darren aronofsky was the director of life of pi.
who is the director of life of pi?
darren aronofsky
despite the oscar for best visual effects at the 2013 academy awards, rhythm & hues studios (who provided most of the visual effects for the film) was forced to file for bankruptcy on february 11, 2013, citing unfair competition from subsidized and tax exempt foreign studios. this sparked a demonstration of nearly 500 vfx artists who protested outside the 2013 academy awards. inside, during the oscars, when r&h visual effects supervisor bill westenhofer brought up r&h during his acceptance speech for "life of pi," the microphone was cut off. this started an uproar among many visual effects industry professionals, changing profile pictures on social media such as facebook and twitter to show the green key colour, in order to raise awareness for what is happening to the effects industry. in addition, director ang lee was criticized by the protest leader for his failure to thank the effect industry, "ang thanked the crew, the actors, his agent, his lawyer and the entire population of taiwan right down to the team that built the wave-pool on the soundstage where pi was shot, but failed to mention hundreds of artists who made not only the main character of the tiger, but replaced that pool, making it look like a real ocean for 80% of his movie." he was also criticized for earlier complaining about the costs of visual effects. in february 2014, christina lee storm and scott leberecht released the documentary "life after pi" to youtube. the documentary details the role rhythm & hues played in "life of pi" as well as the consequent bankruptcy. bill westenhofer also discusses his experience at the oscars as he accepted a visual effects award for rhythm & hues' work on "life of pi".
life of pi (film)
in november 1921, dave f. dozier, pi delta phi '26, of phi chi medical fraternity and j. p. williams of pi mu jointly instituted unofficial negotiations for a merger of pi mu and phi chi. this conference culminated in an agreement of merger signed october 7, 1922, in richmond, virginia, by albert f. saunders for phi chi and j. blair fitts for pi mu. also participating in the arrangements of merger were dave f. dozier, pi delta phi, and william i. owens, theta eta, for phi chi and j. p. williams of pi mu. under the arrangements of merger, the beta and gamma of pi mu members were initiated into theta eta of phi chi and alpha of pi mu was installed as pi mu (chapter) of phi chi, october 14, 1922. the alumni of pi mu became associate members of pi mu of phi chi: they were obligated to become life subscribers to the phi chi quarterly and membership cards of phi chi were issued to those who so subscribed; the associate members were granted the right to wear the badge of phi chi although the pi mu official badge was to remain "official" for all pi mu alumni graduating prior to july 1, 1922. the pi mu badge was a greek cross with skull and bones at the center. the skull was set with emerald eyes and the letters "πμ" displayed on the horizontal arm of the cross.
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