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3 unusual facts about filmmaking


Edith Dunham Foster

Edith Dunham Foster (1864–1950) was an American educational film maker who served as the Editor of the Motion Picture Community Bureau which furnished nearly all of the films seen by American armed forces during World War 1.

Filmmaking

Distribution—The finished film is distributed and screened in cinemas and/or released on Home entertainment.

This is the final stage, where the film is released to cinemas or, occasionally, to consumer media (DVD, VCD, VHS, Blu-ray) or direct download from a provider.


A Century of Cinema

A Century of Cinema is a 1994 documentary directed by Caroline Thomas about the art of filmmaking (coinciding with cinema's 100th anniversary), containing numerous interviews with some of the most influential film personalities of the 20th century.

A River Changes Course

Special Mention, International Documentary Association Pare Lorentz Award, which recognizes films that demonstrates exemplary filmmaking while focusing on the appropriate use of the natural environment, justice for all and the illumination of pressing social problems.

A.D. Calvo

Calvo's early filmmaking and screenwriting efforts gained the praise and support of Oscar-nominated producers Howard and Karen Baldwin, and Grammy-winning musician Michael Bolton.

Amber Rose Kandarian

Kandarian also taught courses on documentary filmmaking at the Sydney Film School.

Barak Epstein

Epstein appeared in Lloyd Kaufman's 2005 DVD set, Make Your Own Damn Movie! while on the set of Prison-A-Go-Go! The numerous crew positions that Epstein has held include: gaffer, camera operator, editor, assistant director, production manager, director of photography, and special effects assistant.

Brian J. Terwilliger

Brian J. Terwilliger is a motion picture producer/director who is most noted for the 2005 high-definition documentary, One Six Right, which has received acclaim and press for pioneering independent film distribution and high-definition filmmaking.

Claude Miller

After a four-year absence, Claude Miller returned to active filmmaking with The Accompanist (1992) and The Smile (1994).

Coastal Studios

The company has previously provided ADR work for Hollywood films and television in the 1990s such as Batman & Robin, The Lion King, and Dawson's Creek.

Daily progress report

A daily progress report is a filmmaking report that is produced at the end of each shooting day by the First Assistant Director (1AD) and passed to the Production Manager for approval.

Daytime Drinking

Ushering in a new era of independent filmmaking in South Korea, Daytime Drinking is a comedy in the spirit of Stranger Than Paradise and Sideways, but with a distinctly Korean twist.

Doctor Snuggles

The Dutch dubbing was directed by Frans Voordrecht, by with voices by Jules Croiset, Trudy Libosan, Dick Scheffer and Rupert van Woerkom.

Douglas Education Center

Students learn techniques from industry professionals including Robert Tinnell, a motion picture screenwriter, director, and producer as well as the director of The Factory Digital Filmmaking Program at Douglas.

Ethan Dettenmaier

Dettenmaier made his filmmaking debut with the horror film Sin-Jin Smyth, which began filming in 2006 and had guitarist Billy Duffy (The Cult) set to do some guitar work.

Graham Robertson

Based on the experiences of directing Able Edwards, Robertson went on to write the book, Desktop Cinema: Feature Filmmaking on the Home Computer, a step-by-step account into how one would make their own feature film on Apple's Macintosh computer.

Independent Moving Pictures

At a time when leading screen players worked anonymously, IMP performers Florence Lawrence, formerly known as "The Biograph Girl," and King Baggot became the first "movie stars" to be given billing and screen credits, a marquee as well as promotion in advertising, which contributed to the creation of the star system.

Interview: The Documentary

Interview: The Documentary is a documentary film, directed by Scott Shaw, that details the creation of the first two films that were created in the distinct style of filmmaking known as Zen Filmmaking.

Jalari in corto

The film international festival, Jalari in Corto, was born in the summer of 2004 from an idea of the youth of the Cultural Environment Ethnographic "Jalari" Andrea and Italian, in order to promote, raise awareness and bring the art of cinema and in general the communicative power of artistic expression with as many people as possible through short films and meetings with authors, actors and critics.

James A. Moorer

In 1999, he won an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scientific and Engineering Award for his pioneering work in the design of digital signal processing and its application to audio editing for film.

Jeff Bollow

In 1996, Bollow moved to New Zealand, where he continued acting, with minor appearances in Shortland Street, Lost Valley, Young Hercules (as an ADR actor), and several others.

John Vasicek

Vasicek became a Certified Public Accountant while working for the international accounting firm KPMG before entering filmmaking.

Justin Cook

Justin Ryan Cook (born April 4, 1982 in Austin, Texas) is an American producer, voice actor, Line Producer, ADR Director, and Engineer who works for anime series at Funimation Entertainment/OkraTron 5000 and is most noted for his English dub role as Yusuke Urameshi in YuYu Hakusho.

Karen Bernstein

Karen Bernstein is a Canadian voice actress who is best known to many in North America as the voice of Sailor Mercury in the American dubbing of the first two seasons of Sailor Moon.

Klinton Spilsbury

Klinton Spilsbury's dialogue in The Legend of the Lone Ranger was dubbed by actor James Keach.

Le Samouraï

Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung's 2001 crime-and-filmmaking comedy You Shoot, I Shoot features Eric Kot as a hitman who idolizes Alain Delon's Jef, dressing like the character, and speaking to him via a Le Samouraï poster in his apartment.

Lee Barnes

Barnes has the honor of being the only known stunt double for silent film star Buster Keaton during Keaton's independent years of filmmaking.

Leela Roy Ghosh

Leela Roy Ghosh (Hindi: लीला रॉय घोष Līlā Rŏya Ghōṣa, Bengali: লীলা রায় ঘোষ Līlā Rāẏa Ghōṣa, February 3, 1948 – May 11, 2012) was an Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist who spoke Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi and Urdu.

Martin Spanjers

Spanjers's most recent film appearance came as the voice for Sugimura in the English dub of the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart in 2006.

Max Hell Frog Warrior

This film is considered a Zen Film in that it was created in the distinct style of filmmaking formulated by Scott Shaw known as Zen Filmmaking.

Michael D'Anna

He then made the move into documentary filmmaking in 1998 with the television series Religions of the World, hosted by Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley.

Michael Grigsby

Along with a bunch of disaffected Granada colleagues, he set up a filmmaking collective, Unit Five Seven, and spent several years shooting and editing Enginemen, a short film about work in a locomotive shed, in his spare time.

National Film Festival for Talented Youth

Once again Nike sponsored a 48-hour student filmmaking competition, and the keynote panel, moderated by Nicholas de Wolff, featured "Social Network" Producer Dana Brunetti, Web series pioneer Hayden Black, Studio marketing leader Valerie van Galder, Microsoft head of Global Community Affairs Tim Dubel, and documentary filmmaker Stan Emert.

Oggi Tomic

Oggi works primarily with latest Canon filmmaking kit, from LED lighting sets to stylish cinematography service including filming, editing and post-production resulting in broadcast quality video for television or web use.

Peter Sís

He has occasionally returned to filmmaking, producing commercials for Nickelodeon & PBS Kids, plus shorts for Sesame Street based on his book Madlenka.

Rahul Dholakia

Thereafter, he moved to New York in 1990, where, he did his Masters in filmmaking from the New York Institute of Technology, and has been in India and Corona, California, USA ever since.

Ron Lamothe

Starting in 2005, Lamothe spent two years shooting and editing his next documentary, The Call of the Wild, on the self-proclaimed "aesthetic voyager" Christopher McCandless, a filmmaking odyssey that took him through thirty U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and parts of Mexico.

Stan Bush

Stan Bush is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose most notable work includes the songs "Dare" and "The Touch" from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie, and "She's Got the Power", featured in the American voice dub of the animated series Sailor Moon.

Svetozar Ristovski

Largely inspired by filmmakers such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, Robert Bresson and Michelangelo Antonioni, Ristovski developed a passion for filmmaking while living in Macedonia.

Teletica Canal 7

Main programming consists on local news show call Telenoticias, Buen Dia (morning show), Mexican and Colombian soap operas, US dubbed TV series, sports, Deportivo Saprissa soccer games and Costa Rica national football team friendly games.

The Best of Enemies

The Best of Enemies (I due nemici) is a 1961 film directed by Guy Hamilton that was an Italian and British co-production set during the WWII East African Campaign but filmed in Israel.

The Butcher Brothers

The Butcher Brothers are the filmmaking alter-egos of American film directors Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores.

The Naked Kiss

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by critic and poet Robert Polito and excerpts from Fuller’s autobiography, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking.

The People vs. George Lucas

The People vs. George Lucas is a 2010 documentary/comedy film which explores the issues of filmmaking and fanaticism pertaining to the Star Wars franchise and its creator, George Lucas.

Yuji Tanaka

He also played Mike in the Japanese dub of the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc. and Br'er Fox in the Japanese dub of the Disney movie Song of the South (special edition).

Zoltan Korda

He made his first film in Hungary in 1918, and worked with his brother Alexander Korda on filmmaking there and in London.


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