Director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather), has relaunched his virtual studio, Zoetrope.com, creating a new showcase for short films. Zoetrope features crowd-sourcing and writing workshops, acting resumes, photography, short films, novels, scripts, and more.
The short films showcase will offer screenwriters, directors and producers peer feedback. In order for your story to be reviewed, you must review other works, allowing you to network and gain opportunities, in turn exposing yourself to other writing.
Coppola found inspiration to build Zoetrope from the short stories of the 1930s that supported the careers of the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker.
“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 further stated,
“And that’s what I was trying to do with this site – 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.”
