Unprecedented Partnership Between New York State, College and IATSE Local 52; Program Will Train Students for Employment on NY Film and TV Productions On October 2, 2018, Empire State Development (ESD) announced Bronx Community College (BCC) will be launching the Film Production Training Program, a new 14-week program that will train up to 100 students […]
Brooklyn’s NOVA Frontier Film Festival Debuts This Weekend
Image credit: Still from ‘Lamb’, directed by Yared Zeleke Nova Frontier Film Festival and Lab is a timely narrative, documentary and experimental film festival, and multi-disciplinary lab, passionately committed to showcasing the works of filmmakers and artists from and about the African diasporas, Middle East, Latin America, and Caribbean. The lab, which […]
De Blasio Administration Announces First of its Kind ‘Freelancers Hub’
(Image Caption: Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Commissioner Julie Menin. Photo credit: Antoine Braxton) New hub at the Made in NY Media Center #inBrooklyn will provide free workshops, networking space, training, legal clinics, benefits assistance, and tax and financial guidance to independent workers in the media and entertainment sectors First concerted effort by an American city to […]
Here’s Your Chance to Hear The Academy Discuss ACES, the Color Tech Changing Filmmaking
On July 16th, the Post New York Alliance and Visual Effects Society NY, along with The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, present The ACES Pipeline Prime for Post and VFX. Learn how you can access this session with Alex Forsythe, the Academy’s lead technologist on this important new concept…
Free Screening of Web Comedy Series ‘Middle Americans’ at IFP Center
After Netflix earned the first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for a streaming series in 2013, putting your production online yourself makes more and more sense to independent producers who don’t want to wait on the sidelines…
Crowds Turn Out in Sumptuous Brooklyn Setting for 2014 Made in NY Awards
Crowds piled into a new Brooklyn palace as the 2014 “Made in NY” awards came to the Weylin B. Seymour Hall. No wonder Mayor Bill de Blasio moved the annual affair from Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side. He had a great spot to hold the ceremony. in a space that was clearly ready-for-its-close-up, […]
Post NY Alliance Seminar Kicks Off New Series on High Level Post
The Post New York Alliance, a group of some 50 top post facilities in town, is gearing up to become a real force in helping to direct the City’s fast-growing editing and visual effects industries…
Fincher’s “Gone Girl” to Open The 52nd New York Film Festival
The Film Society of Lincoln Center announced today that David Fincher’s Gone Girl will make its World Premiere as the Opening Night selection for the upcoming 52nd New York Film Festival (September 26 – October 12), which will kick off at Alice Tully Hall and return to Tavern on the Green for the after party. Based upon […]
ANA Launches Industry Study of Advertising Bot Fraud
ANA and White Ops form ‘The Marketers’ Coalition’ to study and reduce advertising bot fraud The ANA (Association of National Advertisers) and online fraud detection firm, White Ops have launched ‘The Marketers’ Coalition’, a joint research initiative to determine the level of bot fraud occurring across the digital advertising industry. The coalition’s objective is to provide actionable […]
IATSE Local 52 Settles with New York State Over Equal Job Opportunities
Nepotism in union trade like IATSE Local 52 might seem like old news. But for most blacks and Latinos – regularly excluded from electrical, grip, property, sound, and video work on film and video production – such good paying union jobs were fantasies. IA 52’s active membership totals some 3,500 employees working in New York and four other states…
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