Richard Lackey

<p>My name is Richard Lackey, and I am currently a feature film (or long-form as we call it) post production producer at South Africa’s (probably Africa’s) leading studio, lab and post production facility, Waterfront Studios. We currently operate the largest sound proofed stages on the continent, one of only two Kodak Imagecare approved film labs in South Africa, and a state of the art post and <span class="caps">VFX</span> facility.</p> <p>My specialization is in digital cinema, in acquisition, post production and delivery. first. It goes without saying that I’m a <span class="caps">RED</span> One fanatic, and love pushing the technology to new limits.</p> <p>I’m also a filmmaker, and my work affords me a number of unfair advantages in this regard. In the past year for instance, I’ve only ever shot super 16mm and 35mm on my own projects. I love film as a creative medium above anything digital that I deal with day in, day out. I mourn it’s decline, which I see every day in the downward curve of total footage processed through our lab, and the upward curve of digital take-up in ever more budget consious productions.</p> <p>I own a number of 8mm cameras, a 16mm and a 35mm camera kit, which I use often and keep me on an objective even keel when it comes to assessing the merits of new digital technology. For my own films, I will continue to shoot film until I have no choice but to switch.</p> <p>That covers what I do, but I also want to introduce who I am.</p> <p>I was born to full time missionary parents in 1980, and they have worked for the same mission organization (Arab World Ministries) ever since. I was born in Las Vegas, I grew up in the UK, but am American by passport and heritage, and spent most of our family furloughs in San Diego. I have a younger brother and sister, both born in Marseille, France. In 2000, I moved to South Africa and have never looked back. I fell in love, both with South Africa and with my wife, and have a beautiful daughter of two years old.</p> <p>Above all, God is just exceptionally good!</p> <p>My dream is to move from post-production of other people’s films to production of my own, however, this is something God must bring about if it is to happen at all, and it is a desire that I have learned at great cost to hold very loosely. I have been led into a fantastic and satisfying career in an industry I love, which allows me to support my family, and for now allows me to create my own films in a sheltered environment at very little cost.</p>

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