The Partners
Digital Production Challenge is supported by MEDIA, a programme of the European Union.
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FOCAL (Lausanne, Switzerland) is dedicated to professional training in cinema and audiovisual media and has been monitored by the industry for over fifteen years. Its program is conceived and designed to complement and enhance a practice-oriented, life-long learning process. FOCAL operates nationally and internationally. The quality of its programme and lecturers attracts participants from around the world. Successful collaboration with European institutions and partners in the profession plays an important role in networking for film and audiovisual professionals.

Digimage Cinema is the youngest company from the group wich Denis Auboyer founded more then 20 years ago (Video Laboratory CMC, laser subtitling LVT, visual effects Def2shoot, ). Since 2007 our brand new facility offers all the technologies and know how around digital film postproduction from the shooting to the theatrical release (telecine, editing, scanning, recording, visual effects…) We have the two largest digital grading suites in Europe, 200 square meters each with all sound systems. We grade on Autodesk Luster 2010 in 4K or 2K real time in DLP projection. We are experts in making digital cinema packaging (DCP-DCI) and distribution.

Swiss Effects provides an in-house service using film-related technologies that span everything from traditional animation, video-to-film transfers, 2K and 4K printing and film scanning through to digital special effects.
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Ficam is a federation of cinema, audiovisual and multimedia industries. It is a professional organization presided by Chief Executive Thierry de Segonzac, with 180 member companies covering all of the technical skills and professions involved in industry: manufacturing, rental of production equipment, studios, laboratories, special effects and image post-production, sound recording and post-production, dubbing and subtitling. Ficam is a veritable source of bargaining strength, representing, promoting and defending the national and international interests of the creative technical industries. Over the last few years, Ficam has successfully lobbied for a number of measures in favor of technical service providers.
Digital Production Challenge 2011 was proposed by:
FOCAL, Norwegian Film Institute, Swiss Effects, Digimage, Pictorion das werk
in cooperation with EP2C
with the support of FFA and MEDIA
Digital Production Challenge 2010 was proposed by:
FOCAL, EPI, Swiss Effects, Digimage, Pictorion das werk
in cooperation with EP2C
with the support of FFA and MEDIA
Digital Production Challenge 2009 was proposed by:
FOCAL, Swiss Effects, Digimage, Pictorion das werk
with the support of MEDIA




