The 30 Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada in 2024
Aug 22, 2024 · Chapman University, Dodge College of Film and Media Arts (Orange, California) When Stranger Things creators the Duffer Brothers didn’t get accepted into USC or UCLA, they landed on Chapman, an Orange County school still close enough to Los Angeles to reap the benefits: a star-studded lineup of guest speakers, top-notch faculty, and easy access to internships in the heart of the industry, all ...
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11 Films That Inspired Social Change - MovieMaker
May 30, 2023 · Hollywood has spent the last few years in the midst of a reckoning about how its films influence society at large in good and bad ways. Movements from #MeToo to Black Lives Matter have sparked discussions about ending harmful stereotypes and tropes — as well as a backlash from people who say Hollywood’s efforts, however well meaning, can feel like pandering or …
The 25 Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada, 2023 - MovieMaker
Aug 22, 2024 · OUTSTANDING SCREENWRITING TRAINING. Antioch University MFA in Creative Writing (Los Angeles, California). This screenwriting program is only a few years old, but it has already attracted the attention of guest speakers Jon Landau (Avatar), Stephen McFeely (Avengers: Endgame), Billy Ray (The Hunger Games), Jane Anderson (Olive Kitteridge), and Dorothy Fortenberry (The Handmaid’s Tale), who ...
Best Film Schools in the U.S. & Canada 2021 - MovieMaker
Aug 22, 2024 · Before we get to the excellent institutions on our 2021 list of the Best Film Schools in the U.S. and Canada, a question: At a time when pro-level cameras are built into our cell phones, YouTube tutorials teach just about any subject you can imagine, and auteurs like Aaron Sorkin share their wisdom through MasterClass courses, is film school still a necessity for anyone who wants to learn the ...
15 Film Festivals You Can Enter for Free, Presented by
Jan 31, 2023 · Bentonville Film Festival ’s Molly Holtzinger Aspiring Filmmaker Award Program (free to Arkansas female filmmakers in high school or college). For its 8th edition, Bentonville Film Festival introduced the Molly Holtzinger Aspiring Filmmaker Award Program, named for a writer-filmmaker-podcaster who tragically died young after a skateboarding accident.
Giovanni Ribisi on Becoming a Cinematographer and Shooting
Aug 22, 2024 · He doesn’t need to be concerned: Strange Darling is riveting.I’m still stuck in high gear from the ride. Willa Fitzgerald (The Fall of the House of Usher) takes the lead as “the Lady” fleeing “the Demon,” stoically played by Kyle Gallner (The Passenger), relentlessly pursuing his prey through the Oregon wilderness, armed with a rifle and a …
How to Start a Script With a Killer Opening Scene - MovieMaker
Jan 31, 2023 · David Fincher’s Fight Club is another solid example of using an opening scene as a teaser. We float through the synapses of a human brain, exit out of sweating pores on a forehead, then continue to pull back down the barrel of a gun to reveal that the weapon is shoved in the mouth of Edward Norton’s character, who narrates: “People are always asking me if I …
The Whale Writer Explains How His Life Story Inspired The Movie
Jan 31, 2023 · “It’s never gonna be this good ever again,” says Samuel D. Hunter, screenwriter of The Whale.. An experienced playwright, Hunter adapted his work from the stage to the screen for the very first time on the Darren Aronofsky picture, which stars Brendan Fraser as a 600-pound writing professor who tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Ellie (Sadie Sink).
“Dynamation”: The Golden Era of Ray Harryhausen - MovieMaker
Jan 31, 2023 · Mysterious Island (1961), directed by Cy Endfield. Loosely adapted from the classic novel by Jules Verne, Mysterious Island is about a group of Civil War-era Union soldiers who, after escaping a Confederate prison camp, find themselves stranded on a strange island where gigantic animals abound. Some of these giant creatures, brought to animated life by Harryhausen, include a crab, a flightless ...