CSC at TIFF

headquarters,” Finney said. “They are all ex-military so they use terms like pilot and navigator, and they really are rocket scientists. They wanted to do something with their skills and expertise that involved entertaining people, not killing them, so this is what they came up with.”

The technology is fast gaining interest across all major North American sports, with the Montreal Canadiens in talks to install a system at the Bell Centre in Montreal. “Our preference is green sports (meaning those with clear area, green playing fields),” Finney said, because some sports, like basketball, create huge technical challenges. “In basketball the crowd is right up to the courtside, and you’ve got a shiny floor and a clear backboard. This creates all kinds of problems for the cameras and the system to pick it up and recreate frames. “Eventually we’d like to capture a game and then allow a consumer to download it and watch it on their tablet device on a plane, for example, and play director by picking what angle they want to watch it from and change in real time and even create their own replays,” he continued. Also on the horizon are feature films and TV applications. “We’ve had some talks in Los Angeles and there is some interest, but the challenge is that we’d have to be cheaper and more efficient than doing it in postproduction (with CGI), as they can do now,” he said.

Ian Harvey is a veteran Toronto-based journalist who writes for a variety of publications and covers the technology sector. He welcomes feedback and eagerly solicits subject matter ideas at ian@pitbullmedia.ca.

CSC at 2014

Gala Presentations

• Yves Bélanger csc, Wild (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée)

Speci al Presentations

• Jeremy Benning csc, October Gale (dir. Ruba Nadda) • Steve Cosens csc, Preggoland (dir. Jacob Tierney) • Pierre Gill csc, The Elephant Song (dir. Charles Binamé) • Ronald Plante csc, The Good Lie (dir. Philippe Falardeau)

Discovery

• Christian Bielz, Backcountry (dir. Adam MacDonald) • Guy Godfree, Wet Bum (dir. Lindsay Mackay) • Daniel Grant csc, Guidance (dir. Pat Mills) • Mike McLaughlin, The Valley Below (dir. Kyle Thomas) • Bobby Shore csc, Bang Bang Baby (dir. Jeffrey St. Jules)

TIFF Docs

• Van Royko, Monsoon (dir. Sturla Gunnarsson) • Daniel Villeneuve csc, The Wanted 18 (dirs. Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan)

Wavelength s

• Iris Ng, The Innocents (dir. Jean-Paul Kelly)

Sh ort Cuts Canada

• Kris Belchevski, Burnt Grass (dir. Ray Wong) • Greg Biskup, What Doesn’t Kill You (dir. Rob Grant) • Daniel Carruthers, Godhead (dir. Connor Gaston) • Guy Godfree, The Underground (dir. Michelle Latimer) • Daniel Grant csc, Hole (dir. Martin Edralin) • Daniel Grant csc, Entangled (dir. Tony Elliott) • Daniel Grant csc, Still (dir. Slater Jewell-Kemker) • Samy Inayeh csc, The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer (dir. Randall Okita) • Mike McLaughlin, Zero Recognition (dir. Ben Lewis) • Robert Walsh, Chamber Drama (dir. Jeffrey Zablotny)

A complete list will be published in the October issue of Canadian Cinematographer after all the films have been announced.