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Tag: academy awards
OSCAR WORTHY WORK from a Montreal Company
Employees of a Montreal company are celebrating this week, after their work on a film paid off at the 90th Academy Awards March 4th. Last week, Paul Larson took you inside the headquarters of Rodeo FX, the Montreal-based visual effects company. For the first time in its eleven-year history, Rodeo FX worked on three of the…
Film Buff Favors Celluloid Over Digital
Special effects can be especially dazzling coming from the high tech digital projectors of today. But there are some people who still like to watch movies the old-fashioned way. Andy MacDougall, a film historian and former movie critic for the Press-Republican newspaper, offers free movie nights where classic 16mm films are played on reel-to-reel projectors.…
OSCAR NIGHT… It’s personal for some effects creators in Montreal
For the first time in its eleven-year history, the visual effects company Rodeo FX in Montreal worked on three of the films nominated for “Best Visual Effects” in the 90th Academy Awards ceremony, honoring films released in the year 2017. Paul Larson met with Visual Effects Producer Adam O’Brien Locke, and Rodeo FX President Sébastien…