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Francis Ford Coppola relaunches website for short films

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Last Updated : Jul 13 2016 | 3:14 PM IST
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola has relaunched his 19-year-old virtual studio Zoetrope.Com, adding a section to showcase short films.
The website includes acting resumes, photography, song writing, short films, stories, novels, scripts, short flash fiction, poetry, music and photos, reported Deadline.
The new short films section is designed to offer screenwriters, directors and producers peer feedback.
"When I was a kid I remember looking in the locked gates of a movie studio which was across the street from the Junior High School I was attending.
I was wishing that I could get in and see what these mythical movie studios were. Years later I actually bought that studio, and I went to that Junior High School and I talked about it to the students and I said 'alright kids let's go,' and I took them across the street and right in through the studio gates," Coppola said in a statement.
The 77-year-old Oscar-winning director founded the site in 1997 to supply material for the short story periodical "Zoetrope: All Story," drawing his inspiration from the short story periodicals of the '30s era that backed the careers of writers such as F Scott Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker.
"I was trying to let everyone have access to a movie studio or set a new context of creative community for people interested in cinema, music, acting, art, graphics, photography, songwriting, and so on," he added.

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First Published: Jul 13 2016 | 3:14 PM IST

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