During each week of REDucation, RED hosts an Open House for guests to learn about RED's and our partners' technology, enjoy some 4K movies, and share in some drinks, food and conversation. At Open House, our partners and vendors showcase their gear and tech as well. This month, those included AJA, Adobe, HP, O'Connor, Sachtler, Litepanels, Petrol, Gtech, MAXX Digital, Lightiron, Sonnet, Acoustic Solutions, Lacie and 3ality Techinca.

Traditionally, these Open Houses have been held at RED Studios Hollywood but this week, we switched things up a bit and held our Open House at the historic Saban Theater in Los Angeles. The occasion for moving to a large theater was a special screening of Sundance selection, We Are What We Are, shot on RED EPICs.

Ted Schilowitz hosted the evening and began by discussing RED's passion for education. In a week dedicated to teaching professionals how to use RED cameras and workflow, it was only fitting that we highlight filmmakers who were experts with RED. "Tonight," Ted said, "is all about going to the movies."

With that, and an introduction of the Saban Theater, Ted kicked off the screening which began with three trailers of upcoming movies shot on RED: Oz: The Great and Powerful, 42 and The Great Gatsby. The next appetizers were four of the short films entered in our first Shot on RED Film Festival: Le Sniper, Lenny Lump, Driving Force and Table 7. Each was shown in 4K which is beautiful to watch on a screen the size of the Saban Theater's.

Then Director Jim Mickle and the director of photography Ryan Samul took the stage to introduce We Are What We Are and the show began.

We Are What We Are is a disturbing horror movie that as Ted noted later "fires on all cylinders so correctly." It is brooding and menacing and shows just enough at the right moments to horrify. After the movie, Jim and Ryan again joined Ted onstage for a Q&A.

Jim and Ryan explained how the movie came to be from the inception of the story through the 26-day shoot in upstate New York to the post-production. The conversation got quite technical which was completely appropriate for an event tying together the week of REDucation and the results that shooting on RED can bring. The 3 discussed lenses, color temperature, ISO, grading and virtually every other technical detail of the shoot they could. When it came to workflow, they revealed they'd taken a major step and edited the raw R3D files in Premiere Pro from Adobe CS6.

Ted remarked that many directors would experience a moment of fear when faced with a new technological leap like that. To which Ryan gushed, "It's a moment of excitement." That brief statement is a testament to the perspective of a young independent filmmaker who embraces technological change and uses it to great advantage.

REDucation Open House always seeks to bring together the work, the creators, and the methods they employ. Last week's event was a great example of all of those elements coming together so well.