Image: Steinway Artist, Jon Batiste, of The Late Show with Steven Colbert, helped introduce the company’s SPIRIO | r in March at Steinway Hall in Manhattan. According to reports in the New York Times and other outlets, film and video production in New York could reach new heights. Actor Robert De Niro, his real estate […]
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Cutters New York’s Superpowers Soar with Addition of Multitalented Editor Alison Grasso
NEW YORK – (Jan. 3, 2019) – Cutters Studios is very proud to announce the addition of highly accomplished commercial editor Alison Grasso to its New York staff, effective immediately. The announcement was made by New York Executive Producer Elizabeth Krajewski. Well known as a staff editor for Crew Cuts in New York, Grasso […]
PowerHouse VFX Rises to Top of New York’s VFX Industry Leveraging Talent and Partnership with Sixteen19
Photo caption: (l to r) PowerHouse’s Bob Lowery, Ed Mendez Buoyed by a string of high-profile film and television projects, PowerHouse VFX has quickly solidified its place as an industry leader on New York’s VFX scene. Founded last year by Emmy Award-winning visual effects supervisor Ed Mendez, executive producer Bob Lowery and chief engineer […]
Film, TV Said Ready to Soar in New Jersey with New Production Tax Credits
This past July, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law tax credits worth 35-percent of $1 million plus of a production’s state tax spends. (New York’s state tax set aside runs 30-percent in NYC and the immediate area with 35-percent available upstate.) This reinstated tax credits that Gov. Christie’s administration revoked. News 12 New […]
L.A. Outpaces New York in Film and Digital Media Job Growth
An article recently posted by Katie Kilkenny of the Hollywood Reporter presents the results of a recent economic study that puts growth of LA’s film and digital media industries as topping that of New York… Despite attractive tax incentives in other states and changing consumer behaviors, the film and digital media workforce in Los Angeles […]
Solar Foldy Puts Sunshine in Your Pocket
Okay, okay, so maybe that’s a bit much. But I really like the idea behind this Kickstarter project. Today, everyone’s very conscious that we’re at “peak oil”. Look at what you will – the dried out forests, encroaching oceans – but humans simply can’t act as if oil and coal don’t have consequences. We’re ready […]
NYU Film Studies Pioneer Annette Michelson Passes Away at 95
Annette Michelson around 1966. Image credit: The Peter Hujar Archive LLC; Courtesy Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Film historian, scholar and teacher Annette Michelson passed away at 95 on September 17th. Known both for her sharp intellect and suffer-no-fools attitude, she helped start the program in cinema history and criticism at New […]
Editors Guild Recommends No Vote on New Media Contract
Above image: The Editors Guild Board of Directors voted unanimously on July 28 to recommend members VOTE NO on the tentative IATSE contract. Photo by Fred Arteaga. In recommending a “no vote” on the ratification of new IATSE film and TV contract, Editors Guild Local 700 says that the pact’s new media residuals formula has such […]
DGA Spots Top Film and TV Leadership in 2018 Awards
Los Angeles – The Directors Guild of America (DGA) today announced that Director Ang Lee, Fox Searchlight Chairman Nancy Utley, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), SAG-AFTRA Senior Advisor John McGuire, and Costume Designer Ann Roth will be honored at the 2018 DGA Honors, to be held at the DGA Theater in New York City on […]
Actress Sean Young Accused of Theft from Astoria Production Office
NBC New York reports that “Authorities are looking to question “Blade Runner” actress Sean Young in connection with the theft of two laptops stocked with footage from a film being shot in Queens, which Young was fired from four months ago. “Law enforcement sources said Young and her son stole two Apple Mac Pros with […]
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