Things are moving fast and picking up speed. I had a wonderful meeting today with Dave Sluberski, RIT Senior Tenured Professor at RIT and current President of Rochester Audio Visual Association (www.myrava.com). We discussed how our two organizations can work together and found immediate common goals. I will be meeting with the rest of RAVA at their next board meeting to discuss future endeavors as RMM and RAVA will likely have a closely bound future together.
In other good news, Dave was giving me some details abour RIT's new Magic Center (Forgive me if I didn't get that title quite right) - a new building planned on RIT's campus dedicated to mixed use Film and Visual Arts projects. That includes direct connection with RIT's Game Development program in a synergistic relationship revolving around media content. It's exciting because there are talks about making the 30 million dollar facility publicly available in a rental or residency model for industry projects. The details and terms are far from being worked out, but one thing is for sure - it's definitely coming soon (preliminary estimates are completion around Q2-2017).
Also, I met with Nan Whitman and Becca Delany of the Fast Forward Film Festival (www.fastforwardroc.org) which is currently well into its planning stages for 2016. I've been asked to step into Stan Main's previous role as a seat on the Advisory Board and I will be working closely with Nan and Becca to create synergy between FFFF and RMM. On that note, start planning for your submissions as FFFF's deadline is February 2nd. More to come as things unfold on this topic.
So things are looking good for the future of production in Rochester already. RMM is looking to re-title and complete our reorganization by the end of the year, which means a new era in Rochester for Production support. Since the chips haven't quite hit the table I can't give much more information on that topic, but having already had so many great conversations with people in the local production community things are beginning to align.
Sorry to keep things short and sweet, but back to work, so much to do!
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