AMIA Conference: Our Sponsors

Thomson Foundation for Film & Television Heritage
Created in 2006, the Thomson Foundation is a non-profit entity, acting worldwide in the field of preservation and promotion of film and audiovisual heritage, which reflects the history and culture of a country. The Thomson Foundation runs international programs in several countries through Asia, Europe, America and Africa. Working in cooperation with local and international partners, the Thomson Foundation identifies and supports urgent programs for the safeguard of moving images. By discerning the appropriate resources required for each project, the Thomson Foundation helps set up multi-disciplinary teams. They include experts from its founder Thomson and experts from leading film and TV archives, film preservation schools, cinema schools. Transmission and education plays a key role in each program. In all Foundation programs, films and audiovisual materials are preserved in aim to be shared and shown to the largest audience. foundation.thomson.net

Ascent Media Group
Santa Monica, California-based Ascent Media Group provides creative and technical media services to the media and entertainment industries through its Creative Services and Networks Services groups. Through more than 70 facilities in California, New York, London, Singapore and other locations throughout the world, Ascent Media provides effective solutions for the creation, management and distribution of content to major motion picture studios, independent producers, broadcast networks, cable channels, advertising agencies and other companies that produce, own and/or distribute entertainment, news, sports, corporate, educational, industrial and advertising content. www.ascentmedia.com

Kodak
Kodak offers a wide variety of products, spanning the entire motion picture value chain from image capture to post, on through distribution/exhibition and archival applications. In addition, Kodak provides a full spectrum of services, featuring Kodak color and imaging science, to the motion picture industry. www.kodak.com

SAMMA Systems, Inc
SAMMA Systems, Inc develops and manufactures solutions that facilitate the automated migration of videotapes into the digital server environment. The flagship product, SAMMA (System for the Automated Migration of Media Assets) Robot includes robotic tape handling, multiple simultaneous migration streams with closed loop process control to allow tapes to be migrated in a totally unattended fashion. SAMMA Systems also manufactures SAMMA Solo, the world’s first semi-automated real-time analog to digital file migration system. www.sammasystems.com

Technicolor
With years of experience and a staff of highly trained and certified specialists, Technicolor provides archival-quality processing and preservation in black-and-white and color. Our services include: element reproduction; nitrate-certified services, digital film recording and restoration and physical element inspection and repairs. Technicolor’s seasoned restoration technicians and engineers have provided full audio restoration to projects dating back to the 1930s, including the Smithsonian Institute and Library of Congress. www.technicolor.com

Chace Productions
Chace Productions has an established reputation as a premier audio restoration and re-vitalization facility. Our historical perspective and our experience with a wide range of problems make us your first choice for treating older material. We have a wide array of specialized tools, some developed and used exclusively by us. www.chace.com

Lowry Digital
Lowry Digital has developed unique and proprietary image processing tools for superior noise/grain reduction, artifact removal and fine detail enhancement. Applications include movie restorations, emergency image fixes, blow-ups without softening, uprez, remastering, pre-compression services for better Blu-ray and production services for digital capture.

Prasad EFX
Prasad EFX is one of the largest Digital Film Restoration facility, having worked on several prestigious film titles from around the world. Prasad EFX offers excellent quality, a large professional team and output to all media through professional project management. Prasad EFX is part of the 50 year old Prasad Group, leaders in Post Production in Asia. www.efxmagic.com

MTI Film, LLC
For the last fifteen years, MTI Film has offered software applications to the motion picture industry for film restoration. As the recognized leader in film restoration software, by virtue of the many awards it has won, MTI Film continues its proud tradition with the release of Correct V7, a major advance in the restoration artist’s toolset. V7 includes many improvements that result in a faster and more powerful suite designed to improve quality and throughput. www.mtifilm.com

The Pixel Farm
The Pixel Farm is leading the field in research and development in the area of digital restoration for both film and video. Introduced only 2 years ago, PFClean is fast establishing itself as the restoration system of choice amongst key facilities, including Cineric, The Criterion Collection, Technicolor and Deluxe. PFClean’s unique toolset
and non-destructive, non-linear environment is matched by is flexibility in implementation with support for every common desktop operating system. It is also the only application in the field with a fully hardware accelerated toolset running on high end GPU’s.www.thepixelfarm.co.uk

Motion Picture Imaging (MPI)
Warner Bros. Motion Picture Imaging (MPI) is a state-of- the-art 4K post-production facility. Located on the Warner Bros. Studio lot in Burbank, MPI’s services and experts are equally available and have been used by Warner Bros. films as well as those of outside clients. MPI is also a leader in the field of digital film preservation and restoration and has developed unique and patented process to digitally restore classics from the vast Warner Bros Studios film and television library as well as those of other clients. The facility has received safety certification to store and work with nitrate film stock.

Ignite Films - Flicker Alley - FDE Inc.
Collaboration is key in today's marketplace. Unite three individuals for a common cause - the restoration of film for current and future generations - and you've got a multi-dimensional solution. Ignite Films - Flicker Alley - FDE, Inc. offers content, branding and production services to take your projects through concept, creation, completion. www.ignite-films.com - www.flickeralley.com - www.fde-inc.com

ALT Systems
ALT Systems is a full-service systems integrator for the post-production media and entertainment industry supporting compositing, editing, color correction, storage, networking, rendering, archiving, film scanning, and large format film recording. www.altsystems.com

Crawford Communications, Inc.
Crawford migrates large media collections to digital file-based environments. The Company’s media management division (CMM), helps clients “over the hump” of digitizing existing libraries of video, audio and film. www.crawford.com

Universal Studios BluWave Audio
BluWave Audio, a division of Universal Studios Sound, is an 18,000 square foot ultra-modern facility dedicated to Digital Mastering, Television Mixing, Audio Restoration and Archival Restoration, and Sound Transfer. www.bluwaveaudio.com

Reto.ch
reto.ch Ltd is a small, highly skilled film conservation and restoration facility in Switzerland. Our team provides comprehensive services that encompass the whole range of moving image preservation using both photochemical and
digital techniques. We also offer consultancy and training on all audio-visual preservation issues. www.reto.ch

Audio Mechanics
Founded in 1991, Audio Mechanics is now one of the most sought-after re-mastering studios in Southern California. They have a reputation for aesthetic integrity and extreme technical proficiency. Specializations include sound restoration, music mastering, sound editing, and forensic audio. Their facility in Burbank, CA features state-of-the-art adaptable 5.1 mastering rooms, a recording studio suitable for bands and ADR work, and a stereo mastering control room. Audio Mechanics has maintained, through word-of-mouth, an impressive list of corporate and independent clientele in the music, film, and television industries.

Hollywood Vaults
Hollywood Vaults has created a modern approach to the storage & preservation of valuable media assets, offering unparalleled quality, convenience and security. Today Hollywood Vaults is regarded as one the world's premier public film, tape and digital media storage vaults. Additional information at www.hollywoodvaults.com or owner, David Wexler at 800.569.5336

Contributing Sponsors

Colorlab Corp.
Full film to film preservation and film to tape mastering in SD & HD from 8mm, super 8, 9.5mm, 28mm and 35mm; Replasticiszing treatment; and preservation from nitrate originals. www.colorlab.com

Film Technology Company
Film Technology Co., Inc has been doing preservation of picture, sound, and video for the motion picture and television industries for the last thirty-five years. With extensive staff experience in film timing, video mastering, and sound restoration, we are able to preserve and restore current and obsolete film and video formats and sizes. In-house processing provides maximum control over quality, as well as prompt service. www.filmtech.com

Larry Stark, Archivist

Image Fortress
Image Fortress, the industry leader in online digital archiving, offers a complete range of video and film transfer and digitizing services (from both film and tape) including transfer of video into high definition format for HD TV and for Blue Ray DVD packaging, custom professional services, and online digital archiving services built upon our DigitalFortress service that safeguards, organizes and makes easily accessible client moving image assets. For customers looking for a complete soup-to-nuts, hands-free suite of services, we can digitize your films or tapes (and create HD-formatted versions if so desired) and very economically digitally archive your moving image assets using the same industry-leading technology and support service infrastructure we developed to preserve and archive image content belonging to clients such as the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Stanford University, Duke University, The Mint, and The World Bank. We provide the most secure online digital archiving possible, in full conformance with the latest ISO standards for digital archiving plus full 24x7 support, maintenance and administration of our customers' moving image archives. www.imagefortress.com