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Southampton International Film Festival
Featuring independent films, social events, and educational events, every year we intended to make the festival bigger and better. With this in mind make sure you keep an eye on our web....
Southern California Screenplay Competition
The Southern California Screenplay Competition is based in San Diego, California. It was set up with the intention of discovering fresh, new writing talent. There are many undiscovered storytellers who have a voice, but that voice is never heard. We want to create a platform where the screenwriters of tomorrow have a place to showcase their talent,....
Southern City Film Festival
The South's hottest new Film Festival is coming in 2015! Southern City will be a festival like no other with industry panels, amazing prizes, VIP parties, and more.....
Southern Screenwriters
We are a brand new group for writers to get together, think-tank ideas, flesh out characters, build innovative plotlines and churn out professional quality scripts.....
Spaceship Town
Separately they’ve had commercials in the Superbowl and billboards in Time Square, projects setup at Relativity, Myriad Pictures, Amazon Studios, and more. Together they’ve been making shorts, series, and features since Prince's 1999 was still set in the future. Their debut feature film COLD WAR is currently available on most major st....
Speaking Role
A role is one in which the character speaks scripted dialogue in contrast to a "non-speaking role" where the character is specifically mentioned in the script but who doesn't have any lines of dialogue in the finished film. ....
Spec Scout
Our mission is to be the best place to discover and promote the highest-quality screenplays, both on and off the market. The result is a new level of transparency for spec market.....
Spec Script
Script written before any agreement has been entered into ("on spec" or speculation), in hopes of selling the script to the highest bidder once it has been completed. ....
Special Effects (SFX)
Artificial effect used to create an illusion in a movie. ....
Special Effects Supervisor
Chief of a production's special effects crew. ....
Special Writing Show interview: Dan O'Bannon's Screenwriting Structure
Famed writer/director Dan O’Bannon, best known for his work on “Alien,” was a legend. At the time of his death in 2009, he was working with a protégé named Matt Lohr on a book that outlined his own proprietary screenplay structural method, which he called dynamic structure. He had taught this system at USC, Chapman University, and other ins....
Speed
Term shouted out during the beginning of a shot by the cameraman or sound recordist to let crew know that the camera is rolling. ....
Spencer Dir. Pablo Larraín Says Princess Diana Story is ‘About Motherhood'
When Pablo Larraín saw Princess Diana on TV as a child, he saw her in large part through the eyes of his mother. Now, he’s a parent himself — and sees his film Spencer, about a few crucial days in Diana’s life, as “a movie about motherhood.”
“Look, I grew up seeing my mom,” Larraín tol....
Spherical
Optical system which in which the magnifications in the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the picture are the same. ....
Spider-Man, Chinatown 2 & Others Cannon Films Failed to Make in the '80s
At the 1986 Cannes Film Festival, the impresarios of Cannon Films — best known for movies like Breakin’, Superman IV and Over the Top — showed up in matching tracksuits, with a grand vision. They announced plans for 60 films — a slate far bigger than that of major studios — with actors i....
Spinning Owls
Hollywood-based Spinning Owls Productions LLC was established in 2011 by mother-daughter team Dorothy O. Wise and J. Zakira Wise. The duo combines their more than 30 years of business....
Splice
Editing technique of joining two separate pieces of film together (using tape or cement) to create a continuous piece. ....
Split Screen
Matte shot that is divided down the center creating two (or more) images at the same time. ....
SPLIT SCREEN:
The space of the frame is split into two, three, or more frames, each with its own subject. Usually the events shown in each section of the split are simultaneous, like two people in the middle of a phone conversation. However, split screen can also be used to flashbacks or two separate events occurring simultaneously.....
