Author: Dami Lee
Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up to create their own emoji by submitting proposals to the Unicode Consortium, the Silicon Valley group in charge of approving which emoji show up on our phones. Picture Character, which premieres at Tribeca Film Festival today, is a documentary that follows the determined emoji creators who sign up for the process that can sometimes span years, and comes with its emotional ups and downs.
Named after the Japanese translation of “emoji,” Picture Character is a fun, lighthearted look at its history and future. Directors Martha Shane and Ian...
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Most people have had the experience of scrolling through their phone keyboards in search of a specific emoji, only to find it absent. A very small percentage of those people have actually stepped up to create their own emoji by submitting proposals to the Unicode Consortium, the Silicon Valley group in charge of approving which emoji show up on our phones. Picture Character, which premieres at Tribeca Film Festival today, is a documentary that follows the determined emoji creators who sign up for the process that can sometimes span years, and comes with its emotional ups and downs.
Named after the Japanese translation of “emoji,” Picture Character is a fun, lighthearted look at its history and future. Directors Martha Shane and Ian...
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