Personalia http://www.personafilms.com/blog Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:46:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 en What’s Coming Next? http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/05/what%e2%80%99s-coming-next/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/05/what%e2%80%99s-coming-next/#comments Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:46:32 +0000 info Commercials http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/05/what%e2%80%99s-coming-next/ They’ve landed. We got them on film. Okay, not really film. Hi Def.
Click here for more photos from the set.

IAA

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/05/what%e2%80%99s-coming-next/feed/ “Saints” at CUNY http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/03/38/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/03/38/#comments Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:48:54 +0000 info Films http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/03/38/ Abigail Honor’s “Saints and Sinners” screened at CUNY TV Studios as part of the film series “Documented Italians” presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College. “The director’s talent lies in her ability to suggest different aspects of the theme without favoring one over another”, writes journalist Letizia Airos Soria in her column in IADP. “At the end of the screening, the audience was left with an overarching feeling of purity and simplicity.” Read more…

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2008/01/03/38/feed/ Bill Miller’s Girl Next Door http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/12/11/bill-miller%e2%80%99s-girl-next-door/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/12/11/bill-miller%e2%80%99s-girl-next-door/#comments Tue, 11 Dec 2007 04:55:47 +0000 info Films http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/12/11/bill-miller%e2%80%99s-girl-next-door/ “The Girl Next Door”, a feature produced and shot by Persona’s regular collaborator, Bill Miller, is now available on DVD in stores near you. Firefox News calls it the “Year’s Most Disturbing Movie.”

Girl Next Door

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/12/11/bill-miller%e2%80%99s-girl-next-door/feed/ Enter the Forex Arena http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/10/30/enter-the-forex-arena/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/10/30/enter-the-forex-arena/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:58:40 +0000 info Commercials http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/10/30/enter-the-forex-arena/ Here’s the sixty seconds that took us three months to complete:
http://www.personafilms.com/arena

You can also watch it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK8WSNtCIN4

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/10/30/enter-the-forex-arena/feed/ Coming soon… CMS Forex “The Arena” http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/08/11/coming-soon-cms-forex-%e2%80%9cthe-arena%e2%80%9d/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/08/11/coming-soon-cms-forex-%e2%80%9cthe-arena%e2%80%9d/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:33:57 +0000 info Commercials http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/08/11/coming-soon-cms-forex-%e2%80%9cthe-arena%e2%80%9d/ The Arena, Set

The Arena, Gun

The Arena, Ninja

The Arena, Crew

Click here for more photos from the set.

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/08/11/coming-soon-cms-forex-%e2%80%9cthe-arena%e2%80%9d/feed/ “Who Gets to Call It Art?” on Sundance Channel http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/07/04/%e2%80%9cwho-gets-to-call-it-art%e2%80%9d-on-sundance-channel/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/07/04/%e2%80%9cwho-gets-to-call-it-art%e2%80%9d-on-sundance-channel/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:25:43 +0000 info Films http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/07/04/%e2%80%9cwho-gets-to-call-it-art%e2%80%9d-on-sundance-channel/ Peter Rosen’s “Who Gets to Call It Art?”, a documentary on the New York art scene of the 60s, filmed by Yan Vizinberg, will air on Sundance Channel on July 16th, 9:00pm ET. Watch David Hockney, Frank Stella and James Rosenquist recall their beginnings and discuss Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of contemporary art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose career spanned Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and Minimalism.

Who Gets to Call It Art?

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/07/04/%e2%80%9cwho-gets-to-call-it-art%e2%80%9d-on-sundance-channel/feed/ “The history of Abstract Expressionism is the men I’ve had between my legs.” http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/04/29/%e2%80%9cthe-history-of-abstract-expressionism-is-the-men-i%e2%80%99ve-had-between-my-legs%e2%80%9d/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/04/29/%e2%80%9cthe-history-of-abstract-expressionism-is-the-men-i%e2%80%99ve-had-between-my-legs%e2%80%9d/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:06:36 +0000 Yan Vizinberg Films http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/04/29/%e2%80%9cthe-history-of-abstract-expressionism-is-the-men-i%e2%80%99ve-had-between-my-legs%e2%80%9d/ We learned this and much more in Grace Hartigan’s studio in Baltimore while shooting the documentary about the artist whose friends included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Larry Rivers.

Grace Hartigan

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/04/29/%e2%80%9cthe-history-of-abstract-expressionism-is-the-men-i%e2%80%99ve-had-between-my-legs%e2%80%9d/feed/ Another Successful Production http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/02/06/another-successful-production/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/02/06/another-successful-production/#comments Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:17:44 +0000 Persona General http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/02/06/another-successful-production/ Produced by Yan Vizinberg and Abigail Honor. Clothes designed by David Phillips.

Millie - Persona

Millie - Another Successful Production

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/02/06/another-successful-production/feed/ Personal Growth http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/01/14/personal-growth/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/01/14/personal-growth/#comments Sun, 14 Jan 2007 22:08:56 +0000 Yan Vizinberg General http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/01/14/personal-growth/ One of my friends, who has recently finished building his house, likes saying, “There are bad people, there are very bad people, and there are contractors…” With this thought in mind we decided to expand our offices to accommodate a new top-of-the-line Avid Adrenaline editing suite. As construction is going full speed ahead, we’re learning all kinds of new things about sheet rock, metal studs and life in general.

Gallery

Workers

]]> http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2007/01/14/personal-growth/feed/ “Flannel Pajamas” opens at the Angelika http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2006/11/23/%e2%80%9cflannel-pajamas%e2%80%9d-opens-at-the-angelika/ http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2006/11/23/%e2%80%9cflannel-pajamas%e2%80%9d-opens-at-the-angelika/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2006 03:21:35 +0000 Abigail Honor Films http://www.personafilms.com/blog/2006/11/23/%e2%80%9cflannel-pajamas%e2%80%9d-opens-at-the-angelika/ “Flannel Pajamas,” a film directed by Jeff Lipsky and produced by our friend (and attorney) Jonathan Gray, opened last week at New York’s Angelika Film Center. Hollywood Reporter calls it “a thoughtful dissection of the courtship and marriage of two ultimately mismatched New Yorkers.”

Flannel Pajamas

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