Guide to posting stories

Guide for posting your stories

Begin your story with your byline and dateline in uppercase (all capital letters), e.g., YOUR NAME. HOLLYWOOD (CINEMA MINIMA) -- . Stories which do not start with your byline + headline will be removed from "publish" to "draft" status.

Select a category for your story — Actors, Art, Festivals, Online, Reviews, Rights, Sound, Story, Tools — the default is Trade, which refers to the business of movie making.

Include the year with dates in your stories, e.g., «2006 July 4 Tuesday» never just «July 4 Tuesday».

Movie titles in uppercase: GONE WITH THE WIND, not “Gone With the Wind,” not Gone With the Wind, not Gone With the Wind.

Do not use boldface or italics or underlines — let your words provide emphasis, not typography. Cinema Minima's stories are syndicated — typographic emphasis interferes with syndication; it may be stripped from your story when syndicated.

Use UPPERCASE for movie titles or for acronyms — nothing else. Do not even think about using uppercase for emphasis.

Upload images — less than 400 pixels square — onto Cinema Minima's own server with the Image Manager button, or link to images which you have uploaded to Flickr. Even an image from your own server may not display in Cinema Minima, on account of network or browser security (anti-spam) measures.