(l-r): Community manager Alva Sim and co-founders Keller Davis, Kristina Smith, and Justin Kirchhoff of Co-Production House (Photo by John Anderson)
Six months ago, Justin Kirchhoff was in the same situation as every other filmmaker, struggling to put some work together in the middle of the pandemic. Now he and co-founders Kristina Smith and Keller Davis are opening Co-Production House, a truly state-of-the-art soundstage in Austin, powered by the same technology that made
The Mandalorian possible.
It's called Volume, and it's quickly become a gamechanger for filmmaking. At its simplest level, it's the evolution of old movie backdrops – but instead of giant sheets of painted canvas, it's the kind of LED screens used for electronic billboard displays. Combined with Unreal Engine (the same 3D graphics software used on films like