Company 3 Makes the Grade with Four Films at Sundance
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Stefan Sonnenfeld Handles DI for Antoine Fuqua’s Acclaimed Brooklyn’s Finest
Company 3, which provides DI color grading and other post services for films, has a strong presence at this year’s Sundance Film Festival having handled final grading for four films featured in the fest. Among them is Antoine Fuqua’s violent cop drama Brooklyn’s Finest, which was the first film sold at this year’s Sundance, going to Sony Pictures and Senator Entertainment. The DI grade for that film was performed by Company 3’s Stefan Sonnenfeld, who worked in conjunction with cinematographer Patrick Murguia.
Company 3 DI colorist David Hussey handled the grade for another highly anticipated film, 500 Days of Summer, a romantic comedy from former music video director Marc Webb. The film, drawing rave reviews, stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a tale of a woman who doesn’t believe in love and the man who falls for her. Eric Steelberg was the cinematographer on the film.
Colorist Shane Harris graded two films, Shrink, director Jonas Pate’s Hollywood expose starring Kevin Spacey, and The Killing Room, a thriller from director Jonathan Liebesman about people unwittingly caught in a bizarre lab experiment. Harris worked with cinematographer Lukas Ettin on both projects.
Company 3 established itself as the leader in DI color grading through its breakthrough work on blockbusters such as Pirates of the Caribbean, 300 and Dreamgirls. Recently, however, it has been attracting more work among higher end independent films as DI technology has advanced and more filmmakers have discovered the merits and efficiencies of digital post production.
