Erik Courtney (born December 2, 1973) is an American filmmaker and visual FX artist for TV shows including '' Star Trek: Picard'' and films including The Tourist. He holds an

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patent. In 2015, he appeared on season 2 of the

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docu-series '' Newlyweds: The First Year'' alongside his wife, author Nadine Jolie Courtney.

Early and Collegiate Life

Courtney attended

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, where he founded the Columbia University Film Productions Club in 2000. He is the holder of an IMAX Patent created in 2009, for a method for recomposing large format media, relating to a process for shooting an entire scene on a single large format film camera and recomposing the filmed scene into a video stream suitable for transfer to conventional formats. He has a Master's Degree in Film Production from

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Filmmaking

After graduating from UCLA, Courtney worked in feature development at

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's Lightstorm Entertainment. In 2005, Courtney wrote and directed a four-minute real-time

short film called The Persistence of Dreams. It was the first recreation of

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's assassination to be filmed in

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. The film debuts the use of Large Format Negative Repurposing (LFNR™), a post-production process that involves zooming into an IMAX negative to create shot coverage. In 2008, Courtney won the Grand Prize at the Seattle Science Fiction Fantasy Short Film Festival for his film Forecast, which was also selected in September 2008 to open the

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. As a

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artist, Courtney has worked on films including Red Riding Hood, Hitchcock, The Tourist, City of Ember, and Apocalypto, and the TV show Star Trek: Picard.

Personal life

His paternal grandmother is vaudeville dancer Signe Paterson. In January 2015, Courtney was announced as a cast member on season 2 of

's reality documentary television series Newlyweds: The First Year alongside his wife, author Nadine Jolie Courtney. The couple lives in

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with their daughters Aurelia and Charlotte.

References

External links

Official WebsitePersistence of DreamsForecast Film
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