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NYC Production & Post News is one of a kind: the site is the only place that provides a regular home on the web where the New York region’s motion content creation communities can turn for breaking news, reviews, and in-depth articles on the most interesting creators, productions, and crucial technologies.

NYCPPNEWS regularly offers articles that are unique in their focus and compelling for the relevant news offered. That’s absolutely crucial if you’re hoping to reach the folks who read our site, whether they shoot commercials or movies, work in the many skilled crew positions, or create the “magic” that happens in postproduction.

NYC Production & Post News continues to grow fast. There’s a reason. People are turning to us on a regular basic because we are the only website with news and other content specific to the New York production and post markets. NYCPPNEWS is also gaining a reputation for our monthly In Person events, which introduce new technology, new techniques and important companies to the New York market along with our partner, Media Services’ Showbiz Cafe.

The site’s editor and writers are journalists and working creatives who have decades of experience covering the technology, businesses and individuals involved in the content creation industry, with a particular focus on the New York tri-state region while attracting a broader global audience.

Audience

The audience for NYC Production & Post News consists of creative and upper management professionals involved in film, video, and digital media production in New York City and the surrounding region. This includes film and video production and postproduction professionals (directors, cinematographers, editors, visual effects artists, colorists, film crews); executive producers, creative directors; motion media creators for the web and smartphones; film commissioners and those from other relevant public agencies.

We also count among our regular readers those both throughout the nation and abroad who turn to the site in order to check in on the City’s facilities, postproduction boutiques, and individuals of note involved in the content creation industries.

Objective

NYC Production & Post News seeks to become the premiere website for professionals in motion media, whether creatives or management. The site regularly adds new sections and features, with future expansions planned to increase the use of video and social media, along with technology-focused editorial, and an expanded review section.

Biographies

Dan Ochiva, founder and president of NYC Production & Post News, is a New York City-based journalist who writes and consults widely. After spending two decades as a senior editor at millimeter magazine, he started the web site to act as a news resource for media creatives in the New York City region involved in content creation for film, video, and digital media. Dan also writes regularly for the Editors Guild magazine, the official publication of ACE (American Cinema Editors guild).

Joe Herman has worked in a number of key positions in production and post including production companies, cable networks and advertising agencies and also served on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts for over ten years where he taught computer animation, compositing and design. His work has appeared in television programs, commercials and feature films. Joe graduated from The School of Visual Arts where he studied computer graphics, film and video. Joe writes a regular technology column for the Editors Guild magazine as well as advising various technology companies.

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NYC Production & Post News employs the best practices of responsive design to deliver your advertising message to the widest range of platforms. We’ll help you develop custom packages that reach your target audience in a direct and personal way. We can also offer custom events, such as product presentations, in casual venues that will enhance your message. For more information, contact Dan Ochiva at dan@nycppnews.com.

Our prices are a great deal for reaching target markets in New York’s creative motion media communities. 

Contact Dan today to discuss advertising plans for placement on the website or in our occasional targeted newsletters – (347) 379-1900  or dan [at] nycppnews [.nyc]

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How Sony’s New Virtual Sound Technology Can Change How We Hear Films

Kami Asgar and Jessica Parks are post-production heavyweights who work with major studios, namely Sony. As a sound designer (Asgar) and as a post executive (Parks), their collective resume touches on everything from Apocalypto to Grandma’s Boy to Venom.

Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

NJ – Governor Murphy signs $14B Incentive Program Bill – the NJ Economic Recovery Act of 2020

 Film tax credits — amending existing programs to include provisions for so-called New Jersey film partners and New Jersey film-lease partners and allowing an additional $200 million of tax credits annually over 13 years.

Click this link if you want to read the full article on the Lexology site. http://bit.ly/35NtDx6

Film Commish announces date for production restart

In her December 18, 2020 news update, MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo announced that the Film Office is now accepting permit applications for production activity that begins on July 27th.

She also announced awards now (Awkwafina) and more. To read all of the Film Commish’s bloggy sort of news column, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Nikon to Stop Making Cameras in Japan

Nikon has fallen on hard times as of late as its camera sales have cratered, and now there’s a new indicator of how dire its financial situation is: the company is reportedly pulling the plug on making cameras in Japan after over 70 years of doing so.

To read the full article on Petapixel’s site, click here.

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

 

 

 

Union Health Plan Dodges Film Workers’ Suit Over Virus Relief

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Russo Brothers Received Close to $50 Million From Saudi Bank

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.

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