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Greta Gerwig: Focusing on Female Stories
Greta Gerwig is one of the biggest female directors today. She is known for her feminist works like Lady Bird  (2017), Little Women...
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A Guide to Unions and Guilds in the Film Industry
What is a Movie Union? With the recent 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes impacting all aspects of production in the entertainment industry,...
Jul 254 min read
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On-Set Safety: Who to Include on Your Call Sheet
On-set safety is a crucial element to the filmmaking process. From intimacy coordination to on-set advocates, taking precautionary...
Jul 186 min read
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How to Build a Brand: Social Networking Platforms
Personal branding is not the first thing we think of when we think of having a career in the film industry, but in the age of the...
Jul 114 min read
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What are Creative Blocks and How Do You Get Rid of Them?
Do you ever feel like you have run out of ideas? Do you feel like no matter how hard you try, you have lost the ability to be truly...
Jul 44 min read
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Gaffing Do’s and Don’ts: Lighting Basics for Film
Lighting is one of the most foundational elements of filmmaking, but unless you are pursuing the career, not many people know the...
Jun 274 min read
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Building a Crew: Essential People to Have on Set
Everyone knows filmmaking is a group effort, but do you really know what goes into building a crew? This article dives into the essential...
Jun 203 min read
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Themes and Messages: Telling Meaningful Stories
Regardless of genre, medium, or length, all good stories have a theme or a message, something that sticks with the audience, something...
Jun 133 min read
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The Essentials of Location Scouting
Location scouting is a crucial yet often underestimated part of the pre-production process. It serves as the defining step in...
Jun 66 min read
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Period Pieces and Successfully Rewriting History
Period pieces have been a popular genre in popular culture for decades, and while they’re a joy to think up and imagine, the actual...
May 304 min read
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Your Summer 2025 Movie Lineup
2025 has already shown great promise for the film industry . With movies from Paddington in Peru (Dougal Wilson), to Snow White (Marc...
May 235 min read
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Careers in Marketing and Distribution in the Film Industry
With the rise in social media use by professional companies in this day and age, the outlook on jobs in marketing in the film and...
May 164 min read
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A Guide to Script Breakdowns
What is a Script Breakdown? A script  breakdown is an essential skill for any filmmaker to have in their arsenal that gives you all of...
May 94 min read
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The Rom-Com Golden Age
The romantic comedy  feels like a timeless genre, but most of the films we think of when we think of romantic comedies are from the same...
May 25 min read
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Moving Beyond L.A. – The Fight for the New Hollywood
Southern California and the film industry have been synonymous since the beginnings of the studio system in the 1910s. But lately,...
Apr 255 min read
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Why Go to Film School?
What is Film School? Film and television is everywhere today. With an industry growing as fast as the film industry is, you may be...
Apr 115 min read
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How to Build a Brand: Social Networking Platforms
Personal branding is not the first thing we think of when we think of having a career in the film industry, but in the age of the...
Apr 44 min read
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Creating a Radio Play
What is a Radio Play? In the year 2025, with music and podcasts on demand through streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify, we do...
Mar 284 min read
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What Happens After Post-Production? Distribution 101
Many people assume that wrapping post-production means that producing your film is done, but this isn’t really the case. The next step is...
Mar 216 min read
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Cutting Clips: How to Use Montage Effectively
Montages are one of the oldest editing techniques in film, originating with Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera  in 1929. Vertov used...
Mar 145 min read
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