Saturday, August 23, 2008

Find Us on Facebook!


Our Facebook group is crewnewmexico.com Santa Fe - come and find us. Our next 10 friends get a crewnewmexico.com bumper sticker for their backside.

The IATSE 480 50% Discount


Maybe you've seen our letter in the IATSE 480 monthly newsletter -- and if you have, thanks for checking us out, spreading the word, and signing up.

We'd like to remind everyone of our IATSE480 50% discount -- all IATSE480 members who join crewnewmexico.com in any category can take 50% off their registration total! Its our way of saying thanks to the people who make up the backbone of the New Mexico Film Industry. The secret discount code is in last month's IATSE newsletter - if you can't find it just send us an email at membership@crewnewmexico.com. Please note that you have to be a member in good standing of the Union to take advantage of this discount. We double check. With the discount, you can get on crewnewmexico.com starting at only $39.50 for an entire year! You can list as CREW, and/or any production-supporting side businesses such as equipment rentals, restaurants, vacation homes, hotels, and more! There's over 350 categories of businesses that can join and network on crewnewmexico.com

In addition to all the other networking tools you you receive as a member - such as your own crewnewmexico.com mini-website with your own crewnewmexico.com web address
ie www.crewnewmexico.com/crew - all new members of crewnewmexico.com get a NM Film Industry blog announcement where we introduce you to our site users/blog readers, with your bio, and explanation of what you do, your photo or a logo, and we optimize it for Google Search so that your name starts being indexed by Google.

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1,000 Bumper Stickers Can't Be Wrong



We've just received a shipment of 1,000 crewnewmexico.com bumper stickers -- watch for one on a bumper near you! Here's a real life example.

Another New Mexico Film Article from the Hollywood Reporter


This article, New Mexico's economic incentives great for filmmakers by Chris Koseluk of the Hollywood Reporter talks more about the financial package offered by the state of New Mexico, and how/why it brings major film production to the State. Includes info on the Film Crew Advancement Program, and the New Mexico Film Investment Loan Program.

Read the article here

Excellent Article from the Hollywood Reporter


Here's a great new article on the state of the New Mexico Film Industry - Made in New Mexico - from the Hollywood Reporter.

Talks about Albuquerque Studios, the film incentives, and quotes from Lisa Strout of the film office and others about why movies love coming to shoot in New Mexico.

8th Annual Native Cinema Showcase - Aug 21-24


A great New Mexico film festival: the Native Cinema Showcase in Santa Fe will screen more than 25 works from the Arctic Circle to Brazil, directed by filmmakers from more than two dozen tribes and Native nations. The films celebrate the growing presence of Native cultures and indigenous media on the global stage, and explore issues of common concern to indigenous people worldwide.

Dates: August 21-24 at the Cinemateque 1050 Old Pecos Trail, and at Cinema de Cathedral Park, Indian Market, Downtown Santa Fe.

Sponsored by the Cinemateque, SWAIA, and the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian.

Learn more by clicking here

Quick Interview from Hollywood Reporter


Almost too short to get anything across, but still a good quick read -- the Hollywood Reporter interviews Governor Bill Richardson about the migration of film to New Mexico.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com