Dan Ochiva, Author at NYCPPNEWS

Film Forum Re-Opens – Read Responses from Christopher Nolan and More

Any day of the year, New Yorkers can catch foreign films, indies or classics at Film Forum, the art house and repertory cinema in Lower Manhattan. “Three hundred sixty-five days a year,” said Karen Cooper, the director of Film Forum. “We’re worse than the post office.” But for the last three months, the space has […]

Central New York Film Hub Flub

Empty CNY film hub. Image credit Syracuse.com New York Spent $15 Million to Build a Film Hub. It Just Sold for $1. ALBANY — A $15 million state-built film studio outside Syracuse, which promised to produce hundreds of jobs and bring Hollywood’s glitter to Central New York, hit an inglorious milestone on Friday with its […]

Would a Governor Cynthia Nixon Kill New York’s Film Production Tax Breaks?

Is Cynthia Nixon biting the hand that once fed here? She may be a neophyte campaigner for New York State’s governorship, but her recent public announcements targeting the tax breaks given to film and TV production and post productions garnered support from right-leaning think tanks, not progressives. Film professionals: Still think there’s nothing to worry […]

Millions of Dollars in Stolen NYC Movie Equipment Recovered

As film production in New York soars, production gear thefts have reached into the millions of dollars Image credit: NBC New York Channel 4 Ray Villeda of NBC New York Channel 4 reports on police tracking down millions of dollars of stolen feature film production gear from a storage facility in Westchester. Here’s part of […]

Firefighter Dies on Ed Norton Film Set

Image caption: The building, which was one of Harlem’s few remaining jazz clubs before it closed, was being used for the filming of “Motherless Brooklyn.” Credit J.E. Alexander/NY Times The New York Times and other publications are reporting that Michael R. Davidson, a firefighter with Engine Company 69 in Harlem, succumbed to injuries he received while fighting […]

KitSplit Raises $2.1 Million to Democratize the Film and Video Production Process

Sharing production gear via a club or a non-profit media center offered solutions to pricey hardware.Now, New York City-based startup KitSplit updates those models, building on the more modern sharing scene…

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Crain’s Columnist Says New York’s Support Money for Production and Post Essential

New York, take it from London: Defend your film tax credit Benefits could spread across the state, as they have in the U.K. (Image caption: Emily Blunt’s new movie A Quiet Place was shot in the the Mohawk Valley. Photo credit: Youtube trailer for A Quiet Place.) For millions of foreign visitors every year, New […]

D.W. Leitner Garners SMPTE Fellowship

Long-time friend David Leitner has been named a SMPTE Fellow. David wrote for NYCPPNEWS in the past, but most know him from his work as a director/cinematographer. He has unique know-how in the history of cinema that he somehow translates into working solutions for digital cinema.