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While they are likely not your first (second, third or twelfth) hiring priority, and you may not even be involved in the process of selecting them, finding and grooming solid office PAs will be one of the most impactful long-term contributions you can make to the film and television industry. They are a crucial component to the production team. Here are a few things to consider about office PAs:

Bangor native and Maine baseball star Justin Courtney can add a new title to his resume: actor. The 25-year-old MLB hopeful spent part of last summer in Austin, Texas filming the documentary ‘Facing Nolan.’ The film looks back at the legacy of one of Major League Baseball’s most well-known pitchers, Nolan Ryan. 

“When I first got the call from the production company, I didn’t really know what to expect,” Justin Courtney said.

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.

To submit details of a change to your festival dates/status, please contact us here with the name, dates, and website for the event, and if it is running online, physically, or both.

The innovation of using virtual production techniques could make a significant impact in the race to net zero across broadcasters and production companies, with recent studies suggesting over a 90 per cent reduction in CO2 emissions.

However, I see it that VP needs to be considered as just one component of a suite of tools we can deploy to clean up our act on production.

This article sums up where we are on this journey, and how using virtual production is not only likely to be a greener choice, but also acts as a vanguard to place the responsibility and discussions around sustainable production central to the project in hand.

Studio execs and stage operators say sets are at least 15 percent more expensive to build than they were just last year: “We’re asking, ‘This scene is seven-eighths of a page. Do we need the set, which costs $500,000?’

Last year, most production executives and set construction shops said they were mainly facing delays and hadn’t reached the point where they were unable to procure certain set fixtures. Some now say that impossible-to-meet demand nationwide for the same materials, equipment and parts amid record demand for content is impacting set-building. “If a scene calls for a bathroom, but nothing happens there, we won’t have it to bring costs down,” says a major studio’s top production executive. In California, where the cost of gas now averages $6.34 cents a gallon, this executive notes: “For the first time, we’re asking how to reduce fuel expenditures.”