Cameraimage 2013 Winners with ALEXA - ARRIRAW - CODEX
Polish cinematographers Lukasz Zal and Ryszard Lenczewski jointly collected the top accolade of the Golden Frog for the stylish B&W $2m Polish independent movie Ida, while Mexican DP Lorenzo Hagerman AMC was honoured with the prestigious Silver Frog for the dramatic $1m Mexican indy film Heli. Both movies used Codex/ARRIRAW workflows, enabling each of the cinematographers to access and take advantage of the full latitude of the original Alexa ARRIRAW source files during production and final DI colour grade.
Heli DP Lorenzo Hagerman commented, “As a cinematographer, I always want to capture as much information as I can when I shoot. It's a matter of subtlety, the little things that register in the image. On the shoot for Heli, I could let the Codex recorder do its job and focus on doing what I love. The Codex/ARRIRAW workflow made DI colour correction easier and faster because we had so much detail in the images, and it meant we actually saved money during post production.”
In the 3D Films category, a new introduction to Camerimage, Alfonso Cuarón’s $100m blockbuster Gravity, shot by Emmanuel Lubezki AMC ASC, collected the Best 3D Feature Film award, and Wim Wenders’ $4.5m contemporary dance documentary Pina, lensed by Hélene Louvart, collected the award for Best 3D Documentary Film. Again, both films deployed Codex recording platforms as the cornerstones of their respective workflows. Gravity shot using Codex/ARRIRAW, whilst Pina was recorded Codex/422 JPEG 2000.
“No other camera had the latitude and quality of the Alexa, and Codex allowed us to extract that,” said Lubezki. “The amount of information and the quality of the information is far superior. It helped immensely on Gravity.”