Rochester filmmaking in City Newspaper

[Mike Boas]

This week's City Newspaper has a good overview of the local film
community written by Susie Hume.

Susie is the reporter who spoke with me last year for another paper.
This time, she took on the entire film scene and talked to tons of
people. John Vincent (my writing partner) and Matt Ehlers get some
facetime, as well as The MAD DOG MOVIES Podcast, Rochester Movie
Makers, and Rochester Film Lab.

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An excerpt:

Vincent, a Rochester native, worked in both New York City and Los
Angeles before eventually settling back here, his hometown. His long
list of film credits includes visual effects work on cult classics
like "Freaked" and sci-fi favorites like "Robot Wars" and
"Prehysteria." He now works full-time as a writer, director, and
effects artist, and as president of his own production company,
Philrose Productions, which provides effects and production management
for industrial videos, commercials, and feature films.

"There are other smaller cities with big film communities, like
Austin and Portland, that are really promoting their work, and it
pumps millions of dollars into their economies," Vincent says. "We
need to promote that here. We're not Hollywood, and we never will be,
so to people here it's very intangible to think of Rochester as a film
city. But to us, it is what we do already, so we need to change the
way they're thinking."

Vincent also remains involved with a core group of local
filmmakers committed to boosting the Rochester film scene. He co-hosts
a podcast on local writer/filmmaker/animator Mike Boas' website,
maddogmovies.com, and will shoot a lower budget film ("100 grand or
less," he says) with Boas this year with the working title "Lake
Midnight." In addition, Vincent acted as second unit director to Matt
Ehlers' recently premiered film, "Smoking Laws."

"People like Matt and others could be working in L.A. or New York,
but the great thing here is that we just help each other out or work
for free on each other's films," Vincent says. "It's a 'You scratch my
back, I'll scratch yours' mentality, because we're all in this
together."

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Read the entire article online here:
http://tinyurl.com/4uyp8k

Thanks for the press, Susie!

Links:

The MAD DOG MOVIES Podcast
http://www.maddogmovies.com/podcast

Lake Midnight
http://www.philrosefilms.com/lakemidnight

Smoking Laws
http://www.smokinglawsmovie.com/