The Arri 35mm Project Continues
(Spring 2008) Arri, Inc., the world's largest manufacturer of motion picture cameras, is continuing "The Arri 35mm Project" with the CSUN Department of Cinema and Television Arts Film Production Option. This special program provides the opportunity each semester for a selected senior level project in the Film production Option to be produced in the 35mm format. Arri, Inc. will provide a new 35mm Arricam motion picture camera (valued at $700,000) and lighting units for use by the selected group while other production services, post production services, and equipment including grip and generator are provided free by various leading industry vendors which include Eastman Kodak, Fuji, Fotokem, J.L. Fisher, Lacy Street Studios, and Illumination Dynamics. "The Arri 35mm Project" also has a mentoring element. A professional cinematographer and member of the American Society of Cinematographers (A.S.C.), with an impressive body of work, will mentor those students involved in the photography of the selected motion picture. The program is the brainchild of CTVA Alumnus and Arri, Inc. Vice President Bill Russell and Professor Nate Thomas, Head of the Film Production Option.by the HFPA.