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Deluxe Entertainment Services Chief Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

The Hollywood Post Alliance presented its lifetime achievement award to Cyril Drabinsky, president and CEO of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. Drabinsky received the award Nov. 10 before an audience of several hundred people at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles during the alliance’s sixth annual awards show recognizing the best work by post-production artists in editing, sound editing, composting, and color grading. In introducing Drabinsky, colleagues in the entertainment industry described him as putting the industry on the path to the future as it transitioned from film to digital. Drabinsky started with Deluxe in 1990 when the company had just three film labs. He became chief executive and president in 2006 after MacAndrews & Forbes acquired Delux. Today the company employs more than 6,700 people around the world providing production, post-production, distribution and archiving services. Locally, Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has facilities in Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys and Valencia. While Deluxe may develop new technologies for its feature film, television and commercial clients, that technology remains just a storytelling tool, Drabinsky said. “Our job at the end of the day is to make the client’s vision connect (with the audience),” Drabinsky said. Testronic Labs in Burbank received the HPA Judges Award for creativity and innovation in post production for developing a quality control lab for digital master files used to create DVDs, Blu-ray discs, and online downloads. The company spent about $500,000 on the digital lab, but future additions will bring the final investment to more than $1 million.

Mark Madler
Mark Madler
Mark R. Madler covers aviation & aerospace, manufacturing, technology, automotive & transportation, media & entertainment and the Antelope Valley. He joined the company in February 2006. Madler previously worked as a reporter for the Burbank Leader. Before that, he was a reporter for the City News Bureau of Chicago and several daily newspapers in the suburban Chicago area. He has a bachelor’s of science degree in journalism from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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