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Code 37 awarded for best drama

grid — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:29:25 +0000

Last Saturday, Code 37 was awarded “best drama” during the night of the flemish television stars.
We are happy to have been part of this team and are thrilled for our client Menuet and everybody involved.
Congratulations for this “3 seasons long top quality production”!

Code 37 III and deadline 14/10

grid — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:25:44 +0000

The last episodes of the third season of VTM’s successful crime series Code 37 produced by Menuet have been finished. We enjoyed being part of the team and look forward to being part of the Deadline 14/10 team. This new series for VTM, Gazet van Antwerpen and ATV will be directed by Maarten Moerkerke. Main actors are Charlotte Vandermeersch, Koen De Grave and Peter Van den Begin. The shoots have started, derushing is ongoing and Mathieu Depuydt looks forward to the editing. Scheduled at VTM and ATV as from September 2012.

The 2012 PromaxBDA Europe Award finalists have been announced!

grid — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:29:10 +0000

This year, the VTM Christmas parade commercial is completely renewed to a surprising unique graphical style. And we are honored it has been nominated in the category “Best Animation” at the PromaxBDA award. This full CG paper cut animation commercial is the result of wonderfully teaming up with Kristof Lauwers (VMMA), director Toon Loenders, Raygun (sound studio) and our team (Tim Vandekerckhove and Freek Quartier).

More good news, we are pleased to find the VT4 ident “Knight and Day”as one of the finalists in the category “Best Sponsor Integration”! This ident was produced in close collaboration with Steve Brouwers, creative director SBS Belgium.

Thanks and congratulations to everybody involved and we keep our fingers crossed until the award ceremony on March 26-27.

Bumba in Africa

grid — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:41:47 +0000

Bumba in Africa is nominated at the “Goldener Spatz” festival in Germany and is selected for the “Prix Jeunesse”.

The “Goldener Spatz” festival is the biggest and most important children’s television festival for German-speaking countries and it is tied up to the media prize “Golden Sparrow”, which is pretty prestigious in the German TV landscape.

“Prix Jeunesse” is the festival and competition for the world’s best and innovative children’s TV. An international jury selected the nominees out of more than 320 entries from almost 70 countries. This biannual award is held in München in the beginning of June.

Congratulations to everybody involved!

Lovely 2012 from all of us!

grid — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:15:38 +0000

Dura Lex from Anke Blondé

grid — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:49:58 +0000

At the International Short film Festival in Leuven, director Anke Blondé won the price for best Flemish short film with “Dura Lex” produced by Menuet. Grid is proud to have been part of the team by doing the online, color grading and graphics. Cobra.be brings some fragments and an interview.Congratulations to Anke and her team!

Grid goes Brussels

grid — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 08:45:02 +0000

As much as we love Ghent, we really enjoy Brussels as well. And we’ve always enjoyed what they now call “customer intimacy”. What’s more, deadlines and budgets keep getting tighter.

Sooooo. It is time for us to get closer. And time to open a Brussels office to be able to serve you even better.

As of Monday 28/11, Greet Van Thillo (production manager) and Enzo Piccinato (VFX artist), both former key people at Condor, will start Grid Brussels and keep it up and running.

In our offices in front of Midi Station (Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 7, Sint-Gillis) you can now get VFX, compositing, motion graphics, colour grading, offline and online.

For the moment, we are busy preparing the start-up. But if you want to contact Greet and or Enzo for inquiries or congratulations, you can mail them on greet [at] grid-vfx [dot] com and enzo [at] grid-vfx [dot] com.

We’ll get back to you with more news on Brussels in a few days.

Interesting thoughts and interaction on the subject of ‘local talent working locally” during the Ghent Film Festival

grid — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:02:09 +0000

Moderator Jan Verheyen let our guests share their views and experience on the subject with a lively interaction from the public as a result.
Before we knew it, 1 hour had passed and half an hour for questions was short. But luckily, there was enough time left for further discussion and networking in the Bar Ingmar.

From left to right in this picture:
Wouter Bongaerts, Wim Robberechts, Jan Ebo, Jan Verheyen, Dirk Lambrecht, Frederik Du Chau, Jan Vermoesen

Debate “Local talent working locally” with Frederik Du Chau

grid — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:27:06 +0000

How come the most promising moviemakers leave Flanders? Is it just a question of money and investors or are other factors at play? This is the core question to be answered during the debate about “Local talent working locally”.

Time: Friday October 14 at 9.15 am.

The debate will look at the experience of FREDERIK DU CHAU. In 1990 he moved to the US to work as a scriptwriter and director. He is known to the general public mostly as the director of “Racing Stripes”, the kids comedy about a zebra that thinks he is a racehorse.

Moderator Jan Verheyen will let the guests share their views and experience on the subject:
• Frederik Du Chau, a talent far from home.
• Wouter Bongaerts, an enthusiastic young director of animation and winner of the VAF Wildcard for animation.
• Jan Vermoesen, managing director of Mediarte, the social fund for the audiovisual sector.
• Dirk Lambrecht, teacher in Digital Arts & Entertainment (Howest)
• Wim Robberechts, manager of Wim Robberechts & Co and chairman of the VOTF.
• Jan Ebo, Grid Studio Manager and scout talent.

Programme:
• 9.15: welcome with coffee
• 10.00 – 11.00: debate
• 11.00 – 11.30: Q&A
• 11.30 – 12.30: networking and sandwich lunch

Book your seat by replying to GridFFG2011 [at] grid-vfx [dot] com before Thursday, October 6 mentioning your name, title and company name.
Hope to see you there!
Warm regards
Grid

PS: The Q&A session in itself could be very useful. What one key question would you like answered? Book now for what promises to be a very interesting morning!

CCB award for Schweppes perfect serve videos

grid — Tue, 31 May 2011 09:58:30 +0000

Last Friday, the yearly advertising awards found place to celebrate creativity in the Belgian advertising industry. Together with the agency Emakina and producer/director Andreas Hasle, Grid was awarded in the category craft (AV branding) for the Schweppes perfect serve videos. Congratulations to everybody involved!
Enjoy it here.