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Reliance MediaWorks employees win academy award
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New Delhi: Three employees of Anil Ambani-controlled Reliance MediaWorks Ltd will receive a scientific and engineering award from the US Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for developing a system to provide high-quality images.
Kimball Thurston, Ian Godin and Tim Connolly of Reliance MediaWorks’ Imaging Technology Centre in Burbank, California, will receive the award on 11 February and are among 28 individuals who will be given the award in the same category by the Academy, which organizes the annual Oscar awards.
The Burbank facility, with around 75 employees, was founded as Lowry Digital Images in 1988 by John D. Lowry. Lowry— who also won this award this year along with Thurston and others—is no longer part of the Reliance Group unit. In 2010, Lowry Digital was renamed as Reliance MediaWorks.
The technology developed at the centre was used to enhance images in the three-dimensional versions of movies such as Avatar and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The image processing tools have also been used to preserve NASA’s television footage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Reliance MediaWorks has used these technologies to restore many film classics held at the National Film Archive of India, such as Panorama of Calcutta, a silent film of 1899, Saraswati Chandra (1968) and Mrinal Sen’s 1984 award-winning movie Khandahar, said chief executive Anil Arjun.
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