Buffalo, New York – Valkyrie International Film Festival (VIFF), a new annual event spotlighting films directed by women, has announced its first-year Official Selections. Co-founded by Tamar Lamberson and her daughter Kaelin, the festival runs Friday, March 24th – Tuesday, March 28th at the Screening Room Cinema and Arts Café in Amherst, New York. Film […]
read more »Cindy Abbott Letro Interviews Director Fred Olen Ray and Illio DiPaolo’s owner Dennis DiPaolo during the filming of a “Royal Christmas Holiday” at Dennis’s Restaurant. Fred and Dennis talk about the importance of practical locations and how the have achieved many different looks using Illio DiPaolo’s.
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This Wednesday, February 22, 2023 from 1:00PM to 7:00PM, Buffalo will be hosting the first ever Winter Gear Expo, an exciting new cinema technology exhibition, at 620 Winslow Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14211. For one day, film and video’s leading global manufacturers and service providers will converge in the heart of Western New York’s film industry; […]
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(January 4th, 2023) Pro rally driver Ken Block, the Hoonigan and DC Shoes co-founder who revolutionized action sports marketing and motorsports film-making, died in a snowmobile accident near his home in Utah on Monday. He was 55. Block brought his Youtube series Gymkhana to Buffalo in 2016 for it’s 9th episode and featured backdrops which […]
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Filmed entirely in Western New York this past September The Crown Prince of Christmas airs this Saturday(12/10) at 8pm ET on the Great American Family Network. The Crown Prince of Christmas tells the story of Madison(Cindy Busby), an aspiring musician, jokingly tells her overbearing family that she is dating the prince of a small European […]
read more »Cindy Abbott Letro interviews Director Nickson Fong and Actor Liam Aiken about the making of the award winning “Bashira” which filmed entirely in Western New York.
read more »Cindy Abbott Letro interviews Buffalo’s Patrick Gallo on his career so far which has included a starring role in Paramount+’s “The Offer” as Mario Puzo, feature roles in “The Irishman”, “The Deuce”, “Boardwalk Empire”. and many others. In “The Irishman”Gallo shared the screen with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino under the direction of the […]
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“A Royal Christmas on Ice” starring Anna Marie Dobbins, Jonathan Stoddard and Billy Baldwin with make it’s broadcast premiere on Saturday, November 5th at 8pm EST on the Great American Family Network. Looking to escape his Royal life, a dashing prince comes to the United States to start a business in a small town in […]
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