Month: February 2015

Film

Art of Film Finance

We’ve got so many great speakers lined up for the Art of Film Financing workshop, we couldn’t fit all their bios in the event listing. Find all their details below, and register for the program here!

March 7 1pm: Welcome Neerja Narayanan, Head of Creative, Fox Star Studios (20th Century Fox), Host Neerja Narayanan is an international film executive with 14 years of experience across Asia, Europe, and North America in multidisciplinary sectors across media and entertainment. Narayanan was most recently the Head of Creative Development in South Asia for Fox…

Call For Entries

Apply for the Social Justice Media Fellowship

by April 15th for a chance to win 6 months free Incubator membership at the Made in NY Media Center by IFP

APPLY HERE Please Enter Code: Justice15 For those creatives and entrepreneurs with a project or company dedicated to social justice, The Made in NY Media Center by IFP is offering an incubator fellowship. Social Justice Media Fellows will be provided with full-time desk space for 6 months to foster your growth. Support also includes mentorship,…

Film

Amplify Your Film’s Impact

by Cynthia Lowen

I’m gearing up for the Women at the Helm: Documentary Film Producing for Impact workshop on Saturday, February 28th, covering topics from developing your story, reaching out to subjects, the ins and out of fundraising, ethics in the field, choosing the right editor, audience engagement and outreach, and much more. I’m excited to announce that…

Film

The Initial Launchpad for Shiny Ideas

by Sean Weiner

How do I surgically extract this idea from my brain and turn it into a film? Everyone’s a comedian… and also a filmmaker. We live in NYC. It’s to be expected. Yet, for all the creative pontificating your peers do, very few of them ever follow through on producing something. I’ve spent the past 10…

Film, Inside Scoop, Tech

Production Suite

The Made in NY Media Center by IFP’s Production Suite D is your source for high-powered graphics processing and an array of audio and visual production and editing tools.

The Production Suite is equipped with a powerful HP Z820 Workstation, a 27” HPZ27i LED monitor, a 27” HP DreamColor Z27x Professional Display monitor (perfect for color-sensitive work), an Nvidia Quadro K6000 video card, and M-Audio speakers. The workstation is packed with the latest creative software including the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite, AutoCAD, Maya,…

Film

Screen Forward: APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT

Evoking the immersive nonfiction styles of Frederick Wiseman and Allan King, Approaching the Elephant is a rare, inspired portrait of unfettered childhood.

Theatrical Premiere February 20th – 27th Amanda Rose Wilder’s acclaimed feature debut dives head first into the inaugural year of the Teddy McArdle Free School in New Jersey, where all classes are voluntary and rules are determined by vote – adults and children have equal say. Wilder is there from the beginning to end of…