• The DMV CPUG Event You’ve been waiting for ALL YEAR is HERE at 2012 GVEXPO!

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    Over $14,000 in prizes, catered food and and awesome program! Wrap up, and come out out and network to change YOUR life!

  • Support our local productions on Kickstarter – STILLWATER LAKE

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  • Discovery Shuttle comes home to IAD

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    Discovery Space Shuttle comes home to Washington Dulles and the UHC Museum

    Shuttle Discovery riding piggyback on 747 lands at IAD

  • NY Post Production Conference

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    DCFCPUG sponsors the NY Post Production Conference!

    Direct from the NAB Show in Las Vegas, the New York Post|Production Conference features dozens of expert training sessions for video, TV, film and new media professionals.

    Taking place along side the Content & Communications World Expo, this three day training conference features in-depth sessions for Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Creative Suite, Motion Graphics, Video Production and HDSLR Cameras.

    The NY Post Conference also features certification and testing for Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro, as well as raffle prizes, free expo access, a special keynote speaker and a unique RED camera workshop!

    Visit www.nypostconference.com for all of the details and join us for the east coast’s largest resource for production, post-production and content delivery education.

    All DCFCPUG members are entitled to a 10% discount on registration! Contact Event Manager,
    Jack Reilly (jackr@fmctraining.com) to redeem!

  • June and July events are OPEN for registration!

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    Register NOW to lock in your seat at our June and July events. Go to our Meeting and Upcoming Event Section for details!

    Go to the DCFCPUG.ORG site
    Under Member portal, log in
    Under Meetings tab, you will find the instructions.
    Two choices: Use the manual discount at the eventbrite event site link (found under the main menu, at the Upcoming Events section (left pane of site). This is the long version.

    Or just click the red DISCOUNT EXPRESS LINK (June) or JULY DISCOUNT Express Link
    These two links have the code embedded for easy access to the free entry for the event.

    June – AJA and Autodesk (Smoke on Mac 2012 edition) @ Resolution Post, Fairfax, VA
    July – GenArts, Visual Effects – the Hollywood favorite for effects @ Capital One Bank – Mark Leisher Productions offices (upper floor), Bethesda, MD (nearest Metro is Bethesda on the RED line)

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    Medical Center Metro and Bethesda Metro Stops

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    Path from Bethesday Metro Stop to Capital One Meeting Venue + optimal parking spot

  • VPA Presents Landing Lincoln – Get the scoop on Spielberg Feature!

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    Lincoln film in VA

    Steven Spielberg said "remarkable period architecture" in Richmond and Petersburg was a factor in deciding to film here

    TIME: 6-7:30PM
    Location:
    Art Works
    320 Hull Street
    Richmond, VA
    Almost at CAPACITY.. if INTERESTED, SIGN UP BEFORE SUNDAY!

    Details:
    The Virginia Production Alliance presents:

    LANDING LINCOLN

    Join Virginia Film Office Director Rita McClenny and Location Manager Andy Edmunds for a lively hour discussing the upcoming film project about Abraham Lincoln using the working title of ‘Office Seekers.’ Andy will share with you the eight-year saga of what it took to recruit the high profile Spielberg project to Virginia. Rita and Andy will give a general outline of what to expect while the film is in Virginia, including information about casting, jobs and hiring protocol.

    WHEN

    Monday, May 23, 2011
    6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Networking
    6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Landing Lincoln

    WHERE

    ArtWorks
    320 Hull Street
    Richmond, VA 23224
    Park in non-reserved spaces in adjacent parking lot

    COST

    VPA members: Free (RSVP to: info@filmva.com)
    Non-members: to buy your ticket in advance for $5 (+ service charge)
    Call SmartTix: 212 868 4444
    or go online: http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=LAN11

    First Come First Served.

    Non – members at the door – $10
    (if seats are available)

    To join VPA and receive a free admission
    visit www.filmva.com or join at the door.

    For more information visit the VPA website, or email info@filmva.com

    Casting Grid:

    Casting Grid for new Feature Film - Lincoln

  • Sponsor Raffle Support for May RED Event!

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    Winner Circle Raffle offering: $4,557 and climbing…

    • Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 valued at $1,700
    • ARTBEATS – Footage you can use – $500
    • POND5 – Stock Media prize (Footage/Photos/Vector Illustrations/Music/Sound Effects/AE projects worth $100 (Qty: 2)
    • GenArts Gift Certificate ($507 value for 3 months use of ALL Sapphire for FCP plugins)
    • Noise Industries – SUGAR Fx Bubble Buddy plugin for cool animatable 2D/3D speech bubbles $50
    • Noise Industries – Idustrial Revolution SupaWipe valued at $99
    • G-Technology by Hitachi – 500GB G-RAID mini valued at $200 (limited due to the events in Japan!)*
    • RED GIANT – Keying Suite 10 valued at $800
    • Blackmagic Design – its a surprise! More to come
  • Adam Lubkin – RED EPIC-M – Love at first sight

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    Adam Lubkin

    Love and the RED camera... It's EPIC!

    GEAR:
    Epic-M with a rapidly growing list of support gear from Arri, O’Connor, Steadicam, etc. An additional Epic is coming soon, and Scarlets when they’re ready.

    Website at archaimedia.com will be up by the time of the meeting (24th May).

    BIO:
    After attending NYU film school, Adam left the field for several years to explore other interests including drawing, sculpting, woodworking, bicycles, construction, and fitness training. He recently created a bronze statue for the city of Frederick. His return to filmmaking began with shooting and editing documentaries. He has directed the feature documentary “Eb”, and worked on projects for numerous anti-poverty nonprofits. He’s currently writing a comedy feature set to shoot next year. His new company, Archai Media, has several productions in the works both here and in South America. Archai Media also rents its Red Camera gear, and is developing a line of ergonomic camera support accessories.

    WHAT DRIVES ME AS A FILMMAKER:
    My approach to filmmaking is to focus on a subject that moves me, and to find my way intuitively from there. Everything seems to happen naturally once I catch that spark. The first film I really connected to was Bicycle Thieves. So many moments in the film felt like complex life moments, not movie moments. This changed my conception of what cinema is capable of. I see film as a means of connecting us with our core and helping us live with ourselves and with each other.

  • Spielberg ‘Lincoln’ adds Tommy Lee Jones and more…

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    Steven Spielberg went to town this week casting his upcoming Abraham Lincoln biopic, which already had Daniel Day-Lewis in place as Lincoln and Sally Field as his wife, Mary Todd.

    Sally Field

    Joining them in the film, based on Pulitzer-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, will be Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Hawkes, and a dozen other thesps.

    Tommy Lee Jones

    Who else will log time inLincoln?

     

    According to The Hollywood Reporter, Jones will play Republican congressman Thaddeus Stevens while Gordon-Levitt steps into the role of Abe ‘n’ Mary Todd’s eldest son, Robert.

    Also joining the cast will be Hal Holbrook, James Spader, John Hawkes, Tim Blake Nelson, Bruce McGill, Joseph Cross, David Costabile, Byron Jennings, Dakin Matthews, Boris McGiver, Gloria Reuben, Jeremy Strong, and David Warshofsky.

    From DreamWorks Studios:

    Based on the best-selling book, Team of Rivals, by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the screenplay has been written by the Pulitzer Prize winner, Tony Award winner, and Academy Award nominated writer Tony Kushner. It will be produced by Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg.

    The film will focus on the political collision of Lincoln and the powerful men of his cabinet on the road to abolition and the end of the Civil War.

    Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones will play Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican leader and powerful congressman from Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives. Stevens was a staunch supporter of abolishing slavery and was critical to writing the legislation that funded the American Civil War.

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt, known for his roles in “Inception,” “(500) Days of Summer,” and next year’s “The Dark Knight Rises,” will take on the role of Robert Todd Lincoln, eldest son of President Lincoln and the only one to live past his teenage years.

     

  • GEKjr edition – NAB plus DCFCPUG Supermeet Grand Prize Winner!

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    Thanks George Kennedy for the Vimeo post! Check out our DCFCPUG member winning the biggest prize at the SUPERMEET – 30K worth of BlackMagic Design DaVinci software + associated color grading console gear [1 min, 31 seconds in on video]