Each month we will showcase an individual who participated in the "Made in NY" PA Training Program. Click here for information on the free, month-long program developed in conjunction with Brooklyn Workforce Innovations and designed to create job opportunities for New Yorkers, connect New Yorkers with employers in the industry, and educate production assistants on how to work collaboratively with the communities in which they shoot. “Made in NY” PAs attend the annual film festival. Photo courtesy of BWI “Made in NY” PAs Celebrate Their Achievements at 4th Annual Film Festival By Nancy Goldman February 4, 2011 - On the eve of Martin Luther King’s birthday, graduates from the “Made in NY” Production Assistant Training Program celebrated their dreams of producing and directing at the program’s 4th Annual Film Festival. Each year, the program invites alumni to submit a project that they have either produced or directed. This work is shown to honor the fact that in between gigs, many “Made in NY” PAs find time to work on their personal projects. Many of the behind the scenes crew members on the projects are “Made in NY” grads as well, including cinematographers, editors, production designers and sound recordists. Over 200 people attended the festival, including many of the programs’ graduates, along with dozens of friends and supporters. The festival featured seventeen entries and was held once again at Littlefield in Park Slope. Audience awards were voted on and presented at the end of the night. Prizes of production equipment packages totaling over $7,500 were donated by Eastern Effects, Wit’s End and Gotham Sound. The venue was decorated by program alumni as well with props donated by Film Biz Recycling. Two of last year’s winners were repeat winners. Cycle 9 alumni Dorothy Hall, last year’s third place winner, took first place this year with “Have a Ball,” a reality show pilot about Harlem vogue dancers. Cycle 5 alumni Anthony Palmini, who won second place last year, came in third this year with a webisode installment of “H.U.G. Story,” a VH1 ‘Behind the Music’ style mockumentary about an Emo-Rap group. Cycle 10 alumna Chastity Thomas, a first time entrant, won second place for her story about a young boy from the Bronx who learns many lessons while visiting his family in the south. Antonio ‘Blue’ Green won the program’s first “Producer of the Year” Award, which includes a meeting with Producers Guild of America East’s Chair John Hadity. The evening’s entertainment was provided by alumni and included the stand-up comedy of Kenny Guity, Cycle 9, and Mark Pearson, Cycle 12, and a musical performance by Cycle 2 alumna Sky Dietrich (Sky ‘D’) who performed with her band LeGrange Evolution. Interested in learning more about the “Made in NY” PA Training Program? Click here. Read more about previous "Made in NY" PAs of the Month here. design by    The City of New York Mayor's Office of Film Theatre & Broadcasting 1697 Broadway Suite 602, New York, New York 10019.
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