Novart Media Films will be in charge of production for austrian brothers EXIT/INPUT new music video OBJECT. Executive produced by Bianca Smanio and directed by Sebastian Mantilla, the music video will be released in November 2009 following a live performance by the electronic group in Barcelona. EXIT/INPUT have an endless array of genre’s under there belt. They are out to change the way music is thought of, heard, and seen.

The Eastman Kodak Company announced yesterday that the camera film, immortalised by Simon’s 1973 hit Kodachrome, was being taken off the market after a run of 74 years.

Kodachrome was born in 1935 after a process invented by two musicians, Leopold Godowsky Jr and Leopold Mannes, a violinist and a pianist known as “God and Man” who were passionately interested in photography as a hobby.

The vivid colours of Kodachrome have captured some of the most famous wildlife imagery as well as many of the world’s best-known news photographs.

Abraham Zapruder’s 8mm reel of President John Kennedy’s 1963 assassination was shot on Kodachrome.

Kodachrome had a natural way of recording colour. It was incredibly fine-grained and for many years was the best way of getting maximum quality — the resolution was fantastic.

The top digital cameras would now probably supersede and give better quality when measured mathematically, but aesthetically Kodachrome had something you just can’t reproduce digitally.

Source: Timesonline

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Over the weekend of 13th-15th March, The European Independent Film Festival 2009 screened 113 films from 27 countries at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Site François-Mitterrand. Alongside the screenings, ÉCU 2009 also offered “Meet the Directors” sessions, an exciting array of workshops with internationally renowned industry experts and the newly launched Perfect Pitch programme. Sebastian Mantilla received Best Director award for his independent film Next to Babilonia.

For the first time in 2009, EAVE and Buenos Aires Lab will organize a joint workshop for 5 Latin American and 5 European producers with the support of MEDIA International:

The PUENTES Europe-Latin America Producers Workshop taking place in Buenos Aires from March 26-30, 2009 within the framework of the BAFICI (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) taking place from March 25 – April 5, 2009.