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From BFMC: Mass Film Office Launches New Online Production Guide
Posted on February 6, 2012 | No CommentsMassachusetts Film Office launches new software system for promoting you and/or your business or service to the film industry-at-large. (Open to MA Residents Only) This will coincide with the launch of the new MFO logo and website and will be followed by a Searchable Location... -
From the Hollywood Reporter: Douglas Trumbull to Receive Academy’s Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Posted on January 18, 2012 | No CommentsThe visual effects pioneer, who worked on “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “The Tree of Life,” will be honored at the Scientific and Technical Awards on Feb. 11. Visual effects master Douglas Trumbull has been chosen to receive the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and... -
Local Filmaker Uses Online Platform to Fund Film
Posted on October 3, 2011 | No CommentsLocal filmmaker and Berkshire native Patrick Toole uses online platform to raise $3,200 for independent film. Less than a month ago, Partrick Toole Launched his indiegogo.com campaign to raise $3,200 towards the filming of Cort-a short film about priorities. Within 6 days he reached his... -
Berkshire Creative Doug Trumbull to be Honored by BIFFMA
Posted on May 13, 2011 | No CommentsThe Berkshire International Film Festival announced that legendary filmmaker, visual effects pioneer, inventor and Berkshire resident, Douglas Trumbull, will receive the annual BIFF Achievement in Film Award at the Festival’s 6th Anniversary held June 2 – 5, 2011 in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, MA. The... -
From the Berkshire Eagle: County makes strikes in the filmmaking business
Posted on July 26, 2010 | No CommentsBy Jenn Smith, Berkshire Eagle Staff Sunday July 25, 2010 Berkshire County has a good-looking head shot, with Mount Greylock and the Taconic mountain range at its crown and Gilded Age mansions near its nape. Since the county already has a presence in the motion-picture... -
From MASS Hi-Tech: Movie pioneer Trumbull plans sci-fi film to jumpstart western Mass. cluster
Posted on July 12, 2010 | 1 CommentWhile taking a breather from Hollywood, visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull re-located to the Berkshires in 1987 — ultimately begetting a cluster of visual effects companies in the area. The cluster has seen several core companies depart since the mid-1990s. Now, Trumbull, who remains in... -
LOCAL ACTRESS, 13, FEATURED IN BIFFMA ‘KIDS’ PROGRAM
Posted on June 2, 2010 | No CommentsElizabeth Gale, a resident of Hillsdale, is one of the brightest stars of the family documentary ‘School Play’, screening as part of this year’s ‘Free Films for Kids’ program at the Berkshire International Film Festival. Of ‘Free Films for Kids’, BIFFMA Executive Assistant Lauren Ferin... -
BIFFMA Announces Fifth Season and Expansion to Pittsfield
Posted on May 3, 2010 | No CommentsThe Berkshire International Film Festival (BIFF) announces film selections that will screen from June 3rd through June 6th, 2010 in Great Barrington and Pittsfield, MA. The film festival will feature some 75 US and international independent feature films, documentaries, and shorts. In addition BIFF will... -
Grad Student Filmaker Seeks Performers for Shoot at Hancock Shaker Village
Posted on March 12, 2010 | No CommentsThe film is based on Hawthorne’s short story “The Canterbury Pilgrims”. In the film will be a section of a Shaker Dance ritual. The filmakers need singer/dancers to create a Shaker community, who will sing a cappella and dance two or three different dance songs.... -
Be part of the filmmaking industry in the Berkshires!-Berkshire Film and Media Commission Launch Party
Posted on November 24, 2009 | No CommentsThe aim of the Berkshire Film and Media Commission (BFMC) is to promote and facilitate filmmaking and new media opportunities in Berkshire County, western Massachusetts. In a state known great tax incentives, BFMC agregates area resources, locations and talent to: attract film, television and new...
