Jarhead

PIX Project connects Mexico, California, New York, and Los Angeles.

Jarhead, a major motion picture released by Universal Pictures in 2005, was directed by Sam Mendes, director of American Beauty (Best Picture, 1999). Starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx, the film is based on former Marine Anthony Swofford's best-selling book that reveals life among the Marines during the first Gulf War.

While shooting Jarhead, director Sam Mendes, on location in Mexico and Southern California, used PIX Project to screen cut scenes on his laptop sent daily from editor Walter Murch who was working at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, California.

“It’s the ideal of the movie at your fingertips,” said Mendes, “PIX provides an opportunity for the movie to talk back to you before you get into the cutting room, while you’re still making the movie. That dialogue is very different from the more traditional way of making a movie. And that’s something I really loved about it.”

“We were able to seamlessly tie together San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, and London,” said Jarhead editor and sound mixer, Walter Murch, (Oscars for Apocalypse Now and The English Patient). “It’s a fantastic thing.”