Meanwhile in Gotham...
It was quite chilly and soggy today here in New York. I'm visiting my hometown, and my vacation happens to coincide with the Pacifika Film Festival that's happening downtown this weekend. Pacifika will screen Pacific Islander documentaries, shorts, and features, and hold several cultural workshops. The New York Daily News reported on the fest, highlighting fellow NYC-to-HNL transplant Jeremy Spear's "Polynesian Power" doc about Polynesians in the NFL, and stating that the fest "comes at a time when New York's Pacific Islander population - Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Melanesian and Guamanian - is rising. The Bronx had the largest increase of Pacific Islanders in the country from 2000 to 2003, at 4,100, according to the U.S. census."
Several Pacifika events are being held at PostWorks, self-proclaimed to be New York's only full-service film and High Definition post facility. The company says its steady workload is due in part to the generous New York film tax incentives passed last year: “Whether it’s due to the ‘Made in NY’ tax incentive program, economic recovery from the effects of 9/11, or the rising strength of the Canadian dollar, production in New York is busier than ever,” said PostWorks’ president Billy Baldwin. “This season represents the largest number of network pilots shooting in New York in the last decade, and we’re very proud to have worked on four of them.”
This is a reminder that our proposal for enhancing Hawaii's tax incentives would have benefitted local post-production companies just as much as production companies.
>> Film fest touts skills of Polynesians in NFL [NYDN, 5/20/05]
>> PostWorks Handles Dailies for Four NYC TV Pilots [Postworks, 5/18/05]
Several Pacifika events are being held at PostWorks, self-proclaimed to be New York's only full-service film and High Definition post facility. The company says its steady workload is due in part to the generous New York film tax incentives passed last year: “Whether it’s due to the ‘Made in NY’ tax incentive program, economic recovery from the effects of 9/11, or the rising strength of the Canadian dollar, production in New York is busier than ever,” said PostWorks’ president Billy Baldwin. “This season represents the largest number of network pilots shooting in New York in the last decade, and we’re very proud to have worked on four of them.”
This is a reminder that our proposal for enhancing Hawaii's tax incentives would have benefitted local post-production companies just as much as production companies.
>> Film fest touts skills of Polynesians in NFL [NYDN, 5/20/05]
>> PostWorks Handles Dailies for Four NYC TV Pilots [Postworks, 5/18/05]
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