We are happy to list some of our customers who offer high quality restoration services to broadcasters, archives and film-producers. Currently we have customers in more than 65 countries from all continents. Please understand that we cannot give a full list of all customers.

Ultra

The digital restoration services provided by Ultra involves high quality image restoration in 4K/2K/HD, utilising state-of-the-art technologies, such as DIAMANT-Film Suite and DustBuster+. The team of Ultra has worked on several prestigious national and international projects wherein more than 1000 national and international movies have been restored with nominations across various prestigious film festivals (in the restored classics section), including the Venice Film Festival. read more...

Prasad / EFX - Chennai, India

Prasad Group is a major player in all services around film & TV in India. Since 2004 Prasad is using DIAMANT-Film Restoration for  their high-quality restoration service. Being one of the most important DIAMANT-Film Restoration users, Prasad can offer high-end restoration in very short time.
Prasad has digitally restored major projects from around the world including 22 Academy Award Winners, 16 Golden Globe Award Winners and more than 32 films nominated for these awards. With a huge team of experienced professionals Prasad EFX is well positioned to handle projects of any magnitude. read more

 PHAROS - The Post Group, Germany

As one of the largest Germany's post production facility with headquarters in Munich, ARRI Media provides all creative and technical services at the highest level. The ARRI Media Restoration and Remastering department is a competent partner for high-end digital film restoration of film classics and re-mastering projects and to digitize entire movie collection at affordable and reasonable cost.

 

NBC Universal - Universal Studios Digital Services, Hollywood

Universal Studios Digital Services is using the DIAMANT-Film restoration software since 2011. They have got their second system late 2013 and using it mainly for 4K film restoration.

 

 

TransPerfect - Hiventy / France

Hiventy restores the greatest films of our cinematic heritage, bringing together in one place all the tools necessary for their restoration in the best possible conditions: mechanical repairing of the negatives, image scanning with DFT’s Scanity, sound scanning with Résonnances, 4K calibration on DaVinci Resolve, restoration with DIAMANT-Film Restoration, DCP encoding and return to film with Arrilaser.

L'Immagine Ritrovata - Film restoration laboratory, Bologna, Italy

L'Immagine Ritrovata is a highly specialised film restoration laboratory. Today, L'Immagine Ritrovata is an international point of reference in the field, due to its development of methodologies, its constant research work and the vast range of its activities in the restoration of world cinematographic heritage. Since early 2012 they are using a DIAMANT-Film Restoration SUITE.

Imagica, Japan

Imagica Lab combines the expertise accumulated over the years in the film industry since their foundation with state-of-the-art digital technology to help archive precious image footage from their customers that ought to be left for future generations.

Studio Hamburg Postproduction GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

Studio Hamburg has been using DIAMANT-Film Restoration since early 2002 for a big restoration job on a German crime series for re-broadcast in TV. In 2003, Studio Hamburg got the order to restore the archive of the Saudi Aramco Oil Company. The archive consists of several 1,000 hours of material, partially uncut and unedited. DIAMANT-Film Restoration is used for the full range of digital restoration (i.e.: de-flicker, stabilisation, de-noise, dust/dirt concealment). In the meantime Studio Hamburg is in operation with three systems and is the first customer who is working with two DIAMANT-Film Restoration Systems with HD Real-time I/O Software.

OMNIMAGO GmbH, Ingelheim, Germany

OMNIMAGO (former: Wagner Taunus Film) in Ingelheim is using DIAMANT-Film Restoration as tool for digital restoration, mainly in HD resolution. Full feature restoration is done as well as correction of selected scenes, depending on the customers needs. One of the most recent important restoration was on "Frauen sind die besseren Diplomaten".

FILM SHIFT, Munich, Germany

Among the largest projects of FILM SHIFT is the digitization of the film and video works by filmmaker Harun Farocki (over 90 titles) in cooperation with Deutsche Kinemathek, to be completed for the retrospective in November 2017 in Berlin. Many of the original film negatives were used for multiple film prints, with in consequence heavy traces of usage. DIAMANT-Film Restoration turned out to be the most powerful software for dust removal and repair. FILM SHIFT appreciates the close cooperation with HS-ART and their support, leading to specific adaption of filters in short time if required.

VFI - Vietnam Film Institute

The Vietnam Film Institute originally established in 1979, has started digital film restoration with two DIAMANT-Film Restoration SUITs late 2013. Walter Plaschzug from HS-ART did the onsite training in Hanoi.
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Arvato / Bertelsmann, Gütersloh, Germany

Arvato Services is a fully integrated subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG and is offering a wide range of services.

Museu da Images e do Som, Brasil

The Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo is a Brazilian state public museum of audiovisual works in São Paulo.

Cinegrell, Zürich, Switzerland

Cinegrell is the all-round service provider for your film productions and film restoration.

eyefilm, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The eyefilm filmmuseum in Amsterdam holds one of the most imporant film collections in Europe. In order to provide their film laboratories with indications about proper restoration and to restore fragments in-house, the Filmmuseum did decide for DIAMANT-Film Restoration as a digital restoration tool as early as 2001. The most recent project where DIAMANT-Film Restoration is used is the restoration of the full feature silent movie Beyond the Rocks (Sam Wood, 1922). This film was completely lost and has been found in the archives deposit in 2004.

Cineric, NY, USA

Cineric, Inc. is one of the industry’s finest film restoration and preservation house, fusing traditional photochemical processes with the latest in digital technology. It is also New York’s leading provider of optical effects and blow-ups, scanning, image processing, digital intermediates, and a host of other post-production services. Founded in 1982, the facility has restored and preserved over 1,000 films for such studios as Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, The Walt Disney Company, and Universal Pictures, while collaborating on special projects with the Academy Film Archive, Anthology Film Archives, British Film Institute, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, George Eastman House, International Olympic Committee, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, and Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as dozens of university archives, professional sports leagues, and other institutions. Early credits include American Graffiti, Jason and the Argonauts, The Birds, Funny Girl, and The Caine Mutiny.

HongKong Film Archive, HongKong

The Hong Kong Film Archive building is a world-class facility. Five-storey high, its net floor area of 7,200 square meters is structurally divided into two big partitions. One side of the building is dedicated to storage, which has independent air conditioning system with dehumidification and acidic gaseous removal functions.

Beijing Film Archive, China

The China Film Archive (CFA) is the national film heritage and preservation institution of China, founded in 1958 and headquartered on Wenhuiyuan Road in the Haidian District of Beijing. 

DiFACTORY / ReKINO, Warsaw, Poland

ReKino focuses on restoration of old films and digital enhancement of moving image. Since 2015 ReKino is using DIAMANT-Fim Restoration for their high-end restoration projects

Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC), Bois d´Arcy, France

The Archive located nearby Paris decided to build up a digital restoration facility for in-house restoration of fragments and other short films. For this purposes the Archive du Cinema decided for a DIAMANT-Film Restoration installation, that permits automatic processing.

INA, Paris

The Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) handles the archiving, preservation, and digital restoration of French television, radio, and audiovisual heritage. Located near Paris (with major operations in Bry-sur-Marne), INA-expert provides specialized training, academic degrees, and technical restoration work for historical video and film elements

Gaumont / Pathé, Paris, France

Gaumont and Pathé preserve and restore their historic French film catalogs through dedicated heritage programs, operating specialized archives and cultural centers in Paris

Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft, Berlin, Germany

HTW Berlin is a polytechnical school in Berlin that offers an education class for Restoration; one specific part is photographic as well as digital restoration. DIAMANT-Film Restoration is used at FHTW to educate students and provide restoration feasibility studies. In 2005 HTW will work on a project for the Eisler society, in that students will restore real films during their education.

George Eastman Museum, Rochester, USA

The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as George Eastman House and the International Museum of Photography and Film,is a photography museum, located on the grounds of the George Eastman's estate in Rochester, New York. Opened to the public in 1949, it is the oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives.

The Library of Congress, USA

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the de facto national library of the United States along with the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, and additional storage facilities at Fort George G. Meade and Cabin Branch in Hyattsville, Maryland.

Park Road Post Production, New Zealand

Park Road Post Production is an internationally renowned purpose-built facility in Wellington, New Zealand.  Award-winning sound and picture finishing, restoration and industry-leading development of digital workflows, Park Road is the complete post production package unlike any other.

National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive, Scotland, UK

The Moving Image Archive was founded in 1976 as one of the first regional public archive in the UK. The Library uses the DIAMANT-Film Restoration suite with powerful computer workstations and render farm to digitally repair damaged and degraded films.

Fotocinema, Rome, Italy

As a pioneer in the film industry, now also in video and post-production, it combines the experience of the past to the experimentation of future techniques.

DAM Smart, Australia

Safely preserve and digitise and restore your video, audio, and film with DAMsmart. DAM Smarte are Australia's award-winning audiovisual digitisation service provider.

Mels Studios, Montreal

MELS offers a turnkey solution for restoring films of all kinds. Whether your projects involve simple digitization or prestige restorations, we will handle your source materials with the utmost care while giving your works a new life.

Cinelab, London, UK

Cinelab Film & Digital provides Archive & Restoration services for film and video scanning and digitisation from single titles to entire archives.

BBC, London, UK

Historic BBC and London-based film restorations involve specialized digital and physical recovery of vintage broadcasts and local archives.

FIAF Members using DIAMANT-Film Restoration