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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The coverage Jaden Hicks isn’t going to enjoy the film.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
6 Sep. 2025
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In fact, it could be said that few creative mediums go together quite like fashion and film.—
Liam Hess,
Vogue,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The books-to-movies pipeline is littered with stories of adaptations gone wrong.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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Zelensky doesn't want to go through the same movie again.—
Daniel R. DePetris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Filmmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/filmmaking. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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