Cinema & Cocktails is a new and vibrant cinéaste experience in the spirit of salons and international ciné-clubs. This gathering of serious film enthusiasts, independent filmmakers/artists and film lovers in general strives to create a networking community of filmgoers and makers while showcasing emerging, completed and influential finished work of all genres, stages of progress and styles. These convergences offer encounters for collaboration, connection and conversation over cocktails in a fri …

This is a meetup for people who love culture. We will mostly attend films of all types, from silent to experimental to commercial, in Manhattan and Brooklyn.  We will also go to musuems, as well create other types of mischief, and maybe some inexpensive theater.  This group is open to all ages, genders, and sexual persuasions and identities. This is a place where people who have similar interests in film, cinematography, culture, and catching the latest museums show can go out together and have …

If you are a photographer or videographer in the Hudson Valley Region using DSLR cameras to create video or films, you should join this group.  We will be networking, sharing information, tips and techniques that will help us all improve our HDSLR film & video making skills and capabilities. We will also discuss upcoming projects and opportunities with an eye toward helping each other produce these projects. *All technical discusssions, info, tips and techniques will revolve around DSLR camera …

Adams Apple is a creative platform for filmmakers who want to work actively on producing short films during the weekdays. With this group I hope to bring together professionals with varied specifications in order to write, shoot, edit and showcase quality short-films. I started this group because I have to work on weekends and therefore cannot partake in the activities of other New York film Meetups. With Adams Apple I hope to assemble a strong team that will be able to work together on creating …

Anyone shooting Video or photo with the Canon 5D Mark II, 7D or T2i are welcome to join and meet throughout NYC on a monthly basis to share ideas, workflow, shoot and showoff their gear. Website coming soon www.nycdslr.com The Twitter hashtag for this group is #nycdslr, the Twitter account is @nycdslr and the contacts are: Anthony Quintano - www.anthonyquintano.com, @anthonyquintanoJohn Hyland - www.paperfieldfilms.com, @johnhyland Find us on Facebook at

Welcome to NYC FILMMAKERS & ACTORS COLLECTIVE. In NYC, there are approximately 100,000 filmmakers, 60,000 actors, 250 acting schools, and countless film students. Most of them still take classes, send resumes, work temp jobs, check Craigslist, and wait for their BIG BREAK. Our mission is simple: Network, Share, and Educate. We bring together filmmakers, producers, directors, actors, writers, cameramen, and editors to share their experience, polish their skills, and help each other through net …

This is a group for auteurs who want to push the envelope. What's in your head hasn't been on the screen yet. Basically outliers, dangerous minds, the next next wave, people who have a vision burning its way out of their brains. This is not a general filmmaking meetup group for networking with actors and writers, it is specifically for directors and producers who want to talk about their visions.

***This group is currently on hiatus, check back here or look out for email updates on if / who / when we start up the weekly screenwriting or production groups for spring/summer*** About a year ago, I began purchasing equipment to develop video content. It started out with a camera, then another, then microphones, then Final Cut, then Motion, then a green screen, then lighting, and so forth. I realized that there are probably other people like me, producers, directors, cinematographers, sound …