Image from King Vidor, American, by Raymond DurgnatBecome a Correspondent
Since 2004 over thirty reporters around the world have covered movie making for Cinema Minima’s readers. Its Correspondents have been accredited by film festivals and film markets all over the world, including
- USA — The American Film Institute AFIFest
- USA — The American Film Market
- Germany — The Berlinale
- Denmark — The Copenhagen International Film Festival
- Scotland — The Edinburgh International Film Festival
- India — The Kolkata International Film Festival
- Kenya — Lola Kenya Screen
- England — The Times/bfi London International Film Festival
- USA — The New York Film Festival
- Brazil — The Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
- Brazil — The São Paulo International Film Festival
- Singapore — The Singapore International Film Festival
- USA — Sundance.
If you would like to join the Cinema Minima team, drop a line to the Editor-in-Chief, Austin Burbridge, via email at <editor@cinemaminima.com>
Inside Cinema Minima
For more information about this news service, please visit Inside Cinema Minima, a blog about Cinema Minima’s news organization.
News Sources for Movie Makers (and movie journalists, too)
Cinema Minima’s news sources are online. Over six hundred syndicated news feeds are regularly monitored by Cinema Minima’s editors. The reading list is available for browsing. It may be downloaded in OPML–reading-list format, suitable for import into a news reader (news aggregator) such as NetNewsWire.
How to cite a movie in 140 characters or less
Micro story shorthand for movie journalists
TITLE|TRANSLATED\director^writer%composer$producer*star(year
GONE WITH THE WIND\Victor Fleming^Sidney Howard%Max Steiner$David O. Selznick*Vivian Leigh*Clark Gable(1939
The Online Newsroom
Cinema Minima is a news service. Although its Correspondents’ stories are published on its Web site, they should be designed to be syndicated — distributed — in many media. A Correspondent’s story may be seen in a Web browser on a computer; it may be read aloud — by a machine — over a telephone; summarized as a 140-character “tweet” on Twitter; rendered into braille; or “mashed” by an automated news summarizer — It may even be printed on paper as a story in a newspaper.
The Online Newsroom
Whether coming from the worlds of journalism or filmmaking, when a reporter files a story for Cinema Minima, she should take care to follow online newsroom practice. The online newsroom differs in some important respects from print and broadcast media newsrooms — even though most print and broadcast operations have online presences. A reporter working in an online newsroom ought to —
- Understand that what she writes must be written to work well in any medium in which it might appear.
- Know how to write search-friendly headlines.
- Know how to write summary-ready lead paragraphs.
- Do her own copy-editing.
- Do her own proofreading.
- Understands — since her stories may be retrieved at any time in the future, and from any place — the importance of using full dates and places, e.g., “2009 May 5,” not “today”; and “the American TV network ABC” not “ABC-TV” (which could be either in America, or in Australia).
