Biennale Cinema
64th Venice Film Festival
“Tim Burton Day”: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Tim Burton
For the “Tim Burton Day”, there will also be a screening of the new stereoscopic 3D version of the feature film, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, created and produced by Tim Burton and directed by Henry Selick. Presented as a world premiere in Venice in 1994, the film has become a charming and magical cult animation film. For the first time in the history of film festivals, the Venice Festival will screen an entire film - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas - in 3D Stereoscopic Digital Cinema, making use of highly advanced technological solutions to ensure viewers in the Sala Grande the best possible visual quality, as desired by the film’s director. This has been possible due to the consistent work and collaboration of the Biennale di Venezia’s Digital Cinema Team with the Disney Production Team.
Using the new “Shutter” 3D spectacles, the public will be able to “make contact” with the film’s characters. The 3D technology provides a 3D effect by projecting a double image, one for the right eye and one for the left, creating a sense of depth and reality. Disney Digital 3D takes the application of this technology to a level never previously experienced, using a single projector that alternates the images for the right and for the left eye extremely rapidly (144 times a second), so that the brain perceives the stimulus of a third dimension.
This new Disney Digital 3D process had its first successful debut with Chicken Little, but Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in the new 3D version explores a higher level. The film marks the first instance in which a complete analogical film in 2D is converted into a 3D Stereoscopic Digital Cinema format. For Walt Disney Animation, the project represents a rare opportunity to enable the public to perceive an already greatly appreciated classic from a completely new perspective. The Disney Digital 3D technology is the result of a collaboration between Disney Studios, the special skills in the digital field of Industrial Light and Magic and the digital cinema projectors and servers of DCI comply.
The 3D version of the film will be released in European cinemas in time for Halloween, on 31st October 2007.
Venice, 27 August 2007
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