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Cirina Catania: First Look: The Berlin Film Festival

Listen to the interview here. (Berlin, Germany, Feb 2, 2016) The 66th Berlin International Film Festival is about to start and Cirina Catania is already musing about it on the BuZZ. How do you pick what you want to see when over 400 films from more than 95 countries are being screened in numerous categories. […]

Future of Branded Content Lies With In-House Media Hubs

Branded entertainment has been around since the late 2000’s but is only just now become recognized as a legitimate method of building awareness and promoting sales.

DPBuZZ Producer’s Corner August 8, 2013

This week’s BuZZ is going to be very interesting! We will be talking to Chuck Braverman, co-founder of Westdoc; Doug Hansel about Avid’s Media Composer 7 that shipped in Juy and B-Movie sensation Sharknado’s editor, William Boodell. But, before I go into a bit more detail about our line-up, there is something that I wanted […]

Digital Production BuZZ Producer’s Corner – July 11, 2013

. I attended an LAPPG (Los Angeles Post Production Group) event last night and many in the room were talking about this “industry,” and how hard it is to find work.  The topics centered around the fact that many clients are not paying as much as they used to for our services.  However, the presentations by members […]

Digital Production BuZZ, Producer’s Corner, June 27, 2013

BuZZ producer Cirina Catania on diversity, digital makeup, MacPro, CUDA, motion graphics, contemporary jazz, and all things creative.

Civolution Monitoring Media Highway

Host Cirina Catania talks with Alex Terpstra, CEO of Civolution about fingerprinting, watermarking and media interaction and learns more about how copyright is protected by these technological solutions.

Tim Samaras, son Paul and friend Carl Young Killed in Oklahoma Tornado

The storm won. Tim Samaras, his son, Paul and their long-time friend Carl Young were killed in the EF-3 El Reno tornado on Friday. We will miss them. He was the great one, the mentor, the careful one, the funny and serious one who always took care of those around him. Tim was always alert. […]

Gear Review: Pelican S130 Sport Elite ProGear Backpack

Article first published as Product Review: Pelican S130 ProGear Backpack on Blogcritics. This is, without a doubt, the best pro-gear backpack I have ever owned. The test of time: I’ve used this pack almost every day since NAB in April 2013, and it is weight-balanced to reduce fatigue, resilient, makes it easy to keep my […]

American Idol – Telescope Handles Voting Pipeline

Telescope, the company behind the millions of voting interactions for shows such as American Idol and the XFactor, has handled over 1.5 billion exchanges in the last year, over 75% of them from mobile devices.