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DiGiCo SD8 Used for Special Screening of “Das Weisse Band” for Austrian VIPs

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VIENNA – In recognition of Das Weisse Band, an award-winning film, Barbara Prammer, the Austrian parliamentary president, invited the film's director, Michael Haneke, to provide a special showing of the film to an audience of 700 VIPs. DiGiCo's local distributor, Ton Eichinger, provided a DiGiCo SD8 console for the event.

Having won Cannes' Palme d'Or, the FIPRESCI Grand Prix at the San Sebastian Film Festival and Film of the Year 2009 at the Sinema Greece Festival, Das Weisse Band has put Austrian filmmaking on the map. The one-off VIP screening took place in the historic plenum of the Austrian Parliament building.

 

The original digital cinema version was shown, with projectors located in sound-proof enclosures, and special platforms were erected to allow optimal placement of the surround sound system within the historical venue.

 

The DiGiCo SD8 was synchronised to the digital cinema server, with six audio channels sent from the server via MADI. The console's integral matrix was used for aligning the system to digital cinema standards, so outboard processing could be dispensed with.

 

The event also included a number of speeches, which used two radio mics plus a spare connected to the SD8's built-in I/O, which meant that not even an external DiGiRack was needed. The console's superior sound quality and ease of use meant that sound designer Othmar Eichinger and the film's director Michael Haneke quickly and easily achieved the audio they needed for such a high-profile screening.

 

"When a country's president requests a screening, you know you have to deliver the very best," said Eichinger. "Das Weisse Band has been a cultural highlight for Austria and we all are very happy that the SD8 could help provide the ultimate in audio quality for such a special event."

 

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