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In response to widespread, well-intentioned but not always on-the-mark outrage from the local DIY film and video communities, the New York Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting has agreed to revise their proposed regulations on public filming. Picture NY is calling it a tentative victory. Variety quotes video producer Lisa Guido: “I think we succeeded in publicizing this issue so that the Mayor’s Office of Film was compelled to respond. We’re well aware that there’s another set of regulations coming down the pipe in the next couple of weeks. It’s exactly what we called for, though.”
Long live Hollywood nepotism: Harry Warner’s granddaughter Cass Warner has just wrapped a documentary on the history of Warner Brothers, and is looking for a distributor.
A week after Ingmar Bergman’s death, the filmmaker’s official archive is in danger. The Swedish government foots the archive’s $250,000 annual budget, but the agency needs an additional $600,000 to digitize Bergman’s early papers. “It’s an international scandal that the Swedish state does not seem interested in providing the money we lack,” says archive rep Astrid Soderberg-Widing.