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Dr. Lew Hunter

Held each year to engage filmmakers and screenwriters alike, the  American Screenwriters Conference will educate new and experienced screenwriters on the state of the art today. Much more than JUST a writers' Conference: this event

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Hollywood Records is launching a new podcast series titled “The Big Score.”

Each episode of the original series will offer first-person audio and video vignettes that delve deep into the creation of film and television music for influential and award

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Viggo Mortensen's New Film

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Viggo Mortensen is set to write, direct and act in the period western “The Dead Don’t Hurt,” which will also star Vicky Krieps (“Corsage,” “Phantom Thread”).

The movie will begin shooting on Oct. 12 in Canada. Billed as a “western love story” set in t

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GET TIX NOW! Will sell out!

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Check out exclusive BTW footage of last The Night (AKA Pacerville) and Join the Sacramento International Film Festival for our 27th annual opening film and celebration: https://californiafilm.net/event/pace... LAST T

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Infrared World Premiere

 

 This EVENT Was awesome! And HERE IS SOME Behind The Scenes action!
 
Recently, CFF sponsored the US Theatrical Premiere of INFRARED, a new Horror film.
 
Sestero Pictures & Woof Cat Films presents the US theatrical premiere of INFRARED, a new fea
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The long-awaited live Hollywood return of the TCM Classic Film Festival arrived Thursday night with a biggie: The 40th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s 1982 masterpiece E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. TCM had to go virtual the past couple of years so ge

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If you ask the Coen brothers about how they write their films, you might not get a straight answer. "It's mostly napping," Ethan tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross.

"We go to the office, we're there, we're in a room together," Joel adds. "We take naps,

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THE SACRAMENTO FILM AWARDS ARE HERE!8397948256?profile=RESIZE_584xThe 2020 Sacramento Film Awards is part of the California Film Foundation's Sacramento International Film Festival. As such, we honor filmmakers and professionals from our festival and the wider community. Of these

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Movie theaters have been devastated by coronavirus since the pandemic has forced cinemas to close across the country and essentially wiped out summer blockbuster season.
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Quentin Tarantino’s Beverly Cinema closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Netflix’s once heavily guarded vault of secret statistics has slowly opened up over the last couple of years, a gra

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There are conflicting opinions regarding the budget cutoff for the category commonly referred to as “microbudget filmmaking.” Sometimes referred to as “no-budget,” “ultra-low-budget” or “nano-budget,” the term refers to an increasingly popular level

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Actors with dis/abilities are rarely tapped to play dis/abled characters. Ali Stroker, Marlee Matlin and others share their views on representation in the entertainment industry.

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If history is a guide, one of the surest ways to get an Oscar is by bein

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The "Mask Up America" campaign will include eight TV spots, produced by Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Jane Rosenthal and featuring stars such as Robert De Niro, Ellen Pompeo, Kaitlyn Dever, Jamie Foxx, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, Anthony Mackie a

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Last year, not a single major studio movie included a transgender character, according to GLAAD.

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On Thursday morning, the LGBTQ media advocacy organization released its annual Studio Responsibility Index report tracking LGBTQ inclusion in major studio

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