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The Network Austin Mixer
is a networking
get-together where
people in the
entertainment, film,
music, and game
industries can meet,
forward their careers,
and share ideas and
information. We are
actors, filmmakers,
screenwriters,
producers, directors,
agents, crew members,
etc., and our Mixers
are a great place to
meet like minds, get
different types of
media projects going,
and find out the scoop
on new productions.
Our
Mixers are free and open
to people who work in
or are interested in
film and media, and
require no
registration, cover
charge or
membership. Just show
up. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, and we usually have guest speakers
at all Mixers. The
Network Austin Mixer
is growing and we
would like to extend
our sincere gratitude
for the support we
have received from
other film and media
organizations, their
staff, their websites, our Speakers, and you, the
people who attend!
Thanks… and grow
with us… Our past speakers include Dawnna Dukes (Texas State Representative), Beth Sepko (Beth Sepko Casting), Bonnie Orr (ScreenWriter, Producer), Marco Perella (Actor, Acting Teacher), Scott Meyers (Director, AD), Veronica Kelley-Albiez (DVA Talent ), Michael Waxman (Director FNL), Stefano Fabrizio (Headshot Photographer), Heather Collier (Collier Talent), Robert Hinkle (Actor, Writer, Producer, Director), Rebecca Campbell (Executive Director / Austin Film Society), Holly Herrick (Associate Artistic Director / Austin Film Society), Steve Prince (Actor, Acting Teacher), Donise Hardy (Owner & Founder / A CASTING PLACE), Doran W. Ingrham (Actor, Writer), Gary L. Wimmer (Actor, Writer), Van Brooks (Actor, Acting Teacher), Evan Fitzmaurice and Bob Hudgins (Former Texas Film Commission Directors), Matt Dentler (SxSW), Barbara Morgan (Executive Director - Austin Film Festival), Steve Orr (Independent Producer, Attorney), Gary Kent (Director, Writer, Actor, Stunts), Toni Cobb-Brock (Casting Director), Sally Allen (Casting Director), Lupe Valdez (Acclaim Talent Agency), Barbara Brinkley (Casting Director), Charles Wiedman (Writer, Producer, Director), Natalie Schuessler (Austin Film Society), Andrew Pozzo (Writer, Director), Katherine Willis (Actress), Jeter Crutchfield, Kelly Williams, Linnea Toney, Alissa Ziemianski, Alex McPhail, David Gil, Scott Bagan, Matt Dy, and Melissa 'Millie' McKinney (Austin Film Festival), Sherry Mills (Executive Director REEL WOMEN), Gary Walker (Special Effects Artist), Suzanne Weinert (Actor, Writer, Producer), Andrew Garrison (Indie Filmmaker, Writer, Director, Producer), Angela K. Pires (Writer, Director, Editor), Byran Poyser (Austin Film Society), Phillip Guzman, (Director, Writer, Producer), Babs George (Actor, Acting Teacher), Deena Kalai (Entertainment Attorney), Cynthia Robbins (BLVD Talent), CK McFarland (Actor, Director, Writer, Teacher), Rob Nash (Comedian, Writer), Erin Franlkin (Agence Talent), Angela Rawnā (Actress, Writer), Liz Atherton (The Atherton Group (TAG) Talent Agency), Dallas Snell (Computer Game Pioneer), Jeff Stolhand (Writer, Director), Kat Candler and Stacy Schoolfield (Writers, Directors, Storie Productions), Marta McGonagle (Actress), Todd McMullen (Cinematographer, DP), Greg Zekowski (Director, Writer, Producer), Gabe Folse (Actor, Acting Teacher), Mark Stuart Lane (Actor, Producer, Director), Bill Kirchenbauer (Actor, Comedian), Joaquin Avellon (Editor, Producer), Ludek Drizhal (Musician, Composer), Jeffery Nightbyrd (Acclaim Talent), Steve Mims (Teacher, Filmmaker), Tom Booker (Comedian, Teacher, Writer), Sheila Steele (Beth Sepko Casting), Reid Reasor (Animation expert), Amanda C. Hall-Summers (Acclaim Talent), Liz Reeder Neubauer (Teacher, Writer, Producer), Michael Morlan (Cinematographer, Writer), Janet Pierson (Producer SxSW), Ben Taylor (Actor, Writer, Teacher), Tommy G. Warren (Writer, Producer, Spiderwood Studios), Mary Anne Connolly (Editor/Austin Woman Magazine), Amy Maner (Actress, Producer, Costumer), Brandy Rainey Amstel (Writer, Producer, Director), Deb Bryan (Canned Peach Productions), Suezean Matarazzo (DP), Michael B. Druxman (ScreenWriter, Director, Author), Giovanni Gallucci (Internet social media expert), Sandra Adair (Editor), Dwight Adair (Director, Writer, Producer), Arnie Reyes (Attorney, Producer, Writer), Barry Pineo (Actor, Teacher), Beatrice Bellino (Script Supervisor), Linda Dowell (Executive Director SAG/DFW) and Trish Avery (Assistant Executive Director SAG/DFW), Latifah Taormina (Executive Director of Austin Circle of Theaters), David Layton & J. Kevin Smith (Picture Box Productions), Paul Alvarado-Dykstra (Central Texas Representative of TXMPA) and Anne-Marie McKaskle (Membership Services Director/Greater Austin Creative Alliance), Dean Reading (Actor, Writer, Teacher), Christine "Kee Kee" Buckley (Business, Rights, Negotiations, Writer), Erik Eff (Producer, Editor, Writer), Michele Collins (Actor, Singer, Comedian, Producer), Mj Vandivier (Actor, Acting Teacher), Paula Russell (Actor, Acting Teacher), Jonathan de la Luz (Writer, Producer, financial consultant for film), Tracie Laymon (Writer, Director), Spencer Gibb (Composer, Producer, Actor), Leon Rodriquez (Writer, Director, Producer), Linda Bradshaw, Danielle Gonzales, Stacey Glazer, David Harper, Marc Friedman, Dan Mays, Sonny Costilla, and Martina Ohlhauser (Studio E Austin Comics), Janell Vela Smith (Martial Arts, Stunts), Derek Lee Nixon (Actor, Writer, Producer), Dawn Krantz (Financing films), Laurie A. Guzda (Actor, Director, Comedian), Nick Krause (Actor), Kate Krause (Actress), and others from our round table discussions. Please
pass on information
about our Mixers to
your friends and
associates in the
film/media industries,
and if you have a
website associated
with these fields,
please post our
website - www.networkaustinmixer.com. |
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IMPORTANT!!! Texas Film Incentive Program (House Bill 873) is now in place, thanks to the tireless efforts of former Texas Film Commission Directors Bob Hudgins and Evan Fitzmaurice, TX State Rep Dawnna Dukes (http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/dist46/dukes.php), the all-important TXMPA, and thousands of people across the state! On Monday, September 24, 2012, Gov. Rick Perry named Heather Page
(from Austin and an excellent cinematographer) as the new Director of
the Texas Film Commission, and we are extremely grateful! The
commission supports Texas' growing and diverse media industries, and
helps increase Texas' competitive position worldwide as a production
destination. Page is an accomplished motion picture camerawoman, having
worked on major feature films and television shows such as Revenge,
Friday Night Lights, Armageddon and The Green Mile.
She is a former workforce training administrator for the Texas Film
Commission, where she helped implement the Workforce Training Program
created in 2007 by the Texas Legislature. She is a board member of the
Society of Camera Operators, chair of the International
Cinematographers Guild Scholarship Fund and co-founder and
director of Beyond the Lights Celebrity Golf Classic. Page received a
bachelor's degree in cinema from Denison University, a master's degree in
cinema studies from New York University, and a certificate in graduate
cinematography studies from the American Film Institute. Funding for the current TX Film Incentive Program (funded during the 2011 TX Legislative Session) is now $30 million. Still, we in the film, TV, gaming, and associated industries need to join TXMPA, as the battle for renewed funding will begin again during the legislative session of 2013! Google - Texas film incentives (House Bill 873), and visit http://www.governor.state.tx.us/film and TXMPA and other websites to get details!
TXMPA
(http://www.txmpa.org/joomla/)
is a nonprofit
organization founded
in
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