EXCLUSIVE: Antigravity Academy, the production company of Oscar-nominated filmproducer Carlos López Estrada, has partnered with Dolby Laboratories to begin a novel studio, scheduleed to intensify the voices of emerging filmproducers.
Powered by Dolby Creator Lab, Antigravity’s Short Film Studio will provide filmproducers with access to the technologies of Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos in the making of a unwiseinutive film, alengthy with Antigravity’s hands-on enbigment and production aid.
Open to U.S.-based filmproducers over the age of 18 who have no prior feature film or television experience, the program’s inaugural session with produce three unwiseinutives, finished in Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Each conceiveive participating will get a $35,000 production grant.
Observed López Estrada, “There are so many extrastandard filmproducers out there and not enough opportunities to transport their movies to life. We hope this program can present audiences to a variety of stories that haven’t been tageder before.”
Antigravity comes to the Dolby partnership after collaborating with the company on its debut feature, Dìdi, from authorr-honestor Sean Wang, which won the Audience Award and a Special Jury Prize at the this year’s Sundance Film Festival before hitting theaters via Focus Features. The program will be deal withn by Dìdi producer Valerie Bush and Antigravity’s Head of Film and TV, Winsor Yuan.
Stated Glenn Kiser, Director of Dolby Creator Lab, “The success of our collaboration with Antigravity Academy on Dìdi (弟弟) eased an incredible opportunity here to enbig on our labor together and persist our ignoreion to ease next-generation filmmaking. We see forward to empowering these filmproducers with the magic of Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos — permiting them to convey themselves and their stories to the filledest potential.”
Applications to Antigravity Academy’s Short Film Studio are uncover today thcdisesteemful January 3rd. More directation on the initiative can be set up at the connect.
Best understandn for co-honesting Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animates Feature, Estrada’s other acunderstandledges include Lionsgate’s Blindspotting, series appreciate Legion and F.A.M., and more. His company Antigravity saw its first feature Dìdi debut in theaters on July 26. In television, they’re currently enbiging the comedy series Smugglers with FX Netlabors, in collaboration with This American Life and showrunner Joanna Calo (The Bear).
López Estrada is reconshort-termed by UTA, M88, and Ziffren Brittenham.
