#directors treatment

[pitchtreats]

AI SCI-FI FILM TREATMENT STUDY IN MIDJOURNEY

Fusing the futuristic elements of sci-fi with the dark world of Neo-noir, this project harnesses the spirit of Ridley Scott's visionary filmmaking and the evocative nature of Orwellian literature. Exploring questions about society, identity, and morality, I dove in to Midjourney to bring forth a story that challenges conventions and invites audiences to reflect on the delicate balance between technology and humanity. In a world where we can no longer tell human from AI, mystery and suspense thrive. Who can you trust? How can you tell the real from the synthetic?

Building a believable fantasy world must be grounded in truth and practicality. The stark truth of our carbon footprint on nature, intertwined with the unsettling pace of unethical technological advancement serve as a north star to create a realistic portrayal of our world in the not-so-distant future. Atmosphere, weather, humidity, precipitation and perspiration bring smell and taste to breathe life into an emotional boiling city of humans and cybernetic organisms. 

Source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/175468185/Generative-AI-Sci-Fi-Film-Study-Midjourney

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[sukibenders]

This Children of Blood and Bone casting is not it. Amandla....bestie, listen----

[mariocki]

The Naked Kiss (1964)

"You know what's different about the first night? Nothing. Nothing... except it lasts forever, that's all. You'll be sleeping on the skin of a nightmare for the rest of your life."

[sapphire-weapon]

update: i am Unwell

[duahauuoplanh]

Evening snow in My Liberation Notes

[tacktheyak]

DENTON DENTON YOUVE GOT NO PRETENSION YOURE WHERE THE HEART IS YOURE OK

[p3ta]

The main problem with a lot of typical Persona series complaints is they aren't wrong per se, but you can tell the person making it likes the *idea* of what Persona could be rather than how it's been executed for twenty-five years running

[pitchtreats]

LATIN X DOCUMENTARY  |  FILM PITCH TREATMENT

Director's pitch treatment for a visually stunning, emotionally resonant, and thought-provoking documentary that aims to celebrate and honor the richness of West Coast Chicano culture. Through its intimate dive into the lives, art, and collective spirit of this vibrant community, the film invites audiences to immerse themselves in a world of passion, creativity, and resilience, leaving them with a profound appreciation for the enduring legacy of Chicano culture on the West Coast and beyond.

Source: https://www.behance.net/gallery/163144813/LATIN-X-DOCUMENTARY-FILM-TREATMENT-PITCH-DECK

Photographer: Thalia Gochez

[callixton]

raúl is just a stupid good actor is the thing. like i’m sorry for being a broken record but i need to talk more about how genuinely Good he is like his range is unparalleled and he is Such a truthful actor and i am of the opinion that truth is all that matters when it comes to performance (at least the current prevailing modern style but i happen to be partial to it) like i have had hyperfixations on actors before fs but i have never felt so in awe of someone’s talent/ability. and i’m not saying he’s perfect but also the moments where the actor slips through are what make it human and interesting so he is. to me

[hall0wedwyrm]

Something I love about the Monsterverse is how they took one of the titans who started as kind of an antagonist, and made him THE protagonist. Kong having a character arc is soooo good I love it. The whole idea of him being misinterpreted as an antagonist but is revealed to be a protector of Skull Island and the Iwi... man.

and in GvK where he slowly grows into this role too. Reluctantly going along with the humans, but becoming a bit more trusting of them, and actively helping.

AND in The New Empire, the choice to make him a main protag is SO GOOD!!!!! Following his pov as his discovers others of his kind, and Suko and his personality really shines too. he's a pretty tough guy, but he's also willing to jump in if something is wrong (shown when he openly fights Skar King) AND THE SCENE WHERE HE HELPS THE OVERWORKED APE IS SO AAAAAAGH he's soooo empathetic,,,,,

anyway yeah just thought I'd share this I've been thinking about it a lot

[xtruss]

What Happened When a Fearless Group of Mississippi Sharecroppers Founded Their Own City

Strike City was born after one small community left the plantation to live on their own terms

— September 11, 2023 | NOVA—BPS

A tin sign demarcated the boundary of Strike City just outside Leland, Mississippi. Photo by Charlie Steiner

In 1965 in the Mississippi Delta, things were not all that different than they had been 100 years earlier. Cotton was still King—and somebody needed to pick it. After the abolition of slavery, much of the labor for the region’s cotton economy was provided by Black sharecroppers, who were not technically enslaved, but operated in much the same way: working the fields of white plantation owners for essentially no profit. To make matters worse, by 1965, mechanized agriculture began to push sharecroppers out of what little employment they had. Many in the Delta had reached their breaking point.

In April of that year, following months of organizing, 45 local farm workers founded the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union. The MFLU’s platform included demands for a minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, medical coverage and an end to plantation work for children under the age of 16, whose educations were severely compromised by the sharecropping system. Within weeks of its founding, strikes under the MFLU banner began to spread across the Delta.

Five miles outside the small town of Leland, Mississippi, a group of Black Tenant Farmers led by John Henry Sylvester voted to go on strike. Sylvester, a tractor driver and mechanic at the A.L. Andrews Plantation, wanted fair treatment and prospects for a better future for his family. “I don’t want my children to grow up dumb like I did,” he told a reporter, with characteristic humility. In fact it was Sylvester’s organizational prowess and vision that gave the strikers direction and resolve. They would need both. The Andrews workers were immediately evicted from their homes. Undeterred, they moved their families to a local building owned by a Baptist Educational Association, but were eventually evicted there as well.

After two months of striking, and now facing homelessness for a second time, the strikers made a bold move. With just 13 donated tents, the strikers bought five acres of land from a local Black Farmer and decided that they would remain there, on strike, for as long as it took. Strike City was born. Frank Smith was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worker when he went to live with the strikers just outside Leland. “They wanted to stay within eyesight of the plantation,” said Smith, now Executive Director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, D.C. “They were not scared.”

Life in Strike City was difficult. Not only did the strikers have to deal with one of Missississippi’s coldest winters in history, they also had to endure the periodic gunshots fired by white agitators over their tents at night. Yet the strikers were determined. “We ain’t going out of the state of Mississippi. We gonna stay right here, fighting for what is ours,” one of them told a documentary film team, who captured the strikers’ daily experience in a short film called “Strike City.” “We decided we wouldn’t run,” another assented. “If we run now, we always will be running.”

But the strikers knew that if their city was going to survive, they would need more resources. In an effort to secure federal grants from the federal government’s Office of Economic Opportunity, the strikers, led by Sylvester and Smith, journeyed all the way to Washington D.C. “We’re here because Washington seems to run on a different schedule,” Smith told congressmen, stressing the urgency of the situation and the group’s needs for funds. “We have to get started right away. When you live in a tent and people shoot at you at night and your kids can’t take a bath and your wife has no privacy, a month can be a long time, even a day…Kids can’t grow up in Strike City and have any kind of a chance.” In a symbolic demonstration of their plight, the strikers set up a row of tents across the street from the White House.

John Henry Sylvester, left, stands outside one of the tents strikers erected in Washington, D.C. in April 1966. Photo by Rowland Sherman

“It was a good, dramatic, in-your-face presentation,” Smith told American Experience, nearly 60 years after the strikers camped out. “It didn’t do much to shake anything out of the Congress of the United States or the President and his Cabinet. But it gave us a feeling that we’d done something to help ourselves.” The protestors returned home empty-handed. Nevertheless, the residents of Strike City had secured enough funds from a Chicago-based organization to begin the construction of permanent brick homes; and to provide local Black children with a literacy program, which was held in a wood-and-cinder-block community center they erected.

The long-term sustainability of Strike City, however, depended on the creation of a self-sufficient economy. Early on, Strike City residents had earned money by handcrafting nativity scenes, but this proved inadequate. Soon, Strike City residents were planning on constructing a brick factory that would provide employment and building material for the settlement’s expansion. But the $25,000 price tag of the project proved to be too much, and with no employment, many strikers began to drift away. Strike City never recovered.

Still, its direct impact was apparent when, in 1965, Mississippi schools reluctantly complied with the 1964 Civil Rights Act by offering a freedom-of-choice period in which children were purportedly allowed to register at any school of their choice. In reality, however, most Black parents were too afraid to send their children to all-white schools—except for the parents living at Strike City who had already radically declared their independence . Once Leland’s public schools were legally open to them, Strike City kids were the first ones to register. Their parents’ determination to give them a better life had already begun to pay dividends.

Smith recalled driving Strike City’s children to their first day of school in the fall of 1970. “I remember when I dropped them off, they jumped out and ran in, and I said, ‘They don't have a clue what they were getting themselves into.’ But you know kids are innocent and they’re always braver than we think they are. And they went in there like it was their schoolhouse. Like they belonged there like everybody else.”

[naniskys]

BOUNPREM VAMPIRE SERIES ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY WOOOHHHHH

[duahauuoplanh]

when you love someone, your heart becomes a compass that points to them.

[arttheclown]

have you ever watched a film so painfully mediocre that you’re actually kind of mad about it

[evitcani-writes]

“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.

Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.

Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.

The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.

… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.

The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.

UPDATE/EDIT: Article is from July. I didn’t notice myself since it came up in my news feed. Don’t always trust the internet to be time accurate. 😎My guess is it is getting promoted due to current events. However, there are some updates concerning actions taken based on the report which you can look into by checking the authors’ other articles.

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