A film-maker is a professional from the movie industry who, as the name indicates, makes a movie, he is the responsible for the creation of the film. However, as is commonly known, it is hard if not impossible for a single individual to make a movie, at least in a professional environment, and the current […]

In the artistic context, the genre can be defined as a main style, that clusters a wide range of similar characteristics, and that allows to classify and distinguish different art productions that share a common base. Whether in music, literature, painting, cinema, sculpture, or any other art, the division by genre can be made regarding […]

David Llewelyn Wark Griffith, commonly known as D. W. Grifftith, was an American film maker who developed new directing techniques, being considered by many the “father” of Hollywood. Born in 1875 in Crestwood, Kentucky, Griffith came from a rural poor family, and during his childhood and adolescence he suffered from the economic difficulties his family […]

Werner Herzog Stipetić is a famous German film maker, commonly known as Werner Herzog, the name he choose to use in the early beginning of his career, since he considered it more striking and memorable than his real last name. Born in 1942 in Munich, Germany, Werner has Croatian origins, and spend a big part of […]

Image Composition refers to the arrangement of elements on a screen, whether it is a painting or drawing, a photograph or a frame in television or cinema. The main elements that are an essential part of the composition of any image are the main subject, the foreground and the secondary motifs, and all this components […]

The history of Japanese Cinema has over one century. In 1897, Japanese people were introduced to a new invention, which allowed to put images once static in motion; the responsible for the first public demonstration of what would become cinema has its known nowadays was the American company Vitascope. It is clear then since its […]

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was a notorious Japanese film-maker, and is considered one of the most important directors in the history of film, given his important contributions not only to Japanese cinema, but to the entire film industry. Kurosawa grew up in the suburbs of Tokyo, and was the youngest of eight children of a middle […]

Sergei Loznitsa is a Belarusian movie director, mostly known for the work he developed in the areas of both documental and fictional cinema. Born in 1964, Loznitsa started his career in the field of exact sciences, first by getting his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics in the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, in Ukraine, after which he […]

Considered by many the founding fathers of cinema, Auguste and Louis Lumière where two French brothers who invented the cinematograph. Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas Lumière was born in 1862, and Louis Jean Lumière in 1864; both brothers are from Besançon, a city located next to the Swiss border. Since their early childhood, both Auguste and […]

20th January 1946 was the day the great film maker David Lynch was born. Raised in a family with Finish roots, and with an education following the commandments of the Presbyterianism, Lynch spent his childhood travelling all across the interior of the United States, and soon revealed his inclination towards the artistic field, expressing his […]