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November 14, 2018 ~ New Republic Studios

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New Republic Studios

We are pleased as punch to present a panel from New Republic Studios on Wednesday, November 14th @ Opal Divine’s:

Mindy Raymond

Mindy Raymond
Director of Marketing & Development

Mindy is an actor, voiceover artist, producer, and the former Executive Director of TXMPA. She now heads up a team that has expanded New Republic Studios‘ scope into a multi-platform creative campus serving the film, television, commercial, new media, and the AR/VR/XR industries as well as the creative community at large for projects and production of any scale with a new world-class team and unique services and amenities. Mindy also teaches Yoga, and is a wife & mom.
“I connect people. I am organized and a quick study. I love challenging experiences that help me grow as an individual. I have a variety of interests from film, voiceover work and acting to yoga, travel and snowboarding.”

Cj Felux

Cj Felux
Production Manager

CJ’s role is ensuring that those on every production enjoy a great experience and have all the tools needed when filming commercials, music videos, or feature films. He is also responsible for organizing payroll and managing the internship program. CJ is a filmmaker at heart, with wide-ranging experience from a DP on music videos to animating for a 48 hour film contest. He is a driven, hard-working individual, who always looks for new opportunities to grow and learn in the film industry. His current personal project is a YouTube series about teaching young adults how to navigate the transition into adulthood in the 21st Century.

 

Cruz Garcia

Cruz Garcia
Social Media Director

Cruz handles all the social media, as well as any visual content that the studio needs. He is a media developer who uses his camera to focus on creating and displaying what the world has to offer. Cruz also enjoys creating content from micro-docs, social media content for business, and volunteering time to create videos for nonprofits, as well as work on some more narrative projects. Besides film, his other passions include biking, hiking, and trying out unique foods in Austin.

 

 

These 3 talented, experienced, and passionately creative artists will discuss the many aspects of media production, from inception to final product and promotion. This mixer offers a unique opportunity to get the facts, insights, and inspiration to think BIG about new projects and ideas, and discover how New Republic Studios can help dreams become reality. Actors, producers, writers, and all those interested in media production are invited!

Hollywood has studios galore. NYC has the island of Manhattan. Atlanta has Tyler Perry & Pinewood Studios.

We have New Republic Studios.

It’s this sort of entertainment production infrastructure that will take Texas to the top of our industry. And it’s available to us all.

Formerly Spiderwood Studios, the newly renovated New Republic Studios is a sprawling creative campus on the outskirts of Austin featuring 4 sound stages, green rooms, dressing rooms, offices, a kitchen, a conference room, and a diversely spectacular 200+ acre backlot on the Colorado River for producing pretty much any entertainment project imaginable.

Don’t just dream big, make it big. Afterall, we are Texas.

Are you involved in making a web series, television show, video game, movie, AR/VR/XR? This Texas gem offers space, facilities, and amenities for all sizes and kinds of projects. Not a few major movies & TV shows have been filmed there, along with smaller productions such as by contestants in the Austin 48-Hour Film Project. Equipped with lighting, sound, green screens, a cyclorama wall, and so much more, if you can dream it, you can make it here.

New Republic Studios is available for any size & variety of production projects, and if you haven’t visited, arrange an appointment to do so on your very next opportunity.

So come to Opal’s this Wednesday the 14th to find out what it’s all about! And while there, also get the scoop on our Annual Talent Showcase for 2018 happening next month, where you can be the star!

 

Last Month:
Yours truly, Gary L. Wimmer (the guy who runs the sound system) was thrilled to be the guest speaker at the mixer on Wednesday, October 10th, and I hope you folks enjoyed my insights and ramblings.
Check out my book, A Second in Eternity!
See photos here, and more mixer photos here.

 

Be in our audience on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 @ Opal Divine’s, have some great food, meet like minds, network, and get illuminated by our stellar guest speakers from New Republic Studios!

Come and bring a friend for laughing & learning and of course, networking. Bring a friend, and while there enjoy Opal Divine’s Happy Hour which lasts until 7, then $3 “Three for Texas” beers the rest of the evening. And don’t cook or go anywhere else for a meal or snacks because Opal’s offers a tasty and largely locally-sourced menu of goodies.

Pass along our website and check it for details about each month’s speaker(s)!
Find this month’s mixer on Facebook and invite your friends.
Get on our mailing list and keep up with us on social media:
Like our page & join our group on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!

Mixing & Networking @ 6:00PM, Announcements @ 6:30, Speakers @ 6:45
Followed by More Mixing & Mingling and Networking

July 11, 2018 ~ Andrew Garrison

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Filmmaker & Professor
Andrew Garrison

Andrew Garrison

We are proud to present this month’s guest speaker, award-winning filmmaker & professor Andrew Garrison, on Wednesday, July 11th at Opal Divine’s Austin Grill. Texan & Austinite Andrew is a writer, producer, and director who has also scored numerous credits in sound, cinematography, editing, even acting, and more over his career spanning 5 decades.

Andrew has received fellowships from the American Film Institute (AFI), the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim foundations. A couple of his films, Third Ward TX & The Wilgus Stories, aired on PBS, and several others have been selected for screenings at theaters & festivals around the world, including SXSW, Sundance, Locarno International Film Festival, Sydney Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and the Berlinale. His films have won multiple awards & nominations for the highly acclaimed feature film Trash Dance and short film Night Ride.

In 1975 Andrew co-founded the Dayton Community Media Workshop that produced community-based documentaries for local and national audiences. Later he was invited to join renowned film collective Appalshop in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, where for a dozen years he collaborated to produce documentaries for others, as well as his own projects. Now the Audio Area Head of the Department of Radio-Television-Film (RTF) at the University of Texas in Austin (UT), Andrew founded yet another film organization, East Austin Stories, in which UT students work with residents & businesses in East Austin on documentary projects.

Watch these clips & trailers, and find more of Andrew’s works on Vimeo:

☆ Trash Dance, a collaborative documentary project between Austin choreographer, Allison Orr, and employees of Austin Resource Recovery (formerly Solid Waste Services) to make an extraordinary and transforming public dance display on film

☆ Third Ward TX, about a group of artists in inner-city Houston who have successfully revitalized their neighborhood with art as the engine of change

☆ The Wilgus Stories, a narrative triptych of a humorous and poignant perspective on the significant moments of daily life as shown through the eyes of Wilgus Collier set in the 50s & 60s

☆ Because I’m Here, rough-cut clip from a work-in-progress 35 years in the making sponsored in part by the City of Austin’s Cultural Arts Division and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities about a man named Earl Gilmore, an African-American, gay, devout Christian, gospel choir director, blues musician, coal miner, centerfielder for the Clinchco Giants, carnival hoochie-coochie dancer, Ford Fellow, and life-long resident of Clinchco, Virginia, population 500. Shown here, Earl’s friend, Eldora, avoids answering the question, “How would you describe Earl?”

And put our next mixer featuring the multi-talented successful Andrew Garrison on your calendar for Wednesday the 11th at Opal’s!

Get there early to take advantage of Opal Divine’s Happy Hour which lasts until 7, then $3 “Three for Texas” beers the rest of the evening. And don’t cook or go anywhere else for a meal or snacks because Opal’s offers a tasty and largely locally-sourced menu of goodies.

 

Last Month

We’re so grateful for you, audience members, who came out to bravely step up to our stage and pitch yourselves. New connections abounded upon hearing from one another and what each does, has done, and is up to now, providing a greater opportunity for exchanging contacts & information; networking in a nutshell. There’s a wealth of talent & skills right here in Central Texas, as you sure showed us all!
And thanks so much to our special guest Jennifer Hutchins of Austin Entertainment Business and the Austin Chapter of the Producers Guild of America (PGA), who has diligently dug in to make our local industry ever more vital and recognized worldwide.
See photos here, and more mixer photos here.

 

Pass along our website and check it for details about each month’s speaker(s)!
Find this month’s mixer on Facebook and invite your friends.
Get on our mailing list and keep up with us on social media:
Like our page & join our group on Facebook and follow us on Twitter!

Mixing & Networking @ 6:00PM, Announcements @ 6:30, Speakers @ 6:45
Followed by More Mixing & Mingling and Networking