High-end HD video production equipment of long-established Detroit Grace & Wild production/post and company-owned Postique Studios, will be sold via an online only auction by auctioneer Joseph H. Finn & Co. and conducted on GoDove.com.
Live bidding opens 9 a.m. EDT Friday, Aug. 17 and closes 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 21.
Equipment for sale at the two locations — Grace & Wild in Farmington and Postique in Southfield — will be open for inspection by appointment only, by contacting Paul Finn, or Louis Goldberg.
The equipment includes Sony, Canon and Red cameras, Panasonic AJA Pro HD; Satchtler and O’Connor video; HD/SD Sony monitoring, HD/data telecines, HD Davinci and Quantel color correctors, HD storage, audio gear, a generator, Final Cut HD, Protools HD, Autodesk HD, lights and vehicles.
Click here for a pictorial brochure listing of equipment for sale.
Coincidentally, two big old-line companies announced massive staff cuts on the same day. On Oct. 28, 2011, both 30-year old Mt. Prospect-based Roscor Corp. and Grace & Wild announced their shocking employee cutbacks.
Grace & Wild announced the termination of 80 staffers, saying the company was now going to be based on a “model of freelance,” but that never happened as the 25-year old production company shuttered shortly thereafter, with Postique’s closing following suit.
Grace & Wild cofounder Steven Wild had departed the company in 2010 to launch integrated media studio Ringside Creative, in partnership with Chicago’s Cutters.
INDIE FILMMAKER JIM JARMUSCH’S feature, Only Lovers Left Alive becomes the fourth project so far in 2012 to be approved for a Michigan film incentive of $365,000 on a $1,305 projected state spend. Lovers expects to hire 82 Michigan works with a full-time equivalent of six jobs.
Written and directed by Jarmusch, the film stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Anton Yelchin.
The story is about an underground musician (Hiddleston) who reunites with his enigmatic lover (Swinton) but their idyll is interrupted by her wild younger sister (Wasikowska).
The state recently upped its incentive cap to $50 million from $25 million, but thus far no dramatic upswing of feature or TV production has ensued.
