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The 48 Hour Film Project is: An exciting creative weekend; Filmmakers making short films; A global event that happens in more than 100 cities. The 48 takes place on different weekends in different cities throughout the year. In each city local Film Teams—from beginners to pro's--compete to make a s…
University of Cambridge
Learn to strengthen you skills as a screenwriter, while diversifying your knowledge and understanding of the demands of global film and TV production. Find out how to become a powerful visual story-teller; understand how to build effective structure within your screenplay; develop professionally tr…
University of Pennsylvania
Explore the history of Hollywood, from Edison and the birth of film to the rise of the internet.
Harvard University
Explore the poetry of the Civil War and its aftermath.
University of Pennsylvania
Copyright law is unique in the greater intellectual property regime, as it protects original expression that is fixed in a tangible medium and is the product of authorship. This course is designed for creative professionals — such as screenwriters, musicians, documentary filmmakers or artists — who…
MIT OpenCourseWare
In this course we will read essays, novels, memoirs, and graphic texts, and view documentary and experimental films and videos which explore race from the standpoint of the multiracial. Examining the varied work of multiracial authors and filmmakers such as Danzy Senna, Ruth Ozeki, Kip Fulbeck, Jam…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course considers films spanning the entire career of pioneering Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), from his silent surrealist classic of 1929, Un perro andaluz, to his last film, Ese oscuro objeto del deseo (1977). We pay special attention to his Mexican period, in exile, and the films…
MIT OpenCourseWare
This course explores the city through writing—listening to the voices of poets, short story writers, novelists, journalists, critics, historians, ethnographers, urbanists, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Through extensive reading that informs their work on a longform story, students will…
Alison
The Unreal Engine is convincingly the most robust video game engine for game developers, filmmakers and animators. It features an advanced real-time three-dimensional engine for creating state-of-the-art audio-visuals, interactive media content and epic computer games. From virtual reality (VR) and…
The University of Hong Kong
Explore globalization through Hong Kong film classics of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and Maggie Cheung, among others. 透过李小龙、成龙和张曼玉等国际巨星曾演出的经典香港电影，探索全球一体化概念。
Alison
This tattoo workshop provides you with the fundamental skills and techniques required to kickstart your career as a tattoo artist. Lily Lu, a professional tattoo artist and filmmaker with over 17 years’ experience, presents the course. This course first explains how to acquire a beginner tattoo ki…
Harvard University
Taught by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. with insights from actor and singer Cynthia Erivo.
Great Learning
This free filmmaking course helps beginners turn an idea into a scene that viewers can follow. You learn story structure, shot planning, framing, composition, camera movement, lighting, sound basics, continuity, editing rhythm, and production planning for simple video projects.The course is useful…
The University of Edinburgh
Increasingly, as education pivots online, educators are looking to filmmaking as a way of creating new and exciting content. On this two-week course from the University of Edinburgh, you’ll learn how to turn your mobile phone into a full-featured video production suite to create effective and engag…
Alison
New Hollywood is also referred to as the ‘American New Wave’ or the ‘Hollywood Renaissance’ and refers to an American cinematic movement spanning the period from mid-1960s to the early 1980s. This course introduces you to a new generation of new famous filmmakers, including Martin Scorsese, Roman P…
Alison
Are you ready to be introduced to film techniques, theories and movements in global cinema? You will study the different types of, and myths in, plots present in films, and how characters work as plot elements in cinema. The material then covers the great contributions of Soviet filmmakers Lev Kule…
Alison
This free online courses provides an introduction to intertextuality, the French masters and classic Hollywood cinema. You will also master the key features of modernism and expressionism in filmmaking. Kick off studying intertextuality by analyzing popular movies such as ‘The Matrix’, ‘Casablanca’…
The Smithsonian Institution
ང་ཚོས་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་དང་མི་སྡེ་ཞིག་གི་འཚོ་བའི་གཞི་རྩ་ཡིན་པའི་གནས་ཡོད་རིག་གནས་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་སྐོར་ཅི་ལྟར་བསྡུ་འཇུག་དང་ཉར་ཚགས་བྱེད་རྒྱུའི་སྐོར་ལ་སློབ་སྦྱོང་བྱེད་རྒྱུ་ཡིན། Learn how to document and preserve living cultural traditions, the foundation for family and community life on the Tibetan Plateau today.
University of California, Riverside
Discover the origins of the Hollywood film musical! This course explores the deep and special relationship between Broadway (New York) and Hollywood (Los Angeles). We delve into how the major studios, filmmakers, artists, and performers launched the new and exciting genre of the movie musical.
Alison
Visual effect (VFX) is the process by which imagery is created, altered, or enhanced outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production. It allows the integration of live-action footage and effects to create realistic objects, characters and environments. Have you ever won…
