Jonathan Demme's new documentary, Man From Plains, about former President Jimmy Carter had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 7th, 2007. The film received a two minute standing ovation and will next be presented at the Toronto Film Festival with the Carters in attendance on Monday, September 10th.
The film is an intimate two-hour portrayal of the 39th President set against the backdrop of Carter's Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid book tour.
Biscardi Creative Media, located just outside Atlanta, Georgia provided extensive production support for this project working with Producer Gary Strieker, The Carter Center and Demme's production team at PostWorks in New York. BCM turned around hours of archival material in both standard definition and high definition.
"We're honored to have been a small part of this very important project about a man who has been such a champion of human rights and health issues," said Walter Biscardi, Jr., Principal, Biscardi Creative Media. "It was a bit hectic here with four different formats of material and literally hundreds of hours of footage to sift through, but with guidance from Demme's team, Gary Strieker, our team was able to turn around all the footage to make the deadline. We wish the film much success as it moves forward and look forward to future projects with The Carter Center."
The film has been picked up by Sony Classic Pictures and is slated for release in October.
For more information about “Man from Plains:” http://www.sonyclassics.com/jimmycartermanfromplains/index.html
For more information about Biscardi Creative Media: http://www.biscardicreative.com
For more information about The Carter Center: http://www.cartercenter.org/homepage.html
I was really looking forward to seeing the new Harry Potter film in IMAX next week and even the fact that they had digitally enhanced it into 3D wasn't all that disappointing. Until I read an article about how once again, as they did in Superman Returns, only approx. 20 minutes of the film is actually in 3D. The finale.
So I'm going to skip the IMAX presentation because quite honestly, putting on 3D glasses at the end of a film (on cue) will simply break the experience for me. Either make a film in 3D or don't. I'm not going to justify a $12 - 15 IMAX 3D ticket when only 10% of the film is actually IN 3D.
Very disappointing for me when IMAX pulls a stunt like this. We've seen about 8 films in IMAX now with Batman Returns, Harry Potter and several Disney films just being flat out amazing on that screen with the sound system. The films are just so amazing in regular IMAX presentation they really don't need to junk up the show with a gimmick.
Professional Video Editor, Producer, Director since 1990.
Credits include multiple Emmys, Tellys, Aurora and CableAce Awards.
Owner / Operator of Biscardi Creative Media, a full service video and film production company with about 65% of our work in HDTV. The show you know us best for is "Good Eats" on the Food Network. I developed the HD Post workflow and we also create all the animations for the series.
Favorite pastime is cooking with pizza on the grill one of my specialties. Each Christmas Eve we serve the Feast of the Seven Fishes, a traditional Italian seafood meal with approx. 30 items on the menu.
If I wasn't in video production I would either own a restaurant or a movie theater.
