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SMPTE Hollywood Section to Host Virtual Panel Exploring “MovieLabs 2030”

Technology experts from MovieLabs, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Universal Pictures will describe emerging technologies that will drive the future of entertainment media production over the coming decade and beyond. LOS ANGELES  — On January 28th, SMPTE Hollywood will host senior technology executives from MovieLabs, Sony Pictures and Universal Pictures in a virtual panel discussion on […]

Responding to Corona Crisis, New York Production Alliance Opens Up with Free Membership

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, […]

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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.

NJ – Governor Murphy signs $14B Incentive Program Bill – the NJ Economic Recovery Act of 2020

 Film tax credits — amending existing programs to include provisions for so-called New Jersey film partners and New Jersey film-lease partners and allowing an additional $200 million of tax credits annually over 13 years.

Click this link if you want to read the full article on the Lexology site. http://bit.ly/35NtDx6

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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