During the summers, while in high school, Feiner worked at a film lab in Hollywood doing 16mm AB printing and timing. Later, while attending Pitzer College as a pre-law student, Feiner began working at a part-time job operating an optical printer at a company called Total Optical. Little did he realize that this part-time job would seal his future fate. Pacific Title bought Total Optical and Feiner went on to become an optical cameraman on the night shift in 1977. In his first few years at Pacific Title, Feiner worked on "Grizzly Adams" blow-ups, effects for the popular "Wonder Woman" and "Dukes of Hazzard" television series as well as numerous Warner Brothers and Fox features. As people either retired and/or left the company, Feiner found himself taking on more and more responsibility as well as more demanding duties and then, finally, moved to the day shift. Credited with co-developing the lucrative "Gemini Process," a high-quality video-to-film process, for the company in the late 80's, Feiner was also instrumental in the development, planning and execution of Pacific Title Digital Studio, in 1989 which was subsequently launched in 1991.
Feiner's most prestigious and daunting project to date was when he was called upon by the legendary director/producer, George Lucas, to assist in the restoration of the "Star Wars" trilogy (Star Wars, Return of the Jedi and The Empire Strikes Back). For this massive project, Pacific Title and Feiner mapped out an extensive cost effective alternatives to more expensive digital effects by reorganizing and reinserting elements of the original prints of the films.
The results were most impressive. In addition to the "Star Wars" projects, Feiner has supervised the company's restoration of such motion picture classics as Sleeping Beauty, Vertigo, The Wizard of Oz, Notorious, Nothing Sacred, A Clockwork Orange and Picnic. In addition to his work at Pacific Title, Feiner, who was nominated for an Emmy® award for his work on the NBC television mini-series "V," is also extremely active in a number of industry organizations and unions.
His credits include membership in the 600 Photographers Union , SMPTE, ACVL, affiliate member of ACE, associate member of ASC, VES, AMPAS and its Visual Effects Branch, Science and Technology Council, as well as the Scientific and Technology Awards Committee.
Feiner's immense knowledge, expertise and management abilities led him to be named President/CEO in 1997 where he oversaw the day to day operations of an 87-year-old post production facility.
Scientific and Engineering Awards (Academy Plaque) 2006: For the design and development of the Rosetta process for creating digital YCM archival masters for digital film restoration. (w. Jim Houston, Denis Leconte and Chris Bushman of Pacific Title and Art Studio)
1 Scientific & Technical Award