Posted by Carola on April 23, 2001 at 13:53:39:
In Reply to: The Bahamas Film Commission: April News posted by Christina Russell on April 16, 2001 at 19:53:03:
Hey mrs. russle how r u and everyone at the job, i hope wayne is fine bye for now : Bahamas FILM COMMISSION Newsletter Volume 2 – April 16, 2001
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: Top Stories
: 1 - FILMING in the Bahamas – Who’s Filming?
: 2 - OCSAR CELEBRATION – Hosted by Peter Nygard
: 3 - YEARLY FILM COMMISSION WORKSH0P - Staged due to major success of the March workshop as premiere to bahamasfilm.com website. Local community and businesses are invited to get involved.
: 4 - LOCATION LIBRARY EXPANDING – To include: Bimini, Cat Island and Crooked Island.
: 5 - Our Advertisers
: 6 – SPECIAL NOTES
: 1 - Filming in the Bahamas
: The National Television of Chile will be covering the Davis Cup Tennis Tournament
: O-Magazine is shooting a fashion shoot with Oprah on its cover.
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: 2 – Oscar celebration hosted by Peter Nygard
: Designer and local Bahamas Community advocate, Peter Nygård, hosted the Annual “Night of 100 Stars” Academy Awards® celebration at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event benefited Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation. Many of the celebrity guests were former Academy Award® winners and nominees and share the same passion as Peter Nygård in film preservation. As you may be aware Peter Nygård a resident of Nassau -[Nygård Cay] has supported the champion Bahamas Golden Girls before, during & after their victories at the Sydney Olympics 2000 and invited the Briland Modem and the Golden Girls to be his guests at this exclusive Oscar celebration! The Golden Girls who are attending are Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson, Pauline Davis-Thompson, Eldece Clark-Lewis (Sevatheda Fynes away in Europe in competition). Now everyone in Bahamas and throughout the world, can help contribute to this great cause by bidding on celebrity items at www.Nygard.com. All proceeds go to Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation. A few celebrity items-signed scripts from TV shows such as: Fraiser, Seinfeld, Family Law, and NYPD Blue or perhaps you’d like a signed basketball by Shaquille O'Neal. Bidding for charity -at www.Nygård.com. Click: Night of 100 Stars - Celebrity Auction / category: "Celebrity Items" and bid on your favorite celebrity memorabilia! Peter Fonda commended the foundation stating that it helped him with the restoration of his 1971 Film- ‘The Hired Hand’.
: For more info: Pamela.Erickson@Nygard.com Director of Marketing.
: 3 - YEARLY FILM COMMISSION WORKSH0P - March 23, 2001, marked the official premiere of the Bahamas Film and Television Commission’s new website - www.bahamasfilm.com. The website was unveiled with the ACT Productions Miami team present as designers of the website. The event held at the British Colonial Hilton was set-up as a workshop for the industry and attracted filmmakers, U.S. investors in the Bahamas, government officials from Immigration, Customs, and Tourism and Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, Director General of the Ministry of Tourism. Mr. Vanderpool-Wallace was quoted 4/2 in the Nassau Guardian following the workshop, “Why anyone would travel beyond us is beyond us.” And then said, “We have more white, sandy beaches than any country in the Western Hemisphere.” More press followed in the Bahamian media as this website has already generated 100,000 hits in February alone. Angela Archer of the BFTC previously commented in the Guardian on 3/24, “The NBCi Directory Team now includes www.bahamasfilm.com in its directory, and has described this site as one of the most popular sites in its category.” Case in point, the worldwide media exposure that this site has already generated is the reason more advertisers are joining bahamasfilm.com.
: Mr. Rick Stierwalt, CEO of Orbitex Funds, flew in from New York via London and spoke eloquently on opportunity in the Bahamas as well as Jordan Kleine who has been bringing film crews to the Bahamas for years since his first trip in 1947. Tony Falcon of Island Outpost flew in from Miami Beach, as did ACT Productions President Bruce Orosz, who feels this is, “Just the start of many new developments to grow the film and television industry in the Bahamas.” He feels this facilitative website will enable filmmakers, directors, location scouts, photographers, and producers to quickly understand that the services and infrastructure, already in place in the Bahamas, will allow them to quickly move through the various stages of production for their projects. Mr. Cordell Thompson, Consultant at the Ministry of Tourism said, “The cooperation The Bahamas Film Commission receives from Customs, Immigration and other Government departments plays a large role in this Commission's success”. This workshop will become an annual event due to its overwhelming response.
: 4 – ON-LINE LOCATION LIBRARY EXPANDING – With the help of the Bahamas Promotional Board and photographer Greg Johnston, our library once again will be expanding. New Islands to be included: Cat Island - With 50 miles of rolling hills and pristine beaches, including the eight mile Pink Sands Beach formed from crushed conch shells with rolling waves and tasteful, private villas- Cat Island may be a photographers dream. About 223 miles southeast of Nassau is Acklin another of the principal islands of the Bahamas and Crooked Island. Crooked Island boasts miles of beautiful and private beaches. Finally, Bimini, being the closest of The Islands Of The Bahamas to the Florida coast (see the glow of Miami Beach at night), offers the first stop “feel of the Caribbean”, and has a reputation for yacht hopping and frivolity. Images of theses gorgeous landscapes and beaches coming soon.