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Coppola and American Zoetrope acquired the screen rights to Alysia Abbott’s Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, a coming-of-age account of Abbott growing up with her single father — widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott — amid the AIDS epidemic in 1970s and 1980s San Francisco.
American Zoetrope has constantly embraced the creative possibilities of technology, and is known for orchestrating alternative approaches to filmmaking and challenging stale Hollywood standards.
American Zoetrope was founded in 1969 with the mission of finding creative, fast, and economic approaches to film. By constantly embracing new technology and innovatively applying it to movie production, American Zoetrope has built a rich history of pioneering unconventional filmmaking techniques.
American Zoetrope has helped to launch the careers of some of today's best-known actors and filmmakers. Here are some of the people whose careers began in, or were given an early boost by, American Zoetrope productions:
Screenplays 2016: Fourteenth Annual American Zoetrope Screenplay Contest. Guest Judge: Francis Ford Coppola. First Prize: "Poppy (Pilot)" by Munis Rashid. Full List of Winners.
TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL AMERICAN ZOETROPE SCREENPLAY COMPETITION RESULTS. Many thanks to all who entered the 2023 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition. We appreciate the opportunity to read such diverse and innovative work. From nearly 2,000 submissions, Judge Francis Coppola and the Zoetrope staff honored the scripts below. Winner:
A Brief History of American Zoetrope. Francis Ford Coppola decided he would name his future studio "Zoetrope" after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogen Scott-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment.
The 2022 American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition will open on June 1; for details, please visit the website this summer. To receive updates by email, please write us at contests@zoetrope.com. Thanks again, and all good wishes for your writing! Zoetrope: a community of artists since 1998.
After a major talent search, eleven young people were chosen for the starring roles of "greasers" and "socs," Tulsa-style, 1966. Many are well known from film and television, while others were making their professional debuts. Zoetrope: a community of artists since 1998.
American Zoetrope Contests : Stories 2023 ** The 2024 Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Competition is open, and we are accepting submissions on our new platform.
