Reliance MediaWorks partners with Japan's Imagica Corp.
March 18, 2010
Source: Reliance Mediaworks
IMAGICA Corp. one of Japan's lab and
post-production companies that offers film restoration, image processing and enhancement
and HD conversion services to Japanese broadcasters and studios.
Reliance MediaWorks Ltd., one of India's fastest growing film and
entertainment services company and a member of the Reliance
ADA group has concluded a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
with IMAGICA Corp.
Under the alliance, the companies would provide film restoration,
image processing and enhancement, and HD conversion services
to Japanese broadcasters and studios.
IMAGICA Corp. offers a comprehensive range of services such
as film processing and printing, inter-media transfer, digital
and optical composite, VFX, CGI, editing and sound services,
DVD authoring and duplication, and image restoration, etc.
The company also leads the market with high quality services
for digital intermediates, digital cinema, stereoscopic 3D,
and Blu-ray disc authoring.
"The needs of the Japanese marketplace, is growing for
film restoration of aged and deteriorated great pictures for
digital broadcasting. IMAGICA provides enhanced quality services
to fill this demand and we are pleased to have found a partner
in Reliance MediaWorks who shares our commitment for excellence
and has time-proven hardware, software and custom R&D,"
says Hiroyuki Tatsumi, director, managing executive officer
of IMAGICA.
Anil Arjun, CEO of Reliance
MediaWorks says, "By combining IMAGICA's local leadership,
know-how and expertise with our experience and versatile technology
we are geared to provide next generation services to the Japanese
film makers and broadcasters. Also, Japanese movies have always
been a true embodiment of their rich imperial culture and
by offering restoration services in Japan we are honored to
have the opportunity to revive some of these classic movies."
IMAGICA Corp. would work closely with Reliance MediaWork's
L.A.-based subsidiary Lowry Digital, Hollywood's leading film
restoration experts, which has handled the digital restoration
of picture elements for Akira Kurosawa's 1950 Academy Award-winning
masterpiece Rashomon, the movie that first brought Japanese
cinema to prominence in the west.
Lowry Digital has handled projects for leading studios like
Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, MGM and 20th Century Fox
and entertainment leaders like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg
and James Cameron and has handled the restoration of footage
sent back to Earth from Apollo 11, for NASA.
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