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Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer was born in 1974 in Austin, Texas. He is a two-time Oscar-nominated American film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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As I walked through the large steel gate towards the vibrantly colored mural on the windowless concrete facade, the pulsing beat of Reggaetón greeted...
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In today’s filmed entertainment environment a screenwriter is often asked, “Why this, why now?” In other words they are asked to prove a story’s...
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For decades now, the conventional wisdom in the film industry has been that there are films made for entertainment, and films made with depth,...
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Impact Filmmaking as an Intervention of Imagination “Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and...
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I have been fascinated and engrossed in films for as long as I can remember. Even as a child I knew I wanted to...
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Films that entertain and films that drive positive change in the world are often thought to be mutually exclusive. That’s the way it’s always...
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There is no other film that has made more of an indelible mark on history and pop culture than Star Wars. In its most recent...
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This article is part of the CoC@SXSW2015 series. Back in March 2015 I attended SXSW in Austin, Texas. After six months of endless work, finally this...
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In 2003, two plaintiffs sued McDonald’s Corporation for their failure to warn consumers of the dangers of its food. The case was dismissed, noting...
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What happened to the days of classical Hollywood when hit movies weren’t a sequel or some variation thereof? When a film wasn’t made on...
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There is no single silence, but a typology of non-hearing and non-listening. Whether the supposed silence of a musical rest, of the anticipation of...
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In 1929, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille told a story to a group of film engineers about needing to shoot a scene with Thomas...
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Courtney Spence is an enrepreneur and storyteller. She founded Students of the World as an undergraduate at Duke University, and for the last 15...
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