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Overcoming Cinematography Challenges in the age of COVID

Featuring DPs Eve Cohen and Jim Geduldick Live Zoom: Wednesday, December 16—11am PST Join G-Technology’s Martin Christien as he hosts a live chat with cinematographers Eve Cohen and Jim Geduldick to discuss the various challenges that they have each encountered regarding schedules, production workflows, products/gear, and ensuring safety within physical and virtual production spaces. Staying […]

Adobe Helps Sponsor the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge

Image caption: Winners of last year’s Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Nic Novicki is an actor who happens to have a disability. In 2014 he launched the Disability Film Challenge to address the under-representation of people with disabilities both in front and behind the camera. In 2017, he teamed us with Easterseals Southern California to expand […]

4th Annual Sight, Sound & Story: The Art of Cinematography Symposium Returns to NYC

An Evening Featuring In-Depth Conversations with Master Filmmakers Set for December 5th New York, NY – Manhattan Edit Workshop, the East coast leader in education for content creators, announces the return of “Sight, Sound & Story: The Art of Cinematography” on December 5th at the NYIT Auditorium Theater on Broadway. This year’s event showcases some […]

Catskill-based Lumberyard Spots Grand Opening, Unveils Tax-qualified Production Soundstage

August 8, 2018 Broadwayworld.com Lumberyard today announces the September 1 grand opening of its $8.2 million, state-of-the-art center for performing arts and film in Catskill, NY, and the fall season programming that will inaugurate the new facility.Lumberyard’s heralded Hudson Valley campus will make transformative contributions both to the cultural landscape and economic health of the […]

REDucation Workshop

OVERVIEW Offering a fully immersive training environment, REDucation provides the on-set and post-production experience needed to feel confident when shooting with any of RED’s professional cameras. This is real-world training taught by industry professionals. REDucation is tailored for all skill levels, from students to working professionals. REDucation instructors teach application knowledge of RED’s entire RAW […]

AbelCine Magic Hour: Anton Bauer Dionic XTs Featuring Sony VENICE

OVERVIEW Join us at AbelCine’s Magic Hour, an afternoon mixer that brings tech, communities and craft together over drinks and great conversation. Magic Hour is a great opportunity to meet up with your fellow creatives and experience emerging technology in a fun, unstructured setting. Our next Magic Hour, on Thursday, August 2, will focus on Anton Bauer’s new Dionic XT batteries. […]

Adobe’s Hollywood Downpayment – Premiere Goes to the Movies

Adobe finally bought into a dream house. The San Jose-based company recently began leasing a 3,000 sq ft space in Santa Monica (at 429 Santa Monica Boulevard), making this its first big push into the entertainment market with the setting up of a full-service shop for the LA creative community. Adobe’s Creative Cloud tools are […]

IFP Made In NY Media Center Open House

Please join IFP’s Made in NY Media Center for an open house on Tuesday, July 17, 2018.  The Made in NY Media Center by IFP is a collaborative workspace and media arts gallery, as well as home to a state-of-the-art 72-seat theater. We house a diverse range of startups, content creators and production companies. Through our programming and […]

Made in NY Media Center OPEN HOUSE

It’s been around a few years already, so I won’t call the The Made in NY Media Center by IFP a total unknown among those involved in New York’s indie production scene. But if you’re involved in video production or perhaps VR/AR, you might be among those who know about this great Dumbo-located resource but have […]

Future Post & Employment

CUNY & The Post New York Alliance are hosting a Think Tank for Businesses and Students, an informational panel followed by networking between Employers and the Future of Post Production. Where: Technicolor on 345 Hudson Street 6:30- 10pm Registration is mandatory so building passes can be pre-printed. If you would like to attend please REGISTER […]

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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.

U.K. Extends COVID Insurance Scheme; Distributes $21 Million in Cinema Grants

The U.K.’s insurance scheme for film and television has been extended until April.

Known as the Film and TV Production Restart Scheme, the groundbreaking £500 million ($676 million) fund assures productions that they’ll receive financial support in case of COVID-related losses. The program has so far accepted 100 qualifying productions.

To read the full article in Variety, click on this link. 

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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