[Philip Lelyveld comment: Evergreen Film has production facilities in Culver City as well.]

[KTVA (Alaska)]

Production has begun on “Walking With Dinosaurs,” a 3D project with the British Broadcasting Company scheduled for international theatrical distribution in December 2013.

In another leap forward for the growing Alaska film industry, local production company Evergreen Films has been named the first studio certified to use high-end 3D production technology developed by A-list Hollywood director James Cameron.

That technology will be used in the current evergreen production of “Walking With Dinosaurs.”

Mike Devlin, a former software entrepreneur, came to Alaska six years ago and started a small production company.

Now he’s assembling a “smart stage” studio in south Anchorage, which also will be the site of the first post-production on a major Hollywood film, using Cameron’s technology that made such a splash two years ago with “Avatar.”  …

NANA, the regional Native corporation for northwest Alaska, a minority owner of Evergreen, will make the technology available to outside movie crews.

“But we’ve also formed a support company called Piksik, a word for ‘quick response,’ because we want to be responsive to the kinds of customers that come here to produce films, and our relationship enables us to be where people come to have access to this new technology that we’re talking about — high end, 3D technology that will only be available in a couple of places in the world to start with,” said Robin Kornfield of NANA, who’s serving as Piksik president.

The first movie to come out of the collaboration with Cameron, “Walking With Dinosaurs” will not be a documentary, but a family film, vetted by paleontologists and based on animals thought to have existed above the Arctic Circle 70 million years ago.  …

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