Acad Sci-Tech Counil adds quartet

The Academy of movement Picture Arts and Sciences broadened the ranks of their Science Council to 24 with the addition of Denny Clairmont, John Hora, Bob Lambert and Milt Shefter to the roster, the org introduced Wednesday. Clairmont, among the industry's premier motion-picture camera technologists, co-founded Clairmont Camera, a camera-rental company which has developed into among the biggest on the planet. Lambert is a leader within the transition to digital technologies in film, television, gaming, social networking and emerging consumer media like a senior executive from the Wally Disney Company in excess of two decades. Shefter, a movie preservationist and leader of Miljoy Businesses, is better noted for the creation, design and control over the extensive Vital Pictures Resource Protection Program, including construction of condition-of-the-art archival facilities worldwide. This Year's - 2012 Council co-chairs are Academy governor Bill Kroyer (Short Films and have Animation Branch) and George Joblove, an electronic media technology executive and consultant. Established in 2003 through the Academy's Board of Governors, the Science Council supplies a forum for that exchange of knowledge, encourages cooperation among diverse technological interests inside the industry, sponsors guides, fosters educational activities and preserves a brief history of science of movies. Contact Christy Grosz at christy.grosz@variety.com