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Home » PNYA “Post Break” to Offer Tips for Navigating the PPP Loan Program

PNYA “Post Break” to Offer Tips for Navigating the PPP Loan Program

NEW YORK CITY— Post New York Alliance (PNYA) will offer advice on how independent contractors and post-production companies can get help through the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) in the next edition of Post Break, its free webinar series. A panel of business owners and financial experts will discuss who’s eligible, how to apply, and how to seek forgiveness for loans from the program, part of the federal government’s pandemic relief measures. Titled PPP Loans for Freelancers and Production Companies, the session is the first in Post Break’s new “Financial Health” series for freelance workers. It’s slated for Thursday, March 11th at 4:00 pm EST.

Begun last year, the SBA’s PPP program provides loans to businesses to keep their workforces employed during the Covid crisis. The current round of loans, which ends March 31, is designed to favor the smallest businesses, those with fewer than 20 employees, and independent contractors. Qualifiers can get loans to cover payroll and related costs and may be eligible for loan forgiveness. Post Break panelists Andrew Bly, CEO of The Molecule VFX; Steven Zelin, Managing Member of Zelin & Associates CPA and Mike Noble, owner, producer, and editor at Lost Creek Creative, will share their experiences with the program and offer tips on how to get help. The session will be moderated by picture editor and PNYA events committee member Carl Marxer.

Following the webinar, attendees will have an opportunity to join small, virtual breakout groups for discussion and networking.

Panelists (left to right, above)

Andrew Bly (CEO, The Molecule VFX) co-founded The Molecule in 2005. His many credits include Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), Billions (Showtime), Dickinson (Apple), Da 5 Bloods (Netflix), The Plot Against America (HBO), and Five Feet Apart (Lionsgate). An active member of the visual effects and post-production communities, he has served as a board member of Post New York Alliance and Chair of the New York chapter of the Visual Effects Society. He has worked with lawmakers, nonprofits, and other parties in New York and Los Angeles on behalf of the industry and working artists.

Steven Zelin (Managing Member, Zelin & Associates CPA), who is known as the Singing CPA, leads a firm that provides specialized financial services, including bookkeeping and tax preparation, to artists, musicians, and others in creative businesses. He is also an independent singer/songwriter who has been featured in the New York Times, ABC Nightline, CBS News, The New York Daily News, and The Wall Street Journal.

Mike Noble (Owner/Producer/Editor, Lost Creek Creative, LLC) leads a creative hub that provides content and services to Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet, Syfy Channel, USA Network, TV One, History Channel, Lifetime, and more.  He began his career in Washington, DC as a documentary film editor and associate producer with credits including Tesla: Master of Lightning and Korean War Stories with Walter Cronkite. At Discovery Communications, he was supervising editor for numerous series. He also served as supervisor of Discovery’s Production Center.

Moderator:

Carl Marxer is a freelance picture editor with clients including Gigantic Pictures, Buttons Studio, Hearst, and other independent producers in the New York City area. He has worked for Vice Media, Meredith, and CNN. Marxer recently finished Vamik’s Room, a documentary that profiles five-time Nobel Prize nominee Vamik Voltan, a psychologist specializing in international conflict resolution. The film has been screened at the Montreal Film Festival, New Haven Documentary Film Festival, and the Global Health Film Festival.

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LA Sees 43-percent Film Permit Boost Since January

Film permit requests in the city were up 43 percent this past month compared to the top of the year.

Filming in Los Angeles is beginning to pick back up again.

FilmLA, the organization that tracks production in the city, says it received 777 film permit applications in February, representing a 43 percent increase compared to the month of January. The organization notes that a late-month surge in production took place, making February the third busiest month the city has experienced with regards to filming since last June.

For the full story in the Hollywood Reporter, click here.

Rupert Neve, the Father of Modern Studio Recording, Dies at 94

When the Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded their breakthrough album, “Nevermind,” at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, Calif., in 1991, they used a massive mixing console created by a British engineer named Rupert Neve.

The Neve 8028 console and others he made had by then become studio staples, hailed by many as the most superior consoles of their kind in manipulating and combining instrumental and vocal signals. They were responsible in great part for the audio quality of albums by groups like Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Grateful Dead, and Pink Floyd.

Read the full obit in the New York Times.

New York City Movie Theaters Can Reopen at Limited Capacity, Gov. Cuomo Says

After nearly a year of closures, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has given movie theaters in New York City permission to reopen at limited capacity starting on March 5.

During his daily press briefing, the Empire State leader said cinemas in the city will be permitted to operate at 25% capacity, with no more than 50 people. Moreover, other safety measures such as masks, social distancing, and heightened sanitizing measures will be required. Last October, New York venues outside of the city were allowed to reopen with similar restrictions.

To read the full article in Variety, 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.

Amazon Prime Video Direct and the Dystopian Decision to Stop Accepting Docs


Chris Lindahl and Dana Harris-Bridson outlined Amazon’s position in IndieWire: “When Amazon made a unilateral decision in early February to stop accepting documentaries and short films via Prime Video Direct (a policy that also covers ‘slide shows, vlogs, podcasts, tutorials, filmed conferences, monologues, toy play, music videos, and voiceover gameplay’), the announcement also served as a quiet purge.

The above continues on to some surprising conclusions on DOC NYCs Monday Memo, 

Disney to Close Upstate Blue Sky Studios

Various sources have reported that Disney is in the process of shuttering Blue Sky Studios, the largest animation studio on the East coast. The former 20th Century Fox animation division pulled in $5.9 billion churning out 13 feature films including the Ice Age franchise.

Publications have noted how Disney – which had three animation studios including Pixar and Disney Animation – couldn’t make the case to have these many houses when the pandemic took a toll on the company’s profits.

Some 450 employees will lose their jobs, though some hope to get into one of Disney’s other animation houses.

Here’s Deadline’s report.

Here’s Variety’s report.

Epix Announces ‘Godfather of Harlem’ Season 2 Premiere Date

Epix revealed that the second season of “Godfather of Harlem” will premiere on April 18. Set in 1964, the crime drama series explores the collision of the criminal underworld and civil rights movement. The second season will follow Bumpy Johnson (Forest Whitaker) battling the New York crime families for control of the French Connection, a pipeline for heroin that runs from Marseilles to New York Harbor.

To read the full Variety article, click here.

Sony’s FX3 is a compact $3,900 camera for filmmakers

Sony has announced the FX3. As expected, the camera is essentially an A7S III with features from the company’s Cinema line crammed into a body that looks like the A7C. Its backside-illuminated full-frame sensor has an effective resolution of 10.2-megapixel when shooting video and 15 stops of dynamic range.

To read the full story on Engadget, click here.

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