The Maine Film and Video Association is now accepting submissions for our upcoming meeting, “The Art of Making a Great Film Trailer.”

Date: Thursday, May 30th
Time: 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Feature Film:  Canvasman
Short Film:  Two’s a Crowd
Showtime: Sunday, February 10 / 3:00 pm
(MFVA Meet and Greet at 2:15)
Tickets: $8 general admission / $5 MFVA members
Frontier Cafe + Cinema, Brunswick, ME.
Frontier Schedule

This screening is part of MFVA’s new Maine Film Screening series.  Join MFVA for two great films from Maine filmmakers, as well as a post-feature Q&A. In addition, MFVA Members are invited to a special Meet with Greet with Canvasman presenters: Gary Romanov, director and Rob Elowitch, the film’s main character.

Maine Film & Video Association
along with the University of Southern Maine
is very pleased to present a special screening of the film:
40 WEST

Thursday January 24 6:30 to 10:00
Includes a Q&A after the film on Distribution

MFVA Current Members Free
USM with ID Free
General Public $10
Talbot Lecture Hall/Luther-Bonney USM, Portland

MFVA’s Member Meet and Greet for November will be held at Frontier Cafe in Brunswick.
This will be a very special event, with music, film screening and discussion with Maine filmmaker, Huey.
Frontier is a full service popular restaurant, so plan to grab lunch, coffee or a beer. 

The details:

MFVA Meet & Greet November 18th, 1-4pm
1:00-2:00
Jazz duo: Hattie Simon with Nick Thompson-Brown
1:15-2:00
Informal Discussion with Huey, on Feature Film Distribution
2:00-3:30
Screening -In Good Time: The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland
3:30-4:00 Q&A with Huey
Frontier Cafe, Brunswick
14 Maine St. Mill 3 Fort Andross, Brunswick, ME 04011 (207) 725-5222

In addition to this being November’s meet & greet, it is also
MFVA’s first in a series of Maine Film Screenings
featuring work of MFVA’s members

The Portland Maine Film Festival will commence its third year on October 4th, 2012.

Join the Maine Film & Video Association at CIFF and Swap or Sell your Equipment

Friday, September 28, 2012
8:30am - 11:30am

If you have an interest in becoming a member of the Maine Film and Video Association, we invite you to join today!

The MFVA is an active group of production companies, film and video professionals, TV stations, students, actors, musicians, writers, crew members, and others who are interested in networking with individuals working in this industry here in Maine.  What do those members get?

Join Maine Film & Video Association for an end of summer MEET AND GREET

August 28 7-10pm
Think Tank
533 Congress St.  Portland, ME

This MFVA event, hosted by Think Tank member and video producer, Robert Barnes, is another way MFVA is serving our members, by:

Th Maine outdoor and film communities intersect on the banks of the Kennebec River in the historic outdoor community of The Forks, Maine.

Festival schedule:
4 pm – gates open with a pig roast, bean hole beans, vendor tables and acoustic music
5 pm to 730pm – screenings of Festival honorable mentions on small screens under the tent.
8pm – main event – 2 hours of films and shorts dedicated to the outdoors, screened on the big screen.

DiBacco Films, Maine-based motion picture producers, have secured their third and most successful motion picture distribution deal to date. Early Grave, a thriller shot on Peaks Island in 2011 has been acquired for theatrical release.

The Maine Arts Commission in partnership with the Maine College of Art is accepting applications for participation in the transformative Creative Capital Professional Development Retreat.