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March 2016

Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:49:13 GMT

March 2016 Newsletter
Building Communities Through Film

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Script Studio Gets a Makeover

For over a year, local screenwriters have been meeting monthly to hear their scripts read aloud and to workshop their stories at the Bellingham Script Studio. It was modeled after the Script Studio in Tacoma, which would read a 5-10 page script, give immediate feedback, and then move along until every script was read. If there were 9 scripts, they'd read 9 scripts. If there were no scripts, they'd go home.

After a year of experimenting with this method, Bellingham writers are ready to mix it up. For March, four writers have volunteered to bring in scripts, with two writers writing back-up pieces in case one of the four volunteers can't make it. The two backups will then have first pick on the next month's meeting, and so on. The change aims to avoid a script-less meeting, which has happened a few times since the Bellingham Script Studio began, and to keep writers accountable for creating new content.

Interested in joining in? We need more actors to read and more writers to write, so stop on by March 30th at the Cordata Co-Op Roots Room at 7pm to get your creative juices flowing!

Let's Get Outside
Tips for Filming in Outdoor Locations.

For most of us in Bellingham, winter means rain, pale legs, and filming exclusively indoors. But now that cherry blossoms are blooming and buds are starting to sprout, it’s time to revisit those scripts you set aside with all the “EXT.” locations.

Looking for the perfect spot to film downtown but worried about permits? Never you fear! Very few locations in town require filming permits or location fees for exterior filming. The city of Bellingham only requires a permit to film on the streets if you’ll be blocking traffic, and as long your gear doesn’t block pedestrian traffic most city parks are co-operative as well. To double check that a location is free and fair game, call the Permits Center at (360) 778 - 8300 or visit http://www.cob.org/services/permits

Looking for a rugged beach or rocky ocean cliff? Larabee State Park’s got a location for you. From Teddy Bear Cove to Clayton Beach, there are miles of beautiful waterfront awaiting your perfect scene. Need a forest with beautiful greenery and side trails? Everything you could ever want lies within the Chuckanut trail systems south of Fairhaven. From Arroyo park and it’s charming rivers to the hundred-foot heights of Oyster Dome, there’s depth, beauty and dynamism just outside your door. Most of the land in the Chuckanuts is considered either city or state park space, so be sure to check with the state parks system before hauling up a big rig. Permitting fees will most likely apply. http://parks.state.wa.us/209/Filming-Photography-Permits

Looking for something special? That one specific location that you pray actually exists? Ask around—hundreds of filmmakers have filmed in this area, and may just have the clue you’re looking for. Check out Bellingham Film’s Locations link in the producer’s tab online, where people can share locations from around the county.

And, if you do find that magical location, we invite you to share it with us at Bellingham Film, by visiting http://www.thebfo.com/locations.html

Festival Spotlight

Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival 2016

If you ever wondered how to be more informed with current events, both locally and globally, attending the annual Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival is one way. This year – the festival’s 16th year – the 25 featured films that were shown from February 19-27th uncovered the veil behind some prominent moments in recent critical rights history. Language revitalization, serious effects of climate change, fighting for independence, protesting against natural gas fracking, and examining the fashion industry’s cost on our planet Earth are only a few examples of topics covered in these films.

One of the features, “El Canto del Colibri” (“the song of the hummingbird”) is a Spanish-speaking documentary that investigates Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBTQ children. The 53-minute movie is entirely conversational, filled with interweaving interviews and reminiscent photos; the fathers and their family members discussing issues of religion, machismo, immigration, egalitarianism, and most importantly how it has affected their acceptance of their children’s sexuality that they are “born with.”

Another featured film, “Homeless in Bellingham: Cold, Dirty and Scary” takes audiences on a visit to a few homeless camps in town – the film stating that one of these camps is “325 feet from city hall.” Instead of including a dramatic soundtrack, the film lets what’s on screen speak for itself as it documents the conditions many homeless people (like “Carl” and “Laura”, who are spotlighted) are living in. Outreach member Kate Robertson explains that with a “point in time count” her and her team are able to get an estimate of how many homeless are in Bellingham. “In 2015, there were roughly 600 in the county and 300 in the city. It’s a complex issue.” Robertson says. “As a community, we have a lot of power though. A smile goes a really long way.”

These films highlight the fact that it doesn’t matter the language we speak or where we come from, there are many people, from all backgrounds, who can relate to the people in these films. It’s hard to encapsulate this event, as all of these tremendous films cover important obstacles relating to human rights. These issues are relevant and real. What I can say, is creating a space where community members can come together and better understand these issues is essential to better our Earth and evolve as humans. Events like the Bellingham Human Rights Film Festival are an excellent means to do so. For more information visit http://bhrff.webs.com/ .

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Film Events

March 11th - 12 Minute Max B'ham, March 2016 Showcase @ Firehouse Performing Arts Center 10:30pm

March 12th - Seattle Web Fest 2016 @ Northwest Film Forum 1pm to 11pm

March 30th - Script Studio Session @ Cordata Roots Roo with Everett Aison and Michael Petryni

April 11th - Bellingham Film Mixer @ Pickford Film Center 6pm to 9pm.

What's New at BF

* Bellingham Film is sad to announce that we will be moving out of the Hatch Space and will be looking for a new location to find home. In the meantime keep an eye out for event location chages over the next few months.

* We have just launched our membership program. This is an opportunity for community members to support our organization and receive some perks in return. Check out what we've got to offer you.

* Michael Petryni, a seasoned screen writer, and Everett Aison, co-founder of the School of Visual Arts in New York, have both joined our Bellingham Script Studio Sessions to offer their input and wealth of knowledge.

Bellingham Script Studio Sessions
Last Wednesday of every month.

Like what you see?

Become a member of Bellingham Film and start tapping into our community resources! There are different tiers of membership with different perks, and the choice to be a monthly or an annual member.

All levels include:
- Invitation to Film Movement meetings.
- Free registration with BF Production Task Force.
- Free access to Bellingham Film's regular programming and member only events:
*Mixers
($5 for non members),
*Writers group
($5 for non members),
*Creative Film Revue
(BF Members and
friends only)

Higher levels including such bonuses as:
- 25% off Current Media gear rentals
- 25% off Color Correction by Redacted Films
- Discount on Cascadia Film Workshops
- 10% off shirts, 25% off stickers and buttons from seattlehole.com
- 20-25% off audio services from Josh Shade

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February 2016

Thu, 04 Feb 2016 01:11:37 GMT

January 2016 Newsletter
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Washington Film Day Recap

Bellingham Film made a strong show for the Washington film Industry last month, with over a dozen Bellingham filmmakers representing districts 40 & 42 at Washington Film Work’s lobbying event Film Day. Only Spokane had a higher turnout, which is not surprising considering the success of their home-town hero “Z Nation”. Over 200 members of the film community split up according to legislative districts and sat down with their representatives to talk about the importance of passing the bill HB 2542. If it’s taken to floor and approved, the bill would raise the state’s wimpy film incentive budget to a not as pitiful 10 million dollars by 2020.

The bill is intended to bring larger productions to our beautiful state, and to keep us competitive with Vancouver and Portland as filming locations. The bill acts as a sort of matching program for filmmakers; a certain amount of what they spend in-state is reimbursed, so that the film makers can spend even more in-state. This encourages a more active, more steadily employed film network, and invites larger productions to consider Washington as a filming location. This is especially important to us folks in Bellingham, since our northerly neighbors in Vancouver have no cap to their film incentive program.

Want to learn more? Stay informed by visiting washingtonfilmworks.com

Filmmaker Spotlight

Andrew Lahmann: Out of Bellingham, Out of Nothing

Producer, writer and director Andrew Lahmann is a bit like Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit:

He grew up in the peaceful green land of Washington, went on an unexpected journey to LA to shadow the lead crew on Marvel’s Iron Man, and has returned home to share the treasure he’s gained by producing and directing epic films back home in the 3-6-0. He truly has gone there and back again.

But unlike Bilbo, he didn’t need a wizard to talk him into the adventure. Andrew has wanted to make films his entire life. A lover of movies, of stories, and of the power film has to affect people’s lives for the better; there was never another path in sight. At WWU’s Fairhaven College, Andrew met Colin Dalvit and the two became instant film collaborators. Through their specially designed majors, and with the patience and support of the Fairhaven staff, the two young artists made short documentaries, short films, and two feature films before graduating in 2005.

They were already finding recognition for their post collegiate work when Andrew had the opportunity to shadow the director, producer and lead cast of Iron Man in 2007. The experience yielded solid relationships with Robert Downey Jr, and several others on the Iron Man team, many of whom give feedback and advice on Andrew and Colin’s current projects.

But local names have played a part in Andrew’s success as well. Ryan Stiles noticed the quality of Andrew and Colin’ s work, and partnered with them to make a TV show pilot in 2011. And, as usually happens in the film world, one connection led to another, and in 2012, Andrew was approached by Chad DeRosa with a request to produce a documentary about a Bellingham motorcycle team trying to break land speed records in the Utah Salt Flats.
He turned it down.

“Motorcycles weren’t my thing, and I was busy with the pilot.” It was as simple as that. But, six months later, DeRosa called again right as he was finishing the pilot and Lahmann asked to see the footage. Maybe there would be something to the project. He received a hard drive with 90 hours of footage, and suddenly realized its potential. “It wasn’t about motorcycles. DeRosa was focusing on the people and their passion, and I saw a story about people who were working hard to follow their dreams. I knew that language. I didn’t know anything about motorcycles, but I knew the language of trying to follow your dreams.”

Along with Ryan Stiles, Colin Dalvit and the rest of his trusty production team P-51 Pictures, Lahmann funded and completed the film completely in Bellingham. The musicians were local, the workers were local, and the premiere was local, screening for the first time at the Mount Baker Theatre in May of 2014. “All investors are from the Bellingham community, to prove that projects of that scale could be made in Bellingham.”

Since its completion in 2014, Out of Nothing been picked up for distribution by Studio Canal, ESPN, and several international distributors, and it’s won awards in LA, Knoxville and London. Lahmann passes the hardware off as “a testament to the people who went above and beyond to see the movie come to life.” He’s just excited for the next adventure. To learn more about Andrew and P-51 Pictures, check out their website p51pictures.com.

Festival Spotlight

School of Visual Arts Film Reel Article, with commentary from
co-founder Everett Aison Written by: Savannah Jantsch

Countless cultures and ideas inundated the the Viking Union Student Art Gallery for two over two weeks in January. The gallery hosted nine student films from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. From foreign languages to detailed animation, controversial affairs to a celestial nature montage, the range of content was tremendous.

Everett Aison – co-founder of the SVA – said in a phone interview, “I’m hoping this event inspires them [local students and filmmakers].” Among the films were a pencil sketch animation by Tina Wang called, “The Ocean Calls,” which features themes semi-reminiscent of Miyazaki’s “Ponyo.” Sam Lee’s “Piece of Mind” gave straightforwardness to the common-phrase “you are what you eat,” by creating an animation where the caricatures faces are evocative of their state of mind, i.e.: the barista has a coffee cup for a head, the dog has a bone for a head, the cat has a ball of yarn for a head…

Puns and jests aside, there were a few films that challenge the status quo and recounted some distressing times of history. “Two Years,” by Lauren Hall takes an investigative look at the campaign of presidential hopeful Chris Christie as it examines the hearsay that Christie used Hurricane Sandy money to help fund his campaign. The style is exploratory, similar to what you’d see in an Andrew Jarecki film. Also, a narrative masterpiece that 21-year-old filmmaker (at the time the film was made) Shubhashish Bhutiani made called “Kush” won – among many honors – The Best Innovative Budget Award for a foreign film at the 70th Venice International Film Festival. The picture, leaning heavily on the ethnographic style of film, tells a story of a school teacher protecting her one Sikh student from the anti-Sikh riots that happened in India in 1984.

The students get to use all the equipment the school provides, and in the end their thesis film is theirs. They take that with them when they graduate, Aison says. These films were made by students at a school where people teach people. As an aspiring female moviemaker, seeing the assortment of subject matter in these films further sparks my desire to create motion pictures with imaginative/refreshing ideas. The majority of the video creators at this event were female, and that too, instills my fervor to be a part of this growing film faction for females.

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Film Events

Feb 8th - Film Mixer @ Pickford Film Center with Bob Goodwin X Files Exec. producer.

Feb 8th - Guerilla Film Project registration closes.

Feb 11th -14th - Guerilla Film Project kicks of it's 65hrs.

Feb 19th-27th - 16th Annual Bellingam Human Rights Film Festival.

Feb 24th - Script Studio Session @ Hatch with Everett Aison and Michael Petryni

March 3rd - Film Movement Meeting 7pm @ Hatch space.

What's New at BF

* Bellingham Film is excited to announce that we have moved into our new location at 221 Prospect St, in the Hatch Space. To help us cover expenses and additional programming, become a member today.

* We have just launched our membership program. This is an opportunity for community members to support our organization and receive some perks in return. Check out what we've got to offer you.

* On January 21st hundreds of filmmakers headed to Olympia to talk to their representatives and show their support for thefilm industry. Bellingham showed up with several participants from the 40th and 42nd districts. Since our time in Olympia we have gotten Vincent Buys and Luanne Van Werven on board to support the WF bill.

* Michael Petryni, a seasoned screen writer, and Everett Aison, co-founder of the School of Visual Arts in New York, have both joined our Bellingham Script Studio Sessions to offer their input and wealth of knowledge.

Bellingham Script Studio Sessions
Last Wednesday of every month.

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January 2016

Mon, 04 Jan 2016 18:33:08 GMT

January 2016 Newsletter
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Film Day in Olympia - Jan 21st

In December we kicked off the 2016 campaign for Washington State's Film Incentive program by meeting with Kristine Lytton, the chair of the state House Finance Committee, to make sure that she is aware of our bill and it's importance. On January 21st, hundreds of filmmakers will head to Olympia to talk to their representatives and show their support for the film industry. If you would like to see our state incentives increase, thus boosting the potential for new jobs, here are a few ways you can participate:

1. Sign the Keep Film in WA petition

2. Sign the Business Letter of Support

3. Know your legislator, know your district and register with WF so you can get updates on what's happening in your district.

4. Write to your legislator or write BF a letter of support we can share with our district leaders. The more letters we receive the bigger the impact we'll make. You can send your letters directly to your legislator or submit them to us at bellinghamfilminfo@gmail.com

5. Come to Film Day in Olympia. RSVP with Washington FilmWorks. If you are in need of a ride or if you have any extra seats in your car please let us know and we'll make sure you get there. We're also selling Bellingham Film T-Shirts you can wear to help represent Bellingham as a great place to film.

Filmmaker Spotlight

When he was 12 years old, Ryan Covington talked his older brother into jerry-rigging a tape recorder to their VCR for a screen writing experiment. He wanted to record the audio to Tim Burton’s Batman starring Michael Keaton, so he could take the cassette, play it back through head phones, and write out the script of Batman as it sounded to him.

23 years later, Ryan’s experiments have evolved into competition winning scripts, a Hollywood agent, and a shot at the only job he’s ever wanted. “There’s no fall back,” he said. “There’s no ‘What are you going to do when this doesn’t work out?’ Since I was five, I’ve only wanted to make movies.”

Chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’ve seen Ryan. Born and reared in Bellingham, Ryan worked at local movie theaters as he honed his craft, jotting down script notes behind the counter of the Pickford and scribbling re-writes to the smell of butter and popcorn. With the guidance of books like Script to Screen and by watching every movie that crossed his path, Ryan taught himself how to tell a story. With twenty scripts under his belt, he’s not exactly new to the game. But the game changed quickly this fall when one of his scripts, The Secrets We Keep, was selected as one of the top ten scripts of the Academy Awards’ Nicholl Fellowship competition.

“The Nicholl Fellowship is the best of the best. It’s a world wide competition, and if you can even make the top 10%, that’s a good feeling.” He first made the top 10% out of over 7,000 scripts in 2013 with a comedy called The Slate with Jim Kholer. In 2014, he entered The Secrets We Keep, a period piece drama about two Holocaust survivors who realize their Nazi captor works at the grocery store down the street.

It didn’t even make the first cut.

But he entered Secrets again in 2015, and it made the top ten. Not the top ten percent. The top ten scripts. And suddenly, the flood gates were open. “The Nicholl holds a lot of weight in Hollywood, especially for beginners,” he said. “Agents, managers, and studios are scrambling to read those that make the top ten.” Even though the script didn’t change between submissions, the people reading the entries did, and that made all the difference.
Ryan was already planning to make the pilgrimage down to LA at the end of 2015, but before he could find an apartment, he was talking with producers and agents about developing his scripts. The movie business is famous for its “hurry up and wait,” pacing, and two months into the Hollywood life, Ryan still feels very new to the process. There are lots of factors that go in to getting scripts made, but when asked about the New Year, he sounds hopeful. Whether he gets to work on his own script ideas, or gets hired to flesh out studio stories, Ryan has one simple goal: “I’d love to work on a project that I’m passionate about. I want to be absolutely bonkers about everything I do.”
From what he’s done so far, it looks like Ryan will be bonkers for the rest of his life.

Festival Spotlight

Bellingham Film is excited to announce the first annual Bellingham Music Film Festival!

The festival aims to showcase music through the medium of film, including music videos, shorts, and feature length documentaries and narratives, all revolving around music-inspired subject matter. The selection pool ranges from student to professional, incorporating artists from within our growing community and inviting talented artists beyond our borders.

The festival itself will take place April 1st- 3rd, with films showing at the Pickford Film Center, and with live music at the Make.Shift Art Space. All proceeds go these non-profit art organizations, with the addition of local video store Film Is Truth, which is raising funds as it transitions into a non-profit.

Cash Prizes will be given for the Judge’s Choice and the People’s Choice, and other ceremonial prizes will be given for categories like Best Student Short Film, Best regional Short, Best Feature and so on. For more information about prizes, rules, and the event itself, visit their website.

Want to Submit?
Even though the regular deadline passed on January 1st, you can still submit your music-inspired film by February 1st.

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Film Events

Jan 8th - Hatch Launch Party and Art Walk
Jan 11th - 90-minute series of SVA Films @ Viking Union Gallery

Jan 13th - KVIK Director's Forum @ 4pm up at WWU in Fraser Hall
Jan 21st -Film Day in Olympia
Jan 27th - Script Studio Session
Feb 1st - Final Late Deadline for the Bellingham Music Film Fest
Feb 9th - Bellingham Film Mixer

What's New at BF

* Bellingham Film is excited to announce that we will be moving into our new space downtown in February 2016. Join us at the Hatch Launch Party on January 8th for more info.

* In February we are launching our membership program. This is an opportunity for community members to support our organization and receive some perks in return.

* In December we kicked off the 2016 campaign for Washington State's Film Incentive program. On January 21st hundreds of filmmakers will head to Olympia to talk to their representatives and show their support for the film industry.

* Michael Petryni, a seasoned screen writer, and Everett Aison, co-founder of the School of Visual Arts in New York, have both joined our Bellingham Script Studio Sessions to offer their input and wealth of knowledge.

Bellingham Script Studio Sessions
Last Wednesday of every month.

Access Bellingham
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December 2015 Newsletter

Thu, 03 Dec 2015 01:15:11 GMT

December 2015 Newsletter
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Second Annual Film Industry Mixer

On behalf of Bellingham Film, it is with great pleasure we invite you to our Second Annual Film Industry Mixer and Bellingham Commercial Awards (BCA), 6:00PM on Tuesday, December 8th, 2015. This annual event for filmmakers and local business representatives is an opportunity to discuss the future of commercial media in Bellingham. Presentations from Washington FilmWorks will include the mandatory Innovation Lab Info Session along with a Film in WA Update. We will also be presenting the 2015 Bellingham Commerical Awards. Don't forget, your first round of drinks is courtesy of Hand Crank Films.

Filmmaker Spotlight

From the mountaintops of Alaska to the bear infested shores of Kayak Island, WWU student Max Romey is filming his way across the world. Most recently, Max spent three weeks living on a boat filming the removal of 150,000 pounds of marine debris off the Alaskan coastline. The film, now in post-production, hopes to raise awareness of how single-use plastics find their way to remote shorelines, polluting the waters and threatening the whales, seals, sea birds, and environment, many of which are endangered.

But when you ask Max what he’s most excited about, he’ll tell you about his feature-length documentary 3022ft. which tells the tale of America’s most dangerous footrace: Alaska’s Mt. Marathon. The film sold out six shows at the 400-seat Bear Tooth TheatrePub in Anchorage last July, and has since travelled to 30+ cities with the Trail Running Film Festival’s national tour. “It’s this crazy race that’s been going on for a hundred years, and it took making a movie to understand why people throw themselves down a three-thousand foot mountain.” Max made the film with WWU Alumna Natalie Fedak in the summer of 2014, and both will return to Alaska to represent 3022ft at the Anchorage International Film Festival in December. To read more about Max, visit 3022ft.com.

3022ft. Tells the tale of America’s most dangerous footrace: Alaska’s Mt. Marathon.

Festival Spotlight

Humor and horror filled Bellingham’s Pickford Theater this year, as the fright-filled film festival Bleedingham aired a total of eighteen independently made scary movies. Popular themes among the films included car scenes, newsreels, zombies, forests, and the ever-eerie motif of clowns. Winks to pop culture references included a real life version of the horror video game Slender Man, a satire of Twilight, and a film that is disturbingly reminiscent of Norman Bates’ character. All kinds of people are making these films, says special effects artist and presenter of the festival, Langley West. “I’m so pleased with the quality of these films.”

Among the winners of this year’s thrill fest were “Make You Better” a fast-paced black and white, twist of the neck silent film of a woman’s endeavors to torture a man. It won first place in “Horror Content.” “Left Alive” won second place with “Best Story.” Set in monochrome tone, this gloomy film unravels a sentimental yet dark relationship between a living young man and his haunting ghost girlfriend. “Be Mine” is a story about a stalker taxidermist who isn’t only seeking out animals to stitch up. It won third place in “Best Editing” and third in “Best Overall.” The film that the judges voted “Best Cinematography,” “Best Special Effects,” and “Best Overall” is “The Graveyard Shift,” a film about a few men who work the morning shift at a warehouse, only to discover that one of them has a very undead secret that is exposed right before the morning crew arrives.

If you have a sinister story you’d like to make into a movie, submit your film to Bleedingham for next year’s film contest. For more information,http://www.bleedingham.com.

Funding Opportuntiy
In Partnership with Brick Lane Records, Northwest Film Forum is launching Cue Northwest: a series of projects focused on building community and commissioning new art from the music and film community in the Pacific Northwest.

The first project will fund an emerging filmmaker in residence to create a short film inspired by the narrative record The One & The Other by Benjamin Verdoes. The selected filmmaker will be awarded a budget of $5,000 to direct a short film using music from the record for the film's score. Applications for the residency will be accepted until January 15th, 2016.

More information about Cue Northwest and the application for the residency is available at http://cuenorthwest.org

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Film Events

Dec 4th - Submissions Close for the Bellingham Commercial Awards
Dec 5th - Second Annual Renton BestFest
Dec 8th - Second Annual Film Industry Mixer and Bellingham Commercial Awards

Jan 1st - Regular Submission Close for the Bellingham Music Film Fest
Jan 21st -Film Day in Olympia

What's New at BF

* Bellingham Film is excited to announce that we will soon have a home downtown. This will be the new film hub for all your film needs.

* Beginning 2016 we are launching our membership program. This is an opportunity for community members to support our organization and receive some perks in return.

* We started the Bellingham Commercial Awards in an effort to bring more awareness to the types of work our local filmmakers and businesses are creating. Submissions close this Friday Dec 4th @ midnight.

* On December 1st we kicked off the 2016 campaign for Washington State's Film Incentive program. Bellingham Film coordinated with Washington FilmWorks to organize a meeting with Kristine Lytton the chair of the state House Finance Committee and other local filmmakers and business. We had an opportunity to inform her on the bill, it's importance and the effects it has on us as individuals and as a community.

* Michael Petryni a seasoned screen writer and Everett Aison a co-founder of the School of Visual Arts in New York have joined our Bellingham Script Studio Sessions to offer their input and wealth of knowledge.

Bellingham Script Studio
Last Wednesday of every month.

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Second Annual Film Industry Mixer and Bellingham Commerical Awards

Mon, 30 Nov 2015 01:09:16 GMT

Second Annual Film Industry Mixer and Belligham Commercial Awards. Dec 8th 6pm to 9pm @ Pickford Film Center.

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Second Annual Film Industry Mixer and Bellingham Commerical Awards

On behalf of Bellingham Film, it is with great pleasure to invite you to our Second Annual Film Industry Mixer and Bellingham Commercial Awards (BCA), 6:00PM on Sunday, December 8th, 2015. This annual event of filmmakers and local business representatives is an opportunity for discussion of the future of commercial media in Bellingham. Presentations from Washington FilmWorks will include the mandatory Innovation Lab Info Session along with a Film in WA Update. We encourage discussions on the advantages of a multimedia campaign and the increasing affordability of video advertising. Additionally, a mixer for attendees will take place in the Pickford lobby with the first round of drinks courtesy of Hand Crank Films.

We have a few ways we can help you promote your business through our event.

Submit your favorite commercial to the Bellingham Commercial Awards.
Donate a product or service to our Raffle.
Rent a table and display your products and services.
Become a sponsor and get exposure on our website, social media, newsletter and at our event.
Attend our event.

This event is a great opportunity to discover what commercial projects have been produced here in Bellingham as well as creating relationships for future ones. As an exciting new addition this year, two BCA awards will be presented to the best commercial endeavors of 2015. All this, as well as a raffle and a little bit of fun in time for the holidays. Mark us on your calendar and plan to join us On December 8th.

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March 2015

Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:21:28 GMT