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Jonathon P. Schwartz, director of Interlock Media Associates, points to more reasons for filmmakers affinity for Cambridge. The city is "quasi-left, progressive, alternative, somewhat tolerant," he says...
...There's quite a bit more documentary film making here than in New York," says Schwartz. "And quantum degrees more than...
Many producers mention the proximity of WGBH, a major public television broadcasting company in Allston. WGBH provided a lot of work for free-lance filmmakers in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, says Schwartz. Independent filmmakers following the "pattern," he says, would work as freelancers at WGBH, leave to pursue their own projects, and them return to the company. Much of the freelancing "pool" at WGBH was made up of Cantabrigians, he says...
ANOTHER INFLUENCE which helped established Cambridge as a filmmaking center was an "old guard" of filmmakers, said Schwartz. During the 1950s, 60s and 70s, "the old boys' club of cinema verite and anthropological filmmakers" made forms of documentaries which tried to be as realistic as possible, often even acknowledging the presence of the filmmaker, he says. This group included Gardner, who used to be an anthropologist, John Marshall, and Ricky Leacock...
There is one more bonus for filmmakers living in Cambridge and the greater Boston area, according to Schwartz. The Charles River not only makes Cambridge a decent place to live and maintain a studio, Schwartz says, but also creates some tranquility in the hectic life of a producer...