New Venture for Locomotion and Dirty Looks

Tom Balkwill, formerly of FilmLight, has partnered with Soho creative house Locomotion in an exciting new joint venture. Continuing from his success grading award winning UK indie films Skeletons and Starsuckers, Balkwill has launched new company Dirty Looks, a Baselight colour grading suite within Locomotion’s Soho premises, with facilities for high-end boutique finishing.

This new partnership provides a welcome addition to Locomotion’s facilities, and we are excited to be expanding into the feature film market by strengthening our Digital Intermediate (DI) and 3D Stereoscopic capabilities. Dirty Looks will provide commercials and film grading, 3D stereoscopic post production, cinema mastering and assist new film makers with digital dailies.

He says of this new venture, “I am delighted to have partnered up with Locomotion and am looking forward to expanding my repertoire to include commercials as well as features and TV. I am pleased that the venture has taken off so well. They are a great team to work with.”

Tom Balkwill has worked with many leading colourists including Mick Vincent and Adam Glassman and has unparalleled understanding of Baselight. Since setting up Dirty Looks, his most recent projects include doing Phantom digital dailies work for the new Sherlock Holmes movie, as well as grading a commercial for Armani, shot and grade attended by Nick Knight, OBE.

Chris McKeeman, Executive Producer at Locomotion adds  “Since our MBO earlier this year, Locomotion have gone from strength to strength. The addition of Baselight, combined with Tom’s talent and experience in independent features brings a great new dimension to Locomotion’s creative offering.”

For more information about FilmLight, click here.

To view the trailer for Skeletons, click here.

For more information on the Sherlock Holmes Sequel, click here.

To view further credits for Tom Balkwill on his IMDB page, click here.

To view the Dirty Looks website, click here.

 

‘Keep Moving’ Adam Deacon & Bashy, feat. Paloma Faith

Locomotion’s Miland Suman recently completed the online and colour grade for “Keep Moving” the theme song for Noel Clarke’s upcoming film “4.3.2.1” (out on 2 June).  Adam Deacon and Bashy feature Paloma Faith on their track, and the promo captures the drama and glamour of the diamond heist storyline from the film.  Maya Jenkins at Universal Pictures commissioned producer Phil Tidy and director Nick Mason to make the promo which received its debut on the News of the World’s web site.  Shot on Red Cam with anamorphic lenses at the Sanctum Soho Hotel in London and incorporating scenes from the movie, Miland’s online and grade helped to join the looks of the rushes and the film into a sexy glittering promo for the film’s soundtrack.

Check it out on our Showcase page.