By Vicky Tamaru Guest Columnist As someone old enough to enjoy playing Space Invaders when it was brand new, I’ve had the pleasure of watching digital trends emerge, morph and sometimes die off with an intense sense of wonder. Digital marketing is incredibly fast-paced; tools and technologies seem to change by the second. Some instantly make sense and can give [...]

Motion Picture Competitiveness Bill Signed into Law By Jessie Wilson, Communications Consultant, Washington Filmworks FLASHBACK TO 2011: In June of 2011, the Motion Picture Competitiveness Program sunset, in essence halting five years of significant effort to maintain Washington’s viability on the national filmmaking scene. Efforts to renew the legislation that funds our state’s film incentive program passed the Senate in [...]

Reactions to the Film Program’s Renewal Members of Washington’s production community poured forth with celebratory—and congratulatory—words about the Motion Picture Competitiveness Program’s hard-fought battle for renewal. Take a look… I was privileged to be a “Team Captain” working with Washington Filmworks. While the process seemed frustrating and mind boggling at times, it was great learning the political ropes and was [...]

Several Washington- and Oregon-made films screened at this spring’s South by Southwest (SxSW) Film Festival. Here’s a look at a few of them: Eden Seattle writer/director Megan Griffiths’ third feature film made its premiere at SxSW this year—and won three awards in competition. Eden won the Audience Award for Narrative Feature, the Jury Special Award for Performance (Jamie Chung), and [...]

Media Inc.’s interview series, in which we discuss the latest and greatest with a different Northwest company each issue, continues with Seattle’s red jet films. Operated by husband-and-wife team Jeff Erwin and Sue Feil-Erwin, red jet provides start-to-finish high-definition video production services. “Whether it’s a project for the boardroom, a documentary or a feature film bound for festivals,” says Jeff, [...]

Liberman Broadcasting, Inc., the largest privately held, minority-owned Spanish-language broadcaster in the United States, announced that its national Hispanic television network, Estrella TV, has inked an affiliate deal with World Television of Washington, LLC in the Seattle market. Effective immediately, Estrella TV will broadcast its programming line-up on KBCB-TV. Seattle is the 27th largest U.S. Hispanic TV market, representing 105,850 [...]

Tribune Television Northwest has named Laura Rieder as Sales and Programming Marketing Manager for Q13 FOX (KCPQ-TV), JOEtv (KZJO-TV), and NW32TV (KRCW-TV). Her primary duties will include media buying, strategizing and optimizing marketing opportunities, and managing the stations’ public relations and promotional efforts. Ms. Rieder is returning to Tribune Television Northwest. She managed the promotions and publicity efforts for the [...]