Events

Massachusetts Film Office Congratulates Academy Award Nominees

Boston’s Imagine Magazine honored movie and media types at Tuesday’s “Imaginnaire” Awards Gala.

The Boston International Kids Film Festival is delighted to partner with EF Educational Tours in offering a terrific new opportunity for a team of two high school filmmakers! Together they will travel all expenses paid to Costa Rica in March 2015, to attend the EF Educational Tours’ Global Student Leaders Summit.

We recently reported on the growing film crew base in Massachusetts — the gaffers, sound men and costumers who live local but are finding steady work on Hollywood movies shooting here.

Now let’s go deeper into one of the creative areas in the filmmaking ecosystem, the costume department, where professionals work long hours day after day, taking meticulous care to create wardrobes for films like “The Social Network,” “American Hustle” and “Black Mass.”

The 2015 BlueCat Screenplay Competition is now accepting feature and short screenplay submissions!

Newport Beach Film Festival 2014 – Call for Entries The 2014 Newport Beach Film Festival will spotlight over 350 films from over 50 different countries, as well as premiere galas, …

Experts in the movie business will discuss prospects for and activity in the Commonwealth and ways businesses and higher education institutions can connect with the growing industry.

International Film & TV Finance Summit December 2 & 3, 2013 The Marriott Eastside Hotel, New York, NY FULL SCHEDULE Bloomberg BNA is pleased to announce the International Film & …

The 2014 BlueCat Screenplay Competition is now accepting feature and short screenplay submissions. This year’s competition will award a Grand Prize of $15,000 for Best Feature Screenplay and $10,000 for Best Short Screenplay – the world’s largest cash prize for shorts!

Filmed in Beverly, Essex, Marblehead, North Andover, Rockport and Woburn in 2012, Clear History is set to air August 10th at 9 pm EST on HBO.

Thrash-Lab is going viral, and wants to showcase YOUR original videos on their premiere YouTube channel for maximum exposure. If you have “Never Before Seen Footage/Original Content” that you’re ready to show the world, they would love to hear from you! They plan on featuring the TOP 350 videos on the site and the best 3 will be rewarded a prize!

First place will be awarded $15,000, second $10,000, and third will receive $7,500 at producer’s discretion. Please read rules for details.

THE WAY WAY BACK, filmed in Massachusetts in 2012, opens in limited theaters July 5, 2013. To learn more about THE WAY WAY BACK, click here .

Made in Mass. film THE HEAT opens in theaters June 28th!

This is your opportunity to ask questions to union staff and members about what it means to join SAG-AFTRA, what are the requirements, work opportunities after joining, and anything else you have on your mind.

CLEAR HISTORY, filmed in Massachusetts in 2012, will air on HBO this AUGUST. To learn more about CLEAR HISTORY, click here .

“Calling My Children” is an intimate portrayal of the effects of love and loss on one family’s struggle for unity. Gail Farrow was a 27-year-old woman, the mother of four sons, who was living with and who died of AIDS in 1989. David Binder began this project in 1988 when, as a photojournalist, he first started photographing Gail, with whom he spent a year and half every day documenting her last year of life and her family’s adjustment to their lives without her.

Filmmakers Collaborative, a national media industry leader and fiscal sponsor, is hosting its acclaimed MAKING MEDIA NOW (MMN) conference on Friday, May 3, 2013 at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Presented annually, MMN’s challenge-the-assumptions approach has made it a must-attend event for filmmakers, new media producers, funders, distributors, journalists and more.

Congratulations to hometown hero Ben Affleck on his Best Picture Oscar for “Argo” and to all the other Massachusetts nominees! 2013 OSCAR WINNERS Best Picture: Ben Affleck– Born in Cambridge, …

This Made in Mass film airs Sunday, January 27th @ 9pm EST on ABC.

HouseBroadcast Services Department for the Massachusetts House of Represntatives is seeking qualified individuals for available contract work in broadcast/video/audio production. As a Video Production Technician, one is expected to assist …