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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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LA Sees 43-percent Film Permit Boost Since January

Film permit requests in the city were up 43 percent this past month compared to the top of the year.

Filming in Los Angeles is beginning to pick back up again.

FilmLA, the organization that tracks production in the city, says it received 777 film permit applications in February, representing a 43 percent increase compared to the month of January. The organization notes that a late-month surge in production took place, making February the third busiest month the city has experienced with regards to filming since last June.

For the full story in the Hollywood Reporter, click here.

Rupert Neve, the Father of Modern Studio Recording, Dies at 94

When the Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded their breakthrough album, “Nevermind,” at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Calif., in 1991, they used a massive mixing console created by a British engineer named Rupert Neve.

The Neve 8028 console and others he made had by then become studio staples, hailed by many as the most superior consoles of their kind in manipulating and combining instrumental and vocal signals. They were responsible in great part for the audio quality of albums by groups like Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Grateful Dead, and Pink Floyd.

Read the full obit in the New York Times.

New York City Movie Theaters Can Reopen at Limited Capacity, Gov. Cuomo Says

After nearly a year of closures, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given movie theaters in New York City permission to reopen at limited capacity starting on March 5.

During his daily press briefing, the Empire State leader said cinemas in the city will be permitted to operate at 25% capacity, with no more than 50 people. Moreover, other safety measures such as masks, social distancing, and heightened sanitizing measures will be required. Last October, New York venues outside of the city were allowed to reopen with similar restrictions.

To read the full article in Variety, 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.

Amazon Prime Video Direct and the Dystopian Decision to Stop Accepting Docs


Chris Lindahl and Dana Harris-Bridson outlined Amazon’s position in IndieWire: “When Amazon made a unilateral decision in early February to stop accepting documentaries and short films via Prime Video Direct (a policy that also covers ‘slide shows, vlogs, podcasts, tutorials, filmed conferences, monologues, toy play, music videos, and voiceover gameplay’), the announcement also served as a quiet purge.

The above continues on to some surprising conclusions on DOC NYCs Monday Memo, 

Disney to Close Upstate Blue Sky Studios

Various sources have reported that Disney is in the process of shuttering Blue Sky Studios, the largest animation studio on the East coast. The former 20th Century Fox animation division pulled in $5.9 billion churning out 13 feature films including the Ice Age franchise.

Publications have noted how Disney – which had three animation studios including Pixar and Disney Animation – couldn’t make the case to have these many houses when the pandemic took a toll on the company’s profits.

Some 450 employees will lose their jobs, though some hope to get into one of Disney’s other animation houses.

Here’s Deadline’s report.

Here’s Variety’s report.

Epix Announces ‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 2 Premiere Date

Epix revealed that the second season of “Godfather of Harlem” will premiere on April 18. Set in 1964, the crime drama series explores the collision of the criminal underworld and civil rights movement. The second season will follow Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) battling the New York crime families for control of the French Connection, a pipeline for heroin that runs from Marseilles to New York Harbor.

To read the full Variety article, click here.

Sony’s FX3 is a compact $3,900 camera for filmmakers

Sony has announced the FX3. As expected, the camera is essentially an A7S III with features from the company’s Cinema line crammed into a body that looks like the A7C. Its backside-illuminated full-frame sensor has an effective resolution of 10.2-megapixel when shooting video and 15 stops of dynamic range.

To read the full story on Engadget, click here.

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