AFCI Locations Trade Show 2005: Where the World Meets to Plan Film Production.LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Playing "spin the globe" in reverse, more than 180 film commissioners from 33 countries land in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. this week for the AFCI AFCI Association of Film Commissioners International AFCI Arc Fault Circuit Interrupter AFCI Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc AFCI Acupuncture Foundation of Canada Institute (Institut de la Fondation d'Acupuncture du Canada) Locations Trade Show 2005. Celebrating its 20th year, the AFCI Locations Trade Show is the industry's longest-running production resource event. In addition to the international line-up of film commissions, more than 70 production resource companies will exhibit at the Show, making it once again the West Coast film production-networking event of the year. AFCI Locations Trade Show 2005 "screens" at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium Santa Monica Civic Auditorium is a multipurpose convention center in Santa Monica, California. It was built in 1958. For trade shows, the Civic Auditorium features 11,775 square feet (1,094 m²) of space, while the stage adds 4,485 square feet (417 m²) more space, from Friday, April 15, to Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. , April 17. New for this year's event are three educational seminars, one on Thursday, April 14: "Soft Money: Accessing Film and TV Production Incentives Worldwide," and two on Saturday, April 16: "Co-Production/Financing: Endless Possibilities," led by producer and attorney Vince Ravine that will reveal the latest co-production treaties and what they mean to shooting overseas; "Pyrotechnics pyrotechnics (pī'rōtĕk`nĭks, pī'rə–), technology of making and using fireworks. Gunpowder was used in fireworks by the Chinese as early as the 9th cent. on Location," examining the challenges of blowing things up on location, led by pyrotechnics expert John Grant. Each seminar costs $25. The two financing seminars are offered in cooperation with Digital Coast Roundtable and Loyola Law School Loyola Law School is the law school of Loyola Marymount University, a private Jesuit school in Los Angeles, California. Loyola was established in 1920. Like Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law (separate and unaffiliated ; the pyrotechnics session is co-sponsored by the Location Managers Guild of America Officially incorporated on 2 December 2003, the Location Managers Guild of America is a 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation dedicated to the promotion and interests of its members and their relations with the general public, communities, and industry partners. . "All film, television, commercial, and new media production professionals should attend Locations Trade Show 2005, particularly producers, studio executives, directors, location managers and scouts," says AFCI President Pat Kaufman. "Film commissions continue to find innovative cost savings for visiting and local productions, and they come to the Show to share information about their latest incentives and financial support. And with the production resource exhibitors attending, it will take less time for producers to get key resource information than to do so via an online search," Kaufman adds. Registration is free of charge for industry professionals, on-site or on-line at www.afci.org. Show times are Friday, April 15, from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, April 16, from Noon to 6:00 p.m.; and Sunday, April 17, Noon to 5:00 p.m. AFCI is the official professional organization for film commissioners who assist film, television and video production throughout the world. It is a non-profit association whose members serve as city, county, state, regional, provincial, or national film commissioners for their respective governmental jurisdictions. |
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