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This year’s NAB Show had been scheduled to run between October 9-13, 2021. The festival’s organizers hope to reunite in person for a 2022 show that’s currently scheduled between April 23-27, 2022. Select content from the show will be made available virtually through the group’s platform NAB Amplify. The cancellation comes after the group previously […]

To help keep track of the changing schedule, Screen is keeping this page updated with the latest film festival and market dates, postponements and cancellations.  Festivals taking place online or as hybrid events due to Covid-19 are noted. If not specified, the festival is currently set as a physical event. 

Move over green screens, LED walls are here. When the pandemic hit, productions scrambled to figure out logistics in the new normal. That’s when studios turned to an emerging aspect of virtual production: digital immersive environments capturing real-world settings (including lighting) rendered in real time using game engines such as Unreal. They are then projected […]

IATSE, the major labor union for film, theater, and television workers, is mulling a possible strike amid ongoing negotiations with the AMPTP. The union, which represents 150,000 workers across 13 Hollywood locals, released a statement to members Tuesday indicating a vote on a strike could be forthcoming. The union’s major priorities include living wages, reasonable […]

Share your input with the Department of Economic and Community Development on potential business and nonprofit support programs.  Commissioner Heather Johnson, Carlos Mello from the Finance Authority of Maine, DECD staff, and region-specific organizations are hosting virtual input sessions as a chance for us to receive feedback directly from you.  This is an opportunity for you to share how […]