FilmShop’s New York and Brooklyn chapters are gearing up for the film premieres (and music! and parties!) that will be taking over NYC next week, when CMJ kicks Tuesday Oct. 19! Some key info: a film-fest-only badge is only $50 through the site, but you can also purchase individual tickets to the programs you’d like to see. Groupon is also offering a $99 5-day badge (normally $495) today, how cool is that! Great write-off, if you ask us!
Making it all the more difficult to build a vibrant community of filmmakers in the 5 Boroughs, The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting in New York City has proposed a new $300 fee for applications to help “ease the city’s budget difficulties”. For projects that are operating on very low budgets, there may be some relief: The Mayor’s office will waive the new project application fee in cases of “unreasonable hardship.” Either way, the proposed fee just creates another hoop to jump through for both established and emerging filmmakers in this city like us.
The proposed bill has been in review for 30 days. TODAY a hearing will take place at 125 Worth Street, 2nd floor auditorium at 2PM at which members of the public may testify. So if you’re in the neighborhood, stop by and let ‘em know that their proposed fee will only serve to lose them time and money spent processing our fee-waiver paperwork!
A swarm of 30,000 Italian Honey Bees escaped a rooftop farm in Brooklyn until a beekeeper was called in to capture the swarm, by hand. Matthew Rivera reports.
The New York Underground Film Festival (RIP 1993 – 2008) was reborn last year as Migrating Forms, an experimental film fest that takes place in May at Anthology Film Archives in New York.
For all you experimental filmmakers, their deadline for 2010 entries is swiftly approaching on Feb 15, with an extended deadline of March 15 if you’re still working on your (weird) masterpiece.
I attended the fest last year and the caliber of work was really impressive…good luck!
