It was on his way to NAB2005 in Las Vegas that Alex Olegnowicz, president of Toronto post shop Imarion, received an elated phone call from local filmmaker Stuart Samuels. Samuels had just heard that his documentary about 1970s cult flicks, Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream, had just been accepted at the Cannes Film Festival.

Olegnowicz shared Samuels’ excitement, as Imarion had played an important role in the film’s making. The shop performed green-screen compositing, online editing, color correction and would go on to prepare for its digital cinema presentation at Cannes. An HD master was used for the fest screening.

Imarion has built a reputation for working on doc projects, often for repeat customers such as Associated Producers, Breakthrough Films & Television and Red Apple Entertainment. It is often called upon to finish projects in HD, having done so on the AP doc The Exodus Decoded and the Breakthrough drama series Paradise Falls.

Imarion also performed the online edit and color correction on the Breakthrough doc Secret Liberators, which aired on History Television as part of recent 60th anniversary VE Day celebrations. Other projects include doc series The Naked Archaeologist (offline and online) for AP and VisionTV, and online for the AP lifestyle series Yummy Mummy, airing on Life Network.

The company, which has nine full-time staff, moved last August, taking over a roomy space on Adelaide Street West previously occupied by Deluxe. Olegnowicz finds the building brighter and more editor-friendly, with four windowed offline suites and three online suites. Recent upgrades at the facility include an EditShare shared storage server and DVD authoring suite. Based on his research at NAB, Olegnowicz says he is seriously considering adding digital intermediate services by December.

‘By expanding, new clients come in,’ he says.

Imarion will have an open house to show off its new office on June 2. Check the company website for details.

-www.imarion.com