Film Festival Today (FFT) magazine has some great info on upcomimg festivals, and articles on how to start a festival, how to write a film description, how to get feedback at a film festival, and much more.

Kodak has recently updated their student website Kodak.com. There are some excellent resources for cinematographers including an on line version of the publication In Camera on Campus.

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This is the year 2009, the new millenium, the 21st century. Films have been providing great entertainment for over 100 years, and yet we still see foreign films with subtitling that can only be described with expletives. The Italians, Chinese, and Germans do a great job with subtitles, white or yellow letters outlined in black, but the Latin American countries and many European countries and India leave much to be desired. I just watched a wonderful Indian wonderful film that had white subtitles shown over a white clothes at the most important moments in the film. Is there some unwritten law that subtitles can't be a different color in different parts of a film? Foreign filmmakers complain that their films don't get distributed in the United States, granted Americans hate to read, but maybe filmmakers should watch their films with a critical eye after the subtitles are added and make appropriate adjustments.

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