Image Highlights from our Tuesday, October 14, 2014 BOSCPUG featuring Sundance Film Festival Co-Founder and Filmmaker Cirina Catania – as part of the Bright Lights Film Series in the Bright Family Screening Room, The Paramount Center – Emerson College.
“You have inspired me, warmed my heart and given me renewed confidence that there are talented and creative people all over this great nation. I fell in love with Boston! Thank you so much for your gracious welcome and I hope to see you again very soon.” – Cirina Catania
Thank you Cirina, Rob, Evan & LensProToGo and Dan for visiting us!
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Images by Donald Bérubé
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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.
Twitter: @cirina | Websites: 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.
Twitter: @robsbessette | Website: www.robbessette.com
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.
EBourcier Creative is a boutique production studio specialized in delivering broadcast quality cinematic videos for any purpose. EBourcier Creative is made up of a team of Filmmakers, Editors, Sound Designers, and Composers from around the world – Ready to travel wherever is necessary to tell great stories.
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: LensProToGo.com
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.
Twitter: @imagineproducts | Website: ImagineProducts.com
ABOUT THE BOSTON CREATIVE PRO USER GROUP 
The Boston Creative Pro User Group (BOSCPUG) is a story driven, globally connected community of ready-to-collaborate digital filmmakers and broadcast professionals focusing on the craft of Visual Storytelling and related tools for digital cinema and distribution. BOSCPUG regularly brings top industry filmmakers and creatives to Boston to share and discuss their latest work and their workflows. BOSCPUG also regularly holds affordable production and post-production workshops. BOSCPUG is a professional, creative outlet to pitch ideas for episodic content creation and to discover talent, crew and distribution for your projects.
Read about ‘American Hustle’ editor Crispin Struthers, ACE at BOSCPUG.
Read about BOSCPUG at the Emerson Film Festival.
From NewEnglandFilm.com: “Boston Creative Pro User Group Nurtures New England Filmmakers”
ABOUT THE BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM SERIES
The Bright Lights screening and talk series is sponsored by the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. The mission of the series is to provide engaging visual media related events to the Emerson College community as well as the wider Boston community. These events range from screening of student, faculty and alumni work to the work of local, national and international artists as well as demonstrations, lectures, discussions and presentations by industry professionals. Bright Lights seeks to create an environment where visual media is not only viewed and appreciated but where a dialogue is fostered and a community of media makers, academics and aficionados are engaged and supported.
All events are free and open to the public. Events take place every Tuesday and Thursday evening during the semester with the exception of occasions when the college is closed (such as holidays, spring break, inclement weather). Check out the Bright Lights Film Series now at: http://web.emerson.edu/brightlights/
ABOUT THE BRIGHT SCREENING ROOM 
BOSCPUG is proud to work with Emerson Visual and Media Arts to offer an evening of production and post-production conversation in the intimate and state of the art Bright Family 2K Screening Room at The Paramount Center at Emerson College.
Named for the family of Kevin Bright ’76, the Bright Family Screening Room seats approximately 200 people. It features the latest film and 2K digital video projection including 35mm and DCP playback. The dramatic double-height Gallery and Lobby connects to the Paramount Mainstage.
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