NAB ••• Digital Cinema Summit

The National Association Of Broadcasters, in association with Digital
Cinema
Magazine and The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers,
is
proud to present the NAB2003 Digital Cinema Summit. The Summit will
cover
the technical, business, regulatory, and political issues surrounding
the
current state of Digital Cinema. Speakers will include scientists,
artists,
engineers, business managers, and regulators involved in the work
that is
bringing Digital Cinema to the worldwide marketplace. Special seminar
registration required.
Status Report on Digital Cinematography
April 6, 2003   •   10:15AM  -  11:30AM
Las Vegas Convention Center N245
A panel of directors of photography relates their successful use of
digital tape
formats for shooting theatrical films, ranging from major Hollywood
releases to
independent productions. Also included will be the presentation of
the
exclusive digital cinema documentary by James Mathers.

Panelist(s)
Joe Di Gennaro, Director of Photography, Sherman Oaks, CA

Mark Forman, President, Forman Productions Corporation, New York, NY

David Leitner, President, Damage Control Film Production, New York,
NY

Stephen Lighthill, Director of Photography, International
Cinematographers
Guild, Burbank, CA

James Mathers, Migrant Filmworkers, Studio City, CA

David Mullen

David Stump, ASC Technical Committee Chairman


http://www.nab.org/conventions/nab2003/dcs.asp

http://www.nab.org/conventions/nab2003/participantbio.asp?id=15494

Mark Forman
President, Forman Productions Corporation
New York, NY

Graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA and MFA in
Film,
1984-1986 Won an Award for cinematography for the student film "Party
Games".

In 1988 Produced "Bicycles on Snow", which aired on the Discovery
Channel.
That film won an award for best film at the Interbike Film Festival
in 1994. In
1991 developed and patented the Forman Camera Bicycle a device for
action
cinematography. Forrest Whitaker used the bikes to open his HBO film,
Strapped (1992) and Sony/Interfilm's show, Ride for Your Life
(1993) with
Adam West. In 1996 did a ride simulator film for Coca Cola's
Olympic City in
Atlanta.

Began to explore Widescreen in 1998. At that time purchased the first
16:9
DVCAM from Sony. With that camera photographed a DVCAM demo that
Sony used at NAB in 1999 and also shot a project for the National
Science
Foundation.

In 1999 Mark realized that Video really had the potential to become
Cinema
especially with the introduction of HD. He then decided to do
something many
cinematogrphers dream of. "I would build a small screening room out
of the
need to see these images in the best possible viewing conditions"
After
dealing with surly contractors and many delays Mark Forman opened the
Forman HD screening room in 2000.

Since that time the room has screened for cinematographers including
Allen
Daviau ASC, Ellen Kuras ASC, Sean Fairburn SOC and Madstone Films,
the
director Robert Altman, as well as many others.

Mark Forman also has done aerial cinematography for Honor Squadrons
International in 2001 (with Sony's Jeff Cree) and is still
involved with a
documentary in progress on the WW2 Group the Air Apaches.

He is also the founder of HDTV Production Forum on Yahoo and is an
accomplished still photographer.



Mark Forman
Mark Forman Productions, Corp
http://screeningroom.com