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The Detroit Documentary Summit – May 19-20, 2012

A successful day today and just to help out abit we are discounting tickets for Sunday 50% off. SO come check it out!

The Documentary Summit comes to the Motor City for two jam packed days of informational panels and networking. Come mingle with like-minded pros, semi-pros and beginners as they discuss all things non-fiction. It’s the perfect way to get inspired to do a project, get back into a project or to march your project across the finish line.

Locale: Madonna University 36600 Schoolcraft Road, Livonia, MI 48150 Room S100 (Franciscan Center Lecture Hall)

Dates: May 19-20, 2012 9am-5pm

Parking: Take Schoolcraft West to Bridge Drive (just after parking lot clusters). Turn right and go all the way down past the old building and middle parking lot. Park in last lot and enter new building – call when you walk into common area.

Topics for Sunday – May 20, 2012

9:30 AM Funding | Ed Gardiner
10:45 AM Legal – Clearance and Copyright | Joe Bellanca
12:00 PM Social Media | Billy Whitehouse & Lindsay Blackwell
2:15 PM Radio Documentary | Robert St. Mary & Zak Rosen
3:30 PM Distribution | Rob Millis
4:45 PM Crowd Funding | Andrew Zinnes

Use this special promo code for 50% off Detroit Doc Summit ticket for tomorrow (Sun) 5/20/12.

Ticket includes lunch hosted by Livonia Italian Bakery & Cafe.

Beverages and snacks provided by Vitamin Water and Dale & Thomas Popcorn.

Go to http://www.documentarysummit.com/detroit-documentary-summit-2012/ register now.

Tickets available at the door.

Promo Code: DetroitDocDayPass

New York City celebrates a record year for TV production… Can Michigan benefit from thie New Economy?

As California lawmakers are considering to expand and extend funding for the state’s film tax credit program to over $500 million, rival New York City is celebrating having another record year for TV production.

New York City Film Commissioner Katherine Oliver said that NYC is introducing over 6 new TV series and on track to have its busiest year yet for television production. These thriving new businesses (yes, a TV series is a business – No brick, no mortar, start up in 3 months, spend 10′s of millions of dollars and can profit 100′s of millions of dollars) began a pilots shoot in New York.

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Steve Quale, on set as the director of last year’s Final Destination 5

Ever since “Oz the Great and Powerful” completed shooting in late 2011, the stages at Michigan Motion Picture Studios in Pontiac have been looking for their next projects.

But now a thriller about a massive storm — a fitting enough for Michigan Motion Picture Studios stages and 170,000 square feet of space in 7 sound stages — is coming to the state-of-the-art facility.

The movie “Category 6” is set to film at Michigan Motion Picture Studios this summer. The New Line Cinema project has applied for $12 million in Michigan film incentives on an estimated $40.7 million of spending in the state.

“Category 6” is described by Variety as a found-footage movie involving high school students who use cell phones and other portable cameras to record a devastating hurricane. It will be directed by Steven Quale, who was second-unit director on “Avatar.”

Given his past involvement in 3D, there’s a chance Category 6 will also be shot in in that format, bringing additional high technology to Michigan.

Though a “Category 6″ storm doesn’t technically exist, as the scale storms are measured on only go to Category 5. Michigan has been a perfect storm and not the storm to end all stormes will be filmed here in Michigan!

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By Sam Logan Khaleghi
For The Macomb Daily
05/11/12

Sue Marx has had a love with affair with the city of Detroit for many years. While sitting in her home office, taking a moment out of her busy day, Marx drops hints about her new proposed documentary – specifically the need for a positive story about Detroit.

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We are TWO WEEKS away from the worldwide theatrical premiere of the first-ever CollabFeature film: “The Owner.” After two years of production and post production, twenty five filmmakers in 13 countries on 5 continents are ready to premiere “The Owner” in cities across the globe on Friday, May 25. The film follows a mysterious backpack that travels the world, changing the lives of everyone who encounters it as they search for its mysterious and elusive owner.

Now, the backpack is coming to a city near you!

SCREENING DETAILS BELOW!

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