DriveSavers Rescued Oscar-Winning Film The Shore

DriveSavers Data
Recovery, Inc. has recovered academy award
winning film, The Shore.

Produced by the father and daughter team of Terry and Oorlagh George, The Shore
is a 30-minute film about an expatriate Irishman returning home for the first
time in 25 years. It won the Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Film.

The Director’s Cut is the preferred version that was used to create
several other versions of the film using Apple’s Final Cut Pro.

Producer Oorlagh George explained: "We
edited the film to an airplane friendly version, another for television with
cuts for commercials, a shorter film version for film festivals and then there
was our prized Director’s Cut."

Shot completely in digital format, the producers stored all the
various versions of the film on a MacBook Pro laptop computer that was
configured for automatic backups. At some point the MacBook refused to boot up
for some unknown reason. When the files were finally restored, it was
discovered that the critical Director’s Cut version of the film was missing.

The father/daughter team experienced their data loss only days
before attending the 84th Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, CA. No one in
the audience or the nearly 40 million television viewers could tell how worried
the pair was about their film when they accepted their first Oscar for Best
Live-Action Short Film.

"We went to the Oscars
and we won!" Oorlagh recalled. "Since the drive was in transit to DriveSavers, we weren’t sure we would
get the version of the film back that we really wanted people see. But after,
only two days, DriveSavers rescued the irreplaceable Director’s Cut along with
family photos and notes for future projects."

Oorlagh summed up her experience by saying: "We are so grateful to the kind people at
DriveSavers, they are just amazing. I would use them again in a heartbeat…but
hope I never have to!"

DriveSavers Digital Arts Division specializes in recovering film,
music, sound, games, digital images and multimedia applications.

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