QVS managing director Colin Dobbyne with ITN arts correspondent Nina Nanner.
Quadrant Visual Solutions (QVS), the specialist supplier, designer and installer of video and film production facilities, was called upon to design, theme, stage and manage the Birmingham Film and TV Festival awards dinner at Birmingham's Burlington Hotel in a sponsorship deal. The festival, one of the UK's most significant moving image festivals, was held from the 15-24 November 2001. As well as the latest international previews, the Festival also included a range of events, workshops and seminars - with advice from professionals like Meera Syal and Pawel Pawlikowski.

Quadrant actively strive to be at the forefront of video/film production services, particularly outside of London, and are soon to open their film, video and media services centre in Liverpool. Among their celebrity guests at the awards dinner will be their Liverpool-based customers, Alex Cox (director of Repo Man) and Todd Davies (producer) having just completed their latest movie Revengers Tragedy starring Sophie Dahl, Christopher Eccleston, Derek Jacobi and Eddie Izzard. QVS supplied all of the video equipment that was used for the film’s insert short clips, a technique used by Alex Cox for the first time, and the on-line editing system.

QVS provided a comprehensive range of equipment, including Sharp SVG10 data video projectors, an xf30 data/video projector, a 12ft x 9ft front projection screen, six Bose 802 loudspeakers, a Soundcraft K1 audio mixer, a DFS500 vision mixer, a Sony PVW2800 Betacam SP player, a BVW75 Betacam SP recorder, scan converter, four Martin MAC 500s and two followspots.

Colin Dobbyne, managing dfirector of QVS, commented: "We're very proud to be associated with the Birmingham Film and TV Festival. We have had a close relationship with the Festival for three years and this event will strengthen our ties with both the Festival and the City of Birmingham."


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