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Diane Pearlman, the executive director of the Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative, will discuss the the Berkshires as a destination for film and media production on Thursday at Knesset Israel.

Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative will present "A Producers Perspective: Career Pathways and Responsibilities," an online workshop with award-winning Hollywood producer Nan Bernstein, on Tuesday, June 28.

This musical celebration of Black history will make its debut this Sunday in a free performance at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. Performers will include Wanda Houston, Billy Keane, Gina Coleman, Matt Cusson, Rufus Jones, Annie Guthrie, Diego Mongue, and Eric Reinhardt.

A self-described "mad engineer," Douglas Trumbull, the special effects expert and director who left Hollywood in the 1980s to perfect his craft and pursue his technological passions here in the

"Stroke of Luck," a coming-of-age comedy written and produced entirely in the Berkshires, is being released on major on-demand digital streaming services including Apple TV+/iTunes, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play

The winners of the Bridging Divides, Healing Communities Youth Film Challenge have been announced. Crandell Theatre in Chatham, N.Y., and the Daniel Arts Center at Bard College at Simon’s Rock,

PITTSFIELD — Get Diane Pearlman talking about visual effects and she will provide several stories about cutting-edge techniques that were created in the Berkshires for many well-known movies.

Building on the success of professional-level screenwriting and pitching classes held this winter, Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative will present three new online workshops on writing and selling screenplays and scripts led by award-winning Hollywood talent/literary manager and producer Marilyn R. Atlas on June 3, June 10, and June 24.

  Antony Haynes and Karen Zink were elected to fill vacant positions on the Board of Trustees, and were also simultaneously elected as Directors of MountainOne Financial, Inc. and MountainOne Bank.   "The entire Board looks forward to working with Antony and Karen," Bosley said. "Their excellent reputations and deep histories of professional service and community engagement will be extremely beneficial to MountainOne."   MountainOne President & CEO Robert Fraser noted, "I am thrilled t...