Ex-Centris is a state-of-the-art multi-theater and production facility designed to evolve with the emergence of new digital production technologies. Inaugurated in 1999, it is an avant-garde complex dedicated to the support of independent creators and producers involved in experimenting with the new generation of cinematographic tools. Digital production and post-production installations are integrated within the theater complex allowing a level of integration between film production and public theater screening never achieved before. Conceived and built by Langlois, Ex-Centris is a blend of an image research laboratory and a high quality cinema venue. www.ex-centris.com
Pix Cinema is a corporation operating a global digital cinema distribution network utilizing direct satellite delivery to service theatres venues around the world. Pix Cinema offers cinema exhibitors a complete solution including all the components necessary to schedule, order, and receive automatic delivery of high definition digital films via a simple and efficient system adapted to the exhibitors market. Pix Cinema networking technology is called Pixnet, which is provided by Pixel Systems Inc. www.pixnet.com
Media Principia Inc. is a film production company formed by Langlois in 1998. The company specializes in making films that draw on new digital production technologies. Its first feature, which was filmed in Hungary, is titled THE BARONESS & THE PIG. The post-production work in digital high definition was completed in the Ex-Centris studios in Montréal.
Langlois also presides over the Montréal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media, which he co-founded in 1996. The festival is a world of discovery for anyone intrigued by independent films, video and new media. It merges genres and vigorously promotes the selected works to help ensure they're widely distributed and seen. www.fcmm.com
Langlois also founded Softimage Inc., and was its president and chief technology officer from November 1986 to July 1998. The company is recognized internationally in the fields of cinema and media creation for its advanced digital technologies and especially its 3-D computer animation techniques. Softimage software was used to create most of the dazzling 3-D effects in the blockbuster movies GLADIATOR, X-MEN, STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE, THE MATRIX, TITANIC, MEN IN BLACK, TWISTER, JURASSIC PARK, THE MASK and THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN. www.softimage.com
Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque) 1997: For the development of the "Actor" animation component of the Softimage computer animation system. (w. Dominique Boisvert, Rejean Gagne and Richard Laperriere)
1 Scientific/Technical Award