian. With no regret whatsoever.

Like last year, you will find a new analysis of workflow from the Digital Production Challenge II (DPC II) seminar. End of 2017, during 4 days, I was one of the 4 tutors in Amsterdam to work for this seminar organized each year in the European capitals by the Swiss Foundation Focal.

Our demo for the last Cesars & Techniques, the newest tool of our systems, Aerial Production, and Newsletter 22, here is our latest news.

The new Sony Venice Full Frame camera is now available at Next Shot. The grip department provides new features. Two feature lengths are shooting in April, as two series.

The first units of Venice have been shipped to Europe! Version 2 will be available in August, including new features.

When cinematographer Yves Angelo first met Agnès Jaoui about the film they were to shoot together, Place publique, the actor-director expressed one wish... which doubled up as a tall and quintessential order: "Cinema is all about dreaming, I want it to be beautiful".

If Britain chose the Brexit direction, Hollywood preferred to choose the one that leads to studios facilities in the London area. Those of Pinewood, Longcross, Leavesden, Shepperton and Ealing, are permanently full and even saturated, with huge investments committed in terms of expansion and accessibility, and booked for a very long time.

Every summer, in the house near Paris that his grandfather shared with his family, Julien Poupard made a short film with friends as passionate about cinema as he was. His father, a producer of institutional films, looked on that enthusiasm with a favorable eye and gladly provided his son not only with his equipment, but also – and no less important - his encouragement and advice.

In Liège, a small French-speaking town in Belgium and the self-proclaimed “waffle capital of the world,” a child was born that no one could predict would become an internationally known cinematographer. Like so many kids, that child, Benoît Debie, has a character trait that all parents dread: he hates school. But he also has another trait, far more predominant - and deeply embedded: whatever he undertakes, he is determined to succeed.

Shot in and around Paris in the dead of winter, David Oelhoffen’s Territoires is a "twilight urban western" that stars Reda Kateb and Matthias Schoenaerts. Long before principal photography was scheduled to start, cinematographer Guillaume Deffontaines, AFC, worked closely with the director to make the (intense) seven-week-long shoot as smooth as possible.

In the early 1970’s, in Meknes, Morocco, the Empire Theatre was a venue where films were released on the same day they were in Paris. Built in the colonial era, that theatre had an enormous impact on young Yves Angelo.

Claire Mathon’s graduation dissertation at the Louis-Lumière Film School focused on a theme that would, over the years, become both her obsession as a cinematographer and her trademark, her specialty: natural light.

When director Jaco Van Dormael gives 18-year-old Christophe Beaucarne the oral exam prior to his graduating from the INSAS (the famous Belgian film school), neither can imagine that twenty years later, they will be brothers-in-cinema, partners-in-crime on such films as Mr Nobody (2009) and The Brand New Testament (2015).

ACS France now proposes new aerial footage of Intramural Paris (7 & 8^th district), shot in helicopter with Alexa XT & Angénieux 24-290 package, between 11am and 1pm. Do not hesitate to contact us for more information.

Advertising VFX companies MPC and Mikros have today announced that they will integrate their operations in Paris. The two world-class advertising brands will join forces to provide a single source of creative VFX and production services to the French advertising market.