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Awards season is now in full swing. All the cinematic masterpieces that made a splash in the past year are now getting accolades from around the globe. There’s Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, Bradley Cooper’s A Star Is Born, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther,…

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Final Draft screenwriting software goes to 11

Of all the fascinating apps to be found out in the wild I’m especially enamored of Final Draft. It’s an app dedicated to writing and developing screenplays and it has stood the test of time, going through 11 iterations to reach this latest version, the pinnacle of screenwriting warez. While most of us are content […]

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Take a quick peek at the movie showtimes of your local theater, and it’s almost guaranteed that there’s a reboot or superfluous sequel on there somewhere. It’s almost as if the film industry has run out of ideas for original content and is just creat…

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Flowbox is a tool that makes it easy to build special effects

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GIF project highlights women and minority filmmakers

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Italian filmmaker Elena Rossini is shedding some much-needed light on women and minority creators with her project We Are Film Directors, which just highlighted its 100th filmmaker: Rossini herself.

With We Are Film Directors, Rossini is populating the popular online GIF database Giphy with GIFs of women and minority filmmakers. On Friday she uploaded her 100th GIF; you can check them all out on her Giphy page.

I’m on a mission to populate @GIPHY with images of women & minority filmmakers. No. 100: Elena Rossini (@_elena), director of @illusionists and creator of #ThisIsWhatAFilmDirectorLooksLike ✨🎥

Find & re-use all the GIFs:
🎬 https://t.co/PhunH5XP6Z
❤️ #RepresentationMatters pic.twitter.com/0A2sTRKw4G

— Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena) May 11, 2018 Read more…

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