NAB Darling Red Camera Records First Festival Feather With Joshua Weigel's 168 Film...

NAB Darling Red Camera Records First Festival Feather With Joshua Weigel's 168
Film Project Winner 'Stained'
Short Based on Speed Filmmaking Contest's Random Bible Verse and Starring
Disney KinCoopts Digital Camera's 4K Image Quality and Workflow Ease for Rig
Milestone

LAS VEGAS, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Los Angeles-based writer-director
Joshua Weigel joins believers Peter Jackson and Steven Soderbergh in the RED
ONE Digital Camera merit book this week with his Best Film award over the
weekend for the futuristic "Stained," featuring distant-cousin-of-Walt Melissa
Disney, at the 6th annual 168 Film Festival (Apr. 11-12) timed film producing
event at the Alex Theater in Glendale, Calif.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080415/CLTU043 )
Oscar-winning directors Jackson and Soderbergh were the first established
filmmakers to embrace RED founder Jim Jannard's revolutionary 4K-capture HD
camera, employing it on the New Zealander's 15-min. WWI showcase "Crossing the
Line" and the DP-director's upcoming Che Guevara biopics "The Argentine" and
"Guerilla." And now, with Red Digital Cinema's highly anticipated return to
the National Association of Broadcasters Show floor (Apr. 14-17) in Las Vegas,
Weigel's film about a resolute inmate (2008 "Face of the NAB" cover girl Jenn
Gotzon in a 168 Best Actress performance) in a merciless society that
segregates its undesirables has emerged as the first production shot
exclusively on the RED ever to win a film festival.
"It's great of course that big budget movies with known directors are
being shot with RED, but it's equally important that the next generation of up
and coming superstars in the business are making RED their camera of choice,"
said RED Digital Cinema's leader of the revolution Ted Schilowitz. "We
congratulate Joshua and his team on their win and can't wait to see what he
shoots next in 4K with RED."
Produced by Weigel, Aaron Moore and Jeff Bartsch and lensed by Brandon
Lippard in 168 Film Project's signature seven-day -- i.e., 168-hour -- race to
shoot, edit and score a short film created around Scriptures drawn from a hat,
"Stained" was one of the first entrants to wrap on time, according to 168
founder and director John Ware.
"After seeing the finished product with its painterly touches and
extensive coverage, you wonder how it ever got completed by deadline," Ware
said of the 11-min., seven-award winner based on Gal. 3:28's declaration of
overcoming mankind's divisions. "But RED offers as many advantages in post as
it does in production."
Weigel, whose 1920s period piece "Snare" earned Disney a Best Actress nod
at last year's 168, migrated to RED this year "to create the best possible
image and get as close to film as possible. And the RED let us explore
something different. Plus, RED technicians Pete Brown and Chris Armstrong
were always a cell phone call away. My DP and I left the rest to our editor
Chris Witt, who was well prepped in advance and had no problems."
168 jury member and executive producer Mark Clayman ("The Pursuit of
Happyness") likened "Stained" to "Blade Runner," with its dark, RED-captured
imagery that "definitely complemented the story." For more information,
visit www.168project.com or www.red.com.

CONTACT: Scotty Dugan, Dugan & Story PR, scotty@duganstory.com
John Ware, 168 Film Project, 818-557-8507, john@168project.com
Red Digital Cinema, 949-206-7900

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For more information and additional photos: Scotty Dugan of Dugan & Story PR,
+1-435-901-1483, scotty@duganstory.com; or John Ware of 168 Film Project,
+1-818-557-8507, john@168project.com; or Ted Schilowitz of Red Digital Cinema,
+1-949-206-7900, ted@red.com