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Showbiz Budgeting: How to Budget and Actualize your Film or TV Project
Explore Showbiz Budgeting and its many features, from creating budgets to analyzing reports. This training is perfect for production accountants, production managers and producers, with all levels of experience, who want to learn about the product and get a better grasp on their production finances.
Wednesday, January 22, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EST
Media Services NY, 36 West 20th Street 3rd Floor New York, NY 10011
1. Learn the Basics: Get helpful tips and tricks and explore different budgeting scenarios.
2. Actualize Your Budget: Learn how to see exactly what you’ve spent and how it affects your budget.
3. Use the Tools: See how built-in tools can help you track your purchase orders, petty cash envelopes, payroll and more.
Animation First 2025: Artist Talk: In Conversation with Boris Labbé
Artist Boris Labbé will present several of his short films and discuss his latest work, Précieuses Chimères.
Sunday, January 26, 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm EST
FIAF Skyroom, 22 East 60th Street New York, NY 10022
Artist Boris Labbé has created a rich ensemble of works characterized by hybridization, combining digital moving image techniques with those specific to animated film. This approach, somewhere between traditional and innovative, forms an original and vibrant language which he has shared through various gallery and virtual reality installations, as well as short films. In this talk, Labbé will discuss his work as it pertains to various artistic fields, detailing recurrent themes and specific areas of exploration. He will present several of his short films and discuss his latest work, Ito Meikyū, which won the Venice Immersive Grand Prize in 2024, and the upcoming VR experience, Précieuses Chimères, a project at the intersection of art, AI, and biodiversity.
5th Annual Cranford Film Festival
The festival focuses on screening short films (less than 20 minutes in length) in the categories of fiction, documentary, animation, iPhone, music videos, and student films. Best of Festival awards are given in each of the categories and festivalgoers will be able to watch and listen to filmmakers explain their films during the festival.
Filmmakers Deadline: March 15, 2025
Saturday, April 26, 2025
Cranford Theatre, 25th N Ave W Cranford, NJ 07016
“The Cranford Film Festival is a celebration of creativity and the power of storytelling through film,” said Cranford FOPHA President, Stephanie Levine. “The Cranford Film Festival not only showcases the best in short film, it also helps to raise funds for the performing arts students in our Cranford community.”