BARCO Sponsors Hollywood Film Festival
Atlanta, GA – October 20, 2003 – Barco Digital Cinema is pleased to announce they have provided a Barco DLP™ Cinema projector to the prestigious Hollywood Film Festival, which takes place October 15 – 20, 2003. Barco will provide a D-Cine Premiere DP30 for screenings and for the Hollywood Awards Gala Ceremony. The festival showcases a selection of esteemed domestic and international feature films, shorts, documentaries, and animation. The Hollywood Conference and Screenings will be held at Arclight Cinemas. The Beverly Hilton Hotel will host the Hollywood Awards Gala, which will include appearances by Columbia Pictures Chairman Amy Pascal, director Ron Howard, actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, actress Goldie Hawn, producer Sydney Pollack, and actor Orlando Bloom, to name a few.
Barco’s D-Cine PREMIERE DP30 is a mid-range DLP Cinema™ projector, ideal for feature screenings in smaller cinemas, and designed to meet the need for the highest quality movie displays of up to 10m (33 ft) wide. Based on the Texas Instruments 0.9 DLP 'dark chip' - and providing all the performance, security, color, image and contrast management benefits of the DLP Cinema™ technology.Sponsors of the Hollywood Film Festival include the American Cinema Editors, American Society of Cinematographers, Arclight Cinemas, Art Directors Guild, Barco, Daily Variety, ETOnline.com, European Union, Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, Hollywood Creative Directory, and Hollywood Network, among others.
“We are thrilled Barco is a sponsor of the Hollywood Film Festival,” said Carlos de Abreu, Founder, Executive Director, Hollywood Film Festival – Hollywood Awards, “The movie industry is going to be truly captivated by the high-resolution, crystal clear images from the Barco DP30.”
About Barco Digital Cinema
Barco Digital Cinema is one of three licensees of Texas Instruments DLP Cinema™ technology. TI developed DLP Cinema™ technology working in close co-operation with Barco and others in the movie industry, to develop Cinema Projector and support systems based on DMD™ technology, to meet the requirement of studios, film distributors and exhibitors alike.
About Barco
Barco, an international company with US Sales headquarters in Atlanta, GA, is active in three key areas of imaging technology. Barco designs and develops solutions for large screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection. Barco has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in almost 100 countries. Barco is quoted on Brussels/Euronext and is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company.
