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March 13, 2025 All 4 Panels from CT Film TV Conference: Playlist Video
March 8, 2025: Free CTFTV Alliance Workshop: Screenwriting: Beyond the Basics: Click Here
March 7, 2025: Indie Thriller ‘Candlewood’ Lands Distribution Deal With Mill Creek Entertainment
February 28, 2025: Westfair Online: Movie, TV production companies defend 30% tax credit
February 26, 2025: Hearing SB 1246 Playlist Testimony Video
February 23, 2025 Press Conference: YouTube
February 8, 2025: Free CTFTV Alliance Workshop: Pitching Yourself and Your Project: Click Here
February 5, 2024″ CT Insider: Dan Haar: Gov. Lamont wants to shrink CT film and TV tax credits. Here’s why that’s a bad idea
“February 4, 2025 CT Insider: Connecticut director wins big at Sundance for movie filmed in state (Former FIM VIP Interviewee Producer: Mark Manson)
January 31, 2025: CT Insider: Opinion: CT’s film industry is thriving, and growing
December 20, 2024: CT Mirror: How far are you from a Connecticut Christmas scene?
December 17, 2024: News Times: Newtown filmmaker to adapt screenplay into feature thriller channeling journey to motherhood
December 04, 2024: Paramount’s Republic Pictures Takes WW Rights To ‘The Monster’ With Djimon Hounsou, Lauren LaVera, Mia Healey; Gina Philips & Rapper Prof Among Cast To Join
November 22, 2024: Deadline: Electromagnetic Has Thriller ‘Inconceivable’ In Works With Scribe Lauren Black & Producers Colleen Camp & Jonathan M. Black
November 12, 2024: CT Insider: New Milford alleyway is ‘Hollywood backlot’ as horror-thriller film is shot in CT
November 12, 2024: New Haven Independent: A Nightmare On Chapel Street
November 8, 2024: News Times: ‘The Monster’ movie, featuring ‘Terrifier 2’ actor, begins filming in Danbury, New Haven areas
November 8, 2024: The Daily Campus: CT Film and TV Alliance to host educational conference featuring dozens of film and TV industry workers
November 5, 2024: Hartford Courant: Connecticut Film and TV Conference announces lineup of panelists, ‘including dozens of industry experts and insiders’
October 30, 2024: Republican American: Film, TV experts to speak
October 22, 2024: NewsTimes: Horror-thriller movie from makers of ‘Saw’ to film in Danbury, New Haven this fall
September 26, 2024: New Haven Register: CT Film & TV Conference 24 to feature panels of veteran film industry producers, actors
September 22, 2024: News Times: Newtown couple producing movies in Danbury area bring filmmakers’ ‘vision to life’
August 26, 2024: News Times: Hollywood producer who moved to Newtown preps for third Danbury-area movie shoot in as many years
July 21, 2024: Former 4th FIM production team panelists for “Boy Band” led by Andrea Ajemian credited as Executive Producer of “It Ends with Us” in theaters and streaming now. Watch FIM Panel for “Boy Band”
July 2, 2024
: Former FIM Panelists (Synthetic Cinema) in the news: NBC Connecticut News: Connecticut College to be featured in Hallmark film
June 29, 2024: The Day: Hallmark Movie Brings Christmas to Connecticut College
June 12, 2024: Fox 61 News: ‘Summerhouse’ film brings big budget movie making to Danbury area
June 09, 2024:The Courant: Multimillion-dollar film shooting in CT as husband-wife duo move major production company to state
June 6, 2024: Former FIM Awardee: Marty Lang just published his first book: The Self-Sustaining Filmmakers (Forward by Mark Duplass)
June 6, 2024: News Times: Behind the scenes of ‘Summerhouse’ movie filming in the Danbury area
The Day: Film producer from Norwich is honored with Native Son Award
Joe Young Entertainment sells out Bushnell Theater for Hartford’s Got Talent
Hollywood & Network TV Producers on “Movers & Shakers” panel
1st CT FILM TV Conference Jonathan Black (Producer – Chair 10 Productions)
6th Annual FIM Barry Katz (Producer “ Good Luck Chuck, My Best Friends Girl, Employee of the month”) & Norman Bryn (Make Up “Cloverfield, Saturday Night Live, Author, Make up & Misery) – Watch Video
5th Annual FIM Larry Meistrich (Exec. Producer “Sling Blade) & Doug Schwab (Distributor, Maverick Entertainment Group) – Watch Video
4th Annual FIM Mark Lipsky (Exec. Producer, The Nutty Professor, Coming to America, Beverly Hills Cop 3) & Stephen Simon (Co-Executive Producer, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, What Dreams May Come) – Watch Panel Video. Watch Stephen Simon VIP InterviewFIM Award – presented to a person who made a big impact in the film industry in Connecticut over several plus years.
1st CT FILM TV Conference 2024 Awards – Trish Clark, Mayor Pete Bass, & State Rep Maria Horn.
6th Annual FIM Award – Marty Lang – Helped create & teach the film industry training program in CT, Author of The Self-Sustaining Filmmaker Photos 1, 2, & 3
5th Annual FIM Award – SECT FILM Director Alec Asten – Firesite Films Photos 1, 2, & 3
4th Annual FIM Award – Gubernatorial Candidate Jim Amann – Hollywood East Task Force Chair -Photos 1, 2, & 3 (presented by former News Anchor Janet Peckinpaugh)
Media Coverage
Fox 61 Stan Simpson Show –View Neal Thomassen & Joe Young talking about 5th FIM
Fox 61 Logan Burns Interview – View Neal Thomassen & Allesandro Andriulli talking about 4th FIM
Imagine Magazine
Past Programs
1st CT Film TV Conference 2024 – View PDF (coming soon after we revise post event)
6th Annual Film Industry Mixer Program – View PDF
5th Annual Film Industry Mixer Program – View PDF
Political Guests
5th Annual FIM – Senator Gary LeBeau
4th Annual FIM– Former Speaker of the House Jim Amann
3rd Annual FIM – Representative Carlo Leone
Mystic Mansion Mixer – Former US Congressman Rob Simmons
Letter from Governor Malloy