101 Essential Filmmaker Sites
Posted on July 5, 2008 in Featured | 4 Comments
For our first feature article we thought it would be best to list a few of the sites that are essential for us and any high I.Q. filmmaker. This list is only the tip of the iceberg, but it is a good start.
Wikipedia
Movie Making Manual
Wikiversity Courses in Filmmaking
Film Industry
Box Office Mojo
The Hollywood Reporter
The Internet Movie DataBase (IMDB)
Variety
Unions, Guilds, Federations & Alliances
Writers Guild of America, East (WGAe)
Writers Guild of America, West (WGAw)
Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
Directors Guild of America (DGA)
The Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG)
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)
American Federation of Musicians (AFM)
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
Teamsters Local 399
Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP)
Legal
Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC
Mark Litwak and Associates
Copyright & Script Registration
U.S. Copyright Office
WGA West Screenplay Registry
WGA East Screenplay Registry
Wikipedia: Copyright
Wikipedia: List of public domain characters
Creative Commons
Music Licensing Sites
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
The Harry Fox Agency
SESAC
Film Festivals
FilmFestivals.com
Without A Box
Film Schools
FILMCAMPUS.NET – Film School Directory
FilmSchools.com
Screenwriting
The Artful Writer
The Daily Script
EuroScreenwriters
John August
Screenwriter’s Utopia
scr(i)pt
Simply Scripts
TriggerStreet.com
The Writers Store
Wordplay Columns
Film Commissions
The Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI)
Employment
Mandy.com
Backstage.com
Variety – The Biz
EntertainmentCareers.net
Craigslist.org
Technical Sites
The Editblog
FilmSound.org
Film Sound Daily
Audio Directory
FresHDV
Cinematography Mailing List
Cinematography.com
Creative Cow Forums
Digital Cinema Society
Digital Production Buzz
DV Guru [R.I.P.]
DV Magazine
Film Sound
Filmsound Daily
FresHDV
Great DV
Ken Stone’s Final Cut Pro
Larry Jordan
Make Magazine Blog
Mix Magazine
Red Digital Cinema Links on SRF
Ron Dexter
Unidentified Sound Object
Film News
aint it cool news
Cinematical
Indiewire
Filmmaker Magazine
MovieMaker Magazine
Film Blogs
Deadline Hollywood Daily
/film
CinemaTech
Workbook Project
Self-Reliant Filmmaking
Thompson On Hollywood
SpringBoardMedia
Kino-Eye.com
PrepShootPost
Criticism & Reviews
Pauline Kael Archives
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
Ebert & Roeper (Siskel & Ebert) Archive
Leonard Maltin
New York Times – Movie Reviews
Los Angeles Times – Movie Reviews
Rotten Tomatoes
Metacritic
CinemaScope Magazine
Film International
Film Journey
Film Philosophy
Images Journal
Not Coming
Senses of Cinema
Now that we have come to the end of the list, I can see we could have titled this article “201 Essential Sites” and still had great sites and topics leftover. Well, we’re only beginning. We plan to bring you the best of all the filmmaking sites, along with our own great articles well into the future. So stay tuned, there’s much more to come.
OK, we’ll make it 102. Here’s one of our favorites: Trailers From Hell!
1 Comments
Why isn’t Shootingpeople.org listed?