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Clint Eastwood Returns To Acting

During a master class at the Cannes Film Festival, film icon Clint Eastwood said that after a five year hiatus he will return to acting in front of the camera. This announcment was met by a three-minute long ovation for those lucky enough to be in attendance. Eastwood's last on-screen performance was in 2012 for the film "Trouble With the Curve." alongside Amy Adams and Justin Timberlake. The 86 year old actor director said he missed performing "once in a while but not often...

Grand Prix of the Americas went to Rajko Grlic’s Constitution (FFM 2016)

The Constitution (Ustav Republike Hrvatske), Croatia, Czech Republic, UK, Slovenia, Macedonia Directed by Rajko Grlic; written by Ante Tomic & Rajko Grlic; cast: Nebojsa Glogovac, Dejan Acimovic, Ksenija Marinkovic, Bozidar Smiljanic... The Story: Four characters (or rather three and a half, since the father of the protagonist is tied up to a deathbed with amputated legs, hardly able to speak) live in the same building, yet separated by different social status, political and ideological ...

The Backstory of Artifice

Introduction. I do not like books about acting, per se. I like to read and hear what other actors have to say about their own process. My instrument and I are not perfect. My voice is too small. My Nebraska accent that sticks to my vowels like molasses and every glottal that has ever been uttered has found its way into my speech  Fortunately for me, I am not a perfectionist. Besides, we live in an imperfect world. I try to be ready, instead. A person...

REVISTA CLIQUISH in Sao Paulo profiles Dawn Westlake!

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Roberto Christo of REVISTA CLIQUISH interviewed LA-based filmmaker Dawn Westlake from his office in Sao Paulo last week. http://www.revistacliquish.com/2014/05/an-interview-with-dawn-westlake.html (If you'd prefer to read it in Portuguese, click here: http://www.revistacliquish.com/2014/05/entrevista-com-dawn-westlake.html)     ...

We will be on FOX TV!!!

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We applied and were accepted on a Crowd Funding Television show! We don't actually need funding, but love the exposure! Writers and Filmmakers.com will be featured on FOX 29-WUTV Sunday the 29th at 11:30am!  RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL! RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL! RIGHT BEFORE NFL SUNDAY FOOTBALL!   We are slowly starting our marketing campaign...because the back-end of site is still under development! The Front facing is nice...chec...

Writers and Filmmakers.com

We Fund Writers and Filmmakers! Writers judge filmmakers, filmmakers judge writers!  Winning writer gets their script made by the winning filmmaker!

The PROBLEM!

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The Filmmaker Problem: Funding. The screenwriter Problem: Finding Production. Solution: Writers and Filmmakers.com ...

CHARLES WEINSTEIN WORKSHOP AT ÉCU 2012

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Charles Weinstein: Are you an actor in search of improving your craft? Or interested in entering the film industry and eager to get a head start in the industry? Charles Weinstein is providing a workshop for YOU! A film director from New York City and having worked with big names such as Laura Linney, Calista Flockhart and Michael Imperioli at Film Acting Paris (FAP), Weinstein is an expert on coaching aspiring actors in all areas, including castings, screen tests and television and film role...

Time Always Moving

Director: Lee Neville.
Whether it be two years ago, tonight or tomorrow, time is always moving. And Adam will realize that no matter what time it is- beyond the girlfriend, the best friend, the other woman and the truth they finally chose to say- is the one who stayed.

EYELINER

Director: CECILE RITTWEGER.
Fleeting but passionate encounter between a famous actor and a young student in literature. A few years later, the student became an actress and will make a casting for a film that the actor wants to achieve ...

Sophia Gilberto

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NEW Sophia was just cast as a "Godess' in the new feature film 'Falcyyr' of Unicovia Pictures Sophia started out in dance, community theatre and playing piano since she was five years old. Sophie's first introduction to film was in ”Santa Claus in Baghdad” RA Visions Productions" as an extra and was hooked. She then participated as an extra in ”Soul Sister”OracleVoice Films" . She started taking acting classes and loved it with a passion that would contin...

First time Director

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    Well this is my first time directing a film and first time writting a script. I didn't want to be another Actor who did this like so many befor me but I thought about it and thought why not I guess if I write something that means something to me it couldn't be all that bad. So here we are in the first stages of pre-production and I realized this is not as easy as one would think. See as an Actor I learn my lines and give life to the script through my interpitation. I guess I ne...

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