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Mentor and long-time associate Tom Contrino (NYC) has uploaded his commercial director’s reel – Nice work, Tom! chk it out!

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I recently had the opportunity and pleasure recently to work with our own Passaic County Film Commission, which is an economic development arm of the Passaic County, NJ county government.

Passaic County, NJ (I live in Clifton, NJ, which is in Passaic County) is a very viable resource for location scouts, location managers and producers of film, video and photo media, given its proximity to New York City (most, if not all of the county is in the NYC film zone), population density and subsequently, diversity of potential locations and other resources of likely value to production.

The Passaic County Film Commission also sponsors the Passaic County Film Festival.

The film office is headed up by Deborah Hoffman, Director of Economic Development for the county. Deborah, if by no other virtue than her job, knows LOTS of people around the county and is well connected in the local business community. What this translates to is Deborah is the initial point person for “making things happen” if there is interest in making use of production and location resources in Passaic County. Deborah’s contact info can be found on the Passaic County website.

LOL must be a “guy” thing?

These are my del.icio.us links for April 2nd:

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Nassau County, NY Film Office (NCFO)

In case you didnt know, the Long Island International Film Expo is coming up this weekend… I received an email from director Marty Stano, whose short film Moon Cake I reviewed in an earlier post alerting me that his film had been chosen for inclusion in the Expo. Atta boy, Marty, go get ‘em!

If you are a location scout and you dont know nuthin’ ’bout maps, well then, you aint… well let’s just say you should!

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In a previous post, I hereby declared “Kubrick Week” (ok, well, Kubrick Friday at this point, anyway…) here – with no small thanks due the Kubrick-sessives over at Coudal Partners, who I found, quite accidentally, on Michael Heilemann’s Kubrick Page (Michael has such long-standing admiration for Stanley Kubrick as to have named his iconic Wordpress theme (Kubrick) for the late film director.

Michael Heilemann | Kubrick

I have always been fascinated by the work and life of film director Stanley Kubrick.

Shoot Online | Neil Abramson Happy “To Be At The Dance”

As a producer or production coordinator, when asked to estimate production costs for a specific shoot, there are almost always some of the basic line items that have to be covered…

Very kewl music vid found on Videology-TV. I am very impressed every time I visit Videology-TV (if they’d only take mylike zero video…

I was interviewed last week by New York, NY CBS affiliate WCBS-TV, for a video news article entitled Hollywood Being Priced Out of 1 Upscale Rockland County Town that ran on the Thursday, April 12th 11pm Newscast and in extended form the following morning on the Morning News regarding a situation in Orangetown Township, NY whereby the town has initiated a $500 per hour fine for film crews present before 7a.m. or after sunset.

Update 7/2/2008 | A short clip from MoonCake, a short film by Marty Stanos, is available on Youtube (below). Marty is obviously very busy these days shopping and showing the film.

Budget Travel Online | How Location Scout Kevin Hodder Got His Awesome Job | Read our interview with the location scout for Survivor and Treasure Hunters | Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Shoot Online | Meet The Commish | Filming Incentive Program Takes Hold In Connecticut | By Robert Goldrich

I Killed Charles Bronson’s Cat | Barry Gremillion

I Killed Charles Bronson’s Cat

Barry Gremillion. Firehead Press 2000, Paperback, 175 pages, $12.95

New York Times | Lights! Camera! Action! Location Fees! | By LISA PREVOST | Published: February 16, 2003