A Holiday Gift Guide for the Budding Filmmaker in Your Life

Do you have someone in your life who dreams of making movies? Or perhaps someone who just loves knowing how they’re made? Well, we've got some book and film titles that will satiate the hopeful screenwriters, directors, and producers in your life. No list like this could ever be totally comprehensive, so tweet at us if you’ve got some recommendations to add to this list.

Books on Screenwriting

For screenwriters,

Movie Poster Masterminds: An Interview With Allied Creative

Everyone knows movie ad campaigns are crucial to the industry. After all, who hasn’t let an eight-foot billboard of an impressive movie advert persuade them into making a trip to the local theater queue? But, like most things in the business, there’s more to making movie posters than meets the eye. Creative agencies are devoted to achieving the optimal aesthetic of movie posters and ad campaigns—from appealing to the target audience, to capturing the ambiance and essence of the movie itself.

Welcome to The Credits

Just as it sounds, The Credits is an online magazine that celebrates the hard work and creativity that goes into making the movies and television shows we all love. Often we’re leaving the theater, changing the channel or clicking through to the next episode on Hulu by the time the credits roll; we’d like to hit the pause button in order to take a better look at some of the names on the screen.

The Credits is sponsored by the Motion Picture Association of America and celebrates our large and diverse creative community.