Production Insurance
Health Insurance
Legal Consulting
Financial Services
Payroll Services
Equipment Rental
Lab and Transfer Houses
Film and Video Stock
Editing
and Post-Production Facilities, Film and Video
Editing
and Post-Production Facilities, Audio
Recommended Reading
Additional Resources
Production Insurance
Reiff & Associates, LLC
www.reiffinsurance.com
Reiff & Associates, LLC. is a full service brokerage
specializing in Entertainment Insurance.
C&S International Insurance Brokers,
Inc.
www.csins.com/
An independent insurance brokerage that offers commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, as well as all forms of coverage for businesses and individuals. The firm specializes in coverage for the entertainment, arts and media enterprises and their related industries.
Marvin S. Kaplan Insurance Agency, Inc.
kaplaninsurance.tripod.com
A one of a kind program for film/video production insurance.
Offers coverage for film production packages at more economical
rates. Policies can be short or long-term and are available
in all states.
United Agencies Insurance, Inc
www.unitedagencies.com
Insuring Professional Audio, Video, Editing, Film. P.A and
Band Gear for over 25 years in Southern California and nationwide.
Aon
www.aon.com
Aon provides in-depth specialization from an industry and
product standpoint, enabling them to leverage their experiences
with your peer companies around the world. Aon has made a
significant investment in entertainment risk professionals
solely dedicated to addressing the specific concerns of Motion
Picture/Television Production and Distribution and Media
Industry.
The Gulf Insurance Group
www.gulfins.com.kw
Providing specialized insurance programs to the film, video,
and television communities rated A + Superior by A.M. Best
& Co. Its programs include production coverage (e.g. negative,
faulty, props/sets/wardrobe, owned and rented equipment, extra
expense, third party property damage, and cast insurance), as
well as property, general liability, automobile, workers compensation
and umbrella.
Marsh Inc.
www.marsh.com
Marsh's Entertainment Practice provides risk management
services and insurance solutions to clients across all sectors
of the industry, from motion picture and television production
companies, to concert promoters, special event organizations,
music companies, and advertising agencies.
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Health
Insurance
NYWFT Health Insurance
http://www.nywift.org
New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) has launched a
variety of medical, dental and vision insurance plans for its
members. To be eligible for and enroll in the plan, individuals
must apply for or maintain their membership in New York Women in
Film and Television and live in the state of New York or New
Jersey where the plans are offered.
As a NYWIFT member, you can take advantage
of a wide-range of benefits in Health and Wellness: Health
Insurance, Dental Insurance, Long Term Care & Disability and
Health Clubs”
Freelancers Union
www.freelancersunion.org/
Freelancers Union is a nonprofit organization that represents
the needs of America's independent workforce though advocacy,
information, and service. Freelancers Union connects freelancers
to group-rate benefits, resources, community, and political
action to improve their lives – and their bottom lines.
RBA Insurance Strategies
www.rbastrategies.com
RBA designs and implements complete health, dental, life, disability,
home and auto insurance plans, as well as retirement planning
programs.
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Legal Consulting
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
www.vlany.org
The Legal Services program includes a wide range of services
including: the Art Law Line, a legal hotline; the VLA Legal
Clinic for VLA members; in-house appointments with VLA staff
attorneys; and pro bono placements for low-income artists and
nonprofit arts organizations with one of over 1,200 volunteer
attorneys.
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard
www.cdas.com
Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard’s practice focuses on
Entertainment, Digital Media, Intellectual Property, Publishing,
the Arts & Litigation.
Fernando Ramirez, Attorney At Law
www.entfrlaw.com
Transactional entertainment and small business law (contracts,
copyrights, trademarks, privacy, nonprofit and business forms)
in the music, film, television, and publishing industries for
individual talent and corporate clients.
Law Offices of Miriam Stern
212/794-1289
Discounts: Free consultation; Discounts on film projects.
Miriam Stern, Esq.
Law Offices of Innes Smolansky
718.499-5633; 718/499-5632 fax; innes@filmlegal.com
408 3rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215
www.qofj.com/bio_Innes.htm
Law Offices of Robert L. Siegel
212/307-7533
Discounts: Reduced Hourly Rate or negotiated flat
fee for legal and business consulting services Production Counsel
Business Plan Preparation.
Law Offices of Mark Litwak
310/859-9595;
www.marklitwak.com
Mark Litwak is a veteran entertainment lawyer and an author. His
practice includes work in the areas of copyright, trademark,
contract, multimedia law, intellectual property, and book publishing. Litwak
also functions as a Producer's Rep, assisting filmmakers in the
marketing and distribution of their films.
Hollywood Script Reseach
www.hollywoodscriptresearch.com
Hollywood Script Research provides legal clearance reports to
qualify your production for Errors & Omissions insurance
coverage. One flat fee, no expenses; re-writes free with asterisked
changes. HSR has never had one legal issue within their 14 years
experience. Lowest rates in the industry!
Levinsohn Associates, P.C.
www.entlawfirm.com
Levinsohn Associates is a transactional entertainment law firm.
In a addition to our strong background in the music industry, we
are experienced in digital media, television, film and a variety
of related entertainment business.
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Financial
Services
Todres & Company, LLP
www.bellandcompanyllp.com/door/
Since its inception, Bell & Company LLP has responded to the
ever-changing face of business by becoming more than just an
accounting firm. As financial consultants committed to the
challenges that can directly affect the profitability and
strategic goals of companies large and small, Bell & Company LLP
has evolved into a multifaceted and comprehensive
business-consulting firm.
Prudential Financial Planning Services
www.prudential.com
A Prudential Financial Planner has ideas that can help you create
a plan to achieve it. Your comprehensive financial plan comes
complete with: suggestions for better cash-flow management;
Ideas for education financing; Income tax-deferral strategies;
Analysis of life insurance needs; Retirement funding plans;
Estate distribution strategies.
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Media Services
www.media-services.com
Media Services is a comprehensive production management
resource for the film, TV, commercial, corporate media and live
event industries. Integrated services include: crew and talent
payroll, residuals, production accounting, crew booking, and
production software.
Cast and Crew
www.castandcrew.com
Founded
in 1976, Cast & Crew began modestly as a small business
that provided payroll services to the commercial and the music
business. Today, with offices in Burbank, New York,
Albuquerque, Atlanta, Baton Rouge, Detroit, Toronto and
Vancouver, Cast & Crew has grown into a leading
and respected provider of payroll and talent payment services
for the Motion Picture, Television and Commercial Industries.
Cast & Crew provides these same industries with its highly
regarded PSL family of production accounting software.
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DCTV (Downtown Community Television)
www.dctvny.org
Providing camera rental and Avid editing suite rental services.
Discounts: Discounts dependent on project.
Camera Service Center
www.cameraservice.com
A full service equipment rental company that caters to
commercial and feature film productions.
Post Production Playground
www.kftv.com
10% off daily A-P or lightworks rentals and long term rentals.
Hotlights
www.hotlights.com
A full service lighting equipment rental house, Hotlights rents
lights, lighting accessories, grip equipment, and sells expendables.
Hand Held Films
www.handheldfilms.com
A camera rental house, that rents 35 and 16mm as well as DV
cameras, lenses, and accessories.
Du-All Camera
www.duallcamera.com/catalog.html
A full service camera rental house, Du-All rents 35mm, 16mm,
and video cameras.
FilmFriends (NY)
www.mandy.com
A film production company that caters for all and any production
services that you require. Additionally Filmfriends owns all
of its own professional equipment that is available to rent
at reasonable prices.
Glidecam Industries
www.glidecam.com
Glidecam Industries, Inc. has over 20 products and hundreds
of dealers worldwide. Glidecam separates itself from its competition
by offering a product line that is both technologically advanced
and yet priced very affordably. Check out the great specials
Professional Sound Services
http://www.pro-sound.com
Professional Sound Services in New York, NY, is dedicated to
providing the best in audio equipment sales, service and rentals.
Soho Audio
www.sohoaudio.com
An audio equipment rental company located
in lower Manhattan in New York City. It offers high quality,
well maintained sound equipment for film and video production.
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DuArt Film and Video
www.duart.com
Established in 1922, DuArt
offers moving image post from black and white to color, to 16mm
and 35mm to Red Camera workflows, to nitrate film to Blu-Ray and
file-based delivery.
Magno Sound & Video
www.magnosoundandvideo.com
Magno ranks as the East Coast’s largest and most comprehensive
post-production facility. Magno employs over 75 exceptionally
creative and experienced professionals who provide an
ever-growing range of diverse services for film and TV from
Magno’s Times Square headquarters, including video and sound
post production.”
Colorlab
www.colorlab.com
A full-service film laboratory and telecine house, specializing
in 16, super-16 and 35mm services for the independent documentary
and student filmmaker.
Bono Film & Video
www.bonofilm.com
Full service motion picture lab
CinePost
www.posthouse.com
CinePost offers a variety of services including audio & video
editing, transfer, restoration and more.
Efilm
www.efilm.com
EFilm is a post-production house in Hollywood that specializes
in the digital intermediate process and other digital motion
picture technologies
Heavy Light Digital
www.heavylightdigital.com
Heavy Light Digital is New York City’s emerging choice for DV
and HD film transfers at 2k and 4k, HD/SD online and color
correction, and creative services.
Mind's Eye Media, Inc.
mem-nyc.com
A postproduction facility with state of the art telecine and
synching / duplication / film develop and standard conversions.
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Edgewise Media, Inc. (NY)
www.edgewisemedia.com
They claim to be the #1 Source For Evaluated Broadcast Tape.
Film Emporium
www.filmemporium.com
Film Emporium works with everyone from major production
companies to individuals to provide their Film & Digital Media
resources: all formats, all lengths and all major brands. Film
Emporium is also a full service insurance brokerage specializing
in Entertainment, Production & Event Insurance.
Media Distributors
www.mediadistributors.com
Same day & 24/7 emergency service. Media Distributors is the
nation's largest independent distributor of professional
recording, editing and storage products to the production,
broadcast and entertainment industries.
Eastman Kodak Co.
www.kodak.com
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Editing
and Post-Production Facilities, Film & Video
DCTV (Downtown Community Television)
www.dctvny.org
An affordable editing solution for you. Private HD Edit Suites
are outfitted with Black Magic monitoring cards, broadcast HD
monitors, and professional mixers and speakers. Starting at only
$50/hour.
The Standby Program, Inc.
www.standby.org
Standby is an innovative non-profit organization that provides
artists and independent makers access to state-of-the-art media
services at affordable rates.
Electronic
Arts Intermix
www.eai.org
EAI's Editing Facility is a post-production workspace for artists
and nonprofit organizations. In operation since 1971, this service
provides access to a user-friendly editing facility in a creative
environment, at very low rates.
Millennium
Film Workshop
www.millenniumfilm.org
Several rooms are available for editing in 16mm and S8mm. In
addition there are two 6 plate Steenbeck Editing Consoles. A
variety of editing equipment and supplies are on hand.
Hello World Communications
www.hwc.tv
Offer the latest digital cameras, audio-lighting production
tools and projectors as well as on and off line editing, video
production and photo retouching.
eMedia Loft.org (The Media loft)
www.emedialoft.org
Post Production services. Final Cut Pro available.
Mercer Media (Mercer Street Sound)
www.mercermedia.com
A full service post-production studio located in the heart of
Manhattan serving the needs of independent film and video
makers, artists, activists, media producers and archivists.
Offering a complete range of audio services including
professional recording and sound design, DVD authoring and non-linera
video editing, with support for a wide variety of video formats.
PrimaLux Video
www.primalux.com
Post-Production services.
Workedit
www.workedit.com
“Full service post production facility, including content
development, on-line and off-line editing, DVD authoring, and
duplication.”
Solar Films/Video Productions
www.marvera.com
Avid editing, sound mixing, editing and recording (ADR/ VO/
Foleys), DVD/CD authoring, transfers and dubs.
Teatown Media
www.teatown.tv
Melissa Miller, 212/302-0722
A full range of HD post production services, featuring AVID
Symphony Nitris HD system and Final Cut Pro HD system.
City Lights Media Group
www.citylightsmedia.com
Full service Edit and Sound post production services including
the latest Avid Adrenaline HD and Symphony Nitris HD for
off-line and on-line editing, and ProTools equipped audio
suites with voice over & music composition capabilities.
Virgin Moon Post
www.virginmoon.com
Providing a full range of production services to meet the professional
video requirements of our clients in the Corporate, Broadcast,
and Internet markets.
Virtual Media
www.virtualmediaonline.com
A systems integrator and provider of non-linear digital editing
solutions.
It provides the latest hardware and software tools for non-linear
digital editing, storage, and media management.
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Magno Sound and Video
www.magnosoundandvideo.com
A
company long recognized as the industry leader in quality sound
recording and Feature Film mixing.
Harmonic Ranch
www.harmonicranch.com
Since 1985 Harmonic Ranch has offered award winning audio postproduction
for independent filmmakers, artists, and performers. Services
include voice recording, ADR, Foley, sound design, music, editing,
and stereo/surround mixing. Harmonic Ranch has experienced video
editors available for projects and consultations and also provides
a DV production crew for documenting music, theater, dance,
and webcasting.
Matlin Recording, Inc.
www.matlin.com
Allan Gus, 212/206-0350
Sound design/ADR/Foley/mixing. Discounts available.
SoundOne
www.soundone.com
212/708-7851
Mixing; ADR/Foley; Film/Tape Transfers and more.
Ear Goo, Inc.
www.eargoo.com
Full-service audio postproduction facility specializing in high-end
original music, sound design, post mix, vo record, and 5.1 Surround
mix for TV, film and radio. Package rates available.
Ren Music, Inc.
www.renmusiclibrary.com
Music scoring for film/video. Has accessible music library of
independent composers. Also offers royalty free music.
Sound Dimensions Editorial Inc.
www.silversound.us
New York post-production audio facility for film and video.
Splash Studios
www.spalsh-studio.com
Services include: dialog and sound effects editing, ADR and
Foley editing and recording, music editing and transfers.
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Recommended
Reading
Handbook
of Insurance
Video
to Film: How to Choose a Company
The following websites
are also great resources for production information. (If
you are located outside of New York contact your local Office
of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting for possible tax exemptions
in your area.)
The New York Mayor's
Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting
www.nyc.gov
New York 411
www.newyork411.com
Mandy.com
www.mandy.com
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Additional
Resources
The following media arts membership organizations
may offer additional resources and applicable discounts:
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
(National) www.aivf.org
Independent Feature Project, Regional;
www.ifp.org
New York Women in Film and Television;
www.nywift.org
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