César & Techniques Trophy 2016

ACS France (Aerial Camera System France) relies on its expertise and experience to offer you a perfect image whatever the conditions. With the confidence of directors and producers, ACS France produces exceptional aerial and moving images: helicopter, drone, cablecam, tracking vehicles, cranes, etc.

ACS France works internationally with numerous references of feature films, commercials or sports and cultural events.

Some of the most famous references in France and abroad:

➢ Untouchables by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache (Helicopter)

➢ Tarzan by David Yates (Helicopter, Longline)

➢ Camping 3 de Fabien Onteniente (Drone and helicopter)

➢ Belle et Sébastien 1&2 (Helicopter)

➢ Les Saisons (Cablecam, tracking vehicle, helicopter)

➢ Fast and Furious 7 by Justin Lin (Helicopter)

➢ In May, do whatever you like with Christian Carion (drone)

Yann Legay – mixer – created AGM Factory in 2004, in Touraine. Taking the gamble of decentralisation, AGM is today the only post-production structure outside the Ile-de-France region to offer a complete image and sound chain for cinema.

Based in Rennes since 2011, AGM FACTORY works on around thirty projects each year for cinema and television. Our clients are divided equally between producers and distributors.

4 editing rooms, 2 calibration rooms, 3 auditoriums allow us to realize the whole project in situ:

• Shooting workflow (rush security, QC, transcode, synchro)
• Image and sound editing
• Cinema and TV calibration
• Sound effects
• Cinema and TV mixing -Laboratory (PAD, DCP, AD, SME)

A creative team of 8 permanent employees (permanent contracts) and 20 full-time equivalents provide recognised technical and artistic support.

Despite the economic difficulties affecting the sector, AGM Factory has chosen to keep all its activity in France.

Created in 2001 and based in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, autreChose is a studio specialized in digital special effects directed by Stéphane BIDAULT and Matthias WEBER, more recently joined by Benjamin AGEORGES.

autreChose had a particularly rich year 2015, alternating productions such as “Belle & Sébastien 2”, “L’aventure continue” (625 faked shots) or “Peplum” (130 faked shots) with more modest but no less prestigious productions such as “Je suis un soldat”, “Maryland”, “Un homme idéal” for cinema, “Les témoins” for TV, and “Mur” for short films…
In total, more than twenty films and TV movies entrusted their visual effects to autreChose this year.

Compagnie Générale des Effets Visuels, CGEV, is a company dedicated to the post-production of motion pictures, videos and television programs. Located in the heart of Paris, the team has a recognized know-how but also an extensive experience in feature films.

Since its creation, the Compagnie Générale des Effets Visuels has participated in the development of digital effects on numerous projects ranging from feature films to documentaries in a wide variety of genres.

The CGEV relies on its artistic know-how on a technical production line, involving high-end hardware, commercial software and in-house developments in order to optimize and master each step of the creative process. The manufacturing pipeline is designed to simplify the technical work of artists, allowing them to focus their talent on image quality.

In 2015, the entire Lumières Numériques team is proud to have completed the post-production of the film “La Glace et le Ciel” by Luc Jacquet, presented at the closing of the Cannes Film Festival.

We had the pleasure to take part in this real human and scientific adventure rich in ecological education that we detail on this site: http://cesar2016.lumieres-numeriques.fr

Lumières Numériques is a complete post-production structure installed at the PIXEL cluster. We are developing a strong synergy with numerous partners for high quality post-production and heritage restoration activities entirely carried out in France.

2015 in a few films: “La Glace et le Ciel”, “En mai, fais ce qu’il te plait”, “Ma nuit chez Maud”, “Pauline à la plage”, “Le général Idi Amin dada”, “Une sale histoire”…

M141 is a service company for the cinema industry, which provides all stages of image post-production:

– rush management (backup, verification, pre-recording)

– image and sound editing (27 rooms),

– 2K and 4K calibration,

– VFX and generics

– mastering (DCP, PAD, files, AD, subtitling.).

M141 is located in the centre of Paris, opposite the Opéra Comique.

Founded in 1986 the Mac Guff studio has quickly become a major player in the world of animation and visual effects. The creative approach of the founders, combining artistic requirements and technological responses provided by a dedicated R&D department, has attracted and seduced talented French and international directors, artists and producers.

From Jean-Baptiste Mondino or Philippe Stark to Pierre Coffin, Matthieu Kassovitz, Jean Paul Goude or Michel Ocelot, all these geniuses with a passion for the image come to Mac Guff knowing they will find the know-how, attention and tools that will give birth to their ideas.

The mastery and development of “proprietary” software tools, as well as the permanent dialogue with all the actors of the audiovisual sector, allow Mac Guff to marry and structure the most demanding and innovative visual demands and to impose its quality standards.

Mac Guff has remained, moreover, an independent company wholly owned by its founders and shareholders.

On these Parisian sites, rue de la Cavalerie and rue de Chabrol, the studio relies on a base of a few hundred high-level collaborators and supervises more than a hundred projects per year in all fields (advertising, cinema, TV and web).

Employees: 15 permanent employees – Between 50 and 250 intermittent graphic designers

Technical means :

Graphics workstations : 150 2D /3D Linux workstations, 20 Mac OS workstations, 10 Windows workstations Finalization and Effects: Flames Suite, Nuke.
Editing: Final Cut workstations, Avid
Computing servers: 1200 Linux computing processors
Storage: 120 terraBytes online

Since 1993, Papa Sierra has been operating on a large number of aerial photography missions, mainly by helicopter but also with the help of UAVs. The release of Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s film “HUMAN” has once again shown to what extent the mastery of gyrostabilized systems on helicopters allows the production of exceptional images of our planet. Papa Sierra is a technical team at the service of the imagination of the most demanding directors.

Bruno Seznec, sound supervisor and mixer, created Piste Rouge Studios in 2000. A very modern facility in the heart of a commercial Paris, where many prestigious feature films and TV movies have been sounded and mixed. Present in three territories, the sites showcase a combined concept of creative teams and attached high-tech tools.

A total of 7 auditoriums and studios, 10 5.1 sound editing rooms, more than 15 technicians, a hundred or so actors or sound artists, provide a creative proposal to the most demanding producers throughout the year.