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Why Do AI-Created Fake Film Trailers Scare Us So Much?

1 week ago by Jourdan Aldredge

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UPDATE: The New Max App Is Erasing Writers, Directors, and Producers and Calling Them "Creators"

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How To Create an Animated Short in Unreal Engine

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'The Wire' Creator David Simon Would "Rather Put a Gun in My Mouth" Than Use AI

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These 12 Character Archetypes Are Key Ingredients in All Great Stories

4 years ago by Jason Hellerman

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I Made My First Feature and Got It Into Kevin Smith's Festival

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How I Made a True “Guerrilla” Short Film in New York City

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This Film Was Written and Directed by AI—Here’s the How and What You Can Learn

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Explore 100+ Public Domain Fairy Tales for Crafting Your Screenplay

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'Interstellar' Explained: Movie Plot, Timeline, Ending, Themes, and Meaning

1 year ago by Jason Hellerman

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How This Indie Filmmaker’s Horror Short ‘Hunger’ Grabbed the Attention of Marvel Studios

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How to Intercut Scenes In Your Script

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Learn How To Analyze Movies With This Cheat Sheet

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How to Format Your Screenplay Title Page

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What's the Average Structure of a Superhero Movie?

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100 Inventive Screenwriting Prompts To Inspire You During the Writers' Strike

2 weeks ago by Jason Hellerman

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The 'Contact' Movie Explained: What Does the Ending Mean?

1 year ago by Jason Hellerman

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How To Write a Single-Location Film From a Tribeca Filmmaker

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You Can Use Sudowrite to Write Your Next Screenplay Using AI

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20 Screenwriting and Directing Tips from Steven Spielberg

1 year ago by Jason Hellerman

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How To Get Out of That Creative Rut You’re Stuck In

3 weeks ago by Jason Hellerman

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering Your Spec Screenplay

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Production Permits Have Declined 69.5% In LA Due to the Strike

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8 Great Sources of FREE Public Domain Footage for Your Documentary!

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First Narrative Short Film. I must acquire ADVICE!

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DIY Film Tips #0- Make a Feature Film For 10k! - Slices of Lasagna

8 years ago by Reyshan Parker

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Narrative Style: “Plot, structure and time!”

8 years ago by Reyshan Parker

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Reyshan Parker

Writer/Director/Producer at Independent Lasagna

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Casting Well

8 years ago by COYCO

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Anyone else feel this way?

8 years ago by Daniel LLOYD

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how to start screen writing??

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8 years ago by Searean Moon

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Is Stillmotion's MUSE program really worth the cost? A 'pilot' asks Patrick Moreau some tough questions ...

8 years ago by Matt James Smith

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Indie Producer Suzanne Lyons: How to Produce Your First Feature Film

8 years ago by Alex Ferrari

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Need help in development?

8 years ago by Sherice Griffiths

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Producer / Writer / Director

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Anyone looking for help with development?

8 years ago by Sherice Griffiths

Sherice Griffiths

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Screenwriting tips from screenwriter of Pride Stephen Beresford

8 years ago by Liam Delahunty

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Robert Rodriguez Interview: How to Build a Filmmaking Empire

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Community Film Ideas?

8 years ago by Chelsey Rogers

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2016 BlueCat Screenplay Competition Regular Deadline Oct 15th

8 years ago by Claire Stanton Lee

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BlueCat Best Movie Title Contest - Final Round of Voting

8 years ago by Claire Stanton Lee

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Crop Factor Mumbo Jumbo – enlighten me please

8 years ago by S M Sabir

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Filmmaker in MAKING :)

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Panasonic G7 as first 4K cam for a 4K Newbie on tight budget???

8 years ago by S M Sabir

S M Sabir

Filmmaker in MAKING :)

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Starting a no budget/ small budget production.

8 years ago by Nathaniel Moody

Planning. Producing. Actors....

Nathaniel Moody

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Screenwriting Master Class w/ Karl Iglesias & How to Create Emotional Impact in Films

8 years ago by Alex Ferrari

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Director / Producer

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Showing that Time has passed

8 years ago by Nathan Wilkes

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Showing that Time has passed

8 years ago by Nathan Wilkes

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Ever hear of The Stanley Parable? We made it a short film...

8 years ago by Devon Nowark

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Ask Yourself the Question, Are you really a Screenwriter or Storyteller?

8 years ago by Alex Ferrari

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BlueCat Movie Title Contest Voting Now Open

8 years ago by Claire Stanton Lee

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Listen to Dov Simens Quentin Tarantino's only Film Teacher before he made Reservoir Dogs!

8 years ago by Alex Ferrari

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Short End - a film about the end of film

8 years ago by Jon du Toit

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Writer / Director

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Editing a mini documentary and need your help with the story arc!

8 years ago by Yash Mori

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Director / DP / FIlmmaker

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How to Produce Your First Feature or Short Film

8 years ago by Alex Ferrari

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