Lightcut Film
- Open roles
- 0
- Founded
- 2007
- Employees
- 11-50
- Offices
- 1
About Lightcut Film
Lightcut Film is an independent digital production and post-production studio founded in Rome in 2007. Its work spans feature films, television drama, broadcast entertainment, advertising and promotional campaigns. The studio brings picture, visual effects and sound disciplines into a unified production pipeline, supporting projects from on-set operations and previsualization through finishing and delivery.
Picture, effects and sound
Its front-end services include digital imaging technician support, digital dailies and on-set data management. Picture post-production covers offline and online editing, conforming, theatrical color grading, quality control and mastering for cinema, television and streaming. Delivery capabilities include 2K and 4K DCI formats, SDR and 4K HDR Dolby Vision.
The visual effects team handles concept design, on-set supervision, camera tracking, digital matte painting and 2D/3D compositing. Its animation work includes characters, creatures and environments, with lighting, photorealistic rendering and simulations for fluids, atmospheric effects and soft or rigid bodies. Digital head and face replacement also forms part of its capabilities.
Sound services encompass sound design, ADR and dubbing, immersive mixing and mastering. Dolby Atmos and Dolby Digital workflows complement the studio’s picture finishing services, allowing sound and image work to be coordinated within the same production environment. Motion graphics and broadcast design extend this offering to programme titles, channel packages, entertainment shows and promotional spots.
Film and broadcast work
Lightcut Film has developed long-standing working relationships with Rai across drama, entertainment and promotional production. Its television work includes full post-production, VFX, grading and audio mixing for the first three seasons of Imma Tataranni – Sostituto Procuratore, alongside graphics and finishing for entertainment programming.
Its film portfolio includes post-production on Alcarràs and post-production and visual effects on Esterno Notte. Promotional projects demonstrate a different side of its production work: the 2019 Venice Film Festival campaign featured a photorealistic animated winged lion, while the 2020 Giro d’Italia spot used digital head and facial replacement to depict historical Italian cycling champions.
More about Lightcut Film
Founders and leadership
- Sound designer Domenico Granata and creative director Andrea Tubili founded the studio. The report identifies Granata as CEO and sound design lead, and Tubili as Creative Director, Art Director and partner.
Technical infrastructure and operating practices
- The studio holds Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos certifications.
- Its shared-storage infrastructure connects 30 compositing stations and 15 3D animation workstations to an on-site render farm with 180 processors.
- Dedicated production rooms include five Avid editing suites, separate theatrical and HDR grading rooms, an ADR stage and a Dolby Atmos mixing and screening theater with an NEC DCI 2K laser projector.
- The company describes secure data handling and LTO/HDD archiving as part of its content-security practices.
Campaign recognition
- The 2016 Venice Film Festival official promo received PromaxBDA Global Excellence Gold and PromaxBDA Europe Gold.
- The Beyond Autism campaign received double gold at PromaxBDA Europe in 2016, as well as Eurovision Connect Gold and PromaxBDA Global Excellence New York Silver.
- Clean the World received PromaxBDA Europe Silver, Eurovision Connect Geneva Gold and Cartoons on the Bay Gold. These distinctions recognize the named campaigns.
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Where Lightcut Film is based
- Via Pietro Colletta, 5, 00179 Rome (RM), ItalyRome, Lazio, Italy
Rome Headquarters & Studio Facility
HeadquartersThe studio’s sole direct operating headquarters and post-production facility, occupying a 600 m² complex in the Appio-Latino district.
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