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Company/Organization Profiles | Film School & Education | Interviews | Local Industry | Massachusetts
New Mentorship Program Gives Students a Home in Media
HOME, Inc. (‘Here-in Our Motives Evolve’) is a 30-year-old non-profit organization that was founded to develop the talents of inner city teenagers, youth organizations and schools in media and communication. The heart of HOME, Inc.’s program is its Media Lab Partnerships (MLP), which last year reached over 1,500 middle and high school students in 11 Read more…
Connecticut | Filmmaking | Interviews | Local Industry
A Gastronomic Road Trip with ‘A Connecticut Hot Dog Tour’
Mark Kolinski is an independent filmmaker who has a knack for finding the off-beat and the interesting. He shares some of his insights on the advantages and challenges of making his film A Connecticut Hot Dog Tour, an epicurean odyssey filled with floating hot dog stands, celebrity cameos and fiercely guarded recipes handed down through Read more…
Local Industry | Massachusetts | Reports
As the Studio Turns: The Saga of Plymouth Rock Studios
The story of the proposed Plymouth Rock Studio is almost a screenplay-in-the-making in itself. It includes glamour, glitz, intrigue, deal making, lawsuits, money and criminal indictments. The project, which was announced four years ago with champagne popping-like fanfare, promised to be the Massachusetts film industry’s answer to Hollywood. But then, every few months, a new Read more…
Company/Organization Profiles | Distribution | Film Funding | Filmmaking | Interviews | Local Industry | Maine | Massachusetts | Reports | Vermont
Much Ado About Documentaries
They say that it takes three to make a trend. So NewEnglandFilm.com spoke with a trio of film professionals about the latest in documentary filmmaking. Each expert represents a different part of the industry in New England: Tara Wray produces documentary film in rural Vermont; Ben Fowlie runs the Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) in Read more…
Company/Organization Profiles | Filmmaking | Reports | Technology
Not Your Grandfather’s Prosumer Camcorders
Loyal readers know that I spent time at Rule Camera Rental awhile back, sitting in on a couple of classes and having my technical ignorance exposed for all to see. I also had the opportunity to sit down with general manager Brian Malcolm about some general trends in the digital filmmaking world, specifically in the Read more…
Filmmaking | Interviews | Local Industry | New England | Reports | Vermont
The Price of Pleasure
Liz Canner’s timing is, well, uncanny. Her new feature-length documentary, Orgasm Inc.: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure, is a witty, often withering indictment of what one critic calls the pharmaceutical industry’s “hunt for the pink Viagra”—a magic pill that could cure a medically questionable condition called female sexual dysfunction (FSD), while simultaneously bringing drug Read more…
Industry News | Local Industry | New England | Reports
Industry News – November 2009
This Month Documentarians looking to discuss selections from Eyes on the Prize, a 14-hour documentary exploring the American Civil Rights movement, can do so November 9 and 16 at Images Cinema in Williamstown, Mass. Special guests Judy Richardson (film producer) and Charles Cobb, Jr. (activist) will introduce and discuss the series. Did we mention it Read more…
Acting | Film Funding | How To's | Vermont
How to Make Films (and Generate Income) by Committee
The last scene of the film fades to black, as the crescendo of the music competes with the crescendo of the audience applause. The credits begin to roll and there, up on the big screen, is your name, listed as an executive producer. Is this just a fantasy? Not according to Brian Pickard of West Read more…
Acting | Filmmaking | Interviews | Massachusetts
No Tricks Here, Just Self-Determination
Any aspiring actor probably has experienced the following: You get a part, learn your lines, show up on time, take your work seriously and do everything that is expected of you and then….nothing. I don’t mean nothing as in no instant fame and fortune, but nothing as in the damn thing never got finished. The Read more…
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Industry News – January 2009
This Month The best and worst lists are tallied. The films scrambling for Oscar have finally been released. And there’s a chance you have a tree to undecorate and drag to the curb. Good thing Sundance gives film people something new to talk about, and preferably to look forward to throughout 2009. Out West… Some Read more…
