Celebrating World IP Day’s Focus on Young Creators With Teenage TV & Film Buff Ruby Gentz
Earlier today, we published our video with teenage artist Patrick Jackson in part of our celebration World Intellectual Property Day. The connection is that this year, World IP Day is specifically focused on how young people across the globe are helping foster a brighter, more inclusive, and more robust creative future. The importance of protecting ...
Celebrating World IP Day’s Focus on Young Creators With Teenage Artist Patrick Jackson
Today is World Intellectual Property Day, and this year’s focus is on the ways in which young creators are making a big impact on safeguarding IP and making the world a more creatively vibrant place. As the World IP Day’s official site explains, “Across the globe, young people are stepping up to innovation challenges, using ...
Future Critics: Abby Alben on Working at Mother & Daughter Entertainment
Abby Alben graduated from UCLA and, like so many people, was eager to find a job in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles. What she ended up finding was a career. Alben, our latest Future Critic (although really, she’s more of a Future Producer) began working at the independent production company Mother & Daughter Entertainment. ...
Future Critics: Lauren Claggett on Marvel vs. DC
In the fourth installment of our Future Critics series, we chat with a future director (more on that later) who weighs in on one of the most pressing questions in movies today—whose superhero characters are more powerful, Marvel’s or DC’s? If you’re a Marvel fan, you’re thinking, duh, no brainer—ever heard of Captain Marvel? Not ...
Future Critics: Kyle Perez on Canadian Filmmakers & Loving the Classics
In the third installment of our Future Critics series, we raise the age range a touch but we sure don’t the passion for film on display. We’ve been schooled on composers by East Coaster Benji Cherukuri, given a crash course in the importance of female filmmakers from West Coaster Elisa Monagas, and now we head ...
Future Critics: Elisa Monagas on the “Frozen” Franchise, Hermione Granger & More
In our first installment of our Future Critics series, sixth-grader and East Coaster Benji Cherukuri schooled us on the work of composers Nicholas Britell and Hans Zimmer. In our newest installment, eighth-grader and West Coaster Elisa Monagas gives us the goods on two epic film series, Frozen and Harry Potter, as well as sharing what she plans on being when she ...
Future Critics: Benji Cherukuri on Composers Hans Zimmer & Nicholas Britell
In the first installment of our series Future Critics, we’d like to introduce you to Benji Cherukuri. Benji’s an avid movie fan, musician, and performer himself. You can check out Benji’s videos—which he edits—on his YouTube channel. Today, however, Benji becomes our first Future Critic. Benji took some time out from his busy schedule, which includes ...