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Collosal Youth's Like a Mother series was a sweet project for us to place as many local Houston women as we could find available to work on the crew.
We get to meet the team surrounding the celebrities we are filming and it's always amazing what a small town Houston actually is. The creative economy is alive in this town and always seeking a platform to launch from.
One of the most lovely locations in Houston is the Astorian, conveniently located blocks from our office and truly a gorgeous view of downtown during the day or night. A curated jazz series by the renown jazz drummer Eric Harland was just a perfect evening, also starring Breitling.
Dr. Cozad and Dr. Comeaux were kind enough to open the doors to their beautiful Spring Texas offices for a 3 day photo shoot with our 2 photo teams and we recommend them as sincerely nice people too. Most people need an orthodontist. Everyone needs a dentist. :-)
Texas is the corporate headquarters of some interesting companies. Did you know that the Pizza Hut HQ is in Plano TX, just outside of Dallas? They actually have a full set up inside the building for filming commercials and for training. We had a great time exploring how they support their staff and help them succeed.
We do a lot with professional athletes in Houston. We have a lot of them! It’s nice to sometimes travel to other super star athletes for brand launches and film them where they actually live and work out. This project was just gorgous to shoot, and our talent were all brilliant.
I am so impressed with what this organization has done for women -- by women -- in the film industry. And it all started at home, with an idea amongst friends having dinner. For a city like Houston, these are important conversations to be having. We affect change faster as a team of like minds. We are all in this together.
One of our favorite yoga masters in Houston Texas, is the transcendental Pam Johnson. Together we created not only a film, but ultimately an immersive experience performance event.
Most of us don't often have opportunities to engage in meaningful conversation about our life's work. When we do have the chance, with an embracing group of like-minds, it can be used as both a purposeful endeavor to share all the things you love about your career path, and also a time to reveal some of how the industry's sausage is made.
Trying something new and creative sometimes means opting for the surprise of lo-fi and vintage style. This was a very special production that was quick and exciting. And we got a hilarious reminder of what it used to be like in the days when we still had a video tape transfer step, before post production could commence.
Simone is the most rewarding celebrity athlete talent to work with. She is game for anything, is the consummate professional, and is also a sincerely nice person.
The ultimate expression of surrealism in music. This was a tremendous effort under the leadership of Executive Producer Nathan Scherrer and the ultimate Music Video Director ever — Dave Meyers. The most collaborative creative experience ever, and what a great locations backdrop for Houston Texas. A very long song, a lot of just jaw-droppingly stunning talent, production design, locations and scenes.
One of our favorite music videos was half live action and half paper animation. Shot in 2015 for Runaway Sun’s lead singer and song writer Andrew Karnavas, we are always happy to watch this film.
Unions, studios, major universities and global organizations now offer courses which are available for crew to become educated and certified in protecting everyone on set. This era marks the emergence of the new crew position: COVID Compliance Officer. As the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the disease COVID-19 continues to spread and evolve globally, the film industry works diligently to continually seek and employ better methods and safer solutions to working as a team on a film set together.
2nd.MD, a leader in Telemedicine, required a web and mobile video produced, to introduce their on-line agent “Gabi,” a virtual assistant, who will streamline consultation services with human doctors and nurses to remotely-located 2nd.MD clients.
For the gig economy, the effects from a recession versus the coronavirus pandemic are very different. If it were just a recession, we would just lose corporate and industrial work, for that time period. But with COVID-19 infecting people in groups, there is less chance of any productions continuing since film production is really a team sport. So, how do we continue moving forward.
The Houston Creative Endowment, a non-profit 501(c)3, is dedicated to preserving, protecting, developing, fostering, and supporting the creative industry by focusing on the film and television production industry in Houston, Texas.
As a New Yorker working in the arts sector in Houston, Houston Cinema Arts Society Artistic Director Jessica Green sits down with Lynn Birdwell to discuss how Houston’s diversity can help build the next great global film city.
Film is a team sport. It takes a range of professionals to collaborate in making a film -- set designers, wardrobe, directors, producers, art directors. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and have different passions, yet all can come together to create something beautiful and well done.
Film Finance Seminar Houston moved to Fall 2020, date to be announced. Houston Creative Endowment, Bird House Productions and FilmPro Finance are deeply encouraged by the strong public response to upcoming The Film Finance Seminar Houston 2020, and are looking forward to hosting the first ever film finance event of this caliber in Houston.
Film is a team sport. It takes a range of professionals to collaborate in making a film -- set designers, wardrobe, directors, producers, art directors. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and have different passions, yet all can come together to create something beautiful and well done.
Film is a team sport. It takes a range of professionals to collaborate in making a film -- set designers, wardrobe, directors, producers, art directors. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and have different passions, yet all can come together to create something beautiful and well done.
For the first time ever, the Bayou City will host Film Finance Seminar Houston in the Fall of 2020. This event is an initial step towards establishing Houston as a profitable location to develop films and television productions.
Film is a team sport. It takes a range of professionals to collaborate in making a film -- set designers, wardrobe, directors, producers, art directors. Everyone comes from different backgrounds and have different passions, yet all can come together to create something beautiful and well done.
Temple Northrop, Director of the Jack J. Valenti School of Communication, University of Houston, sits down with Bird House Productions Lynn Birdwell to discuss his strategic plan on how UH is building upon their current program to establish the county's leading film production program at the university level. He also calls for working industry professionals to help him reach his goal of training the next generation of A-list talent.
The City of Houston and Houston Independent School District (HISD) recognize the importance of the arts in education. The newly created Mayor's Office of Education works with schools to prepare students through workforce development and training, including in the film industry.
"We want to make it a practical program, a program that serves as a pipeline to see our students actually working in the field." Fleurette Fernando, Director, M.A. in Arts Leadership Program, the University of Houston, gives a preliminary glimpse at the future possibility of a film degree to be offered at UH to keep students in here to support a healthy Houston creative economy.
"The creative economy in New York City in 2017 delivered $30 billion of revenue to that city -- $30 billion! I believe that we can do that here because we have such a low cost of living and a high disposable income that we could take a huge chunk out of that $30 billion and bring it to Houston." - WOND3R Co-founder Kerry Chrapliwy.
Bird House Productions (BHP) Executive Producer Lynn Birdwell hosted a Work-In-Progress: Production Slate in Development Wednesday night to unveil 20 new film and episodic series projects to be created in Houston through Bird Nest, the development arm of BHP.