Latest from the Lounge!
Kurt Royan
1min
Hello, Friends!
We have been happily working away in our new Sydney facility since we last hit your inbox. We’re making the final touches and, when completed, our studio will consist of 32 digital edit and sound suites including a 50 seat grading theatre, a 4K HDR grading suite for high-end broadcast and a Dolby Atmos sound mixing theatre. The team at AusFilm kindly published this article recently, to share the news. This is an exciting time for TPL and I am thrilled to lead the team as the company expands.
As we move closer to this year’s half-way point, (wait, what?!) we are beginning to see a number of our projects hit cinema screens and streaming services. The largest of those of course being Baz Luhrmann’s ELVIS, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival to much fanfare and rave reviews. The Post Lounge spent almost two years working with the filmmakers and studio on this film after being selected as the primary post production vendor.
Lots of sweat, laughs and copious amounts of caffeine went into the post production of BLACK SITE, a feature film directed by Sophia Banks, which hit US cinemas earlier this month. Our Brisbane studio was responsible for digital dailies, offline dry hire, full DI colour grading, complete sound post including ADR as well as international delivery. Black Site stars Michelle Monaghan and Australian actors, Jai Courtney and Pallavi Sharda and was filmed on the Gold Coast.
Locally, ABC TV has begun airing THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF MALLACOOTA, a six-part observational documentary series about the Black Saturday Bushfires and the community that realises it can’t rely on outsiders to make things better. Also out of our Melbourne Studio is LITTLE TORNADOES, a film about a metalworker whose wife vanishes, leaving him to care for their two young children, opened in cinemas May 12 after premiering at last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival. This beautiful feature was shot in just fourteen days on a micro budget around the border towns of NSW and Victoria.
It goes without saying we've been burning the midnight oil, however collaborating with such creative filmmakers and seeing these amazing projects realised makes it all worthwhile.
Until next time,
Kurt
Managing Director
