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The Pitch Black Company Appoints Suzanne Bertrand as Chief Financial Officer

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Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Technology, Finance, Entertainment, Other Technology, Communications, Professional Services, Media, Audio, Video, Other Entertainment, Film & Motion Pictures, FuseFX, Sun Pictures, National Circus School of Cambodia, Growth, Rising Sun Pictures, Investment, Pitch Black (film), Rodeo FX, Moment Factory, Management, Pitch Black

Pitch Black, the parent company of renowned visual effects studios FuseFX, FOLKS, Rising Sun Pictures, and El Ranchito, today announced the appointment of Suzanne Bertrand as Chief Financial Officer.

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  • Pitch Black, the parent company of renowned visual effects studios FuseFX, FOLKS, Rising Sun Pictures, and El Ranchito, today announced the appointment of Suzanne Bertrand as Chief Financial Officer.
  • Ms. Bertrand will help bolster Pitch Black’s global business intelligence and drive company decisions that serve continued growth and client success.
  • She previously served as Chief Financial Officer at visual effects studio Rodeo FX and Chief Financial Officer of Moment Factory, a multimedia studio specializing in the conception and production of immersive environments.
  • We warmly welcome Suzanne to the Pitch Black family and are eager to partner with her in our continued growth and success," said Pitch Black CEO Sébastien Bergeron.

The Fuse Group Is Now the Pitch Black Company

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Professional Services, Entertainment, Other Entertainment, Film & Motion Pictures, General Entertainment, Finance, Banking, Sun Pictures, Rising Sun Pictures, FuseFX, Pitch Black, Visual Effects Society, Acquisition, Film

Today, the Pitch Black Company, formerly the Fuse Group, unveiled its new corporate identity and branding.

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  • Today, the Pitch Black Company, formerly the Fuse Group, unveiled its new corporate identity and branding.
  • Pitch Black CEO Sébastien Bergeron said, “We’re proud to introduce Pitch Black, which will connect our current and future studios by providing scale, a global footprint, and access to the entire organization’s talent, technology, and resources.
  • We have a tremendous opportunity ahead of us, and Pitch Black is perfectly positioned to capture it.”
    FuseFX Founder and Pitch Black Chairman David Altenau stated, "The creation of Pitch Black as an over-arching structure will provide a space to continue to build the connective tissue between our individual brands.
  • Pitch Black companies were recently nominated for three 2023 VES Awards, which when combined with previous nominations, brings its total award nominations to 117 and 53 wins, a testament to the creative excellence of all Pitch Black brands.

Qumulo Reduces Complexity for Customers on AWS with New Transparent Pricing

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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Technology, Data Management, CEO, CTO, AWS, Environment, Solution, FuseFX, Workflow, Video game console, Bank, Qumulo

For 1-year prepaid, Qumulo offers a market-leading and transparent price, which allows customers to get set up and scale more quickly.

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  • For 1-year prepaid, Qumulo offers a market-leading and transparent price, which allows customers to get set up and scale more quickly.
  • Customers deserve transparent and flexible purchasing options so they can focus on the data that powers their businesses, said Bill Richter, CEO of Qumulo.
  • Qumulo for AWS is the worlds most efficient, high-performance file storage in the public cloud and runs natively on AWS.
  • More customers are adopting Qumulo on AWS as they move their petabyte-scale workloads to the cloud.

The Fuse Group acquires Madrid-based El Ranchito

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Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Professional Services, Entertainment, Other Entertainment, Film & Motion Pictures, General Entertainment, Finance, Banking, FuseFX, Alvarez and Marsal, CEO, Partnership, Sun Pictures, VFX, Acquisition, Impossible, Culture, Rising Sun Pictures, Game of Thrones, Fashion, Nightclub, Mandalorians

The acquisition brings The Fuse Group to over 1,400 artists across twelve locations and four continents.

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  • The acquisition brings The Fuse Group to over 1,400 artists across twelve locations and four continents.
  • El Ranchito co-founder and Managing Director Flix Bergs and the rest of the partners of the company will continue to lead the business and operate under the El Ranchito brand.
  • El Ranchitos unrivaled pedigree in high-profile productions is a strong complement to the current makeup of The Fuse Group, said Sbastien Bergeron, CEO of The Fuse Group.
  • The Fuse Group brings together world-leading visual effects studios, FuseFX, FOLKS, Rising Sun Pictures, and now El Ranchito.

Qumulo Improves Customer Experience Through Launch of AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q

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Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Networks, Internet, Data Management, Technology, Software, Cloud, Amazon Web Services, CTO, Financial services, Name, TB, AWS, Magic Quadrant, FuseFX, Media, Industry, M&E, Autodesk Media and Entertainment, Workflow, List of life sciences, Computer data storage, Forging, Energy, Qumulo, Health care

The new AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q will get customers up and running fast.

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  • The new AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q will get customers up and running fast.
  • AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q helps them focus on innovation, not infrastructure, by building simple enterprise cloud file storage fast, said Ben Gitenstein, Vice President of Product at Qumulo.
  • This new AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q expands scenarios customers can test, building on the success of Qumulo Studio Q an AWS Quick Start geared for the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry.
  • The new AWS Quick Start for Qumulo Cloud Q supports almost all AWS regions globally and also supports deployments on AWS Local Zones and AWS Outposts.

Castlepoint Numa: Brownie awarded to the reimagined Auto BLDG in Toronto’s Lower Junction

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Friday, November 26, 2021
Rehabilitation, WSP Global, Regeneration, Â, Industry, FuseFX, Greater Toronto Area, Housing, Regional planning, ArchitectsAlliance, Ryerson, Equitable Bank, GLOBE, Auto, CBN, CO2, Pride Toronto, Carbon dioxide, MOCA, Employment, Growth

This site required a unique series of collaborations to invigorate Torontos Junction Triangle, said Alfredo Romano, president of values-based developer Castlepoint Numa Inc.

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  • This site required a unique series of collaborations to invigorate Torontos Junction Triangle, said Alfredo Romano, president of values-based developer Castlepoint Numa Inc.
  • These collaborations have brought a renewed and palpable energy to the Auto BLDG and the surrounding community for which it serves as an anchor."
  • The rebirth of Auto BLDG has laid the groundwork for a transformation of the Lower Junction, with more housing, employment and public spaces in its future.
  • As part of its restoration of Auto BLDG, in 2020 Castlepoint Auto BLDG Inc. acquired and protected a 400-acre forest north of Toronto that offsets8,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year.

V-Ray Wins 2021 Engineering Emmy for Advanced Ray-Tracing Tech

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Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, Animation, Scanline VFX, Netflix, GLOBE, The Walt Disney Company, Software, Adoption, Film, Game of Thrones, Communication, Engineering, VFX, Digital Domain, FuseFX, CTO, WandaVision, V-Ray, Television, Video game

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Chaos announces that V-Ray has won an Engineering Emmy for ushering in new levels of photorealistic visual effects in episodic productions.

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  • LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, Chaos announces that V-Ray has won an Engineering Emmy for ushering in new levels of photorealistic visual effects in episodic productions.
  • The award honors technical developments that are so innovative in nature that they materially affect the production, recording, transmission, or reception of television.
  • The award will be presented by the Television Academy Engineering Committee live at their annual event on October 21.
  • Founded in 1997, Chaos is privately owned with offices in Sofia, Prague, Seoul, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.