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Film casting
Film casting is a polymer processing method that makes thin plastic film by extruding molten polymer through a flat slit die onto water-cooled chill rolls, where it solidifies.
Film Club (TV series)
Film Club is a 2025 six-part BBC Three comedy drama created by and starring Aimee Lou Wood with Ralph Davis, about an agoraphobic woman, Evie, running a themed weekly film club in her mother's garage while hiding her love for best friend Noa (Nabhaan Rizwan). Premiered 7 October 2025 via Gaumont; 90% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Film coating
Film coating is a pharmaceutical manufacturing process that sprays a thin polymer layer, typically 20 to 100 µm thick, onto tablets to protect the drug, mask taste, and modify release.
Film colorization
Film colorization, also called color-recoding, adds color to black-and-white films and TV, from hand-tinting to Wilson Markle's 1970 computer process, the 1980s Ted Turner controversy, and modern AI-assisted archival colorization.
Film commission
Film commission: government-endorsed non-profit office attracting film and TV production to a region; also called film office. Free location scouting, permits liaison and incentives; first founded in Moab, Utah, 1949.
Film commissions in Africa and Oceania
Film commissions in Africa and Oceania: government-endorsed non-profit offices attracting film and TV production through free location, permitting, liaison, and funding services; includes Kenya, Rwanda, Durban, Cape Town, AACC, New Zealand Film Commission, Film Fiji, and Australia's Location Incentive.
Film commissions in Asia and the Middle East
Film commissions in Asia and the Middle East: agencies such as the Thailand Film Office, Saudi Film Commission, Abu Dhabi Film Commission, and AFCNet that issue permits, promote locations, and run cash-rebate incentives, including Thailand's up-to-30% rebate and Saudi Arabia's up-to-60% program.
Film commissions in Europe
Film commissions in Europe are government-endorsed offices helping productions find locations, permits and crew. The EUFCN network links 101 commissions in 33 countries, alongside EFAD's 38 national film agencies and regional funds like CineRegio.
Film commissions in the Americas
Film commissions in the Americas: government-endorsed offices, from the 1949 Moab commission to COMEFILM and US state and city offices, offering free production services and incentives to attract filming.
Film cooling
Film cooling is a technique for protecting hot gas turbine blades and vanes by bleeding cool air through small holes to form a thin insulating film over the surface.
Film crew
A film crew is the team of people who work behind the camera, consisting of departments like directing, grip, and electric. These teams are temporary and organized by function.
Film criticism
Film criticism is the study, interpretation, and evaluation of films and their place in cinema history, distinct from consumer reviews. Covers auteur theory from Truffaut and Cahiers du cinéma, formalist approaches, and the digital-era decline of professional criticism.
Film director
Film director: the creative lead of a film, guiding actors, camera, design, and editing from script to finished work. Distinguished from the producer, who controls financing; DGA contract rights and auteur theory define the role.
Film distribution
Film distribution, also called movie distribution, is the business of carrying a finished film from its producer to paying audiences through cinemas, streaming, and television.
Film distribution in Nigeria
Film distribution in Nigeria covers NFVCB licensing of distributors, exhibitors, and streaming platforms, the marketer-dominated VHS/VCD/DVD era, theatrical release via FilmOne and rivals, and streaming by Netflix, Prime Video, and Showmax.
Film distributor
Film distributor: a company holding rights to release a film in a territory, also called a distribution company. It sets release dates and windows, funds P&A, runs the theatrical-to-streaming waterfall, and accounts revenue to producers.
Film dosimetry
Film dosimetry is the measurement of absorbed radiation dose from changes in a film's optical density, using radiographic or self-developing radiochromic film, now widely used in radiotherapy.
Film editing
Film editing: selection and arrangement of shots and scenes in cinema. Covers continuity editing versus Soviet montage (Kuleshov, Eisenstein), Moviola-to-nonlinear tool history, documentary practice, and 2026 AI adoption among editors.
Film festival
Film festival: public event screening films over successive days at one location, often with prizes. Oldest is Venice (1932); Cannes (1946), Berlin (1951), Sundance, and Toronto anchor the industry circuit.
Film franchise
Film franchise: a series of related films and derivative media built on shared intellectual property. Also called a multimedia or transmedia franchise. Defined by sequels, spinoffs, and merchandising; dominant since the Jaws and Star Wars blockbuster era, with measured franchise box-office share and fatigue trends.
Film genre
Film genre: category grouping films by recurring narrative patterns, styles, themes, and audience expectations. Key theories by Rick Altman (semantic/syntactic) and Steve Neale (repetition and difference); core genres include western, comedy, musical, war film.
Film industry
Film industry (also motion picture or movie industry; French industrie cinématographique): the businesses developing, producing, distributing, and exhibiting films. Key facts: $39 billion US-film global box office in 2016, 71% international, US third in tickets sold behind China and India.
Film industry in Connecticut
Film industry in Connecticut: state film, TV and digital media production supported since 2006 by transferable tax credits of 10 to 30 percent, administered by DECD's Office of Film, TV & Digital Media, totaling over $1.5 billion issued since fiscal 2008.
Film noir
Film noir: term coined by French critics in 1946 (Nino Frank) for dark-toned American crime films of roughly 1941–1958, from The Maltese Falcon to Touch of Evil, marked by low-key lighting, femme fatales, and disputed genre status.
Film poster
Film poster: printed or digital advertising image for a movie, also called movie poster or one-sheet (27x40 in US). Combines title, credits and key art to signal genre and tone; spans lithographic 1890s origins to streaming thumbnails.
Film producer
Film producer: the person who initiates, finances, and manages a film from rights and funding through delivery, hiring the director and crew and controlling budget and schedule. Also called Produced By credit; distinct from executive, line, and co-producer titles.
Film promotion
Film promotion: the advertising, publicity, and marketing that build audience awareness for a movie. Covers trailer history, campaign costs near 35% of production budget, and the shift to influencer and social media promotion.
Film score
Film score: original music composed for a film, distinct from a soundtrack of pre-existing songs. Evolved from silent-era piano accompaniment through classical Hollywood orchestral scoring to leitmotif themes, composite pop scores, and AI-era library music.
Film Socialisme
Film Socialisme is a 2010 Jean-Luc Godard feature, also released as Socialism, premiered at Cannes Un Certain Regard. A three-movement essay film shot partly on the Costa Concordia with Navajo English subtitles, it divided critics (Metascore 64).
Film speed
Film speed measures a photographic film's light sensitivity, now rated on the ISO scale that merged ASA and DIN systems. Higher ISO means faster film, larger grain, and use in low light.