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Black Alphabet Film Festival

Black Alphabet Film Festival (BAFF) is Chicago's premier film festival for the Black LGBTQ community. Our tagline: Telling Our Stories Beyond the Rainbow......

Black and White

Films prior to the advent of Technicolor. ....

Black Box Management

Black Box Management is a literary management company with highly respected manager Mike Dill. ....

Black Comedy

Comedy in which the humor is derived from subjects which are typically considered "serious", or for which humor is usually considered as unsuitable: death, war, misery. ....

Black Deer Pictures, Inc.

Thomas Zoeschg is a motion picture director residing in Los Angeles, CA. He's a proud member of The Actors Studio - Director's Unit, and Film Independent.....

Black On Purpose Television Network

Our mission is to be a positive image and a catalyst for change in our community.....

BlacKkKlansman: Adapting a True Life Story

This week we’re going to be talking about BlacKkKlansman by Spike Lee, Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz and Kevin Willmott.When I first went out to see BlacKkKlansman, my hope was that I was going to be able to do a podcast about how to write a movie for a political change— to talk about the confluence of race and politics and storytel....

Blacklisting/Blackballing

List of filmmakers or actors who have either been formally or informally discriminated against, due to their personal, political, social, or religious beliefs. ....

Blair Halver's Reality Sound School

When I started out, I just wanted to make a living doing audio full-time. Audio was my passion, and I wanted to build my career around it because that’s all I wanted to do in life.....

Blair Witch Project: Directing an Indie Film Phenomenon w / Eduardo Sanchez

Blair Witch Project: Directing an Indie Film Phenomenon w/ Eduardo SanchezWho hasn't heard of the now legendary indie film rags to riches tale of The Blair Witch Project? Every film student from Los Angeles to Mumbai heard the story of how two young film students spent $27,000 (mostly from friends, family and credit cards) to make a little indie ho....

Blake & Wang P.A.

B&W entertainment lawyer areas of expertise include: Entertainment Law, Contracts Law, Corporate and Securities Law in all 50 states, Trademark and Tax Law. ....

Blake Snyder's Save the Cat

In his 20-year career as a screenwriter and producer, Blake Snyder sold dozens of scripts, including co-writing Blank Check, which became a hit for Disney.....

Blake Snyder's Save the Cat!

Based on the three best-selling books of screenwriter Blake Snyder, this site provides writers the resources they need to develop their screenplays and novels using Blake’s acclaimed ideas and methods. Since 2006 our beat sheet workshop has helped hundreds of writers create the titles, loglines, and critical beats which became the foundation o....

Blimped Camera

Camera with internal soundproofing. Camera will say "BL." ....

Blind Confidence Productions

Blind Confidence Productions is committed to thoughtful, daring, entertaining and artistically accomplished filmmaking.  Our name is derived from the belief that artistic endeavors require skill, hard work and dedication, as well as a fervent and unswerving belief that, armed with these things, we must all forge blindly ahead past the many obs....

Blinded By Ambition Entertainment

Sean Freelon has over eight years of experience as a P.A. and Production Manager in the Television and Film industry. After a semi-successful stint in the Music business, Sean embarks on his second venture into the limelight. In 2009 he launched his Independent imprint, WordWorks Entertainment. Aligned with creative partner Joe Jennings Jr, (Blinde....

Blinking Dog Productions

Brad Schreiber has edited for shows such as Burn Notice, Graceland, and Kyle XY and done visual effects for Cosmos. He is currently working on Sleepy Hollow. Brad has cut film and done visual effects for Walt Disney, TNT, Universal, Fox Television Studios, Warner Brothers, and USA. He is also an award winning screenwriter and photographer. Bea Schr....

Block Page

A block page is a script page that is all action description. Visually, the page is dense - with very little white space - and at looks like a block of paragraphs. Screenwriters try to avoid these pages. They want the read to move quickly, and it is usually a mistake not to break up a lot of action description with a quick line of dialogue or new s....

Block/Blocking

Rehearsal to determine the position and movement of the camera, actors, and crew during a particular shot or scene. ....

Blockbuster

Movie which is a huge financial success; $100 million or more. ....