ILive Managed Prestigious French Film Festival

The opening night of the annual Jules Verne Film Festival was held at the Grand Rex cinema in Paris this year, with the theme 'Space Conquest'.
Many of France's top astronauts attended the gala to pay homage to the guest of honour, Buzz Aldrin, and FOH audio was managed by an Allen & Heath digital iLive system.
A documentary film about Aldrin and Armstrong's lunar conquest was projected on a large screen, accompanied by a specially-commissioned live orchestral soundtrack called 'A Symphonic Voyage to the Moon' written and directed by renowned Emmy Award-winning composer, John Scott, who wrote soundtracks for blockbusters including King Kong and The Saint.
The festival's technical audio manager, Serge Babkine, chose an iLive system, comprising an iDR10 MixRack and iLive-144 Control Surface, to mix and record the score that was performed on the night by the 90-strong Jules Verne Adventures (JVA) symphony orchestra.
To produce a CD and DVD of the performance, an EtherSound feed was taken from the iDR10 and sent to an ES/AES converter to provide 40-tracks for Pro Tools and also to an LX6464ES Digigram PC card to record 64-tracks on Cubase.
The JVA symphony orchestra also performed at last year's festival, directed that time by Lalo Schifrin, who wrote soundtracks for Mission Impossible and Starsky & Hutch. The 2008 CD was recorded and mixed in the studio by Serge Babkine using an iLive system.
Further information is available at: www.ilive-digital.com.
(KMcA/BMcC)