Pre Release: Filmlance builds the Bridge with Quantel

Leading Swedish independent production company, Filmlance, has completed the production and post production on seasons one and two of BAFTA-nominated Scandinavian crime drama Bron/Broen. Filmlance carried out the conform, online, and color grading of the series on its Quantel Pablo color and finishing system. The two 10-part series have been sold to more than 170 countries with successful remakes including The Tunnel (France/UK) and The Bridge (USA/Mexico). Bron/Broen season three is currently in production and is due to air in September 2015.

Filmlance, located on Stockholms northern docks, was founded in 1988 and is now one of Swedens longest established production companies and has since produced more than 100 major motion pictures, childrens films, high-end television series, feature films, short films and music videos.

Colorist at Filmlance, Per Sj kvist, said, Weve had a Pablo in the group for about seven years and its still going strong! Pablo is a very powerful, flexible and stable system. If your task is to make the best of every single image in a 10 hour drama, Pablo is perfect. There are so many tools in Pablo that make it so intuitive; however its shape tool is my favourite feature. Its so flexible, fast and useful in so many ways. You can easily separate different objects in the image and grade and process them separately.

Bron/Broen is a Scandinavian crime drama television series, co-produced by Sveriges Television, Danmarks Radio, ZDF and production companies Nimbus Film and Filmlance International. The series begins with the discovery of the body of a murdered woman on the Oresund Bridge - right on the border between Sweden and Denmark. The top half of the body is from a Swedish politician and the bottom from a Danish prostitute, leading Danish and Swedish police into an investigation to find the murderer.

Its not so easy to describe the look of Bron/Broen - its better to watch the series! Overall we try to do it low contrast and never crush the blacks or push the gains. The color is quite desaturated and usually we try to go cooler without losing the warmness in the skin tones. Having a post production department in house that can complete the DIT duties, editing, grading and VFX etc makes us rather unique and gives us an extra level of creative freedom, Sj kvist concluded.

About Quantel

Quantel is a world-leading developer of innovative, high performance content creation and delivery systems for News & Sports production and high quality Post. Quantel fast-turnaround production systems give broadcasters the creative, productive and flexible workflows they need to stay ahead in todays competitive global media market. Quantels post production systems deliver the quality, resolution and performance post houses need to capture high margin, high value work.

Also part of the Quantel Group is Snell, a world leader in enabling broadcasters and media organizations to process and manage their valuable media content. Snells expertise empowers customers to achieve greater efficiencies and increase revenue while delivering their content to multiple distribution platforms. Snell TV Everywhere and Live TV products bring tangible benefits throughout the production chain.

More about Quantel at http://wwwquantel.com; more about the Snell product range at http://www.snellgroup.com

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