Alvernia Studios

The {{Convert|13000|m2}} domed complex features multiple sound stages, the world's biggest spherical shadeless blue screen, music scoring studios, a motion capture system, 16 mm and 35 mm laboratories, a color correction studio, a visual effects department, and a final mix studio.{{Cite web |title=Alvernia Studios w Nieporazie |url=https://malopolska.szlaki.pttk.pl/2353-pttk-malopolska-alvernia-studios-w-nieporazie |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=malopolska.szlaki.pttk.pl |language=pl}} Alvernia Studios activities included the production of feature films and commercials, as well as the implementation of music projects (including the smallest concert of the world), video games,{{Cite web |title=Movie Scope Magazine o Alvernia Studios |url=http://www.moviescopemag.com/featured-editorial/territory-focus-poland/}} shows and concerts.{{Cite web |date=2010-06-21 |title=Spełniony sen "Smoka" |url=https://kultura.onet.pl/film/wiadomosci/spelniony-sen-smoka/ccsmkfw |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Onet Kultura |language=pl}}

The studio was founded in 2000 by broadcasting executive Stanisław Tyczyński, a Polish entrepreneur, the founder and former owner of RMF FM. Alvernia Studios was the first non-state film company in post-war Poland.{{Cite web |title=Stanisław Tyczyński: Anna Machnicka i Robert Kalinowski w Alvernia Studios |url=https://www.wirtualnemedia.pl/artykul/stanislaw-tyczynski-anna-machnicka-i-robert-kalinowski-w-alvernia-studios |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=www.wirtualnemedia.pl |date=7 April 2010 |language=pl}}

In 2017, the studio was bought by Grupa Gremi, controlled by the entrepreneur Grzegorz Hajdarowicz.{{Cite web |title=Wyborcza.pl |url=https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,22409228,kosmiczne-filmowe-miasteczko-w-alwerni-sprzedane-kupil-je.html?disableRedirects=true |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=krakow.wyborcza.pl}} He planned to launch an entertainment center in the buildings, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Alvernia xR project was created. It offers productions using augmented reality.{{Cite web |title=Wyborcza.pl |url=https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,26801597,inna-rzeczywistosc-pandemii.html?NLID=75454c270825d086a73710ab96e57720b314b1cdd7bc2a74605e970f4361c06a&disableRedirects=true |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=krakow.wyborcza.pl}}

On November 30, 2021, there was a fire at the plant.{{Cite web |title=With Alvernia Studios (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) |url=http://www.imdb.com/search/title/?companies=co0298884 |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=IMDb}}

• Burning Bush – directed by Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic, 2013)
• Bhaag Milkha Bhaag – directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (India, 2013)
• Arbitrage – directed by Nicholas Jarecki (USA-Poland, 2012)
• Vamps – directed by Amy Heckerling (USA-Poland, 2012)
• Crulic: The Path to Beyond – directed by Anca Damian (Romania-Poland, 2011)
• Azaan – directed by Prashant Chadha (India, 2011)
• Essential Killing – directed by Jerzy Skolimowski (Ireland-Norway-Poland-Hungary, 2010)

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• [http://www.alvernia.com/en/ Alvernia Studios – official site]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140214204520/http://www.moviescopemag.com/featured-editorial/territory-focus-poland/ Movie Scope Magazine about Alvernia Studios]
• [http://www.vicon.com/ Vicon products]
• [http://film.onet.pl/0,0,1616569,1,600,artykul.html Łukasz Maciejewski, Spełniony sen "Smoka"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100901164436/http://film.onet.pl/0,0,1616569,1,600,artykul.html |date=2010-09-01 }} – Article from magazine FILM (pl), June 2010
• [https://www.imdb.com/company/co0298884/ Alvernia Studios] (en). Imdb. (access 2014-01-24)
• https://archive.today/20140901065841/http://www.wieninternational.at/en/aktuell/into-the-bowels-of-the-monster-en

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