Paul Korver

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Paul Korver
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Korver in 2018
Born (1971-11-18) November 18, 1971 (age 51)
Hartville, Ohio, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Education Amador Valley High School
Alma mater University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation
  • Entrepreneur
  • Filmmaker
  • Film restoration
Years active1998–present
Known forHollywood marriage filming; Cinelicious film restoration, including Death Valley Days ; founder and CEO of Cinelicious Pics

Paul Korver (born November 18, 1971) is an American entrepreneur, filmmaker, and producer, who currently resides in Los Angeles. With early turns as an actor in his twenties, [1] in 2002 he returned to his early love of cinematography, [2] founding Fifty Foot Films and later Cinelicious.

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Early life

Paul Korver was born November 18, 1971, in Hartville, Ohio to Gig and Marilyn Korver. Paul moved to Bellevue, Washington when he was five and moved to Pleasanton, California when he was 12. He graduated from Amador Valley High School and University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1997. [1] [3] [4]

Acting career

Korver played Officer Peter Roulette in the CHiPs reunion movie in 1998. He played Christopher Hughes II on the long-running soap opera As the World Turns from September 1999 to March 2001, shot in New York. Korver replaced Ben Jorgenson as Christopher Hughes II in 1999. When Korver departed in 2001, Alan White took over his spot as Chris Hughes. Korver played Lieutenant Peyton Styles in the 2001 movie The Painting. Korver played Casey Whitehouse in the Legally Blonde 2003 TV movie. [5] He played Rodger in Dog Gone Love in 2004. [6] [7] [8]

Fifty Foot Films

Founded in 2002 by Korver, Fifty Foot Films is "a Hollywood-based company that is dedicated to fixing major life events on film", a rare move which "many videographers regard as too risky, sensitive, and pricey to be profitable." [9] Four years later on November 15, 2016, The New York Times chronicled the startup and success of the company in its Small Business section, called "Here Comes the Celluloid: Marrying Life Events With Film".

Fifty Foot Films has recorded high-profile marriages including those of Christina Aguilera & Jordan Bratman, Mike Piazza & Alicia Rickter, Jessica Capshaw & Christopher Gavigan, Stephanie March & Bobby Flay, and Mariska Hargitay & Peter Hermann. Korver's first wedding film was for friends Marley Shelton and Beau Flynn.

Fifty Foot Films' name derives from the fact that there are 50 feet of film in a Super 8 film movie cartridge. Korver also later used 16mm and 35mm film to record events.

Fifty Foot Films has filmed around the world, from Dubai to Tokyo. [9] [10] [11]

Cinelicious

Cinelicious' 4K Scanity in 2016 Cinelicious Scanity 4k.jpg
Cinelicious' 4K Scanity in 2016

In 2008 Korver started a Hollywood post-production company Cinelicious and had "his sights set on leading a post-production renaissance in Hollywood." Cinelicious owned and operated a Spirit DataCine for a number of years, before upgrading to a Scanity in 2011. [12] Cinelicious works in a number of formats, like 16mm, Super 8 mm film and 35mm, including 4K resolution film preservation, original film and digital intermediate, commercials, 4K feature film and television shows. At Cinelicious, Korver served as the digital intermediate supervisor on a number of films. [13]

Cinelicious was part of the restoration of the TV series Death Valley Days , restoring 458 half-hour film episodes in 2013 and 2014. The original show was funded by Pacific Coast Borax Company and the restoration is part of the US Borax Film Archives. Cinelicious worked with Rio Tinto Group and US Borax in preserving the TV series. The 16mmm and 35mm Death Valley Days film was scanned at 4k on the Scanity. The Scanity infrared CCD channel was used for dirt mapping to be used downstream with a scratch removal system, PF Clean. [14] [15]

In September 2013 Cinelicious acquired High Hat Post in Santa Monica, California. With this acquisition High Hat Post now benefits from having access to Cinelicious' high quality scanning equipment, leading to them no longer needing to outsource the scanning part of their 4K preservation pipeline. [16] [17] [18]

In 2014, with former head programmer of the American Cinematheque, Dennis Bartok, Korver launched a distribution offshoot of Cinelicious called Cinelicious Pics. This is now the distribution wing of the post-production company Cinelicious. [19] A year later, Cinelicious Pics was named "Best Indie Film Distributor" by Los Angeles Magazine. [20]

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