David Battistella is a director, writer, producer, editor and actor. In 2002, his feature documentary, Shinny: The Hockey in All of Us, won the Banff World Television Festival Rockie Award for best sports documentary. The ode to the Canadian game has been broadcast nationally, used as the visual companion to ‘O Canada’ at NHL games, and used as a teaching tool at Ohio State University.
In 2003 he made a film Traveler's Wasteland for the Digital Gun Awards in Toronto, which he wrote, acted in, directed and edited in 48 hours. His recent work includes Undone, a short film that follows a young girl’s path to her finding her father after her mother's unexpected death. This film was screened at the 2007 Cannes Short Film Corner and is slated for broadcast in 2008.
He founded F8 Films, a company dedicated to bringing story telling to corporate film and developing broadcast and theatrical films. In the past two years David has completed Alphabet Peace -- the film was written, filmed, edited and screened in the same space, fulfilling the goal of liberating film from traditional methods of creation and distribution.
David is a film technology innovator and is a leader in this field. He is the chair of the Final Cut Pro user group in Toronto, and an associate member of the Canadian Cinematographers Society. As an early adopter of the RED camera system, David has been asked to speak at numerous events, sharing his knowledge and experience with his peers.
Late in 2007 David landed a lead role in a television miniseries Cold Blood, slated for broadcast on Channel 5 in the UK early in 2008. David has written and is preparing to direct a documentary based on the breakthrough research of Dr. Kang Lee of the Institute of Child Study on why children tell lies.
His company has created short films for such organizations as the National Public Policy Forum, The Canada Institute, the University Health Network, the University of Toronto and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
Director DP, REDtrepreneur, early adopter and obsessed student of the RED camera system David Battistella takes a closer look at how to hit the sweet spot on the RED sensor. David shows how understanding REDs inner workings will help you expose your scene just right, every time.
In this Creative COW Magazine article, David Battistella takes a look at cross-platform workflows using the SheerVido Codec. SheerVideo is a family of lossless codecs developed by BitJazz for professional-quality uncompressed video. David does a great job in this article explaining the how, why, and if you should utilize this codec into your workflow.
In this article for CreativeCow.net, contributing editor and leader, David Battistella converses with other leaders in search of 'what constitutes good grazing' or polite etiquette for being part of a fun and truly useful Creative community. Read on as David, Jerry Hoffman, Walter Biscardi, Tom Wolsky and Bob Zelin share their thoughts for keeping the pasture peaceful.
In this Apple Final Cut Pro tutorial, CreativeCOW.net leader and filmmaker David Battistella shares a good basic technique for ''FCP - Edit to Tape'' first timers.
CreativeCOW.net contributing editor and leader, David Battistella, explores the question of recapturing HDV. He'd seen so many posts, so much talk about HDV format and the problems incurred, so David has taken the time to test a couple of workflows. Here's David's report.
Aurora's PipeStudio is specifically designed to take full advantage of the Final Cut Pro RT Extreme architecture while providing every commonly available professional-level audio and video input and output on an Industrial-quality rackmountable breatout box. In this article, CreativeCOW.net leader and filmmaker, David Battistella takes a look at the Aurora PipeStudio and determines it is a professional product designed for professionals in a real world environment. With care and research in setting up an editing system with fast hard drives and a product like this, you can achieve great results from FCP and this card combination.
