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Coda star Emilia Jones and Scoot McNairy have nabbed lead roles in producer Sofia Coppola’s Fairyland adaptation for American Zoetrope, with director Andrew Durham having just wrapped production on his debut feature.
American Zoetrope: Dedicated to Creating Classics. Since our founding in 1969, we have produced some of the most important films in American cinema. Our founder’s distinguished career includes films that have garnered 27 Academy Awards and 63 nominations, four of which are on the American Film Institute’s list of The 100 Greatest American ...
American Zoetrope was founded in 1969 with the mission of finding creative, fast, and economic approaches to film. By constantly embracing new technology and innovatively applying it to movie production, American Zoetrope has built a rich history of pioneering unconventional filmmaking techniques.
American Zoetrope has helped to launch the careers of some of today's best-known actors and filmmakers. Here are some of the people whose careers began in, or were given an early boost by, American Zoetrope productions:
A Brief History of American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola decided he would name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogen Scott-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment.
Screenplays 2016: Fourteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest. Guest Judge: Francis Ford Coppola . First Prize: "Poppy (Pilot)" by Munis Rashid. Full List of Winners
TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL AMERICAN ZOETROPE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION RESULTS. Many thanks to all who entered the 2023 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition. We appreciate the opportunity to read such diverse and innovative work. From nearly 2,000 submissions, Judge Francis Coppola and the Zoetrope staff honored the scripts below. Winner:
The Outsiders comes to the screen through school petition. Chance plays a significant part in the genesis of many movies, but The Outsiders was surely the first to spring to life because a group of schoolchildren wanted it to happen. In the spring of 1980, a librarian at Lone Star Jr. High School in Fresno, California, took courage in hand and ...
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Zoetrope: a community of artists since 1998. Sleepy Hollow. 1999. Heads Will Roll
