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Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh and Graphic Films announce the SXSW Film Festival Premiere of their sci-fi epic “Able Edwards” and the arrival of true Desktop Cinema.

Los Angeles, CA, March 5, 2004 – Never before seen in the history of movies, "Able Edwards" is a 90-minute digital feature shot entirely without sets on a green screen stage for only $30,000. Every shot contains a digitally manipulated image.

Using consumer grade equipment to achieve big budget results, “Able Edwards” makes an evolutionary contribution to the digital revolution by integrating multiple consumer technologies; digital video, sophisticated software, faster than ever PC’s, and fearless experimentation—all in service of creating a world and bringing it to life.

Background elements photoshopped together are combined with live action footage in a unique blend of technological artistry to create the retro-futuristic world of "Able Edwards". The footage was edited at home on a Macintosh G4 with Final Cut Pro editing software and the composites were achieved using Combustion. Animations were created in Maya, Flash and 3D Studio Pro, all of which were also completed on home personal computers. True Desktop Cinema.

Writer/Director Graham Robertson likens this concept of Desktop Cinema to the evolution of desktop publishing in recent years. “Desktop publishing no longer requires us to rely on print shops because we can publish virtually anything from our home computers. Desktop Cinema works in the same way. Any person with a video camera and editing software can produce a complete, high-end film project. Filmmakers are no longer held back by the lack of money, crew, or a studio.”

Premiering in competition at the SXSW Film Festival, “Able Edwards” is the story of the clone of a famous entertainment mogul who is created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor’s corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic, virtual world, the clone realizes he has yet to live as his own man.

Francis Ford Coppola once said there would come a day when some little fat girl from Ohio could borrow her dad's camcorder and become the next Mozart of moviemaking. “Able Edwards” is that little fat girl.

 


More information on the technical and creative feats behind “Able Edwards” can be obtained by visiting the website at http://www.ableedwards.com or at the SXSW Festival site : http://sxsw.com/film/screenings/...num=1104

Writer/Director: Graham Robertson
Executive Producers: Steven Soderbergh, Jay Hart and David Mazer
Producers: Scott Bailey and Graham Robertson


 

 

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