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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 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 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 Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool is a 2017 Paul McGuigan biographical romance, also known by Peter Turner's memoir title, starring Annette Bening as Oscar winner Gloria Grahame and Jamie Bell as Turner, dramatizing their late-1970s affair and her 1981 final days in Liverpool.
Film studies
Film studies is the academic discipline studying cinema through film history, criticism, and theory. Also called cinema studies; emerged in the 1950s-1970s from earlier courses like Columbia's 1915 Photoplay Composition; now often merged into film and media studies programs.
Film studio
Film studio: a company or facility that develops, produces, and distributes movies; the classical Hollywood studio system (Big Five: Paramount, MGM, Warner Bros., Fox, RKO) was vertically integrated until the 1948 Paramount Decree, and modern majors are consolidating conglomerates.
Film tax credits and production incentives
Film tax credits and production incentives are state and national programs returning a share of qualifying production spending via refundable or transferable credits, rebates, or grants; Louisiana pioneered them in 1992 and over 40 U.S. states plus 120 global programs now use them.
Film theory
Film theory, also called theory of film, is the academic study of cinema as an art form, distinct from film criticism, which comments on particular films.
Film treatment
A film treatment is a present-tense prose document telling a film's entire story, ending included, without screenplay formatting; distinct from the shorter synopsis and the writer-facing outline, it is used to pitch projects and test structure before scripting.
Film Workers for Palestine
Film Workers for Palestine is an international coalition of film workers formed in early 2024, known for its Pledge to End Complicity, signed by more than 5,000 members of the film industry.
Film4
Film4 is Channel 4's feature film division and free-to-air film channel. Founded as Film on Four in 1982, it has backed over 400 British films, winning 88 BAFTAs and 37 Oscars, and is the UK's largest funder of independent film.
Film4 Productions
Film4 Productions is Channel 4 Television's feature film division, founded in 1982 as Film on Four. It develops and co-finances about 10-12 British features yearly, distinct from the Film4 TV channel.
Filmation
Filmation Associates was a US animation studio founded in 1962 by Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott, and Hal Sutherland, known for Fat Albert, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and He-Man; it kept all production in America, closed February 3, 1989, and its library now sits with DreamWorks Classics.
Filmfare Award for Best Actor
Filmfare Award for Best Actor: annual Hindi-cinema acting prize from Filmfare magazine, first given 21 March 1954 to Dilip Kumar for Daag; record eight wins shared by Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan.
Filmfare Award for Best Actress
Filmfare Award for Best Actress, also listed as Best Actor in a Leading Role (Female), an annual Filmfare trophy for leading-role performances in Hindi films, awarded since 1954; Alia Bhatt holds the record with six wins, most recently for Jigra (2025).
Filmfare Award for Best Director
Filmfare Award for Best Director: annual Hindi-cinema directing honor at the Filmfare Awards, first given 21 March 1954 to Bimal Roy for Do Bigha Zameen; latest winner Kiran Rao for Laapataa Ladies (70th, 2025).
Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut
Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut, formerly the Filmfare Lux New Face Award, honors a female actor's debut performance in Hindi cinema. Winners include Juhi Chawla, Preity Zinta, and Nitanshi Goel (2025).
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress
Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress: annual Hindi-film acting honor from Filmfare (Times Group), awarded since 1955 by public voting plus jury; recent winner Chhaya Kadam for Laapataa Ladies (2025).
Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards, "Oscars of Bollywood," annual Indian film honors by The Times Group's Filmfare magazine since 1954 (originally The Clares), honoring Hindi cinema with the Black Lady trophy via public voting plus jury, with South, East, Marathi, Punjabi, and OTT editions.
Filmfare Awards South
Filmfare Awards South: annual Times Group film awards, founded 1964, honoring Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada cinema with Black Lady trophies via public voting plus jury; 70th edition held in Kochi, February 2026.
Filmmaking
Filmmaking: the process of producing motion pictures through development, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution. Covers its 1890s origins, sound and digital transitions, independent versus studio models, and AI's growing role.
FilmNation Entertainment
FilmNation Entertainment, founded 2008 by Glen Basner in New York, is an independent film sales, financing, and production company behind Anora, Conclave, Arrival, and The King's Speech, with over $3.4 billion in worldwide grosses and TV, theater, and podcast divisions.
Films dealing with Nazism and sexuality
Films dealing with Nazism and sexuality: Nazi-era German melodrama and Riefenstahl's body aesthetics, Cold War American 'democratic sexuality' rhetoric, Nazisploitation (Ilsa, Love Camp 7), The Night Porter, The Damned, The Reader, and queer Holocaust films.
Filth (film)
Filth (2013) is Jon S. Baird's black comedy adaptation of Irvine Welsh's 1998 novel, starring James McAvoy as corrupt Edinburgh detective Bruce Robertson. Released 27 September 2013, it earned £3.9 million in the UK and won McAvoy BIFA and BAFTA Scotland acting awards.
Filthy Rich (2020 TV series)
Filthy Rich (2020) is a Fox Southern Gothic family drama created by Tate Taylor, adapted from the 2016 New Zealand series by Rachel Lang and Gavin Strawhan. Kim Cattrall stars as Margaret Monreaux; 10 episodes, canceled after one season.
Filthy Rich & Catflap
Filthy Rich & Catflap (also styled Filthy, Rich and Catflap) is a 1987 BBC Two sitcom by Ben Elton starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, and Nigel Planer; six episodes bridging The Young Ones and Bottom, cancelled after one series despite an announced return.
Fin Fang Foom
Fin Fang Foom is a fictional alien dragon appearing in Marvel Comics, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Strange Tales #89 (October 1961), during Marvel's pre-superhero monster period.
Fin Tutuola
Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is the NYPD sergeant played by Ice-T on Law & Order: SVU since 2000; a former undercover narcotics detective, partner of John Munch, father of Ken Randall, and the show's second-longest serving character.