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Color Tour Podcast Episode 13: Chema Alba, Madrid, Spain

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Chema Alba is one of Spain’s premier color graders. Chema talks about the transition from film grader to coloring Netflix TV shows. He started out at a film scanning company. Handling film gave him the taste for colouring so he pursued the big manufactures to loan him a machine so he could practice.
This showed his enthusiasm, because at the time he wasn’t a colorist and the systems were over $300,000!

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Color Tour Podcast Episode 12: Marc Wielage, Hollywood USA

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Marc Wielage is a veteran Colorist based in Hollywood. He has been grading for 40 years and has the credits and stories to prove it. The chat starts at his shop in Hollywood before moving to legendary Hollywood restaurant Canters. Lots of people know him from the many different color forums he follows. Marc has helped many colorists at all levels, so this is a chance to get his backstory.

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Color Tour Podcast Episode 11: Leo Otero, in Bogota.

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Leo Otero is a master colorist working in Bogota, Colombia. He has his own facility called 2.35.
Leo works mainly on movies and longform projects. Warren chats with Leo in his Bogota Post House before taking the short walk to a local bar where is joined with Diego Yhama from Colombia and Javier Guevara from Argentina. What is it like colouring in South America an how does each country differ

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Color Tour Podcast Episode 10: Dario Bigi, in The East Village.

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This episode really gets to the heart of what the Color Tour Podcast is all about.
Dario Bigi is New York through and through. Born in Queens he has been an East Village resident for over 20 years now. He is an owner operator and runs his
grading shop out of his apartment. Dario is the first CT Podcast colorist who hasn’t come via the traditional telecine grading route. We move from his rooftop to his grading set up. Before venturing 200 yards down the street to a swanky East Village cocktail bar.

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Color Tour Podcast Episode 9: Kevin Shaw, in Beijing

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Kevin Shaw has been a colorist for over 30 years. He has worked full-time in London, Italy and Switzerland, and also started the da-vinci training academy in Florida. Kevin co founded the International Colorist Academy and is a driving force behind the Colorist Society International. He currently lives in London, but we took this opportunity to record the Podcast whilst in Beijing last year.

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Color Tour Podcast Episode 8: Eric Whipp & Wade Odlum, Alter Ego Post in Toronto

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Alter Ego is one of the premier post facilities in the world. Based in Toronto, Alter Ego was founded 10 years ago by Australian Colorists Eric Whipp and Wade Odlum. They specialise in colouring on Baselight but the facility has grown to add VFX and production to it’s roster. The guys balance colouring TVCs, managing over 50 staff, and still manage to grade blockbuster feature films…..how do they do it?

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Color Tour Podcast Episode 7: Jet Omoshebi in Soho, London

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Warren chats to Jet in Soho, London about her extensive work history. The move from TVCs to drama, women in color, and what she thinks of Kevin Shaw. Being headhunted — and on the other hand getting fired in Leicester SQ after a movie screening. How do you get five days to grade a one shot Madonna TVC? Jet has colored numerous television commercials and has recently finished the TV series Trust by Danny Boyle. Other notable credits include The Night Manager and Luther.

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Color Tour Podcast Episode 5: Alana Cotton, Auckland

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Warren is in beautiful Auckland, New Zealand for this episode of the Color Tour Podcast chatting to long form colorist Alana Cotton, who works at Images Post and Sound. They start their chat in Alana’s grading theatre before moving to the new harbourfront area where New Zealand will defend the America’s Cup in 2021. Topics discussed include Alana’s thought process when grading a feature, women in film, and why she loves the Baselight.

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