VISION – Cinematic Discovery & Discussion
- We think about film: Criticism, discussion, opinion and analysis. Original columns, in-depth reviews, and unique opinions are our core.
- We LOVE film: New, old, indie, studio, genre, foreign. We want to shine a spotlight on what we love and want to learn more about; not just what is the newest, biggest, and brightest.
- We are honest about film: We will never exaggerate what we know to sound more informed, we’ll always keep learning, and our opinions will always be our own and we’ll be happy to defend them or change them.
KEY PRIORITIES
- Outside the News & Marketing Cycle: Breaking news is awesome… for other sites to do. Really well. Seriously, go check them out. We do too.
- We avoid cynicism at all cost. But even we might still slip into it. Feel free to call us out if and when we do.
CINAPSE AI PLEDGE
Cinapse uses no generative AI to create any of our writing.
Our pledge to our readers, and to one another, is that the writing on our site is generated by us, the human beings that make up the Cinapse team.
Contributors internally determined to have violated this policy will face corrective action including but not limited to removal of all published work, and revocation of publishing privileges.
In committing to a hard line against generative AI use, our intention is to guarantee honest human reactions to, and analysis of, human-made art. Our aim is not to avoid technological advancement, but to ensure humanity is kept front and center at every stage of our work. It’s a sense of artistic, critical, and ethical accountability we must hold ourselves to as much as the films we champion with our writing.
It is important to note that automated tools are used in the site backend for things like metadata and SEO ranking. These rote tasks are greatly aided by automation and allow our team to focus on delivering posts that are 100% human generated in subject line and body. Authors who prefer to write their own metadata can do so.
Signed,
The Cinapse Staff
GET INVOLVED
Interested in contributing to Cinapse?
Staffing & Assignment Structure
A contributor is someone who’s been given access to post on Cinapse after reaching out and expressing interest in publishing on our platform. A contributor must be crafting original work that is not published anywhere else physically or electronically. Contributors will work with site leadership to get their work published. Unfortunately, at this time neither Cinapse staff nor contributors receive any financial compensation for their contributions to this passion project, and this should be understood at the outset. Contributors must be very independent and do the following to achieve publication:
- Set up and learn how to use a WordPress account based on their own skills
- Follow Cinapse formatting when submitting work, based on their own research into our formatting.
- Posts contributed to Cinapse should be inclusive in nature. Work that denigrates others based on race/creed/class/gender/sexuality/etc will not be published. Diversity is encouraged. Treating filmmakers and their art with respect is also of paramount importance.
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