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Family Ties
Light Iron Senior Colorist Sam Daley offers insights into the grading process for the HBO series Succession. The third season of the hit HBO series Succession recently premiered, rewarding fans’ anticipation and continuing to chart the internecine conflicts of the Roy...
Flashback: Remote Innovations for Social Distance
The team behind the Netflix series revisit the workflow innovations that enabled the production. Not long into the pandemic, shortly after productions were returning to work following industry-wide shutdowns as a precaution against the spread of Covid-19, Netflix went...
Royal Trimmings
Cinematographer Joe “Jody” Williams and director Craig Brewer partner with Panavision and Light Iron to take audiences back to Zamunda in the sequel Coming 2 America. Arriving in movie theaters in the summer of 1988, Coming to America starred Eddie Murphy as Prince...
Light Iron welcomes senior colorist Sam Daley to New York roster
Veteran colorist bolsters post-production services provider’s footprint in New York market, global reach via remote collaboration. LOS ANGELES (March 9, 2021) — Light Iron, the post-production creative services division of Panavision, has welcomed colorist Sam Daley...
The Main Event
Tami Reiker, ASC and Light Iron supervising colorist Ian Vertovec detail their collaboration on director Regina King’s feature One Night in Miami… On Feb. 25, 1964, Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston at the Convention Hall in Miami, Fla., to become boxing’s...
Made In Her Image and Panavision introduce the Catalyst Cohort
Applications are being accepted through March 16, 2021, for the inaugural edition of this educational, mentorship, and networking program for emerging women and non-binary film-industry professionals of color. In the next step of the expanded partnership announced...
Holiday Adventure
Don Burgess, ASC and Light Iron’s Corinne Bogdanowicz reteam for The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two and discuss their longtime collaboration in the panel discussion “Cinematography From Set to Screen.” Continuing the story of “true believer” Kate Pierce (Darby Camp)...
Light Iron expands innovative solutions for remote collaboration
Post-production services provider continues to enable creativity without compromise, announcing comprehensive, flexible remote services and key additions to leadership team. LOS ANGELES (Dec. 1, 2020) — Since its founding in 2009, Light Iron, a Panavision company, has...
Beacons of Hope
Director Julia Swain, cinematographer Teodora Totoiu, and colorist Corinne Bogdanowicz shine a light on the documentary Lady Cameraman’s journey to the screen. “Cinematography has truly saved my life,” director of photography Julia Swain says in the opening minutes of...
Picturing a More Perfect Union
Cinematographer Christian Sprenger and Light Iron supervising colorist Steven Bodner collaborate to bring Heidi Schreck’s play What the Constitution Means to Me to the screen. Mixing personal biography and family history with the political and social sciences, Heidi...
The Color of Paradise
Stephan Pehrsson, BSC shoots on DXL2 and partners with Light Iron to realize the vibrant visuals of the series Utopia. The comic book Dystopia tells the story of Jessica Hyde, a young girl on the run from the evil Mr. Rabbit, who holds Jessica’s scientist father...
Moral History
The filmmakers behind Yes, God, Yes recount their journey to bring the feature to fruition. In the early aughts, in a small Iowa town, Alice — a student at the local Catholic high school — enjoys watching Titanic and testing her knowledge of movie titles with word...
Through Her Lens
Made In Her Image and Panavision partner for a virtual roundtable spotlighting women filmmakers of color. On July 14, Made In Her Image, Panavision, Light Iron and LEE Filters presented the virtual roundtable discussion “Through Her Lens: Creating a Truly Inclusive...
Infinite Jest
Cinematographer Quyen Tran employs T Series optics and reteams with colorist Ethan Schwartz for the existential time-loop comedy ‘Palm Springs.’
Detective Story
Patrick Cady, ASC details the procedures he and his collaborators — including Light Iron Supervising Colorist Scott Klein — followed to take Bosch Season 6 from prep through post.
Golden-Hour Sci-Fi
Jeff Cronenweth, ASC employs Panavision’s DXL2 and large-format optics, and reteams with Light Iron supervising colorist Ian Vertovec, to lend a sense of nostalgia to the twilight-lit landscapes of Tales From the Loop.
Fact-finding in the Sunshine
John Conroy, ISC helps transport Showtime’s horror franchise Penny Dreadful to a new period and location with Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Smart Solutions for Quibi’s Dummy
Panavision and Light Iron help DP Catherine Goldschmidt pioneer a pipeline for Dummy, a made-for-mobile production requiring both 16:9 and 9:16 framing.
“Success is Counted Sweetest”: Tim Orr on Shooting Dickinson for Apple TV+
When Apple TV+ was unveiled earlier this year, Apple positioned the video subscription service as “the new home for the world’s most celebrated creative artists.” One of the first projects ordered was Dickinson, a quirky series loosely based on the writings and...
Visuals for Corporate Animals Reach Savage Heights
Demi Moore returns to the big screen in Corporate Animals, playing Lucy, an insufferable CEO of a struggling startup aimed at millennials. In her infinite wisdom, Lucy takes her staff, led by her long-suffering assistants Jess (Jessica Williams) and Freddie...
