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Ayrton Cobra illuminates the sky for Golden Bee Awards at Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival

The Mediterrane Film Festival, hosted for the second consecutive year in Malta from June 22-30, 2024, culminated with the Golden Bee Award Ceremony hosted by David Walliams at Fort Manoel, Gzira. Over a dozen awards were presented to international actors, directors and cinematographers across a variety of categories.

The Awards were interspersed with performances from artists including Heather Small, Calum Scott, Joseph Calleja and the Golden Bee Awards Orchestra. Writer-director Mike Leigh was awarded the Career Achievement Award, and Maltese production coordinator Rita Galea was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The evening was rounded off with a speech from the President of Malta, Myriam Spiteri Debono.

Raphaël Demonthy, lighting designer and managing director at Sunrise Studios GmbH of Berlin, was responsible for the complete lighting design and realisation of the Ceremony on site, from the moment the VIP guests arrived on the red carpet, through the reception area to the show itself, and also the backdrop of the Valletta skyline.

Signature to his visual design was a row of thirty Ayrton Cobra laser-sourced fixtures which he positioned upstage at floor level to form a long line behind the 50 m x 10 m semi-transparent LED backdrop. “This gave the wall both frame and depth”, explains Demonthy. “We were able to extend the stage looks by creating a wall of beams that could keep up with the different ‘colour worlds’ created on stage.”

At specific moments, as the Valletta skyline took centre stage as a backdrop on the other side of the harbour, Demonthy used the Cobra fixtures at their widest zoom setting, adding frost and prism effects to create camera flares for an underline below the vignette.

Demonthy’s team for the Golden Bee Awards consisted of spot caller Didi Timmer, keylight operator Fabian Schmidt, showlight operator Marc Marlo Schelesnow, media server operator Sebastian Huwig, media server farmer Christian van Deenen, and picture engineer David Kulla.

The Ayrton Cobra fixtures were supplied for the event by Motion Rental of Germany through the lighting and technical provider, Nexos Lighting & Video, Malta. Production/logistics coordination was by 7Twentyeight Ltd together with Mad About Video Ltd, both from Malta. Production and set design was by Florian Wieder. The production company was Lodge of Levity.

(Photos: Sunrise Studios GmbH)

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