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Filmmaking Resources
OTHER FUNDING AND SUPPORT OPPORTUNITIES
NEA Grants for Media Arts
Must be a non-profit or specific fiscal sponsorships, go to http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/Media.html
ITVS Open Call for Funding
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) funds, presents, and promotes award-winning documentaries and dramas on public television and cable, innovative new media projects on the Web, and the Emmy Award-winning weekly series Independent Lens Tuesday nights at 10:00 PM on PBS.
Go to http://www.itvs.org/funding/open-call
Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change Grant
The Art and Change Grant provides project-based grants of up to $2,500 to women and trans artists in the Delaware Valley region to fund art for social change projects.
http://www.leeway.org/apply-for-grants.html
Pew Fellowships in the Arts
A program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, the Pew awards grants to artists working in a wide variety of performing, visual, and literary disciplines. The grants provide financial support directly to the artists so that they may have the opportunity to dedicate themselves to creative pursuits exclusively. Pew fellows include local filmmakers and PIFVA members Cheryl Hess, Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater.
Go to http://www.pcah.us/fellowships
TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
Babelgum
www.babelgum.com
A free internet TV platform supported by advertising, Babelgum combines the full-screen video quality of traditional television with the interactive capabilities of the internet, offering professionally produced programming on demand to a global audience.
Blip TV
www.bliptv.com
Blip TV is an online TV network with short films, animation, spoofs, extreme sports and popular video.
YouTube
www.youtube.com
YouTube is an online TV network with short films, animation, spoofs, extreme sports and popular
video.
CreateSpace
www.createspace.com
CreateSpace’s mission is to profitably connect filmmakers and content owners to a worldwide audience. CreateSpace offers a DVD on Demand service, which allows physical media to be produced when customers order. At the heart of the CreateSpace service lies the Future-Proof Archive™ service, a secure storage and formatting platform that allows content to be repurposed into future digital formats. This is an Amazon subsidiary.
Four Eyed Monsters Tutorials
http://www.foureyedmonsters.com/category/tutorial
Four Eyed Monsters filmmakers used many emerging technologies for their successful of their get the word out campaign. They generously offer useful tutorials on their site.
From Here to Awesome
http://showcase.fromheretoawesome.com/
From Here to Awesome is a discovery and distribution festival that puts filmmakers directly in touch with audiences. The festival has no submission fees and filmmakers retain their rights while seeing direct revenue from festival outlets.
IndiePix
www.indiepixfilms.com/
IndiePix is home to the broadest online selection of indie films from around the world, including the latest award-winning titles from the festival circuit, popular indie classics, foreign, documentaries and more. Buy a DVD online or use our patented Download-to-Own technology for a professional quality DVD, without the wait. They provide filmmakers the opportunity to distribute their projects while maintaining the rights to their work. They work closely with filmmakers to individualize packaging and marketing plans, and claim to offer the most generous revenue share in the industry.
IndieGoGo
http://www.indiegogo.com/
IndieGoGo provides tools for fundraising, promotion, and discovery. The platform enables people to showcase their work, mobilize fans, and DIWO (Do-It-With-Others!).
Shooting People
http://shootingpeople.org/about/
Shooting People is a community of 37,000+ filmmakers who share their resources, skills and experience. Members post to and receive up to eight daily email bulletins, which cover all aspects of filmmaking; add their events and screenings to the Indie Film calendars; and network with other members at parties, salons and screenings in London, New York and beyond; create dynamic, online searchable profile cards; and upload their films and reels to the site.
Power to the Pixel
http://powertothepixel.com
Power to the Pixel is a not-for-profit company that provides the independent film community with the latest in depth information and knowledge about new opportunities available in the transforming digital media landscape. Power to the Pixel runs cutting-edge forums and educational events with leading international experts. Power to the Pixel consulting provides a unique consultancy service for film and media companies, filmmakers and organizations that can advise on all areas of digital distribution and
new media.
Reframe
http://reframecollection.org
Reframe is to help individual filmmakers, distributors, archives, libraries and other media owners to digitize and sell their work using the internet, and to become a one-stop location for anyone seeking these films.
Snag Films
www.snagfilms.com
SnagFilms is a website that offers full-length documentary films for free viewing online and they allow people “snag” a film and put it anywhere on the web. They offer non-traditional distribution and share their online ad revenue with the filmmakers.
The Workbook Project
http://workbookproject.com/
The goal of The Workbook Project is an open source project to collect information for media makers on important and emerging issues. The Workbook Project was founded by Lance Weiler who is a filmmaker and a self distribution pioneer. PIFVA collaborated with Lance Weiler on DIY Days Philly in 2009.
Brave New Theaters
http://bravenewtheaters.com/
Brave New Theaters provides world changers with films and organizing tools to bring attention to, raise money for, and take action around the issues they care deeply about. Brave New Theaters has made publicly available the online organizing tools they developed and used to host 7000 simultaneous screenings of Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price.
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org
Creative Commons (CC) uses private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, CC’s ends are cooperative and community-minded, but CC’s means are voluntary. They work to offer creators a best-ofboth- worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare "some rights reserved."
Fast Company
http://fastcompany.com
Fast Company’s mission is to find the creative workers and organizations that are building the future, and to present their stories in smart, compelling, beautiful, and useful ways.
IndieWIRE
http://indiewire.com
IndieWIRE is an online resource and community for independent filmmakers. Their website features film festival reports, industry news, special sections for high-profile films, and resources and tools for emerging and established filmmakers.
Technorati
www.technorati.com
Technorati is currently tracking 60 million blogs. They search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.” If you have a blog, be sure to claim it on Technorati. Be sure to also check out the tools
Technorati offers, such as blog feeds.
Social Networking and Content Sharing
del.icio.ous
http://del.icio.us/
del.icio.us is a collection of bookmarked favorites - yours and everyone else's. With del.icio.us you can access your favorites from any computer, share favorites with friends, and discover new things through searching tags.
Digg
http://digg.com
Digg is a user driven social content website. Everything on Digg is submitted by their community. Once a story or video receives enough Diggs, it is promoted to the front page for the millions of visitors to see. Digg also allows you to track your friends' activity throughout the site and share videos or news stories.
Facebook
www.facebook.com
Facebook is an online community that allows people to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. It is fifth most visited sites, next to MySpace. Be sure to follow their rules and create a page instead of a profile for your film campaign, or else you will have your profile deleted.
Flickr
www.flickr.com/
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. With Flickr you can: create a photo album, blog the photos you take with a camera phone, and more. Check out their tools, especially their widgets for websites and blogs.
Google Video
video.google.com/
With Google Video you can upload, search for, watch and even buy an ever-growing collectionvof TV shows, movies, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more.
Hugg
www.hugg.com
This site is similar to Digg, but focused on green news. If you have an environmental film, be sure to add Hugg buttons to your site.
Tumblr
www.tumblr.com
A Blog creator that millions of people sharing the things they do, find, love, think, or create.The average Tumblr user creates 14 original posts each month, and reblogs 3. Half of those posts are photos. The rest are split between text, links, quotes, music, and video. The "reblog" button on all Tumblr posts allows a meme to spread rapidly across thousands of blogs with just a click.
Twitter
www.twitter.com
Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest information about what you find interesting. Simply find the public streams you find most compelling and follow the conversations. Or post your own in the 140 character0limited format.
REGIONAL BROADCASTERS
Drexel University Television (DUTV)
Check out this educational access channel that has provided a forum for progressive media and media advocacy in Philadelphia. www.dutv.org
media INDEPENDENCE - MIND, formerly WYBE
MIND TV is a member-supported, independent, public television station broadcasting to the entire Greater Philadelphia region on Channel 35. Philadelphia Stories is their program. www.mindtv.org
PhillyCAM
Philadlephia's public access cable station. www.phillycam.org
WHYY TV 12
Philadelphia's public television station. Airs ITVS Independent Lens and POV featuring non-fiction work by independent filmmakers. www.whyy.org
SUPPORT & MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
Greater Philadelphia Film Office
The Film Office serves to attract film and video production to the region, to assist producers during production, and to grow the local film and video industry. www.film.org
InLiquid
InLiquid is a membership organization dedicated to providing opportunities and exposure for visual artists and designers, serving as a free public hub for arts information and resources, and making the visual arts more accessible to a broader audience. www.InLiquid.com
Philadelphia Film Society
Formed in 2001, the Philadelphia Film Society (PFS) is a Philadelphia-based arts and cultural organization that values film as a distinctive form of artistic expression and an important reflection of cultural, social, and economic diversity. It is the Philadelphia Film Society’s mission to promote film as a powerful means for strengthening community education, understanding, and engagement. PFS achieves its mission through a variety of year-round cinematic events, including the annual Philadelphia Film Festival (October 18-28, 2012), film education courses, advanced "Sneak Preview" screenings for PFS members, and partnership-based film screenings and series. www.filmadelphia.org
Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
PLVA provides legal assistance to artists & cultural organizations with limited resources.www.artsandbusinessphila.org
MEDIA ART CENTERS, ORGANIZATIONS and COLLECTIVES
Scribe Video Center
Scribe Video Center seeks to explore, develop and advance the use of video as an artistic medium and as a tool for progressive social change. Scribe offers workshops in Camera and Lighting, Linear and Non-Linear Editing, Sound Recording, 16 mm Film Production, Scriptwriting for fiction and documentary films, and Oral History Production. Scribe also offers artist's services such as fiscal sponsorship, equipment rental, and editing facilities. www.scribe.org
Termite TV
Founded in 1992, Termite TV is a video collective with members based in Philadelphia, PA and Buffalo, NY. The mission of Termite TV Collective is to produce, distribute and facilitate the creation of experimental and activist media that challenges the status quo and provides an alternative to corporate media. We value working collaboratively across artistic disciplines, inspiring other artists, encouraging the expression of multiple styles and points of view, risk-taking, innovation and the blend of humor and intelligent critique in our work. www.termite.org
MEDIA ACTIVISM
Media Mobilizing Project (MMP)
Media Mobilizing Project exists to unleash the powerful combination of communications, media making and organizing in order to clarify the issues at stake, document lived human realities, and act as a tool to inspire and unite those who have a vested interested in change. www.mediamobilizing.com
Philadelphia Independent Media Center
Philadelphia Independent Media Center is dedicated to building media democracy by providing progressive, in-depth, and accurate coverage of issues that affect all communities and by increasing community access to available technologies and information for the production and distribution of news and analysis. www.phillyimc.org
Prometheus Radio Project
Prometheus Radio Project is committed to building a large community of LPFM stations and listeners. We hope that this community will grow into a powerful force working toward the democratic media future we envision. www.prometheusradio.org
LOCAL REPERTORY CINEMA SCENE
Andrew's Video Vault at the Rotunda http://armcinema25.com/AVV.html
Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI)
Bryn Mawr Film Institute is a non-profit community theater founded in 2002 by the region's academic, business, and civic leaders. BMFI screens first run independent and international fare and has a monthly open screen for local filmmakers.www.brynmawrfilm.org
Chestnut Hill Film Society
Free screenings of classic films every Tuesday at the Chestnut Hill library.www.armcinema25.com/CHFG.html
Film at the Philadelphia International House
For over thirty years, International House has been the leading venue in Philadelphia for repertory film programming, independent premieres and cutting edge avant-garde cinema from around the world.www.ihousephilly.org
Fancypants Cinema at North Third
Weekly screenings of indie work every Tuesday night. www.norththird.com/fancypants
