


He also collaborated with Directors of Photography including: Guillermo Navarro, Emanuel Ubezki “Chivo”, Ueli Steiger, Allen Daviau, Stephen Goldblatt, Mathew Leonetti, Ellen Kuras, Caleb Deschanel, and Russel Boyd.Ĭolbert’s drive to be constantly improving his skills led him to Modern VideoFilm, the most cutting edge digital lab at that time. Here, Adrian worked with: Barry Levinson, the Cohen Brothers, Robert Rodriguez, Mel Gibson, Ron Howard, Peter Weir, Tim Burton, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Soderbergh, and Roland Emerich. Efilm enlisted Colbert as a colorist assistant in one of the two functioning Digital Color Suites in Los Angeles. In 2002 the company Efilm was born with the goal of being the first Digital Film Lab in the industry. These experiences led him to supportive work on 'O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? which heralded the dawn of the digital era. Adrian was able to rapidly grow and hone new skills with digital technology on such large scale productions as: MOULIN ROUGE, PEARL HARBOR, ICE AGE, JIMMY NEUTRON, OCEAN'S 11, and SHREK, to name a few. In 2000 Colbert moved to Cinesite Hollywood to become an instrumental figure in the transition of the post production world into digital color correction. During this time, he worked on: TITANIC, ARMAGEDDON, THE X-FILES MOVIE, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, THE MASK OF ZORRO,STAR TREK INSURRECTION, MYSTERY MEN, and many others. Here he became adept with Scanning Film Negative and using laser film recorders to output completed VFX shots. Adrian began working in post production at Pacific Ocean Post in 1997 after being Honorably Discharged as a Flight Engineer in the US Army.
