as in film
the art or business of making a movie
plans to attend New York University to learn filmmaking
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Recent Examples of filmmaking
The episode’s first half feels like the work of a misguided pest, and Beto’s filmmaking, which flits between several different styles and cuts between multiple angles sometimes within the course of one interview segment, doesn’t help.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
The threat has been taken care of, by way of the kind of kinetic filmmaking that might make anyone punch the air.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
At that time, Rasoulof was only months into his exile in Europe after fleeing Iran to avoid a brutal eight-year prison sentence for covert filmmaking.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
That’s the story of independent filmmaking.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
The threat has been taken care of, by way of the kind of kinetic filmmaking that might make anyone punch the air.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Aug. 2025
At that time, Rasoulof was only months into his exile in Europe after fleeing Iran to avoid a brutal eight-year prison sentence for covert filmmaking.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025
That’s the story of independent filmmaking.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for filmmaking
Noun
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Directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, an ex-soldier whose experience was the basis for the film, put viewers through uncannily real and unflinchingly brutal moments.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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The master of suspense made almost 70 films and TV shows across his staggering, more-than-half-a-century-long career, graduating from black-and-white, silent British potboilers to full-blown, Technicolor Hollywood blockbusters.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
13 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Sigourney Weaver’s new movie heels take that to another level.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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The mirror plot device exists across The Conjuring films, along with fictional subplots and characters, as could be expected from a dramatic Hollywood movie retelling.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Filmmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmmaking. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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