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My office is located and I live in Clifton, NJ, about 10 miles from midtown Manhattan. It’s a pretty typical north New Jersey working-class town, we have a city hall, a high school and other lower schools, a number of small business storefronts, and shopping mall at the edge of town. We also have a number of parks and one that I drive or walk (past or thru) often is Eddie Mayo Field, on Clifton Avenue.

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The photos on the card are from a location scouting job I did this summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn and a house from my locationfiles.com Locamundo location library in the Houses Locations Album (45953 Montclair, NJ); read more about this home here.

The photos below were made from a private space in the Starrett – Lehigh Building at 601 West 26th Street in the neighborhood known as West Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, NY looking uptown and (in the panorama below) displaying, from the left (west) the Hudson River and New Jersey cross-town to right (east), the Empire State Building on the edge of the frame.

ALL location scouts LOVE the Manhattan skyline!

Manhattan at Night From West Chelsea Panorama

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Reel Jersey Film Festival Part Dieux | Film Festival Gems

Saturday September 27 was a sort of dreary day weather-wise, so it was a perfect day for trying to pack in seeing as many film festival films as possible.

I managed to see four films on Saturday at the Reel Jersey Film Festival (in the order I saw them):

Reel Jersey Film Festival: WeirdNJ Party / Midnight Movie: The Blood Shed

I got to the party at Williams Center in Rutherford, NJ around 10:30 pm; fortunately, there was still plenty of “Joisey-cuisine” – icy cold Busch beer and White Castle burgers left to drink and eat!

While The Coffin Daggers got ready for their set, the screen in the grand old Rivoli Theater played scenes from a very diverse variety of b-movie horror and soft-core 60’s nudie flicks (just like a midnite movie At around 11:15pm The Coffin Daggers played an excellent set of hard-driving and loud surf rock instrumentals, to a horror muxvid loop playing above them, after which the overweight drag couple in matching Bo-Peep-hybrid outfits (I didn’t see any shepherd’s canes …or sheep, for that matter, but maybe that’s a good thing! … or maybe they were sposed to be the twins from The Shining? …dunno… ) joined Mark and Mark from WeirdNJ onstage for the raffle drawing. I didn’t win – oh well…

The cast from The Blood Shed took the stage, Mark introduced the film and we were all off and running! (to the comfort of ulphostered theater lounge seats in the Rivoli, that is…)

The Blood Shed is classic Alan Rowe Kelly fare falling somewhere btn the b-movie flicks, John Waters, John Carpenter and Hammer Films (all of who I am sure must be influences for Alan); toss in Alan’s own Jersey je nais se qua… Alan, of course, plays one of the lead characters, the burly “child”, Beeftina Bullion as well as having directed and produced. The whole thing’s just a mad, gory hoot!

I didn’t get a chance to speak with Alan, tho I hope to sometime this weekend at the festival. I did have the wonderful opportunity to meet Alan several years ago at the premiere of I’ll Bury You Tomorrow at the Darress Theater in Boonton, NJ.

Photos from Reel Jersey / WeirdNJ Party by R. Richard Hobbs
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Featured Location: 1830s Federal Victorian House Location / Montclair, New Jersey | 45953 is currently available as a location for film / video/tv and photo production applications.

Featured Location: Lakefront Log Mansion – Bergen County, NJ | 45937 is currently available for bookings for use by production for film, video/tv and photo applications.

Featured Location: Horse Farm Estate NJ / 175 Acres | 45906 is currently available as a location for film, photo video and possibly, events.

Following a hard fought battle fending off the threat of elimination via loss of its state funding, the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission (NJFilm) manages to live on, operating, going forward, on a reduced budget of $395,000 per year, as reported by the Star Ledger Online:

New York Times: Getting the Big Picture; The Film Industry Started Here and Left. Now It’s Back, and the State Says the Sequel Is Huge. | By ANDREA KANNAPELL | Published: October 4, 1998

CNN: Atlantic season’s 1st tropical storm forms near Belize | May 31, 2008

Unordered List of Northeast U.S. Links of Interest for Location Scouts / Location Managers | These links will likely prove useful to Film / Photo Producers and Production Companies, Film / Video Directors and Photographers as well.

Location Scouts in USA New York/New Jersey / mandy.com film TV services

About Mandy.com:

New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission Production Services Directory
“The Production Services Directory is your comprehensive guide to production related personnel, goods and services available in New Jersey. Search the category index…” …read the rest…

Save Filmmaking in New Jersey

“Governor Corzine has eliminated funding for the New Jersey State Film Commission starting July 1st 2008.

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.

Great Rentals | Long Beach Island vacation rentals New Jersey Home | Description: Welcome to our SUMMER HOUSE

NY Times | Gone With the Cash: Films Go for the Best Tax Breaks | By Lisa W. Foderaro | Published: March 29, 2008 | White Plains, NY

Ask the Answer B!tch – 1/28/2006:

The 2008 Garden State Film Festival will take place April 3rd thru 6th at The Paramount Theater, Asbury Park, NJ. (directions)

Baristanet | About Baristanet

“Baristanet was born in May 2004 and soon after emerged as a leader in both hyperlocal blogging and the online citizen journalism movement….

Bill Westheimer is an photo industry associate, long-time photographer and artist residing here in New Jersey.

If you were (are?) a fan of the Sopranos (like me!), you might be very interested in this website (The Sopranos on Location) I found which has a theme based on the locations used for filming the aforementioned long-running and award-winning cable-tv series which aired new episodes beginning 1999 till June 2007.

Entertainment Law In New Jersey: A Century Of Supporting The Motion Picture Industry

“A Last Look Inside the Revere Sugar Refinery” …in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that is.

via Gothamist and BlueJake:

Hi- I am R. Richard Hobbs.