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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 FilmNorth’s new hub for local filmmaking opened in the neighborhood earlier this summer, too. Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 19 Sep. 2025 The duo did a podcast episode earlier this year, in which Cameron spoke in favor of using AI for filmmaking. PC Magazine, 18 Sep. 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 See All Example Sentences for filmmaking
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Noun
  • This film asserts an alternative to war and that another path is possible for humanity.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Garrett Warren, a veteran stunt coordinator who has worked with Cameron on two Avatar movies plus such films as Logan and last year’s Road House reboot, is making his feature directorial debut with the project.
    Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
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  • Such breezy asides suggest a movie that’s a little too eager to be liked.
    Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The film, which is a sequel to the classic 1990 Christmas movie, follows the young and spirited Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), who mistakenly gets on a plane headed for New York City while the rest of the family flies to Florida.
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Filmmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmmaking. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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