Reliance MediaWorks has acquired British-based iLabs to strengthen its post-production facilities. These include processing, restoration, 2D to 3D conversion and other services to broadcasters and studios.
iLabs has been working on high-end processing for film, television, commercial and shorts’ productions. Reliance MediaWorks CEO Anil Arjun said: “Through Reliance MediaWorks UK (the new acquisition and its existing presence in Britain), we would provide next-generation services for the local film makers and broadcasters, while also catering to Hollywood and Hindi film businesses.”
Reliance MediaWorks UK, the company said, has already secured image processing and restoration work for two high-profile projects from leading British broadcasters at Reliance MediaWork’s LA-based subsidiary, Lowry Digital, which is Hollywood’s leading film restoration company. Lowry Digital has handled projects for leading studios like Walt Disney, Paramount Pictures, MGM and 20th Century Fox and entertainment leaders like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron. Also, recently, Lowry Digital has handled the restoration of footage sent back to Earth from Apollo 11, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the mission, for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) of the US.
The company had also established an optical fibre network, a first of its kind, through Reliance Globalcom’s Ethernet Private Line. This network has been used for close to a year for distributing digital cinema releases of Indian films from Mumbai to the US.
