Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Paul Espinosa recieves Cultural Award

By Filmmakers Collaborative • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: News

Filmmaker’s Collaborative member Dr. Paul Espinosa, Professor and Filmmaker, Arizona State University has been selected to receive the Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Fine or Performing Arts, presented by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) at the AAHHE 5th annual conference in Costa Mesa, CA. AAHHE is an agent of change [...]



Recent Grants & Awards

By Filmmakers Collaborative • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: News

Mark Lipman’s film Gaining Ground received an $80,000 production grant from the Riley Foundation.
Robin Hessman’s film My Perestroika recently received a $10,000 grant from Chicken and Egg. Congratulations!
Robbie Gemmel received a $15,000 post production grant from the Fledging Fund for his film Cape Wind.
Austin Hoyt received a $600,000 production grant from NEH for his [...]



Alcott Film Receives Top Video & Book Award

By Filmmakers Collaborative • Dec 9th, 2009 • Category: News

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women, a documentary film by Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen, was voted Top Video 2009 by the American Library Association’s Booklist editors.
The book Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen, was chosen for the top 10 list for 2009 books of non-fiction.



Social Media Workshop, November 7

By Filmmakers Collaborative • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: News

23 participants joined facilitator Sean Fitzroy at Mass College of Art on Sat, Nov 7 for a morning session on twitter, blogging, RSS feeds and developing an online presence for your film.



Meet & Greet with Montreal director Eric Scott, Nov. 8

By Filmmakers Collaborative • Nov 16th, 2009 • Category: News

A group of FC members and friends met with Montreal director Eric Scott at Finale in Brookline prior to the screening of his film “Leaving the Fold,” which Filmmakers Collaborative co-presented at the Boston Jewish Film Festival. He entertained us with stories about his film and we shared what we were doing with ours. [...]



MA tax credit workshop

By Filmmakers Collaborative • Jul 1st, 2009 • Category: News

Massachusetts Tax Credits – on Sept. 9th, Irene Wachsler and Millie Tobolsky from Tobolsky & Wachsler, CPAs, LLC, came to the FC office to present a workshop on everything you need to know to get the MA motion picture tax credit. Visit their website and click on “Film Tax Credit Update for Massachusetts” for the [...]