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Join us Tuesday, October 14th for the next not to be missed BOSCPUG – with post networking + refreshments (pizza and drinks) following at SALVATORE’S!

Get out to meet & mingle with fellow filmmakers in the Bright Family Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College – Enjoy a great night of networking, engaging screenings & conversation – swap stories and business cards, discover talent and crew for your next project – and interact with members of Boston’s Production and Post community.

Then, join us for an industry reception featuring Refreshments + Networking next door at SALVATORE’S. Grab a seat now!

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

COURAGE AND CREATIVITY – The Magic of Conviction: A conversation with SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL CO-FOUNDER & FILMMAKER CIRINA CATANIA

ALSO: ROB BESSETTE OF FINISH POST

We are excited to continue our Fall/Winter series at BOSCPUG with filmmaker Cirina Catania, who will share with us her creativity and community service and how, in Cirina’s own words, “Grab that camera, follow your instincts and start shooting. You don’t have to have big budgets and all the latest and greatest equipment to tell a good story with the tools at hand.”

“We all have gifts.  How can we recognize what those gifts, what is our chosen purpose and how do we muster up the courage to pursue our dreams even when others are saying “no?” How can we make MAGIC in our lives?  Now more than ever, in part because of new technologies, we have the ability to communicate our thoughts, ideas and stories and share them with others on a very broad scale.  That is the ultimate reward, the highest purpose for our talent.  Blackmagic Design has designed a line of cameras that have become a part of my life.  They give me a voice.  I trust in the technology and when I’m on the set, it becomes all about achieving my vision and sharing my passion with the people around me. I know they have my back and they are helping me to achieve success on all levels.  What more could someone ask?”

Get over your Gear Fear! Cirina will talk about what you need to work creatively, courageously and efficiently in the field and get the best out of what you have. She’ll screen footage shot with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera from her films, show some tricks and tips and reveal how she has managed to “get good stuff” without breaking the bank.  If you work or want to work in non-scripted, if you love documentaries, or if you just want to know more about what the networks expect you to know when they hire you, this is the meet for you.

Wounded hero turned athlete Kionte Storey from Cirina Catania’s forthcoming documentary

Cirina will screen footage shot with the Blackmagic Cinema Camera from her films, including her forthcoming documentary on wounded hero turned athlete Kionte Storey and discuss her process of filmmaking, share her experiences on the road in her work and advice for all filmmakers with projects that need pitching, marketing, distribution and building an audience.

Also! Colorist Rob Bessette of Finish Post will show a couple of Cirina’s clips “Before & After” being graded with DaVinci Resolve to show how important the eye of the colorist is for a director/shooter’s work.

We will allow plenty of time for questions – So bring your questions with you!

Cirina Catania with Frank Capra and Jimmy Stewart in 1979 at the second year of the Sundance Film Festival

ABOUT  CIRINA CATANIA

Filmmaker Cirina Catania, the Founder and Lead Creative at The Catania Group, has been involved as a writer, director,  producer, cinematographer or marketing exec on over 120 film, television and new media projects for National Geographic, Discovery Channel and similar networks. She is one of the original co-founders and former director of the Sundance Film Festival and former executive at MGM-UA and United Artists.  Cirina is a proud member of the Producer’s Guild of America (PGA), the Writer’s Guild (WGA) and IATSE. She is currently donating much of her time to producing self-funded documentaries about our wounded veterans and the organizations that help them. Cirina produces Larry Jordan’s long-running podcast heard in 183 countries and focused on technology, the Digital Production BuZZ. She is also a Tech Evangelist for Lumberjack System: real-time logging and pre-editing for Final Cut Pro X. Cirina lives in LA, D.C. and Berlin when she is not on the road presenting for companies such as Blackmagic Design. You can view Cirina’s work at www.thecataniagroup.com and at www.filmvault.biz.

ABOUT ROB BESSETTE
Rob Bessette operates as the lead Colorist at Finish Post, a full service post production facility located in the heart of Boston. Over the past 10 years Rob has fine tuned his color correction skills and consistently works on commercial spots for international brands like Reebok, Sam Adams, McDonalds, and Subway. He credits much of the creative process to his artistic background and strives to create compelling work day in and day out. He uses Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve color correction system in his daily work, and teaches how just a little bit of color can make a whole world of difference, no matter the project. On occasion Rob teaches color grading at local universities and is a regular contributor to the tutorial based website Mixinglight.com. You can learn more about Rob Bessette at his website www.robbessette.com or give him a shout on Twitter @robsbessette

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BLACKMAGIC DESIGN URSA featuring EVAN BOURCIER of LENSPROTOGO

Filmmaker Evan Bourcier of LensProToGo will share hands-on info on the new Blackmagic Design URSA and screen footage he has shot with the camera – We will have both a fully rigged URSA and a EF Cinema Camera on display – Bring Your Questions for Evan!

ABOUT EVAN BOURCIER
Evan is a commercial filmmaker from Massachusetts. He founded the production company EBourcier Creative and has worked with a wide range of companies, bands, individuals, churches, and nonprofits to tell stories all over the world. He is also the resident expert filmmaker LensProToGo, producing educational content as well as gear reviews, behind the scenes content, and filmmaking tips.

Twitter: @EBourcier  | Website: ebourcier.com

ABOUT LENSPROTOGO
LensProToGo is a national online photo and video rental company that eats, sleeps, and breathes gear (so you don’t have to) and ships gear all over the US directly to your door! Staffed entirely by photographers and filmmakers, they help make your ideas come to life. They make it easy by including shipping in the price of the rental and, even better, they ship everything in Pelican cases so the journey is as safe as can be! Renting everything from Canon, Nikon, Blackmagic Design, Panasonic, Sony, Kessler, SmallHD, Freefly, Sachtler, Red, Kino Flo and many more products, they’ll are always there to make sure you have the right gear for you shoot! Use the code CPUGBOSLP to take 15% off any rental order of $100 or more. Expires January 31, 2015.

Twitter: @lensprotogo  |  Website: www.lensprotogo.com

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ARCHIVING YOUR FILM PROJECTS featuring DAN MONTGOMERY of IMAGINE PRODUCTS

See the new mTape Thunderbolt LTO-6 Drive in action!

Filming with Blackmagic Cameras and other cameras that record in RAW, ProRes, DnXHD and other codecs? How are you archiving your footage? Here’s how to do it easily!

Dan Montgomery will present an introduction to LTO archiving and it’s LTFS based Mac application, PreRollPost™. He’ll demonstrate mTape, the only Thunderbolt certified LTO-6 drive, and give tips and best practices when setting up an open standard archive for small to medium sized organizations.

Imagine Products is well known for it’s industry defacto standard offloading application, ShotPutPro™ and have over 23 years experience with video workflow applications for cataloging, archiving and sharing.

Dan will share how to properly get your film projects archived so you can get on to your next project – BRING YOUR QUESTIONS!

ABOUT DAN MONTGOMERY

Dan Montgomery started his career as a mechanical engineer from Indiana’s prestigious Rose-Hulman Institute for Technology, working for 10 years in industry with electronics, engines and ancillary products. In the late 80s he earned a Professional Engineering license and spent 5 years as General Manager for a high-tech, software based, engineering consulting company in Indianapolis. He and his wife Jane founded Imagine Products, Inc. in 1991 with the concept of applying software to video production workflow. The company was twice honored as one of the state’s top 100 fastest growing companies by Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. Another high-point in Imagine’s history was being selected to create the video archives for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics in 2002. In 2006 the company introduced the first Macintosh viewer for Panasonic P2 media. Since then it has released various offloading, viewing, transcoding and archiving applications to support the transition to HD digital workflows.

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– PLUS OUR BIG DIG RAFFLE WORTH OVER $4,500! Featuring cool filmmaker prizes you want to use on your projects!

FEATURING THE 240GB ENVOY PRO EX SSD DRIVE FROM OTHER WORLD COMPUTING

Check out what OWC will give away:
http://blog.macsales.com/26883-boscpug-to-host-conversation-with-sundance-co-founder-filmmaker-cirina-catania

ALSO: 

We will be giving away two copies of the new “RIGGING YOUR CINEMA CAMERA” book by Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media!

PLUS! Kanen Flowers of THAT STUDIO is giving away INDIE ESSENTIALS – Over 100GB of Practical Visual Effects for Editors (Value $349)!

PLUS! We will give away a copy of DaVinci Resolve 11 courtesy of Blackmagic Design (value $995)!

PLUS: We’re giving away iZotope RX 4 Standard & Advanced Complete Audio Repair – total value $1,298: (https://www.izotope.com/en/products/audio-repair/rx/)

– Damage & Delerium from digiEffects – total value $398: (http://www.digieffects.com/)

– mocha Plus from Imagineer Systems – value $245: (http://www.imagineersystems.com/)

– $500 worth of Artbeats HD stock footage of your choice – value $500: (http://www.artbeats.com/)

– $100 in Imagine Bucks from Imagine Products – value $100: (http://imagineproducts.com/)

– $100 credit from IntelligentAsisstance.com – value $100: (http://intelligentassistance.com/)

– 4 pairs of NewerTech NuTouch Gloves – total value $80: (http://eshop.macsales.com/)

– 2 NewerTech USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapters – total value $56: (http://eshop.macsales.com/)

– AND MORE from newbluefx, FX Factory, BorisFX and EditStock!

Want to win? You have to sign up and be present!

– Then, join us for an industry reception featuring Refreshments + Networking next door at SALVATORE’S to enjoy a few cocktails and continue the conversation!

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