In our latest Creative Forces conversation, Jeff Lee sits down with multi Grammy nominated and Emmy, BAFTA, and DGA Award winning director Paul Dugdale who is known for creating outstanding music documentaries, concert films, and global live events with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Adele, Ariana Grande, Harry Styles, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney, and Elton John.

Nashville-based production company Gear Seven has recently been using Sony’s new FR7 full-frame PTZ camera on their Directors + Donuts series, which features conversations with seasoned directors and creatives about their process and experience in the film industry. Held monthly at the Nashville Kitchen Studio, the series is designed to be a place where creatives of all ages can make connections while learning about how to improve their craft and technique from industry professionals.

At this point in time, audiences have become accustomed to the idea of award shows incorporating some version of remote or virtual collaboration, especially as travel restrictions keep much of the talent at home. So when Dick Clark Productions chose to reunite the Emmys producing team for this year's Golden Globes and reached out to Mike Nichols, AbelCine Business Development Manager, our previous experience with the remote camera and lighting kits proved invaluable. We were able to build, set up, deliver, and remotely control a number of identical "drop kits" that were delivered to various nominee locations across the country.

A law firm with offices in the US, Asia, and Europe reached out to AbelCine with specific streaming needs for their year-end meeting: high-quality video and rock-solid connectivity. The event, with over 350 participants, would take place virtually for the first time in 2020.

Complex Networks, the media company behind Hot Ones and Sneaker Shopping, reached out to AbelCine to engineer remote kits for their Twitch original programming contributors.

With award shows moving to virtual formats this year, the 2020 Creative Arts Emmy Awards is one of the highest profile events to make the transition. Over the summer, AbelCine created a range of remote production kits that enable high quality image capture in a safe, easy to set up, remote controllable package. As a result, the team at Done+Dusted, the producers of the Emmys telecast, tapped AbelCine to help build 25 remote kits for select nominees at the 2020 Emmy Awards.