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MIVA is excited to have guest presenter Lori Roche of I Do Films speaking to us in February on the 4 Key Steps to Growing your Wedding Videography Business in 2013 and beyond! Lori Roche is a former Advertising Creative Director turned International Award-Winning Wedding Filmmaker. She and her I Do Films business partner Matt Buckman have [...]

We’re excited to bring you a very topical meeting this January, as we invite Matthew Cooper owner of Matthew Accounting in Dewitt, MI to speak to our group on the topic of preparing & filing taxes. We’re almost completely made up of small business owners here at MIVA, so it’s something that we all deal [...]

MIVA Film Festival Entry Rules and Regulations All entries must be received before Monday, November 5th, 2012, at 5pm. Four categories will be available in the 2012 MIVA Film Festival. Only current, paid-to-date MIVA members will be allowed to submit entries. Each MIVA studio has the privilege to submit up to, but no more than three entries. These three entries may be in [...]

We are taking a month off for the first time in…well no one is sure to be honest. What are we doing with this time you ask? We’re not sure what you’re doing, but as many of us as will fit, will be crammed into a hotel conference room absorbing as much information from the Still Motion [...]

This month, MIVA is bringing together a three-person panel of current MIVA members whose studios range in size, but whose work can all be considered incredibly polished, professional, and worth emulating. We are looking to discuss, debate, and explore the topics of studio size and how it relates to success as a company, whether it [...]

Brian + Kelly Mercer are a husband and wife are a filmmaking duo and are co-owners of two companies: Blue Canister Studios Wedding Filmmaking and Blank Robot: Visual Marketing & Storytelling. Together they have a combined 25 years of experience in marketing, advertising, commercial production and filmmaking and have been recognized with numerous industry awards [...]

With the recent release of Adobe Production Premium CS6 there has been a lot of buzz online about software improvements, as well as the on-going debate of switching platforms all together. What better chance to see Premiere and the other CS6 Production software in action and decide for yourself, than in an intimate setting like [...]

MIVA: Share Your Story! We will be creating MIVA’s first video at tomorrow night’s event. Ryan Koral, Owner of Epic Motion (and MIVA President) share not only how they light and mic interviews for their award winning films but will also discuss some storytelling techniques that they ave used in said films. If MIVA has [...]

January – February – Michael Jeffries – YES! Network March – Matt Davis – Lifestage Films April – Michael Rott – FCPX May – Dave Williams – CinemaCake June – MIVA Promo Film July – Terry White – Adobe CS 6.0 August – Brian & Kelly Mercer – Blue Cannister Films September – October – [...]

Dave Williams of CinemaCake Filmmakers and Media Wave Video Productions will be here to talk to us on how he builds teams and encourages growth. Who should be at this meeting? • Established studio owners, wanting to expand • New studios who want to avoid some of the pitfalls of growth • Editors bogged down with a backlog, no [...]