Koning van Katoren (To Be King)

Posted in News in May 2012

The shooting period of 'Koning van Katoren' (To Be King), the screen adaptation of a book by Jan Terlouw, has begun. The director Ben Sombogaart (De Storm, Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek and De Tweeling) and lead actors Mingus Dagelet and Abbey Hoes have traveled to Italy to take part in the shoot. The film tells the story of 17 year old Stach (Dagelet) who has to fulfill difficult quests to become the king of the fictional country of Katoren. He is being assisted by Kim (Hoes). HecticElectric has been brought on board to provide lots of various visual effects sequences for the feature. The grading of the feature will be done at Hectic as well. The movie opens in theaters on December 5th 2012.

Bavaria commercial wins awards

Posted in News in December 2011

The Bavaria campaign continues to receive accolades and acclaim, with the Hugh Heffner spot winning a silver Epica, and a Bronze award at Eurobest.

Bavaria is the second biggest brewer in Holland, and impressively been family owned and operated for the last 284 years. Reflecting that wholesome feeling, Heffner (normally living the Mans Dream), seeks a moment away from the Mansions bouncy, cocktail world, and enjoys a beer with his buddies.

Working with our friends at Bonkers, we were embedded in the whole process, from on set supervising in Los Angeles, all the way through 3D and Flame to grading.

Sonny Boy selected to open the Stony Brook Film Festival

Posted in News in May 2011

The Dutch film Sonny Boy is selected to open the 16th Stony Brook Film Festival on the 21st of July. This has been published by Shooting Star, the production company behind the movie. HecticElectric and AVP are responsible for the post production and special effects of this successful film.

Stony Brook Festival wants to expose the American audiences to non-English spoken films. Sonny Boy, directed by Maria Peters, is based on the bestseller by Annejet van der Zijl and tells a true love story of a Suriname immigrant (Sergio Hasselbaink) and a white woman (Ricky Koole) in the 1920s and the 1930s.

The film has attracted more than 400.000 viewers to the Dutch cinemas. Sonny Boy has been selected from 800 submissions from all over the world. (ANP)

TransitMedia - new version

Posted in News in February 2011

HecticElectric and Avp have launched a new version of TransitMedia. We are further developing our digital publishing and archiving tool. The service is now organized as a new business structure called 'TransitMedia'.

At our clients request, we have added some highly useful features. For more detailed information, or a personal demo, please contact AVP on +31 20 347 2828.

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HecticElectric creates Lemsip commercial for Moscow

Posted in News in February 2011

HecticElectric created fantastic visual effects for ActionFilm (Moscow). This challenging script for a Russian Lemsip commercial featured a snow avalanche chasing our cold inflicted hero through a city. Marc Kubbinga was on-set supervisor for the shoot in Kiev, and also supervised an intensive workflow using all the resources across HecticElectric and Carbon, including Autodesk, 3ds Max and Maya, and a myriad of CG effects to reproduce this intense, dramatic natural effect and the Lemsip character animation.

Reconstruction HecticElectric

Posted in News by Joe in February 2011

After the AVP reconstruction, we are now focussing on HecticElectric’s needs. Central to this is the fact that media is now exchanged in digital file formats.

In response HecticEletric will go completely tapeless and reconsiders space and equipment appropriately. The colour correction facility, for example, now has a bigger role within Hectic, and therefore grading will be moved to the former VTR/support room by the end of May.

Feature film: Dolfje Weerwolfje

Posted in News by Joe in February 2011

Hectic is Proud to be the VFX partner for the new Dutch feature film: Dolfje Weerwolfje.

Hectic Electric Brussels

Posted in News by Joe in February 2011

Hectic opened new office in Brussels.

De Storm wins an american award

Posted in News by Amrita Kraakman in August 2010

NEW YORK - The Dutch film De Storm by director Ben Sombogaart has won a prestigious price this weekend on the Stony Brook Filmfestival in New York. This has been reported by the producer Alain De Levita representing NL Film on Monday.

The film about the 18-year old mother (Sylviak Hoeks) who loses her child during the flood of 1953, was presented during the opening screening of the festival. Producer De Levita and Hoeks were present at the screening.

The "Award for Outstanding Achievement In Filmmaking" won by the film consists of a small sculpture. The Stony Brook Festival wants to give more exposure to the foreign-language films in the US. The film "Bride Flight" by Sombogaart has also been screened at the festival.

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Richting West

Posted in News by Arjan Eekels in March 2010

We have been taking on a new project. It's called Richting West, Director is Nicole van Kilsdonk who recently did Sekjoeritie (which aired just last Tuesday) with us. Jeroen de Bruin is DOP. Producer is Keyfilm. Pic will be shot on 35mm2perf, shooting starts next Tuesday. We will do one-light dailies, data scanning en grading in Cinema Scratch. George Balatoni is grading with Jeroen first 3 weeks of July. The film will be released in cinema's by A-Film end of 2010.

ANNIE MG new hit series

Posted in News by Arjan Eekels in January 2010

The television series ANNIE MG, showing the curious life of the famous Dutch writer Annie M.G. Schmidt, has been an success. Since it started airing beginning of January it reached a enormous amount of people. The first episode broadcasted on January the 3rd reached 933.000 viewers and the second episode broadcasted on January the 10th jumped over that magic number: 1.005.000 viewers. The third episode broadcasted on January the 17th got 699.000 viewers in front of the telly. We did all vfx and color correction work on ANNIE MG.
ANNIE MG can be seen every Sunday 20.10 on Nederland 2.
www.anniemg.nl

KOMT EEN VROUW BIJ DE DOKTER box-office hit

Posted in News by Arjan Eekels in January 2010

The film from Reinout Oerlemans, after the famous book by Kluun, has been seen by 1.000.000 viewers in no time and therefore it received a Diamond Status in short time. Oerlemans' debut is successful on more levels as it scored best openings weekend for a Dutch film ever and made it to Golden status (100.000 viewers) in no more then two day's. After ten day's the film reached Platinum Status (400.000 viewers). The film still runs in theatres to this date, the current score stands at 1.160.000 and every week around 100.000 ad up to that number.
We congratulate both cast and crew of KOMT EEN VROUW BIJ DE DOKTER (LOVE LIFE) for this enormous success and are also very proud that we have been able to be a part of it.

www.komteenvrouwbijdedokterdefilm.nl

Silent Army

Posted in News in October 2009

The Silent Army is the international edit from Wit Licht, directed by Jean van de Velde. In May 2009 it premiered at the Filmfestival in Cannes. The Silent Army was shown in the category “Un Certain Regard”, whereafter it received a standing ovation from the press. For the international version the director Jean van de Velde decided to remove all the music out of the film and put all flash back scenes in chronological order. Hectic Electric/AVP is proud to have contributed to the postproduction of such a wonderful project. The film was color graded on Scratch by colorist John Thorborg.

De Storm

Posted in News by Marc Kubbinga in September 2009

Friday the 11th of september 2009 the film De Storm had its world premiere in Vlissingen. De Storm is the latest film of Ben Sombogaart, which tells about the flood in 1953 in Holland, Zeeland. HecticProjeX, the collaboration between AVP, HecticElectric and HecticParis achieved a tremendous amount of work in a very short notice. A lot of the water shots has been created in full CG. The full opening shot, a shot of more than 30 seconds, has been created in CG. HecticProjeX has developed a special technical pipeline to be able to produce the necessary shots in the amount of time available. A significant part of the compositing is done in Scratch. The interactive way of adding rain, fog and spray on most of the shots in film continuity, was only possible in this online environment. VFX supervisor Raphael Kourilsky was responsible for all visual effects. Colorist Gyorgy Balatoni was responsible for the grading. HecticProjeX and its complete team is proud of the final result. The result is the sum of all efforts of all operators, as well as the people from NL Film.

Letter for the King (Brief voor de Koning)

Posted in News by Maarten in June 2008

HecticProjeX has recently finished work on the movie “Letter for the King”. This movie has been directed by Pieter Verhoef and contains a large number of VFX shots with backgrounds that have completely been generated in 3D and 2D. Several elements have been specially shot for this purpose, in consensus with DOP Jules van de Steenhoven. This project was handled by two VFX supervisors: Jan van de Laar and Raphael Kourilsky. Jan has managed several large movie projects for HecticProjeX. Raphael, known mostly from HecticElectric Paris, has numerous large projects on his name. Together Jan and Raphael headed and formed a team of 14 VFX artists divided over HecticElectric, AVP and HecticElectric Paris. The colour correction of the DI has been done by John Thoborg.