Resources
TECHNOLOGY RESOURCES
Blip TV
www.bliptv.com
Blip TV is an online TV network with short films, animation, spoofs, extreme sports and popular video.
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 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.
inDplay
www.indplay.com
inDplay is an online marketplace for film, TV, and video rights. Buyers and sellers find, negotiate, and close distribution and exhibition deals. inDplay uncovers more programming, sales, and distribution opportunities for content owners, libraries, agents, and distributors.
NeoFlix
http://www.neoflix.com
Neoflix is an integrated solution for e-commerce, order fulfillment, and customer service created for filmmakers and distributors with multi-channel sales strategies. Whether a DVD is sold to a consumer, wholesaler, library, institutions, or any other outlet, Neoflix can handle the order processing and fulfillment. DIY filmmakers and distributors can set-up a self-branded shopping cart system and begin selling products without incurring a large upfront investment or protracted vendor search. Neoflix handles credit card processing, e-commerce security issues, customer service, and fulfillment for both domestic and international orders.
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.
Bloglines
www.bloglines.com
Bloglines is a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. A Bloglines account can be accessed from any computer or mobile device.
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 collection
of 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.
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
633tv
Philly based Internet TV channel www.633tv.com
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
The Philadelphia Film Festival, in April and the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival , in July show works of Independents. www.phillyfests.com
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 Community Access Media
A grassroots coalition to get the public access cable television station activated in Philadelphia. www.phillyaccess.org
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
Flickering Light at the Sedgwick
Independent film screenings, often in collaboration with Philadelphia area organizations, weekly on Saturdays at 7pm at the Sedgwick Theatre, Mt. Airy.
Reelblack
Reelblack/Syncopation is a full-service film and video production company dedicated to creating and promoting “good movies ’bout Black Folks.”Based in Philadelphia, it was founded in 1999. They also curate and present the ongoing screening series called REELBLACK PRESENTS, which promotes discoveries and rediscoveries in African-American film. www.reelblack.com
The Rotunda
The Rotunda is a community gathering place for the promotion of arts and culture. Over 250 events are presented annually, ranging from rock, electronic, jazz, and hip hop, to music from around the world, ambient, activist, spoken word, theater, panels, film, exhibits, dance, education, and various experimental forms of art and performance. The Rotunda is part of the University of Pennsylvania Facilities and Real Estate Services Arts Portfolio (FRES ARTS). www.foundationarts.org
The Secret Cinema
Bringing the pantheon of “low-brow” yet fascinating genres: teen exploitation, rock ‘n’ roll, psychedelia, oddball black comedies, “golden turkeys,” ’70s nostalgia and a lot more to Philadelphia on film all the time since 1992. www.thesecretcinema.com
Small Change Films
Founded January 2004 Small Change is a group of filmmakers and [film] lovers that curate and present monthly-ish shows of contemporary experimental film and video art at a range of spaces throughout the city of Philadelphia. Presents a healthy mix of independent and experimental cinema at inexpensive screenings in non-traditional all ages venues and contexts. They seek to break down the institutional fencing surrounding much of the film and video art world, or at least hop over it. www.smallchangescreenings.com
Screening at Vox Populi
Conceived and programmed by artists Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, Screening aims to broaden the scope of and expand access to video art in Philadelphia, in part, by providing a venue less institutional than a museum, but more formal than your living room. Exhibitions series will be programmed along thematic lines, expanding perspectives on contemporary topics while pushing aesthetic boundaries. www.screeningvideo.org
Sherman Arts www.shermanarts.org
FUNDING
NEA Grants for Media Arts Application deadline August 12th, 2010
Must be non-profit, go to http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/Media.html
2011 Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant
Apply from July 9th through September 24th, 2010.
Must have science/technology as major theme.
Go to http://www.sundance.org/sloan/
ITVS Open Call for Funding
Apply from July 6th through August 6th, 2010.
Go to http://www.itvs.org/funding/open-call
Leeway Foundation’s Art and Change Grant
Application deadline September 1st, 2010. Go to 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.
NATIONAL RESOURCES
BLACKFILM.COM
Blackfilm.com is an online resource which links the Black film community while cultivating national and international audiences interested in their work. The site provides a forum for filmmakers, scholars and organizations to present information and promote artistic expression.www.blackfilm.com
CALIFORNIA NEWSREEL
California Newsreel produces and distributes cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Founded in 1968, Newsreel is the oldest non-profit, social issue documentary film center in the country, the first to marry media production and contemporary social movements.www.newsreel.org
CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARIES
A non-profit organization that collaborates as fiscal sponsor with independent producers in the production of documentary films and videos. www.documentaries.org
DEEP DISH TV
Deep Dish TV (as in parabolic and apple or pizza pie) is the first national satellite network, linking local access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and other individuals who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network. www.deepdishtv.org
DEMOCRACY NOW
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 225 stations in North America. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now! is broadcast on Pacifica, community, and National Public Radio stations, public access cable television stations, satellite television (on Free Speech TV, channel 9415 of the DISH Network), short-wave radio and the internet. www.democracynow.org
DOCULINK
D O C U L I N K is a community for documentary filmmakers who share information, leads, ideas, and a commitment to support each other’s growth as nonfiction filmmakers. www.doculink.org
FLICKER
Welcome to Flicker, home page for the alternative cinematic experience. Here you will find films and videos that transgress the boundaries of the traditional viewing experience, challenge notions of physical perception and provide cutting edge alternatives to the media information technocracy. Sometimes what’s most interesting is what you can’t see. It’s what happens in the gaps between images, in the moments between moments. www.hi-beam.net
INDEPENDENT FEATURE PROJECT (IFP)
IFP is a 30-year old, not-for-profit membership and advocacy organization that supports and serves the independent film community by connecting creative talent and the film industry. Wide-reaching programs provide invaluable information, resources, networking and support to filmmakers while promoting film as a vital and influential public art form. Year round activities include seminars, cutting-edge workshops,& networking opportunities.www.ifp.org
INDEPENDENT MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
The mission of Independent Media Publications is to inform, promote, encourage and mobilize independent and grassroots media-makers. The organization is in process of obtaining official 501(c)(3) status, formed with the intent of rescuing, re-envisioning and re-launching the print publication, archival records and online resources of The Independent Film & Video Monthly. www.aivf.org
INDIE WIRE.COM
The lasted in news and information on the global independent film production scene. www.indiewire.com
ITVS- INDEPENDENT TELEVISION SERVICE
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) brings to local, national and international audiences high-quality, content-rich programs created by a diverse body of independent producers. ITVS also runs ITVS Community Cinema, a free monthly screening series featuring films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Screenings are held every month between September and May in over 50 cities nationwide. www.itvs.org
Latino Public Broadcasting
www.lpbp.org
NAMAC (National Alliance for Media Arts Centers)
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is a nonprofit association whose membership comprises a diverse mix of organizations and individuals dedicated to a common goal: the support and advocacy of independent film, video, audio and online/multimedia . www.namac.org
National Black Programming Consortium
NBPC funds, commissions, acquires and awards grants to producers and directors of quality films and video projects that reflect African American and the African Diaspora. www.nbpc.tv
NALIP (National Association of Latino Independent Producers)
A new organization created to represent the interests of Latin American filmmakers. www.nalip.org
Next Wave Films
Funded by the Independent Film Channel, Next Wave provides finishing funds and other vital support to emerging filmmakers with low-budget, English language fiction and non-fiction films from the US and abroad. www.nextwavefilms.com
NATIONAL RESOURCES for Filmmakers
24P is a consulting service for film and HD based productions for TV and theatrical release. It also is a resource for content creators looking for tools and solutions for postproduction processes using film, 1080P/24, or 720P/24 HD Sources.www.24p.com
THE CENTER FOR ASIAN AMERICAN MEDIA (CAAM)
CAAM is a non-profit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. CAAM funds, produces, distributes and exhibits works in film, television and digital media. www.asianamericanmedia.org
PAPER TIGER TV (PTTV)
PTTV is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of their public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media. www.papertiger.org
PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS
Pittsburgh Filmmakers is one of the largest and oldest independent media arts centers in the country. Founded in 1971 to provide media-making tools to artists, Pittsburgh Filmmakers serves everyone from emerging artists to established artists to fellow non-profit organizations and students. Pittsburgh Filmmakers offers programs in exhibition, equipment access, education and community outreach in their commitment to advancing artistic excellence in the media arts Our Three Rivers Film Festival is the region’s largest annual film event. www.pghfilmmakers.org
POV/The American Documentary
Annual primetime series that showcases independent, non-fiction film & video nation wide. www.pbs.org/pov
THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL
Third World Newsreel (TWN) is an alternative media arts organization that fosters self-representational independent film and video by and about people of color and developing nations. They have a distribution program and curate film and video exhibitions. Every year they also have an intensive, highly selective, five-month film and video production workshop that takes the applicant through all the production stages. They provide production and technical support with continual fiscal sponsorship of 25 projects. www.twn.org
VIDEO MACHETE
Video machete is a collective of community activists, artists, video producers, students, and youth. www.videomachete.org
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization, which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution, and exhibition of independent films and videotapes of all genres of and about women. Their internationally recognized distribution service is their primary program. They also have a production assistance program and lost cost media workshops that can focus on hands on technical training or the business side of the film industry. They have many feminist media links on their site. www.wmm.com
Working Films – linking non-fiction film with cutting edge activism
Working Films leverages the power of storytelling through documentary film to advance struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice, human and civil rights. With offices in the U.S. and London, we offer consultation, strategic planning for alternative distribution, website and social media development, and complete campaign management services to filmmakers to ensure the content of nonfiction media truly meets the intention for change.
Thanks to Working Films for much of this information.
