Welcome to the official website of Africa Light / Gray Zone!
Welcome on board of the website of our short film project called Africa Light / Gray Zone. These websites are going to inform you about our intentions according the film, important background information on socio-political events, the team, and obviously you can take a look at the trailer, unreleased scenes, the burden of visual effects and the Making of.
It may be important to know for organizers of film festivals that a Festival Package can be found for download in the Infos section. This includes the synopsis, stills from the film and details of the filmmakers.
Obviously, we welcome your comments about our short film in the section Reviews! Just send your personal review to our Africa Light / Gray Zone Webmaster. Once our team has verified your review, for reasons of privacy either or to avoid commercial interests, we will surely publish your comment. We hope, we are able to give you a good impression of our project!
06-2010 Ischia Film Festival - The First Class of World Cinema
Africa Light / Gray Zone has its Italian Premiere at The Ischia Film Festival, which will take place together with The Ischia Global Fest. The exclusive Mediterranean location is just one of festival's benefits. The honorary committee consists of internationally renown, Oscar-winning artists such as Sir Ken Adam (star architect of various James Bond movies, e.g. "Goldfinger" and Stanley Kubrick's "Barry Lyndon", "Dr. Strangelove" etc.), Carlo Rambaldi ("Alien", "E.T.", "King Kong", David Lynch's "Dune" and many more), Giuliano Montaldo, Osvaldo Desideri and so on... During the Ischia Global Fest the Who is Who of International Cinema will show up: Ben Kingsley, Jeremy Irons, Hilary Swank, ... just to mention some of them. The festival's opening movie will be "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps". Maybe Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones will also be there? One for sure: The Ischia Film Festival is going to be an awesome event of this summer and is supposed to be a real insider's tip, not only for the fans of Africa Light / Gray Zone!
Anton Corbijn & George Clooney at The Ischia Film Festival 2010
"The American", a movie by Anton Corbijn (starring George Clooney), will be awarded at the Ischia Film Festival 2010. For sure, the director and his main actor will appear at the festival as well. Tino, always being a huge fan of Anton Corbijn's awesome work (e.g. "Control" and various music videos of Depeche Mode, Herbert Groenemeyer, U2, Coldplay, Nirvana etc.), is really curious about Corbijn's opinion on "Africa Light - Gray Zone". As one of eight selected films our short film is the only German film in its festival category. Mr Corbijn, it's a pleasure for us to meet you in Ischia this summer!
04-2010 The best innovative Film Productions of the World
This is the headline of the category Explora of the Spanish film festival Curtocircuito which takes place from 23th to 30th May 2010. The category consists of special sophisticated and innovative film productions. The extra- ordinary scenery of the festival is another highlight of the event. Don't miss Africa Light / Gray Zone there.
From 20th to 25th April 2010 the Sehsüchte takes place in Potsdam. Africa Light / Gray Zone represents the highlight category "Focus: South Africa" as the only film of a non-African filmmaker.
02-2010 Preview DVD copy (PAL & NTSC) released!
From now on, our DVD is available as a festival preview copy in PAL and NTSC formats (Region Code 0 / none) for public festival screenings.
Available copy formats for screening and exhibition purposes are Digital Betacam (PAL /NTSC), Beta SP (PAL / NTSC), DVCAM (PAL / NTSC), miniDV (PAL), HDCAM (PAL) and progressive HD file (mpg, 1080-25p).
Attention: Non-commercial! For cultural venues or festival purposes only! DVDs and other copy formats are not for sale!
01-2010 Keep in touch: Join us on Facebook!
Our AFRICA LIGHT / GRAY ZONE page in the social network of Facebook is ready.
Additionally to the "Infos" chapter on this website, we published a Facebook page proclaiming all relevant information. Keep in touch with us! Stay up to date! We will let you know about our latest appointments, public screenings, terrific articles, stunning images and all background informations. We are looking forward for your visit!
12-2009 The Orchestration by The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg
The orchestration by The German Film Orchestra Babelsberg is finished. The orchestra was conducted by the renowned Bernd Wefelmeyer himself. Some excerpts of the amazing soundtrack, that was composed by our musical virtuoso Steffen Greisiger, can be found in the video. In this impressive sound setting our camera microphone quickly reached its limits. Of course, the final quality of the music recordings is much better!
11-2009 Post Production: Music almost finished
We are currently working hard on the soundtrack. Hundreds of recorded voice samples, atmos and diverse sound recordings need to get finetuned, arranged and combined. Additionally, we are also working on sound design and on an unique composition that doesn't match any genre. Like our short film itself. From classical elements to electronic soundscapes. This is going to be an unique music theme for an unique audiovisual experience. Feel free to get yourself a short impression by watching our trailer! And you know what we are talking about...
10-2009 Post Production: Visual Effects finalized
Primary CC, Secondary CC, OMF, Online Editing, Image Crop, Motion Tracking, Stabilizing, Matte Painting, Rotoscoping, Re- timing, 2D & 3D Motion Blur, Final Grading, Color Matching, Luminance, YUV, RGB, Degraining, 3:2 Pull Down, NTSC, PAL, HD, progressive, interlaced, 24p, 29,97 fps, 50i, HD 1080, De-Interlacing, Blow Up? You don't understand a thing? That's okay. For this reason we will publish a video showing the most relevent steps of our advanced VFX production as a cutdown. So you will see what kind of challenge occured. We are really sure that after watching the video you will see our short film from a different angle.
- Stay tuned for our VFX video that will show you, what exactly is behind the Editing & Visual Effects of AFRICA LIGHT / GRAY ZONE. Coming soon!
