FotoKem

FotoKem is more than a post house — we’re your post home. Film to digital, picture to sound, and everything in between.

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Sinners
nextLAB® Dailies / Film Lab / Final Color / 70mm Release Prints
©2025 Warner Bros. All Rights Reserved

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Holland
SHIFT analog intermediate / nextLAB® Dailies / Final Color / Additional VFX
©2025 Amazon. All Rights Reserved

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A Working Man
Final Color
©2025 Amazon MGM Studios. All Rights Reserved

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Anora
nextLAB® Dailies / Final Color
Academy Award Winner — Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Actress
©2024 Neon. All Rights Reserved

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The Brutalist
Film Lab
Academy Award Winner — Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, Best Actor
©2024 A24. All Rights Reserved

A Complete Unknown

A Complete Unknown
nextLAB® Dailies / SHIFT Analog Intermediate / Final Color
Nominated for 8 Academy Awards
©2024 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved

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Better Man
SHIFT Analog Intermediate / Final Color

©2025 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved

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Companion
nextLAB® Dailies / Final Color
©2025 Warner Bros Pictures. All Rights Reserved

We set up your entire workflow…

Let us design and set up your entire production and post-production workflow. FotoKem takes all the hard work off your plate so you can keep focused on your vision and your creativity.

We’re there for every shoot day…

FotoKem can get dailies to you anywhere in the world, and we’re also the world’s premier motion picture film lab with our own full-scale film laboratory — processing, printing, and scanning 16mm, 35mm, and 65/70mm film

…and we help you finish

Finishing your motion picture or show with great color, great visual effects, and great sound takes a great team. Let FotoKem’s extraordinary artists help you create the images and sounds you envision. And FotoKem delivers your show perfectly to spec, down to the last detail, whether it’s a DCP, film print, platform delivery, or home video HDR.

Color Finishing

color for artists, by artists

FotoKem’s world-renowned artists know that color is vital to how a filmmaker creates an experience and we work with you frame by frame to achieve that experience in FotoKem theaters and suites designed for the highest quality color finishing possible.

Film Lab

Where film meets digital

FotoKem’s lab and our 60+ years of expertise with traditional film provides a unique set of creative tools that allows filmmakers to blend the benefits of digital with the timeless beauty of analog 16mm, 35mm, and 65/70mm film, such as our popular SHIFT analog intermediate process. From negative and intermediate prints to film dailies and more, and all featuring FotoKem’s unrivaled color science. Film Processing and Scanning Request Form

Dailies

anywhere in the world

FotoKem provides dailies services at our locations in Burbank, Hollywood, and Atlanta, or brings those dailies to you anywhere in the world via our nextLAB® mobile dailies platform, calibrated iPads and monitors, and our user-friendly apps. Featuring logging, pulls, and deliverables from production through post.

Editorial

We understand creative editors

FotoKem’s edit systems and production suites are designed with the creative editor in mind, tailored specifically for your project and featuring offline/online storage, ingest and transcode stations, dailies, asset management, LTO archival and more. Choose from three comfortable fiber-linked locations in Burbank and Hollywood, in 2- to 36-room options.

Sound

LET US CREATE THE SOUNDSCAPE YOU HEAR IN YOUR HEAD

Our skillful sound artists can help you design and perfect your project’s audio, from sound design and editing to ADR, voiceover recording, group recording, mixing, mastering, transfer, laybacks, conform, and more.

VFX

MOVIE MAGIC BY EXPERT VFX EFFECTS ARTISTS

From simple compositing to more complex visual enhancements needed during color finishing, our extraordinary visual effects artists can help you bring it to life with subtle perfection.

Mastering, Delivery & Localization

Perfect masters, perfect delivery

When it comes to masters and deliverables, we make it easy for everybody on your post team. FotoKem provides platforms for all forms of delivery, localization, technical validation to studio specs, platform servicing and broadcast linear servicing, as well as Digital Cinema Packages (DCP) for theatrical distribution, home theater master QC, 4 to 8K, and original negative filmouts for archival.

Restoration & Archival

We preserve the classics

For decades, FotoKem has worked closely with the film preservation and restoration community to help restore and remaster some of Hollywood’s most beloved films, providing new pristine film prints, YCM separations, and digital and archival elements.

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four filmmakers smiling for the camera outside a premiere for the film The Boogeyman

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Your creative vision is our mission

Over 60 years working with filmmakers

FotoKem has been helping artists bring their visions to life since 1963, and we’ve done so always with integrity and a willingness to put in the hard work. Learn more about our history here.

Welcome home.
When you’re at FotoKem, you’re among friends and fellow film artists. Our passion is helping creative people make great images and sound. Drop us a line and let us know how we can help you with yours.

FotoKem is more than a post house — we’re your post home. Film to digital, picture to sound, and everything in between.

pre-production

We set up your entire workflow…

production

We’re there for every shoot day…

post-production

…and we help you finish

Color Finishing

Color Finishing

Color Finishing

Film Lab

Dailies

Editorial

Sound

VFX

Mastering, Delivery & Localization

Restoration & Archival

Your creative vision is our mission

Over 60 years working with filmmakers

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