Academy Award Winner Michael L. Fink has been appointed president of visual effects worldwide for Frantic Films, a Division of Prime Focus Group. Working out of Frantic Films’ vfx facility in Hollywood, Calif., Fink will serve as senior
visual effects supervisor for projects awarded to the company, and
will be overseeing the integration of visual effects production for all of
the Prime Focus Group vfx facilities across North America, India and the U.K, including London-based effects facility Machine.
Fink was recently recognized with an Academy Award, a BAFTA award and a VES Awards nomination for his role as senior visual effects supervisor on New Line Cinema’s The Golden Compass. Prior credits include X2: X-Men United, X-Men and Braveheart. He also garnered a BAFTA nomination for the ’80s classic War Games, and was nominated for four Saturn Awards, a BAFTA and an Academy Award for 1993’s Batman Returns.
“It is tremendously exciting to be involved with Frantic Films, a group I have worked with before and hold in the highest regard,’ Fink comments. ‘I’m very much looking forward to working with the accomplished creative and R&D team assembled by my friend, Chris Bond. Frantic’s, and now my involvement with Prime Focus Group, allows us to create a global organization with leading vfx talent, facilitating a 24/7 production cycle that can handle vfx projects of any scale, from beginning to end.”
Frantic Films VFX is headquartered in Winnipeg, Canada, with offices in Vancouver and Los Angeles, Calif., The company has been operating divisions that have been providing visual effects for film and television, as well as vfx software development since 1997. Frantic’s teams have worked on such films as Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, Grindhouse, Superman Returns, X-Men: The Last Stand and Poseidon. In November of 2007, the company became a division of Prime Focus Group. An international leader in post and vfx services. For more information, go to www.franticfilms.com.
