IMAGINE Magazine, in print and online, is totally devoted to the Film, TV/Video, and New Media production industries in New England. IMAGINE connects the dots for industry participants and tells their stories.
We feature every aspect of the artists and technicians that make up the industry: the individuals, businesses, technology, industry events, opportunities, trends and developments.
Our goal supports the growth, enrichment, and enhancement of our industry in our region and mails and broadcasts those stories to the rest of the world.
IMAGINE supports the work of independent filmmakers and the process of bringing others (major studios/producers/independents) to our region to work, thereby enriching our community with work and experience.
We encourage and advocate for our New England cities and states to support the industry and profit from it. This is a tax-based initiative on our part that grows economies on an advantaged scale. In the last seven years we have zeroed in on passing and maintaining good film tax incentive legislation and have assisted all six New England states; three states have passed serious legislation.
IMAGINE is seen by 50,000 savvy and talented creative and technical participants in our industry 10 times a year. Our June/July and Dec/Jan issues are combined. All others are monthly. Last year our website had over one million hits from all over the world.
Our publisher, Carol Patton, was awarded Harvard’s Dudley House “Harvey” Award for “service to the filmmaking community.” And in 2006, she received Women in Film & Video/New England’s Image Award for Vision and Excellence.
IMAGINE attends 10 major industry events in North America and Europe every year. We attend AFCI’s Location Trade Show and the PGA’s Produced By Conference, NAB in Las Vegas, AFM in Santa Monica and NATPE wherever it may be (Miami in 2012).
This year we began our 14th year of publication and service. Every year IMAGINE publishes the important New England Location, Production and Resource Guide, which we widely distribute throughout the country and can be viewed on our web site.
Each month IMAGINE distributes its copies by four different methods of distribution in New England, New York, LA, and at major Industry Events. Many of our outlets are served by FedEx delivery right off the press. Delivery by truck goes to 120 sites within two days of coming off the press. Our subscribers and advertisers receive their copies by first class mail. Of course, our electronic edition is available on line immediately.
We deliver copies to major events at their venues. IMAGINE attends Sundance/Slamdance Film Festivals, NATPE, AFM, NAB, AFCI’s Locations Trade Show, Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival & Market, The Nantucket Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and almost every film festival in and around New England.
IMAGINE’s Editorial Calendar lists a theme for every issue. While the theme is spotlighted, we carry all the industry news we can fit into our 32-pages each month. The Editorial Calendar is posted on our website. In the May issue we look at New England production resources with our locations at the forefront. This tells the New England production story and gets a huge bonus distribution at locations driven AFCI Trade Show where over 300 Film Offices come to exhibit and 3,000-5,000 location scouts, directors and producers visit.
Our avid readers include writers, directors, producers, cinematographers, technical crew, artistic crew, actors, casting agents and dramatic coaches, production designers and set decorators, make-up artists, equipment providers and specialists, entertainment attorneys, editors, music supervisors, composers, scorers, performers, broadcasters, film, visual arts and communications educators and students, union members, caterers, hoteliers, transportation specialists, every level of filmmaker and all those who work in the industry as well as those who appreciate it for what it is and can be and those who employ the industry.
This year, IMAGINE is in its 14th year of publication for another exhilarating year watching, nourishing, and growing the industry and celebrating the work in the Northeast. IMAGINE supports itself and its work through advertising and subscriptions.