Pull-Start Pictures

01/17/2013

Submit to our favorite film festival. (Hint: it's nearby.)

09/20/2012

Big news from our friends at Vimeo! This is very cool...

Video streaming platform Vimeo has announced today two new plans to help filmmakers who upload content onto the site to make revenue through the site. Starting today, Vimeo Plus or Pro members with videos uploaded to the site will be able to raise money by activating the new tip jar feature o...

09/19/2012

Happy Birthday to our friend, advisor, and co-conspirator Jon Courtney!

06/18/2012

Not a moment too soon, we have a trailer for Betting The Farm, which premieres this week at Silverdocs! Check it out and let us know what you think.

For more, be sure to check out our page as well. And if you’re planning to attend Silverdocs this year, make sure to add our film to your festival schedule!

03/03/2012

For those of us currently trying to license music for films, this is really interesting...

Next year, a time bomb embedded in the Copyright Act of 1976 starts to detonate, as valuable copyrights fall back into the hands of artists who decide that they would prefer to own their songs, rather than allowing their label and publisher to keep selling them. Recordings released in 1978 will be.....

11/01/2011

That's cool! Our project with Maine Farmland Trust, Meet Your Farmer, gets a mention on Intuit software's blog!

What is it like to run your own business? Documentary films give you the opportunity to shadow entrepreneurs in diverse fields, from rock â

09/30/2011

Betting The Farm, our documentary about the farmers of Main'e Own Organic Milk Co, is invited to be part of Reel Food: Films Seeding Change.

09/22/2011

Our series of shorts, Meet Your Farmer, will air on Thursday September 29th at 10:00pm on Maine Public Broadcasting Network (MPBN). It airs again on Saturday, October 1st at 11:00am.

09/02/2011

Happy anniversary, Maine Organic Farmers And Gardeners Association (MOFGA)!

UNITY, Maine — Deep in the winter of 1971, University of Maine Cooperative Extension Agent Charlie Gould of Lewiston called together a group of farmers who had been questioning conventional gardening practices. Now 88, Gould recalled this week what that first gathering was like. “There were about 50...

08/12/2011

Images from Betting The Farm, a film about the farmers of Maine's Own Organic Milk Company.

08/12/2011

We've been back from Sundance Institute Creative Producing Labs for a couple of weeks now, and still can't get over what an awesome experience it was. We got great advice about our film, Betting The Farm, and got a chance to meet some other filmmakers in the midst of their own films. We are lucky.

Betting The Farm, a film by Cecily Pingree & Jason Mann, receives a post-production grant from the Sundance Documentary Film Program.

07/31/2011