FMC Live Christmas Show!

Greetings to all the great FilmmakingCentral audience! As always we are having our annual Christmas show! The difference is this year its LIVE! Thats right LIVE via our ustream.tv channel! Join us for an evening of fun discussions, recaps and more! Have questions? Want to join us live on the show? Have an interesting tale to tell, a new product or want to send us to see your latest works? Feel free to chime in on the show! (If you send me an email I will properly introduce you!). Visit our channel for info on how to join us live here.

OH…I almost forgot (not really!). We have amazing giveaways for you as well! Since we love our listeners and members we are going to be randomly giving away some great presents! Here are a few:

• A copy of Sorenson Squeeze 5 Pro a $599 value!
• Imagineer Systems Mocha Tracking Station  a $2,995 value!
  
• 2 copies of TweakRV  a $299 (each!) value
• Particle Illusion 3 (awesome particle generator!) a $399 value
• EditGroove Usermatic for FCP a $39.95
• A RedGiant Software pack that includes text anarchy, toonit and magic bullet looks WOW!

And much more plus lots of training book and DVD’s (you have to pay the shipping though!)

The show starts at 8pm PST on Friday December 19th. Join myself and KOhost Ko Maruyama, bring your own eggnog and have some holiday cheer! Invite your friends too! There will be live chat!

See you then! Dave

Special thanks to all of our sponsors for some great gifts!

(If you would like to participate, donate prizes, or anything else email me here or skype me themediamogul)

Tweak RV: Next Gen Image and Sequence Viewer

At SIGGRAPH 08 I had a chance to speak with Tweak Software President Seth Rosenthal about their next generation image and sequence viewer Tweak RV. Enjoy!

FilmSchoolOnDemand Introduction

Welcome to an introduction to FilmSchoolOnDemand.com. We are excited to get the site launched! We look forward to teaching many of you how to make your first feature film and sell it!

FlmSchoolOnDemand Intro from David Basulto on Vimeo.

Save money? Who me?

We picked up a refurbished MacBook Pro for the wife (she needed one desperately for work) yesterday from the Apple Store. First of all the refurbs there are priced tremendously. Secondly, we were able to take advantage of the Section 6378 Blanket Exemption Certificate that enabled us to pay less sales tax! Hey in this day and age every penny counts! Check with your state, you may have one too.

DVD Extras: A learning Experience or Just Entertainment?

I recently have been slamming through various DVD extras, commentaries and behind the scenes. Some are so in depth while others are just expanded trailers to me. La Femme Nikita was just up and it was great! Last nite was Van Helsing which showed how they did some of the tremendous effects in the film.

What are some of your favorites and why? Please share with us and comment below! Cheers, Dave

Please Adobe release this!

Friend of the show Stu Maschwitz of the uber book “The DVD Rebels Guide” posted a sneak peak video n his blog ProLost. Link is here. The trand is to make it easier to do awesome fun things with video. A plus for us all!

New information from the Incentives Office

ILLINOIS will soon have a new production incentive, when the Governor signs legislation that increases the Illinois transferable tax credit to 30%. Given that a major film can be crewed locally, sound stages are available, there is a processing lab in Chicago, and virtually all production equipment and supplies can be found in the state, this will make Illinois a very attractive location.  Details to follow.

MISSOURI has $3.7 remaining for 2008 of their 35% transferable tax credit.  Applications must be approved and a production office (a local address and phone number) opened by December 31, 2008, but production need not commence until 2009.

OKLAHOMA has $4.7 million remaining for this fiscal year.

PENNSYLVANIA reports that, despite production activity in both the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia areas, funds are still available for their 25% transferable tax credit.  Interested producers should contact the film commission.

FLORIDA has now allocated all funds for the current fiscal year; new funds will be available July 1, 2009.

Note that there are no yearly caps in Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, New Mexico or Wisconsin.

Two rumors were floating around the recently-wrapped American Film Market:

1.     New York State is out of money and the program will be shut down.

2.     Michigan is out of money, OR a ceiling of $50 million is about to be put in place.

There is no basis for these rumors.  New York still has funds available, and Michigan is not out of money.  However, New York city is feeling the pinch of the economy, and their program has a $30M annual cap.

Many sources of production funding are gone/temporarily out of funds or stopped lending for single picture finance, but we are working with a number of banks, funds and private lenders with money available for gap and incentives financing.  If you’d like an introduction, please CLICK HERE to fill out our form.

Guess this movie! #2

Greetings, I thought I would see how astute you all are with various films. The following is a byte from a movie. What is it? Comment below!

Guess this movie! #1

Greetings, I thought I would see how astute you all are with various films. The following is a byte from a movie. What is it? Comment below!

All I want for Christmas is…

After asking members of FMC and Twitter what they wanted most for the upcoming holiday season, here are the top 5 requests:

1. Film Financing. Come on people! Open the checkbooks! Its art for goodness sakes!
2. 24P on a DSLR. Yes we mean you Canon. Hook us up and you will reap the rewards!
3. Red Red Red. Give us our Scarlett. Now we know how Rhett Butler felt.
4. Script Sales. Please make it easier for the hardworking writers to sell specs.
5. Plant a great idea in our heads for a web series. I mean if Fred pulls in $$,$$$ an episode then so can we!

If we missed your wish please add it to the comments. We will make sure Santa sees this! DIGG it!

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