SOC Technical Achievement Awards Each year, we are proud to honor significant advances in filmmaking technology with the SOC Technical Achievement Awards. This award is given to recognize the development of new technologies and techniques, essential innovations, and significant improvements to existing equipment. These technical achievements push our industry forward, removing hurdles for camera operators and allowing us to tell stories in new and unique ways. This year, the SOC received a record number of submissions ranging from developments in dolly systems and Steadicam to monitors and wireless intercoms. The creators of the qualifying entries were invited to show off their innovations at a demo day on Saturday, January 15, hosted at the SOC offices and Tiffen Burbank.
Each technology was demonstrated for a panel of judges made up of notable Active SOC members with careers in all types of content creation, including cinema, live, studio, and nonscripted. All eleven technologies submitted are featured on the following pages. Winners of the SOC Technical Achievement Awards will be announced on Tuesday, February 15. Judges for the Technical Achievement Awards, from left: Gretchen Warthen, SOC; Rocker Meadows, SOC; Technical Committee Chair Eric Fletcher, SOC; Lisa Stacilaiskas, SOC; John Perry, SOC; Mark LaBonge, SOC; David Sammons, SOC; and Jamie Hitchcock, SOC.
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