"'Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video' is the definitive book on the subject for the serious film student or beginning filmmaker. Its unique two-fold approach looks at filmmaking from the perspectives of both the producer and director, and clearly explains how their separate roles must
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work together to create a successful short film or video. Through extensive examples from award-winning shorts and insightful interviews, you will learn about common challenges the filmmakers encountered during each step of filmmaking process—from preproduction to production, postproduction, and distribution—and the techniques they used to overcome them." (Publisher description)
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"Writing National Cinema traces the twenty-year history of the Peruvian film journal Hablemos de cine alongside that of Peruvian filmmaking and film culture. Similar to the influential French journal Cahiers du cinéma, Hablemos de cine began with a group of young critics interested in claiming the
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director’s use of mise-en-scène as the exclusive method of film analysis rather than thematic or star-oriented topics - hence, the title of the publication, derived from their battle cry at post-screening discussions: “Let’s talk about film.” Their critical authority grew with the rise of local filmmaking and the nationalist fervor of the late 1960s and early 1970s. When government sponsorship spurred feature filmmaking in the mid-1970s, their perspective eschewed the politically militant readings that characterized most writing and film from the rest of Latin America at the time. By the 1980s, the critics at Hablemos de cine had helped to engender a commercial, Hollywood-influenced cinematic vision-best exemplified by Peruvian auteur Francisco Lombardi-and stimulated a unique, if isolating, national identity through film." (Publisher description)
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"Un minuto por mis derechos es un proyecto que convoca a adolescentes entre 14 y 21 años a expresarse de forma creativa y amplia sobre sus derechos a través del lenguaje audiovisual y mediante la realización de videos de 1 minuto de duración. Implica la realización de talleres de capacitación
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con los y las jóvenes en los que pueden compartir espacios de diálogo sobre sus deseos, realidades y problemas, reflexionar en torno a sus derechos, y capacitarse en producción audiovisual. Como cierre de este proceso, los y las jóvenes realizan videominutos relacionados con sus miradas respecto de los derechos del niño y del adolescente, los cuales se difunden en los diferentes circuitos culturales y medios de comunicación como forma de sensibilizar y movilizar a familias, comunidades y sociedad en general." (Página 3)
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"The short film is a unique narrative art form that, while lending itself to experimentation, requires tremendous discipline in following traditional filmic considerations. This book takes the student and novice screenwriter through the storytelling process- from conception, to visualization, to dra
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matization, to characterization and dialogue- and teaches them how to create a dramatic narrative that is at once short (approximately half an hour in length) and complete. Exercises, new examples of short screenplays, and an examination of various genres round out the discussion. New to the third edition: new screenplays, a chapter on rewriting your script, and a chapter on the future of short films." (Publisher description)
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"Focuses on short subject films, especially those produced in São Paulo. Includes information on individual production companies, associations and organizations, a filmography, a summary of legislation, and other topics." (Ann Hartness, Brazil in Reference Books 1965-1989. Scarecrow Press, 1991)
"Catalogues nationaux et internationaux - Autres sources d'information - Catalogues par matière." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 410, topic code 30, 334.1)