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Key insights on Film Schools production

Thank you for your interest on Lights Motion International Film Schools App, a quality publication useful for anyone interested in film topics, especially those young students who are starting up their professional career.

Lights Motion delivers reliable and comprehensive information, about the activities and curricula offered by film and television schools worldwide, helping students, lecturers, specialists, producers and companies to publish their stories on mobile devices.

Inside you can find independent professional inspiration amongst the huge film school landscape. Our film schools content brings unique, improvement to the connections between the film school campus and the market. Our team strives to disclose relevant information picking up the most exciting inside views, on how to create great films, documentaries, and videos, always focussing the production of the future generation of film makers.

In this issue we present you our new „The Review“ - one of „Lights Motion´s“ key utility features. Inside „The Review“, you get immediate access to one hundred of the major film schools worldwide, plus insight´s to their syllabus and their amazing resulting students production. „The Review“ focuses the presentation of those film schools and provides essential information to our readers, about those film academies, as well as a direct website link to their international students sectors.

In addition you will find latest news about specific events, awards and workshops, directly related to the seventh art. Our interviews disclose relevant points of view and provide direct access to exclusive trailers, animations and documentaries. Our content always catches up on what students and young film directors from all over the world are thinking and creating on Film, spiced with production details, revealing filmography and including own analysis of their work, by the young generation of film makers.

As main stories in this issue you will get a closer view on the production of the short film „The Letter“, by Kenneth Mercken, a former professional cyclist from Belgium. His film won in the fiction category at the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Another inspiring young man in the film world, the cameraman Friede Clausz, who won the Student Award of Film & TV Cameraman speaks to Lights Motion about the short film „Teardrop“. In return, we have the testimony of the brazilian film director and lecturer Joel Zito Araújo, doctor in communication science by the Academy of Communications and Fine Arts of S. Paulo (USP), who has produced more than 26 films in his carreer. We also bring to you inspiring market focused reflections for young film makers, by the former jury president of Munich´s International Festival of Film Schools in Germany, the director Dennis Gansel. Plus we strive for concrete answers, targeting the transactions between transmedia and crossmedia on film, game, animation and more, with the storyteller and director Jörg Ihle.

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