PIX System Honored with Technical Achievement Award by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Industry professionals choose PIX for innovative tools, secure solutions, and personalized service in the rapid landscape of production

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Feb 11, 2019, 09:02 ET

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) honored PIX, the entertainment industry leader in delivering secure communication and content management capabilities, with a Technical Achievement Award for the PIX System at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation, on Saturday, February 9, 2019, at the Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills.

From right to left: Eric Dachs, PIX Founder and CEO accepts the AMPAS Sci-Tech Technical Achievement Award accompanied by the PIX System development team including Paul McReynolds, Erik Bielefeldt, and Craig Wood. (Courtesy of AMPAS)

At PIX System, we help create entertainment and media by bringing creativity, collaborators and assets together. For 16 years, we’ve been creating and innovating ways to give the top creative talent, studios, mini-majors, networks, indie productions, and online content providers the time and resources they need to create. Better. Faster. More reliably.

PIX was introduced to the market in 2003, quickly becoming the industry's most trusted and widely used secure communication and content management solution provider. The PIX System enables creative continuity and reduces project risk by ensuring that ideas are accurately shared, stored, and preserved throughout the entire production process.

The Technical Achievement Award is an honorary award given to those whose particular technical accomplishments have contributed to the progress of the motion picture industry. "Since its inception, PIX has obsessed over the need to improve communication, resource sharing, and information security over the life of film projects," explains Eric Dachs, Founder and CEO, PIX. "For 16 years we have been working towards this goal and are honored, and humbled beyond words, to be recognized by AMPAS for this technical achievement. We are privileged to serve an industry we love, and this recognition means a tremendous amount to the entire PIX team."

The award recognizes Eric Dachs, Founder and CEO; Erik Bielefeldt, Director of R&D; Craig Wood, Technical Director and Paul McReynolds for the design and development of the industry leading security mechanism for distributing media. With its highly upgradeable system architecture, PIX has evolved to keep pace with the industry's rapidly changing needs. All of the technological advancements and client workflow expansion have been backed by its industry leading support model that stays ahead of client needs.

PIX's robust approach to secure media access has enabled wide industry adoption, delivering a proven record of contributing significant value to studios including Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures and streaming service providers Amazon and Netflix, among others.

About PIX
PIX is an entertainment technology company that partners with clients to enable creative flow across the production life-cycle with its secure communication and content management suite. It delivers a secure, on-demand, online collaboration, and project management system, connecting industry professionals on productions from all the major studios and leading original content providers. PIX has worked on the equivalent of over 3.6 Billion feet of film and in the production of nearly 5,000 film and television projects. Its solution enables global access anywhere via browser, desktop, iOS, screening room, and set-top apps, custom commercial hardware and global delivery networks. PIX is based in San Francisco with offices in Los Angeles New York and London, delivering 24/7 support backed by industry professionals.

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