XDC Makes Digital Breakthrough At Cannes

Digital projection in Cannes has now become part of the show. Tonight, the 62nd Cannes Festival will begin its Opening Ceremony with a 3D digital feature film, the new Disney Pixar studios motion picture, UP.
Serge Plasch, CEO & Managing Director of XDC International, said: "XDC is very proud to be a long term partner of the Cannes Film Festival, an optimal competition that will showcase the best of the digital cinema industry. This exciting commitment gives XDC the opportunity to demonstrate our know how as the Leading Pan-European Service Company. Digital Cinema is definitely on the move in Europe and all over the world. As a deploying entity, we will support large-scale digital cinema roll-out plans for up to 8,000 screens all over Europe within the next 5 years."
XDC teams up again with expert suppliers, Christie for the projectors, XpanD for the 3D Technology and for the 3rd year in a row, XDC has selected servers by Doremi alongside with its CineStore Solo G3 servers.
_"This is a privilege for us to see our products play such a crucial role for this key event", said Pascal Gervais, Business Development Manager for Christie France. "As a pioneer in digital projection systems, Christie prides itself for putting its knowledge and experience to good use for the 7th art.
Maria Costeira, CEO of XpanD commented: "We are both honored and gratified to be officially chosen as the 3D system at the Cannes Film Festival and wish to extend our sincere thanks to the entire organization in supporting the XpanD brand of 3D technology" and added "This will be a historical moment with a 3D title opening such an emblematic Festival and we're extremely proud to be part of this screening."
Patrick Zucchetta, Managing Director of Doremi Cinema, said: "Doremi Cinema is pleased to provide its DCP-2000 D-Cinema server to play the world premiere in digital 3D of "UP" by Disney-Pixar during the opening evening."
"The French CST will again ensure the technical supervision of the projections performed during the Festival while our Digital Content Lab will offer "one-stop-shop" services to distributors including encoding, quality control and logistics," concluded Alain Rémond, General Manager of XDC France.
(KMcA)