filmmaking

noun

film·​mak·​ing ˈfilm-ˌmā-kiŋ How to pronounce filmmaking (audio)
: the making of movies

Examples of filmmaking in a Sentence

plans to attend New York University to learn filmmaking
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Blood Test by Charles Baxter Andrew Katzenstein The Impressionist Over more than fifty years of documentary filmmaking, Frederick Wiseman has made an art of withholding judgment and showing people figuring things out on their own. James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2025 The way to address this, the possibilities to really make this work for us in life needed a representation in filmmaking. Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025 After graduating from college with an electrical engineering degree, Will Packer switched gears and decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. Aditi Shrikant, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025 Yet the genre of filmmaking is very much in the present and future for some local students recently awarded for their work. Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for filmmaking 

Word History

First Known Use

1912, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of filmmaking was in 1912

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“Filmmaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/filmmaking. Accessed 19 Feb. 2025.

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