Image: director Rebecca Eskreis NEW YORK—Goldcrest Films/Saboteur Media’s coming-of-age thriller What Breaks the Ice makes its premiere at a special drive-in theater screening, October 3rd, at the 21st Woodstock Film Festival in New York. The film, about a pair of 15-year-old girls who become unwitting accomplices in a fatal crime, marks the directorial debut of Rebecca Eskreis and […]
Hudson Valley Film Commission Wants to Increase Production by Doubling Funding
Caption for above image: The former Kawasaki dealership building on Route 28 in the town of Ulster, N.Y., is now a film production facility. Photo credit: Tania Barricklo — Daily Freeman KINGSTON, N.Y. The Hudson Valley Film Commission, seeking to double its funding from the Ulster County Industrial Development Agency to $60,000, says local growth in entertainment […]
Up 300-Percent in Film Spend, Hudson Valley Film Commish Rejto Spots 2017 as Turning Point
In the above photo: Producer Jen Gatien, Whoopi Goldberg, Melissa Leo, Laurent Rejto, and Tessa Thompson on the set of the film ‘Furlough’. (Photo Credit: Randy Harris) Spending funds from the New York State coffers to boost film production in Gotham has worked well for almost 15 years. To the consternation of some fiscal conservatives, it […]