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KINO FLO HONORED WITH TECHNICAL AWARD BURBANK, CA - Kino Flo was honored this week with a Lifetime Technical Achievement Award for development of the Kino Flo True Match® line of cool softlights for film and television production lighting.

Receiving the award at Paramount Studios during the Cine Gear Expo, president and founder Frieder Hochheim thanked friends and colleagues for recognizing the contributions Kino Flo has made for 30 years to the art and technology of motion picture production lighting.

The Burbank-based company recently made headlines with the debut of what many have called a leap of ingenuity: proprietary software that balances their LED lights to the HD cinema cameras, rather than the other way around. This breakthrough camera profiles LUTs program combined with true white light tungsten and daylight LED emitters harmonize with the camera sensors even as the color temperature settings are adjusted.

“It’s this special alchemy of turning artificial light sources into natural white light that has been the passion and pursuit of our transformative impact on motion picture and television production for decades,” Hochheim said.

Kino Flo Lighting debuts a number of new LED lighting products at this year’s Broadcast Asia Trade Show in Singapore, including the True Match® 4.0 Beta Firmware with Camera LUT’s, Color Space rec 709/sRGB, P3 D65, rec 2020, ESTA E1.54, and CIE xy coordinates.

Kino Flo is exhibiting the new products in booth 4P2-06 at the Suntec Center.

The idea of portable, cool soft sources for production lighting was conceived on a Hollywood movie set by a cinematogra-pher and gaffer more than 30 years ago. That gaffer, Hochheim, and his best boy electric, Gary Swink, went on to build the motion picture industry’s first high output, high color rendering arrays. Kino Flo was born in 1987, in Pacoima, California.

By 1995 Kino Flo lighting systems had earned an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for developing color correct fluorescents that changed motion picture lighting. The award was followed by many more such as today’s, recognizing Kino Flo’s artistic and technical contributions in four categories that continue to this day:

Cool vs Hot: Safe and comfortable tubes you can hold in your hand, Kinos replace power hungry hot lights. High PRI vs Not: Discontinuous spectrum sources that look as good as natural light on film and video. Softlight vs Hard: A game-changing aesthetic influences lighting everything from faces to large spaces.

Portable vs Heft: Innovate lightweight materials result in new era of modular, versatile fixtures for location and studio.

News ReleaseJune 1, 2019

Located in Burbank, CA, Kino Flo Lighting Systems was founded in 1987 and is a manufacturer of high quality LED soft lighting equipment for use in motion picture lighting, TV broadcast, video and photography industries. In 1995 Kino Flo received a technical achievement award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the development of color-correct lamps for film.

Feature production credits are too numerous to list here, but since Barfly in 1985 some include franchise movies like the Avengers series, Iron Man, Captain Marvel (2019) …Warner Brother’s DC universe films like Wonder Woman (2017) and Batman vs. Superman Dawn of Justice (2016). Paramount Studio’s stable of Kino products have been workhorses on Mission Impossible series 1-7 and every Star Trek feature since 1995.

20th Century Fox’s The Shape of Water (2018), Avatar I (2009) and II (in production) and more recent Alien movies all relied on Kinos. Dramas and comedies include: A Handmaid’s Tale (1990), Seven Deadly Sins (1995), Titanic (1997), Panic Room (2002) Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), As Good As It Gets (1997) and The Death of Stalin (2017). Older trilogies include Men in Black, The Matrix and the Lord of the Rings. International collaborations: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Kill Bill I&II (2003), and The Great Wall (2016).

The lights also have played a central role in lighting myriad television, commercial and music video productions since 1987.

After 15 years of developing fluorescent products, Kino Flo in 2002 created (with Color Kinetics) the Koloris RGB production LED heads, some of the first color changing DMX fixtures designed for motion picture set lighting (The Cat in the Hat, 2003). They followed up a few years later with the Kelvin Tile LED distributed through their rental operation, and then finally landing on the Celeb line of LEDs that has for the past seven years expanded to include the FreeStyle family of lightweight portable LEDs, such as the new T44 LED tube lights.

(Kino Flo Lighting Systems is still a small, family-owned company working out of a mud hut on the edge of Hollywood.)