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| Film Information & Education |
An in-depth look at the filmmaking process featuring
sections on screenwriting, directing, producing, acting and editing with hands-on
activities. Provided by Annenberg/Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits
(Click on Cinema in the far left “Exhibit”column)
Seek answers to filmmaking questions from distinguished screenwriters, directors,
or cinematographers. Send questions to askawriter@imdb.com, askadirector@imdb.com,
or askacin@imdb.com and your query may be selected for response. See “Ask”
archive.
http://indie.imdb.com
Click on “Ask the Filmmaker”
Latin American Cinemateca of LA
provides resources for Latino filmmakers or people interested in Latin American
or Latino film, film screenings and a scholarship program.
http://www.lacla.org/resources.html
The Internet's largest film and
media directory offers 20,000 links to film, television, and radio industry resources.
http://www.cinemedia.org
The Internet Movie Database is a
large database of movie information, including plot summaries, cast and crew lists,
awards, and more.
http://www.imdb.com
The history of the Oscars and up-to-date news about this annual awards event.
http://www.oscar.com/
Motion Picture Association of America provides movie ratings, legislation,
and facts and figures on movie economics and box office returns.
http://www.mpaa.org/
American Film Institute picks the 100 top Hollywood movies in several genres.
http://AFI.com
Wordplay
features articles and tutorials as well as industry advice from Hollywood producers,
writers, and executives.
http://www.wordplayer.com/welcome.html
A look back at the Hollywood
Blacklist Era of the 1950s by the Screen Actors Guild.
http://www.sag.com/
Collected links and resources relating to the
classic era of Hollywood filmmaking.
http://classicfilm.miningco.com/
View early movie clips—many
from before 1900—and historical information about Thomas Edison's early filmmaking
experiments from the Library of Congress.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edhome.html
Imagine you're a special
effects supervisor for a movie and design a 50-foot chicken in this Shockwave
game. Non-Shockwave version available.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/specialfx2/green.html
P.O.V. Interactive
is the web site for the PBS independent film series P.O.V. Features forums, articles,
news, and other "indie" resources.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/
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| Film Organizations & Publications
| The Motion Picture Editors
Guild provides career information on film editing, including wages, news, advice,
and more.
http://www.editorsguild.com/
So, You Wanna Be an Actor? Provides information on getting started in acting
from the Screen Actors Guild, the professional U.S. organization for actors.
http://www.sag.com
Writer's Guild of America provides interviews with Hollywood screenwriters, tutorials
and advice on writing, resources, and much more.
http://www.wga.org/
Women in Film is a membership organization that
offers networking events, screening rooms for independent films, workshops on
everything from finance to gossip, and more programs for female filmmakers.
http://wif.org/
Women
Make Movies helps send educational, non-commercial films and videos to nonprofit
organizations and other groups. It also has a fiscal sponsorship program.
http://www.wmm.com/
Cinematography Mailing List is a mailing list devoted to discussing cinematography,
with topics and messages archived on the Web site.
http://www.cinematography.net/
Industry trade magazines offer breaking
news on business developments, and analysis of trends and data regarding craft
and commerce in the entertainment industry.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com
http://www.variety.com
MovieMaker Magazine is a bimonthly publication
featuring interviews with industry pundits and advice on everything from acting
to distributing a film
http://www.moviemaker.com/index.html
EditorsNet provides resources
on film editing, focusing on "the art, technology, and business" of
editing for movies.
http://www.EditorsNet.com/
The International Documentary Association
is a membership organization offering a magazine, fiscal sponsorship program,
events and festivals, and more. http://www.documentary.org/
News and notes about independent filmmaking, with discussion forums on film
topics.
http://www.indiewire.com/index.html
The California Stories project of the California
Council for the Humanities offers grants to make documentaries about California
life and California neighborhoods.
http://www.calhum.org/
The Women in Film Foundation offers grants
though a Film Finishing Fund.
http://wif.org/
The New York Foundation for the Arts offers an extensive, searchable free
online database of grants and opportunities in all fields of the arts, including
film.
http://www.nyfa.org/
The Benton Foundation provides information about how to use documentaries
and public television to engage communities.
http://www.benton.org
The Foundation Center's User Aid for Filmmakers
offers information and
links about grants for film and fiscal sponsorship.
http://fdncenter.org/learn/useraids/film.html
The Independent Feature Project (IFP) offers an online "library"
outlining the film production process. The LA chapter offers conferences on finance
and digital tools, sessions with directors and producers, screenings, a mentorship
program and more.
http://www.ifp.org/
The Independent Television Service helps produce programs that bring "new
points of view" to television.
http://www.itvs.org/
Latino Public Broadcasting helps produce and
distribute independent productions.
http://www.lpbp.org/index.html
Sisters in Cinema offers a list of
ideas for grassroots fundraising of films and other resources and articles.
http://www.sistersincinema.com/pages/resource.html
The National Asian
American Telecommunications Association offers production and post-production
funding, distribution, a public TV partnership program, and more.
http://www.naatanet.org/
Native American Public Telecommunications
offers grants and festivals for television, film, and radio productions.
http://www.nativetelecom.org/
The Japan Foundation offers financial
support of films, TV programs, and other materials in order to "further mutual
understanding between Japan and other countries."
http://www.jflalc.org/grants/index.html
The Paul Robeson Fund for
Independent Media at the Funding Exchange funds pre-production, production, and
distribution of social issue film, video, and radio projects.
http://www.fex.org
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