Boston Filmmaking Resources
Table of Contents
- Regional Vendors
- Regional Publications & Information Resources
- Regional Organizations
1. Regional Vendors
- Central Booking (Crew booking service)
- High Output (Lighting, Grip, and Electric rentals, studio space, production and event support)
- Talamas (Audio sales and rentals, camera rentals)
- Boston Camera Rental Company (Film and Video Camera rentals, Panasonic sales via Abel Cine Tech in NY)
- Rule Broadcast Systems (Video Camera and Audio rentals, Sony sales)
- Barbizon (Lighting, Grip, and Expendables sales)
- Parsons Audio (Audio equipment sales and training)
- Kaye Lites (Lighting and Grip Rentals and sales)
- ScreenLight & Grip (Lighting and Grip rental and production services)
- Heartpunch Studios (Audio postproduction)
- Digital Playroom (Audio postproduction)
- National Boston (Postproduction services, telecine transfers)
- Film Shack (Equipment rentals, telecine transfers, workshops)
- CineLab (16mm lab, Super16 to DI gives HD a run for the money)
- The Camera Company (Retail sales of consumer, prosumer, and broadcast video equipment)
- Newtonville Camera (Retail sales of consumer and prosumer video equipment)
2. Regional Publications and Information Resources
- Imagine (Print publication and online archive covering the film, video, and new media industry in New England, includes an annual production directory)
- NEFilm (Online publication providing New England independent filmmaking news, articles, event and job listings, discussion boards, casting calls, crew calls, etc.)
- Craig’s List-Boston-television-film-video-radio (regional crew calls and more)
- Craig’s List-Boston-talent-gigs (regional casting calls and more)
3. Regional Organizations
- Massachusetts Film Office (provides a range of services to productions shooting in Massachusetts, including making sense of the new Massachusetts tax credits)
- The Center for Independent Documentary (offering fiscal sponsorship, creative and technical support, fundraising advice)
- Filmmakers Collaborative (Local association of independent filmmakers providing fiscal sponsorship, hosts Film Talks,Outreach, Annual Filmmaker’s Expo)
- Documentary Educational Resources (provides fiscal sponsorship, consulting, and distribution of documentary films)
- Color of Film Collaborative (works to support media makers of color and others who have an interest in creating and developing new and diverse images of people of color)
- Massachusetts Production Coalition (MPC) (a new professional forum created to help increase the level of production in the state through advocacy and community building Read this article for more about MPC)
- SMPTE, New England Chapter (SMPTE/NE) (Their monthly meetings are very informative, more technical in nature than other groups)
- Boston Avid User Group (BAVUG) (A user group of Avid enthusiasts, filmmakers, and broadcast professionals, interesting and informative meetings)
- Boston Final Cut Pro User Group (BOSFCPUG) (A user group of Final Cut Pro enthusiasts, filmmakers, and broadcast professionals, interesting and informative meetings)
Got a link you think should be on this list? If so, please give me a call at 617.216.1096 or send me an e-mail to david[at]kino-eye[dot]com, thanks!
