Green Screen Made Easy: Keying and Compositing Techniques for Indie Filmmakers, 2nd Edition (Book Review)

Posted by on Dec 5, 2016 in Books, Featured, Reviews, Reviews (Books) | 0 comments

I used to make a lot of micro- and no-budget movies packed full of VFX, but I usually avoided green-screen because I could never make it look good. Although those kind of projects are behind me, I agreed to the review because I figured that this book might help others succeed where I’d failed – and also I was interested to find out why I had failed!

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AFM Distribution: Quiver Digital Expands Into Movie Acquisition (Industry Press Release)

Posted by on Nov 30, 2016 in Featured, Industry, News, Press Releases | 0 comments

“Quiver’s focus will always be self-distribution and empowering filmmakers with the tools and services to go it alone,” the company said. “However, they also recognize that there is a large contingent of filmmakers who can’t or don’t want to self-distribute. By entering the world of acquisition, Quiver can bring its reach, capacity, and tools to a new group of films and filmmakers.”

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Science of Film: Science Art Cinema Film Festival Announces Call For Submissions (Festival Press Release)

Posted by on Nov 27, 2016 in Featured, Festivals, Industry, MicroFilmmaking, News, Press Releases | 0 comments

The Science Art Cinema Film Festival, presented by the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, announced the first-ever edition will be held on April 27, 2017 at the museum’s Frost Planetarium in downtown Miami’s Museum Park. The festival is seeking submissions through February 14, 2017 for both short science and science fiction films influenced by art, as well as short art films influenced by science and science fiction. The call is open to both fiction and non-fiction efforts as well as live action and animation.

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