Industry veterans

by: Chris Aliapoulios

photos by: Kuba Ingram

grace-wild-1-42510 Michigan media headlines have been ambushed by future plans for movie studios and soundstages lately. Yet below the radar, Grace & Wild continues leading the state in producing quality film and related content at Studio Center, Farmington Hills.

Grace & Wild President, Steven Wild, told MMM, “Luckily we we’re in the right place at the right time, but it wasn’t like it happened over night. For 25 years, we have been operating this business and serving a wide range of customers, producing content. We have the only motion picture film processing laboratory in the state. We have the only true sound stage built to shoot for video, film, and sound in the state. And, it’s not a warehouse or hangar. It’s actually designed and custom built to be a sound stage from the ground up.”

The 7 acre studio lot offers beautiful park like settings, with immediate access to major highways. The 125,000 square foot of building space provides plush working environments and amenities while offering the full range of services to audio, video, film, and the multimedia world.

Services offered include: production office space, sound stage rental, studio and remote production, motion picture processing and printing, film transfer, 2-D and 3-D computer graphics, special effects production and supervision, video editing, creative editorial services, broadcast replication and distribution, new media development and authoring, fiber-optic network connectivity, and motion picture film processing with dailies.

Some recent high profile projects at Studio Center include: Trust , Stone, Demoted, High School, MOOZ-lum, Meet Monica Velour, The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, Piranha 3D and Prayers For Bobby. Hart and her team go to great lengths to accommodate clients. For example, a remote Avid editing studio was setup up in a rental space above Mongolian Barbeque in Ann Arbor, at the request of the post production team for the film Piranha 3D.