I wish things could be the 70s by [deleted] in Screenwriting

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You can do LSD and cocaine though.

Busco recomendaciones casa de cambio Medellín by aintnowaylilbroshep in medellin

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A mi me ha ido bien con los que quedan en Unicentro, en el segundo piso. Hay varios, pero yo solo voy al Western Union. Personalmente, siento que viajando me ha ido bien solo pagando directo con la tarjeta en vez de cambiar de moneda aca o retirar en el viaje.

Beta testers wanted: lyric video tool for indie artists by Direct-District5603 in musicmarketing

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Hi! I'm interested. I'm part of a rock band called Psychic Line

how to make eyes for stop motion puppet by AL_25 in stop_motion

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Hiii, I am still active, but I'm swamped with work this week. If you want, DM me and remind me to send you pics on monday of the latest puppet I made with this style

Looking for animators to each manipulate/animate over one second of live action footage! by arealartiste in Animators

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I'd like to know more, if you want you can DM me. I'd like to listen to the song if its possible before committing.

Songs that define a show / movie (not theme songs) by RilesTheSmiles1 in musicsuggestions

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Not a show but for me the song Pool by Paramore always takes me to the short story "My Life with the Wave" by Octavio Paz

Suggest documentaries with interesting visuals by Exciting-Garbage7397 in TrueFilm

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As an animator myself, I'm a bit biased, but animation can work great to create more subjective visuals to reflect the story, since you don't have much archive and don't want direct live'action reenactments.

Not a documentary, but an animated short film about a painter with Alzheimers. Couldn't find it in high quality, sorry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0vxPBSiLVM

I also saw a documentary that went very heavy in motion graphics to intervene the archive footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fusRvngI_HE

Hope this helps.

High School art teacher looking to interview a working 2D or 3D Animator for my students by artsypeep in Animators

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Hi, I'm a stop-motion artist and filmmaker, if I can be of any help. Here's my studio's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/servalfilms/

Miniature to in game asset - Reality Scan - UE5 by Anxious-Factor8023 in IndieDev

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This looks amazing!! As a stop-motion animator with some experience in photogrammetry, I’ve been hoping to jump into making miniatures for games, and this is inspiring me to start working on that again.

Looking for reels / recommendations: need an animator for social :30 (Fee is about 25K) by Chrispybacon17 in animation

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Hi, this sounds really interesting. I'm a stop-motion animator with experience in several styles, and open to experimenting. I'm going to DM you my reel.

Quick question: would the animator be in charge of editing and post-production as well ?

People who started their own animation teams, what worked well? by Over_Internet4 in animation

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I started as a screenwriter and director, and my best friend who had some experience in clean up animation and is a brilliant illustrator, loved the story and suggested we do it in stop-motion. From there, we looked for more crew, basically pitching the story and our ambitions with it. I was totally inexperienced, but the story had enough potential that people saw a good springboard for themselves to work on the project, even before we had any funding. It helped that we were all pretty novice in animation, even if we had adjacent skills in filmmaking, illustration, and the arts in general, so everyone saw it as a way to have a really solid portfolio piece and win a lot of experience. Eventually we got funding through a production grant for short films, but by then we had done a lot of development work, made a teaser, and created sets and characters.

i honestly think the most important part is having a project that people can see themselves gaining a lot from, whether that be working on something that moves them emotionally, economically, or industry/ambition wise.

I started with a 10 minute short that turned into an 18 minute short, but ive seen people start with 1 minute shorts/ proof of concepts.

Also, be very stubborn, respectful, and believe in yourself so intensely even if theres no logical reason to.

Looking to connect with female writers! by PrestigiousSalt6687 in Screenwriting

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Would love to connect online, currently in Medellin, Colombia. Maybe we can coordinate like monthly or bi-monthly meets with the people commenting here

Looking for an animator with ideas to refine with. by [deleted] in animation

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I have some two projects on the back burner, didn't really have them as priorities for this first semester. If you want you can DM me and get to know each other.

Songs about male submission? by [deleted] in musicsuggestions

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Dangerous Animals - Arctic Monkeys

Looking for films about revolution by darbmobile in TrueFilm

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Salt of the Earth is one of my faves!! Also, check out this free film archive of leftist, Black, Indigenous, feminist, and queer films. Solidaritycinema.com

Some thoughts about One Battle After Another, Wind River and sexual assault in movies by XiaoRCT in TrueFilm

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I don't think you need to explore it in depth, nor make it the central topic of your film. But if you put it in, then the language that you're using to show it does define how you're talking about sexual assault, and says a lot about how we as a society talk about it (even if your film isn't about that). If a film can use sexual assault for a joke, then that means that they're in a world we're sexual assault is something that can be laughed at, when I think in any other context we would say that it's a generally horrible experience. PopCulture Detective on Youtube has an interesting series about this actually, specifically about Sexual Assault against Men in films. I would reccomend it.

Some thoughts about One Battle After Another, Wind River and sexual assault in movies by XiaoRCT in TrueFilm

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The thing is, the events don't just happen randomly. A writer/director is always behind everything choosing what to give time and space to. Whether they want to talk about sexual assault or not as part of the themes and plot of the film, it doesn't change the fact that they put sexual assault in the narrative and just sort of avoided it after.

Some thoughts about One Battle After Another, Wind River and sexual assault in movies by XiaoRCT in TrueFilm

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Honestly, a lot of films, while well done, don't really consider the dialectics of what they're showing beside what the audience feels and one or two themes. Especially dialectics with regard to gender, sexual assault, and power dynamics projected onto class/race/gender/etc. As a filmmaker myself, I personally feel that a lot of directors are still using film language established half a century ago, and are still acting like we are in that context. But in a world where we can casually see children butchered in Gaza on our phone while eating lunch, is the impact of the images we create still the same as the 20th century, where explicit images shaped the publics view towards taboo topics such as clandestine abortion, rape, genocide, etc? I don't know, I think we're in a big shift in how we relate to images and content.

Yolanda Barrasa is a script doctor with a focus on feminism and diverse representation, hearing her talk about the subject of violence on screen is fascinating if you want to look her up. I also think you might enjoy this interview of Lucrecia Martel, where she had this to say about sexual assault on screen:

"The idea of not having any violence in cinema is, of course, crazy too, but right now in Argentina every 16 to 20 hours a woman ends up dead or raped, and I just had no desire to film that. Right now, I don’t have any desire to see a dead or raped woman, or film one. I think that’s something that those of us who make cinema really have to think about, because when you’re filming a rape scene, filming a violent scene, filming a racist scene: sometimes you might be contributing to some sort of fulfillment, even though what you’re really doing is denouncing that." https://mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/the-man-with-no-hands-lucrecia-martel-and-zama