Presented by the Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment, Global Pride Business Coalition, Harlem Pride, Global Network of Black Pride and The National Black Theatre As a part of “Made in NY” Talks, a free series of conversations focused on jobs in the local entertainment industry, the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment in partnership […]
Curatorial Committee Announced For 2014 AICE Awards
The Association of Independent Commercial Editors has been gearing up to face the mounting pressure from advertisers and agencies over budgets and ever tightening schedules. AICE — they’re the group that handles editorial, design, visual effects, color grading, audio, music and post production in general — debuts the results of its revised awards procedure at this year’s event, held in New York on May 15th…
Rachelle Madden Named New AICE Executive Director
AICE, the post production trade association, has elected Rachelle Madden as its new Executive Director. She succeeds Burke Moody, who had been exec director since 2006. AICE faces changing times, as advertisers push agencies to tighten budgets, even as new media outlets add to the need for more diverse ad work…
Tekserve Partners with Avid, Gotham Sound, and Manhattan Edit Workshop to Present “The Sound of Boardwalk Empire”
While the inventive visual design as well as the set decoration of HBO’s ‘Boardwalk Empire’ were a great example of how well local talent (here Brainstorm Digital) could pull off top effects, sound design recently got its due during an extensive presentation at SVA’s Chelsea theater. It you missed the panel discussion, you can catch up with it here via Tekserve’s YouTube channel posting…
African American Actors Discuss Their Experience Working in Film, TV and Theatre at Next “Made in NY” Talk
As part of “Made in NY” Talks, a free series of conversations focused on jobs in the local entertainment industry, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in partnership with Screen Actors Guild Foundation and The New School for Drama will present “Made in NY”: African American Actors on Monday, February 24 at 7pm at the University Center at The […]
Light Iron Taps Jean Lane to Oversee NY Operations
Light Iron NY builds up its management staff with the addition of Jean Lane, who was most recently at Goldcrest Post. Lane will manage the Soho-based facility, which recently doubled its size, as first announced in CEO Michael Cioni’s Talk from the Top column…
AICE Exec Director Moody to Step Down in 2014
If you haven’t heard of them, AICE – that’s the Association of Independent Creative Editors – ranks as one of our industry’s most important trade groups; its members are said to edit, colorize and finish more than 85% of all network television commercials. AICE plans for a new executive director comes at a crucial time as it faces increased budget pressure from advertisers and ad agencies…
Mayor Bloomberg and Steiner Studios Announce CMU as First University to Create Media Program in Applied Sciences Competition
Nearing the end of his 12-year hold on the City’s highest office, Mayor Bloomberg announced another top university would become part of one of his most noteworthy initiatives, the Applied Sciences NYC Competition. Here Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon will create an Integrative Media Program at Steiner Studios; it becomes the first of the Applied Sciences program to provide training in the creative industries that form such a key part of the New York economy…
Cutters’ Craig Duncan and Poetica’s Rachelle Madden Set to Lead AICE International Board
In an unusual move, the Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE) elected a dual or co-presidency to head the group’s board. AICE — it represents the interests of independent creative editorial companies and their editors — is responding to the “Growing complexity and importance of issues facing (the) post production industry”, as the group announced in its press release. Increasing pressure on budgets by advertisers and their agencies is one reason AICE wants to build its executive capabilities…
CCW: Big Show at Javits to Answer Your Production and Post Questions
Content and Communications World (CCW) opens at the Javits Convention Center this Wednesday for two days. A regular part of the yearly production & post tech scene in the City, CCW remains the best place in town to see the latest in gear and software outside of NAB. But the panel sessions (“Super Sessions” in CCW […]