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City Supports Media Exec Know How, Specialized Skills for Post

Do you run or work in a post house and know that the only way to grow is by sharpening your skills? If so, you’ve got a friend in the Mayor’s Office…

Craft & Tech Talk at CCW

One of the best reasons to attend the annual Content & Communications World convention is to listen to top New York creatives tell how they’re solving today’s tough tech problems…

Photoshop Tips from Richard Harrington

For those creatives who haven’t sat in on one of his classes, or read one of his many Photoshop books, Richard Harrington should be on your must meet list…

The Past Week in Review, for February 28th

Finally, if moment-by-moment pop cult news distraction really, truly is your crack, you’ll want to sign up for Anticipation Index…

Steiner Studios, Brooklyn College Plan Film School

When it opens in 2013, Steiner Studios’ president Douglas C. Steiner says his venture with Brooklyn College will be the “only graduate school in film embedded on a working lot”…

Learn to Shoot and Edit with a DSLR at MEW

If you’ve wanted to learn what all the fuss is about shooting video with a DSLR, you can learn that along with some practical shooting and editing skills at Manhattan Edit Workshop’s DSLR Intensive Workshop…

Abel Cine Offers High-Speed Phantom Training

High quality high-speed shooting with a camcorder became practical with Vision Research’s introduction of its Phantom series cameras a few years ago…

How to Shoot & Post 3D in the Real World

Topics include: When to choose 3D; Where will anyone see my work?; and A look at budgets for independent filmmakers in 3D.

Be a “Made in NY” Production Assistant

The program’s aim? To promote diversity in NYC’s production industry by giving a break to all those in the city who wouldn’t normally have a way to work through the ranks…

Two-Day RED Production Workshop

This two-day intensive workshop, taught by director/DP Jon Firestone, gives you a chance for some hands on time with a RED rig.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.