The Crystal Pix BlogIn support of the re-branding of the 360|365 George Eastman House Film Festival and inspired by the ad campaign by Partners and Napier, Crystal Pix set out to create memorable trailers to be screened at the front of each film that would promote the festival and work off the concept of the Egg and “Film [...]
For all you filmmakers out there… here’s the newest short film contest from the folks at the newly-named 360|365 Film Festival here in Rochester, NY. We helped put together this promotional video to announce the theme. Can’t wait to see what entries get sent in for this one!!! See all the entries at: http://www.youtube.com/360365shorts#p/c/D00028754991CD04
They definitely know how to do it right at the Rome International Film Festival, about an hour and a half outside of Atlanta. Jim Hughes and I spent two wonderful days getting to know the people and the rich history of Rome, GA, a vibrant small city in the middle of several colleges in the [...]
Ok, first let me explain… you know how when you get tired you can get a little punchy and start laughing at just about anything? Well here’s one of our absurd rambling’s that we actually decided to do something with. Comedy Central’s Atom.com is sponsoring a contest called Operation Olivia with actress/host Olivia Munn to [...]
The Crystal Pix crew recently participated in the Advertising Council of Rochester’s annual fundraising golf tournament on August 18th. After just having completed my rookie season on the team, this was the first time I was able to attend the tournament… Anne, Rob, Jim Hughes, and I all played together on a team against Ray, [...]
Corn … miles and miles of corn. The plane’s 200 feet off the ground and I still see corn. Yeah, you guessed it. There’s a lot of corn in Iowa. But anyways, our documentary, Signs of the Time hit the road with it’s first out of New York State film festival, the Hardacre Film [...]
Crystal Pix worked with the High Falls Film Festival in Rochester, NY to produce this video featuring Rochester’s Mayor unveiling a short film competition. For any and all that are interested…visit: www.rochestersmoviefest.com Go make a film… there might be a thousand smackers in it for you!
Watch out, it’s that time again…. Celebrating a birthday at Crystal Pix has proven to be another way for us to show just how creative we can get here at Crystal Pix. Since I began working at Crystal Pix, which was 13 years ago, we have always celebrated our employees birthdays. Typically, we would get [...]
Over the years being in this business, I’ve been forced to become a ‘people person’, which I never thought I would become. Growing up, I was a relatively shy person. But you know, I’ve met so many people on productions, from all different walks of life and it’s really one of the reasons that I [...]
Back in May, our first independent feature documentary, Signs of the Time, played at the Rochester High Falls International Film Festival (www.rochestermoviefest.com). It was a very interesting and eye-opening experience for me. First of all, it was great to showcase our film in my hometown of Rochester, NY. But secondly, the theme of the film [...]