Today we’d like to introduce you to Oleg Bolotov. Him and his team share their story with us below.
Please kick things off for us with some background on your story.
Auspicious Phoenix Productions LLC is an independent studio-based entertainment company specializing in film. Founded in 2015, by friends and filmmakers Joseph Dwyer, Jim DanDee and Oleg Bolotov, the company boasts a burgeoning commercial and independent portfolio of films, properties, and visual projects directed by rising filmmakers and creatives.
Over the course of a few years, the company dug out and renovated a basement of an old envelope factory near Union Square in Somerville to create The Space Studio — Auspicious Phoenix’s production headquarters and one of Boston’s largest independent entertainment facilities. Earlier this year, we made a necessary move to a newer, larger building in Union Square in order to help us with growing production needs as well several other creative and business ventures.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It hasn’t been a smooth road by any means. We have been doing everything that goes into a production company ourselves from the beginning. We had to learn about business practices, accounting, client interactions, advertisement, etc., all the things that we didn’t have very much experience in.
It’s still the same, for the most part. We have a few friends that are always helping out (THANK YOU!) and we offer an internship from which we’ve gotten a lot of help. So, that’s always a struggle and one we’re just now getting a little bit of help with. But we wouldn’t have it any other way! In a way, we constantly follow the ‘film set’ mentality of whatever needs to get done, gets done. Period.
Please tell us about Auspicious Phoenix Productions.
Auspicious Phoenix Productions makes short narrative fiction and documentary content, music videos, photography, and feature-length documentary and narrative films. In addition to motion picture work, the company hosts live events such as art shows, musical performances, social gatherings, product launches, gallery shows and more in its headquarters, The Space Studios Union Square.
Finally, as film and photography aficionados, we operate a wet-process industrial 35mm photography lab in our studio that accepts online orders at willowphotolab.com. We hope that people come away with an enjoyable, earnest, high-quality experience from the work we create and the events produced in our studio. We place a high importance on community and want our work and our resources to be fixtures for creatives in the area.
Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
Easy. Watching movies.
Contact Info:
- Address: 64 Joy St. Somerville, MA 02143
- Website: www.auspiciousphoenix.com
- Phone: 617-702-9239
- Email: info@auspiciousphoenix.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/auspiciousphoenix
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/auspiciousphoenix/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/auspiciousfilm
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/the-space-studio-somerville-3?osq=auspicious+phoenix
- Other: http://bit.ly/APPsubscribe
Image Credit:
Tara Kavanaugh
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