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SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, & singers.....

Thinking Cinema

Proving cinema wasn't invented last year. Weekly: current film review, article on non-current film & list of films w/same theme (reader input encouraged!).....

The Denial of Corey Mandell Launches a Hollywood Screenwriting Career

“This script will launch your career.” Encouraging words from Corey Mandell’s writers group. Corey thought his script was ready to go.“It’s one of the best scripts I have ever read after teaching twenty years at UCLA.”Validating praise from a UCLA professor, to be sure. Corey was gliding and h....

Peter Hawley - Educating the Digital Creative Class

Should I go to film school? Like most vexing questions of our day, the answer is, “Well, it depends.” The “what” it depends on is up to the individual student, the parents, the location, the cost, and a myriad of other factors. There are people who claim that everything a student can learn in a film school can be learned thr....

Mike Woods' Reality is Building the Future of V R

Download MP3 of this Podcast  The term "Virtual Reality" has been around awhile. According to Wikipedia it was used to explain theater by a French playwright, Antonin Artaud in the 1930's to describe what an audience member would experience when viewing a play . It wasn't until 2011 when the first pro....

Damien Chazelle's Whiplash - The Path to the Oscars

Sitting in the Eccles Theater at Sundance in 2014 waiting for the movie Whiplash to start was uneventful. I knew nothing about the movie that I was about to see, and to be honest I was probably playing Words with Friends right up until the moment the lights went down. For those of you who have been to Sundance, you know that the struggle to get ti....

Cambridge Film Festival

he Cambridge Film Festival was established in 1977 and ran until 1996, re-launching in 2001 after a five year break. Over the years it has developed into a high profile event.....

The Ottawa Northeast Film Festival

The Ottawa Northeast Film Festival or The ONE Film Festival is a not-for-profit organization created to develop and implement plans for an annual film festival.....

Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay Contest

Our goal is to reward undiscovered thriller writing talent on an ongoing basis. We're here to break down the walls between your talent and the industry pros looking for the next writer.....

World Arts Film Festival

With 3 Days, and Over 100 Short Independent Films from Around the World, Educational Panels, Interactive Workshops, and Film Industry Guests for All Ages and Abilities.....

On the Edge Film Festival

Cleveland’s own homegrown film festival celebrates its first year in 2015. It is produced by local company, On the Edge Films, host of the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour.....

North By Midwest Micro-Budget Film Festival

Our categories include: Long Feature, Short Feature, Short Documentary/Profile, Animation, and an all new challenge...MicroCam. Micro-Budget means that the budget must be equal or less than $10,000 for Long Features and $5,000 for other categories (not including equipment costs).....

Brisbane Backyard Film Festival

The Brisbane Backyard Film Festival is a celebration of local screen content. This annual event showcases some of the best short films, music videos and movie trailers.....

Equinox Women's Film Festival

quinox Women’s Film Festival is the first annual festival created by and for the Matanuska-Susitna Valley. The first annual Equinox will premier in our new state of the art theater.....

Screenwriting Goldmine

Phil Gladwin is a screenwriter and script editor trying to find a new writer his my show. He's been writing for 25 years, but had his first break as a trainee BBC Script Editor ....

Marilyn Horowitz

The basis of the system is that we are all already “hardwired” to be story tellers and the system helps writers access what they already “know” to write effectively and efficiently....

Edgar Wright Here

Edgar Wright has evolved from a young film geek wanting to prove himself to one of the most sought-after geeks working in film today.....

15 Checkpoints To Make Your Screenplay More Saleable

In this insightful teleconference, Dr. Melody Jackson, founder and Chief Smart Girl at Smart Girls Productions, will break down a variety of distinctions in screenwriting that have always been thought to be subjective. She turns them into a list of measurable checkpoints for evaluating your script's "saleability". In this in....

Miniboxoffice

Miniboxoffice is the India's only independent short films marketing, promotion, distribution & film festival organizing company. The company aims to promote short cinema across the India & world and realizing short filmmaking as commercial enterprise especially in India. Since 2010 Miniboxoffice is in business & promoting short fil....

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

The Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television is composed of five separate programs and departments.The undergraduate division of the Department of Film and Television combines professional training with studies in the liberal arts, leading to the B.F.A. degree. The graduate division of the Department offers a three-year M.F.A curriculum in ....