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Show Movie Company Moves To Park City Park City has been selected as the headquarters for Rocky Mountain Motion Pictures, Pic-tures, a company that produces ski and other outdoor sports films. Film-I Film-I makers Dean Lyras and Peter Burrell, members of ' the Directors Guild of America, Ameri-ca, have worked in the production of films for major Los Angeles studios as well as television productions, are starting the Park City branch of their film operations with a series of ski films for cable television syndication. According to Lyras. "Park City is an ideal location for our film operations, since it is located in the center of the Intermountain region and since it is an accessible and beautiful destination resort. We feel that this environment, environ-ment, along with our contacts con-tacts within the motion picture industry, will enable us to produce a unique, top quality product. In our first production, we will be using techniques in filming and post production that have previously never been used in this kind of film. Our future plans include the produciton of films about other outdoor sports and films for promotional use." Among Lyras' and Burrell's film credits are work in numerous feature films, such as: "The Turning Point," "Ghost Story," "Blues Brothers," Bro-thers," "Slap Shot," "King Kong." "House Calls," "Masada," and others. Burrell produced "Zoot Suit" for Universal Studios and was Burt Reynolds' associate producer on "Smo-key "Smo-key and the Bandit II." Lyras and Burrell are well acquainted with skiing and with Park City. Lyras, who owns a home in Park City and divides his time between Utah and California, is a New England native. His family operated one of the few ski lifts in Vermont during the late 1940's. Lyras still operates a 40 meter ski jump that is used for jumping events by the United States Ski Association. Lyras returned to Vermont last year for the filming of Universal Studios' "Ghost Story" with Melvyn Douglas, Doug-las, Fred Astaire, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and John Houseman. Through his association with Mr. Houseman. House-man. Lyras was able to persuade him to narrate a commercial he directed for the 1982 U.S. Film and Video Festival, held in Park City in January. Burrell, who has been a ski racer and instructor, began his professional ski career working for the Mr. Mansfield Mans-field Company in Stowe, Vermont. As a skiing and stunt cameraman, he has worked on the skiing sequences se-quences in several major feature films. In the Park City area, he directed ski scenes for "Return of Maxwell Max-well . SmartThe Nude Bomb." He also directed the National Ski Patrol's educational educa-tional film, "Skiing Safely," and was assistant director for skiing films produced by Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox. Lyras and Burrell were in Park City recently attending the Park City Ski Team benefit at Deer Valley. During that time, they met with several organizations about "the production of promotional films for the Park City area. "We hope to . be able to contribute on film to the year-'round appeal of this area," says Lyras. "Not only does Park City have superb snow in the winter,-but winter,-but it also has one of the best climates in the summer. We're enthusiastic about the area and about the contribution contribu-tion our work here can make to it." |
