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Cutter Entertainment is a full-service production house acclaimed for developing and producing best-in-class content from feature films to documentaries, commercials, and branded content.  

15 Years ago we started with a simple mission: create relevant, uplifting content by employing the most talented, diverse, and deserving artists out there. Now, all three of our branches work in unison to locate, nurture, and tell the world’s stories with the widest range of the world’s creators.

 

 

Launched in 2011, My First Job In Film began with the mission of making your job search less about who you know and more about your skills and achievements. To make sure that good quality new entrant opportunities were available to anyone who was passionate about working in film. To achieve this, we only work with established, reputable productions and companies, all of whom have to meet industry best practice guidelines. Today, our role is about much more than finding work opportunities for our members in the UK and the US. My First Job In Film is a community of like-minded new filmmakers, and we are committed to providing you with the best career advice and support we can, making sure that you are well prepared to be the industry’s future leaders.

 

 

Crafted with Sole. We bring ideas to life. Shape concept into content. Create motion with emotion. As an independent creative studio of freethinkers, we put passion into every step. And if you look closely, you’ll see stories that were crafted with sole. For years, we’ve innovated and evolved the industry. So when it comes to production, we know how to make things nice. No matter what, Nice Shoes just fit.

 

 

William Chris Wine Company was founded in October 2020 by William Chris Vineyards’ Chris Brundrett and Lost Draw Cellars’ Andrew Sides. Originally friends and allies in the Texas wine industry, Chris and Andrew saw an opportunity to bring their resources together and build a wine company based on their shared vision and values. William Chris Wine Co. is the parent company of William Chris Vineyards (est. 2008), Lost Draw Cellars (est. 2012), Skeleton Key (est. 2015), and Grower Projext (est. 2015), and is the leading producer of 100 percent Texas-grown wines in the Lone Star State.

 

 

Studio 250 is a photo and video studio, location rental, showroom, meeting space, and event venue in midtown Manhattan. Measuring 2,600 usable square feet with 11 foot ceilings, we offer abundant daylight including north-facing light and unobstructed city views. Perfect space for events including product launches, corporate events, trunk shows, press events and more!

 

 

Led by award-winning screenwriter Timothy Cooper, our weekly classes combine a supportive atmosphere with personalized attention and expert story notes to ensure that each writer meets his or her unique goals. Blueprint students regularly go on to get staffed, sign with agents/managers, sell their scripts, see their films produced, win elite contests, get into the world’s top festivals, and receive major writing awards—not to mention feel a powerful sense of accomplishment. This one-of-a-kind class will help you take the leap from imagining a script to actually doing it...surrounded by the most creative, nurturing, and dedicated instructor and fellow writers around.

 

 

Mustache is a full-service, end-to-end, Creative Content Agency with a keen focus on video campaigns, original content entertainment, and all things social media. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Mustache is staffed with a passionate and diverse set of multi-hyphenate creators and doers poised to craft soup-to-nuts, visually-stunning, imaginative, thoughtful, hilarious content and campaigns for any platform. Born of an instinct to buck tradition and institutional bloat, Mustache's energized team is designed to contend with the biggest dinosaurs in the advertising, digital and entertainment industries. In 2019 Mustache was acquired by Cognizant Interactive, ranked by AdAge in 2018 as the #1 digital agency network in the United States and the #3 in the world.

 

 

Sports Video Group Women (SVGW) is a networking group that aims to enhance the role of women in the creation, production, and distribution of sports content. SVGW members are integral to the overall Sports Video Group community, and work for sports leagues, teams, television networks, technology companies, and start-ups where their focus is the business and technology behind sports production.

 

 

The Newhouse Sports Media Center builds on that reputation, connecting alumni, faculty and current students through their sports journalism skills and passion for the profession. The center provides oversight for the school’s Sports Communications Emphasis, a specialized track for graduate and undergraduate students, collaborates with on-campus sports media and strengthens academic-industry partnerships through special events, guest lectures and an advisory board of professionals in sports media. Associated faculty members serve as experts on issues in the field. Veteran television sports producer and professor of practice Olivia Stomski ’01 is the Center’s director.

 

 

UNDEFINED CREATIVE is a Brooklyn-based media production agency, specializing in motion graphics. We help high-level companies communicate across all screens. Our portfolio spans television, digital marketing, social media and live events, making us the perfect studio for big brands, agencies and networks looking to establish holistic creative partnerships.

 

 

Sound Lounge is NYC's largest artist-owned and operated audio post-production studio. We've mixed, sound designed and recorded audio for tens of thousands of television commercials, as well as popular television shows and Oscar award-winning films. Since our doors opened, we’ve cultivated a comfortable, friendly environment that feels like being at home with talented individuals everywhere
you turn.

 

 

The STUDIO is a Creative Production and Animation Company. 

We partner with Agencies, Brands, Media Empires, Non-Profits, Cultural Institutions and Museums to create Campaigns, Branded Content, Social Strategy and Implementation, Installations, Design and Packaging, all sorts of Internal and External Communications Materials- in other words, the visual communications that are needed to reach audiences and inspire action. 

 

 

TCS provides the motion picture industry with products and services that help film productions achieve success in the most demanding environments. We specialize in cameras, lenses and support for the digital cinema, 35mm/ 16mm film and broadcast/ live TV markets. Established 1978 in New York City, TCS has a long history supplying 16mm and 35mm camera gear to documentary and independent filmmakers, as well as feature film and TV shows. 

 
 

GUM Studios is a 21,000 sq ft facility located one block from Hunter's Point waterfront park in Long Island City, NY. GUM caters to all film productions including commercials, feature films, long-term TV shows, high-end photoshoots and music videos. 


A full service studio specializing in Animation and Design, Live Action, and all aspects of Post production including, Edit, Motion Graphics, Visual Effects and Finishing. From concept to delivery our approach is design driven, aiming to bring each project to it’s full potential, regardless of size. We believe in bringing the client closer to the process and the idea, working towards a shared goal of creating innovative, and memorable work.


We are a group of creative thinkers, designers, and developers that bring a unique and passionate approach to online development & print design. We ensure our clients quality, timeliness, and friendly support. It’s our belief that the best brand experiences are rooted in clear thinking and rich storytelling.


Splacer is providing companies, as well as individuals, with easy access to a library of thousands of undiscovered venues that shift away from the ‘traditional location,’ and provide inspirational experiences to their employees, executives, and clients.


Cinematcher is an automated job placement, employee management and HR solution for the entertainment industry. Cinematcher optimizes the crew hiring, on-boarding, organization and wrap out process for productions and promotes diversity within the entertainment industry. We are creating an ecosystem that equips the industry with the ability to find, manage, get paid, create and share. 


Audio Network is the music company for broadcasters, brands, creators and music fans everywhere. We have a catalogue of 150,000+ original, high-quality tracks: created by 1,000+ renowned composers, singer-songwriters and known and emerging artists; carefully curated into albums and playlists across every imaginable mood and genre; and constantly growing with regular recording sessions at some of the world’s finest studios. We deliver music across the world with the same simple commitment: high-quality, clear and simple licensing and seamless, innovative service.


Big Apple Studios is NYC’s premier studio facility for white cyc and green screen chroma key video production. We also offer post-production services in the form of 2D and 3D design, along with narration, voiceover, ADR and sound editing. We support live and taped TV show production using our virtual set studio, and are a hub for remote interview capture as well as corporate video production.

 
 

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