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In 1986 Barry Rebo co-founded the first high definition video
(HDTV) production company in the United States, REBO Studio.
Barry had long been a pioneer in the application of portable
video systems, beginning in 1975. He has been awarded many honors, including
national and local Emmy Awards for documentary cinematography.
In the fall of 1998 Barry reformed his original company, Rebo
Associates, to pursue a broad range of activities utilizing high-resolution
digital video production and display systems. His primary focus is
EmergingCinemas, (www.EmergingCinemas.com), which he founded in early 2000 with
digital projection pioneer Giovanni Cozzi. EmergingCinemas is creating a
national network of digital theaters in partnership with some of the nations
most prestigious performing arts venues, museums, and science & technology
centers. He has also brought a patented stereoscopic (3D) HD system to the US
in a joint venture with its creator, Munich based TELCAST 3D(www.telcast.de).
Rebo has produced or Executive Produced more than one hundred
and fifty high definition commercials, documentary specials, short features,
live concerts, music videos and animation programs. For PBS’ American Playhouse
drama series he Co-Executive Produced, "Fool’s Fire" by Julie Taymor (Broadway's
"The Lion King"). These productions have garnered numerous awards; including
best narrative short for the 1989 Cannes International Film Festival, six
International Electronic Cinema Festival (IECF) Astrolabium Awards in the
categories of commercial film, drama and documentaries, including the Grand
Prize of the City of Chiba, Japan in 1994. In 1995 he received the IECF's
prestigious Pioneer's Award for his continuing, groundbreaking work in new
television formats. He was recently elected to serve a two-year term on the
Board of Governors of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television
Arts & Science.
Barry Rebo is a widely recognized expert in digital imaging
systems by both the electronic and print media. His frequent television
appearances have included interview segments on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America",
CNN's "Inside Showbiz", the Discovery Channel's "Innovations", and news and
technology programs on PBS, CNN, Bloomberg, Financial News Network, Fox
Television and others. In addition, Mr. Rebo has been quoted and profiled in
Billboard, Forbes, Broadcasting & Cable. Business Week, the New York Times, The
Wall Street Journal, Variety, Rolling Stone and RES Magazine. He was most
recently profiled in WIRED Magazine.
In addition to various production and entrepreneurial
activities, he also serves as digital television consultant to Discovery
Communications, Inc.’s Discovery HD Theater and The Advertising Council, the
nation’s largest producer of public service advertising (PSAs). He also
programs, in HDTV format, a monthly promotional service for San Francisco based
PICS Retail Networks (PRN) that is satellite delivered to over four hundred BEST
BUY consumer electronics/entertainment software retail outlets.
“If the HDTV “guerilla” movement has a
godfather, it would be Barry Rebo. The Manhattan-based Rebo is an original
trailblazer of HDTV in the U.S. In 1986, after pioneering the use of
small-format video cameras, he turned his attention to producing HD
programming. REBO Studio produced 150 hours of HD programs, including the
feature film Fool’s Fire, by the then undiscovered Julie Taymor, for early
outlets such as Japanese broadcaster NHK.”
--Debra Kaufman, RES Magazine-The
Future of Filmmaking, VOL.2. No.2
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