During this time of a creeping crisis for our industry, banding together makes sense. Here’s an offer from NYPA – the New York Production Alliance, if you don’t know – that tries to do just that. What makes this more than just a pitch at an admittedly awful time, is that NYPA has kept an […]
Cuomo Says Netflix Will Expand New York Presence With New Production Hub In New York City
Hub Includes Office in Manhattan That Will Create 127 Executive Content, Marketing and Production Jobs by 2024 Brooklyn Production Space Will Include Six Sound Stages with the Capacity to House Thousands of Jobs Within Five Years Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that Netflix, the world’s leading internet entertainment service, will expand its presence in […]
Tanya Simon Gets Nod as New Executive Editor at CBS’ ’60 Minutes’
Tanya Simon was named executive editor of 60 Minutes in April of 2019. The award-winning producer has over 20 years of news magazine reporting experience, most recently as one of 60 Minutes’ senior producers whose responsibilities included overseeing digital content and supervising production of “60 Minutes Sports” for Showtime. Simon has been contributing to 60 Minutes […]
Empire State Development Supports New Film Production Training Program Launching at Bronx Community College
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…
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