Links:

Low budget and independent film advice:

A great site of experience-based advice for filmmakers. Definitely worth a visit:
Greg Pak’s FilmHelp

Some nice pages from a film instructor at the Rochester Institute of Technology:
Charlie Boyd’s Class Pages
The No-Budget Ten Commandments is especially helpful advice

Anti-100 years of cinema manifesto
by Jonas Mekas

filmmaker.com’s cruel-yet-insightful chronicling of student film clichés:
D.U.M.P.S.: Directing Unsuccessful Motion Picture Shorts

More film clichés:
The Movie Cliches List


Technical information:

A very comprehensive look at the Bolex, from smallmovies:
Paillard S.A.: The Bolex H-16

A very helpful guide to post production from Colorlab:
Film Skool

All sorts of technical information on film:
Kodak: Professional Motion Imaging

A huge amount of information, incredibly comprehensive:
rec.arts.movies.tech Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)


Indepentent film-related sites:

Organization for independent filmmakers, publishers of “The Independent”:
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers

Some useful articles on the “how-to’s” of filmmaking:
Film Underground

Some nice articles on filmmaking:
eXposure - Film Making

Lots of links:
filmmaker.com

A series of articles walking through the stages of making an independent movie:
Guerrilla Filmmaking 101

Unhollywood


Film schools:

filmmaker.com’s page where film students post reviews of their schools:
L.O.A.F.S: Library Of Annotated Film Schools
(Buyer beware: A few of the postings are of questionable authorship.)


Distribution/Promotion:

West Coast screening series, good in getting work out on tour all over the place:
Blackchair Productions

“We provide individual directors, animators, writers, cinematographers and musicians with
personal web pages on which they can post short films, animation, scripts, portfolio reels and music.”
Reelmind.com

“At ReelUniverse.com we review hundreds of films submitted to us each month
from filmmakers who wish to use the Internet to distribute their movies.”
ReelUniverse.com

“CineOrphans.com, the site for unseen films... where any film is welcomed.
Our mission is to offer a free environment where filmmakers can promote their projects
and film lovers can explore unseen films. We are a billboard, dedicated to all filmmakers.”
CineOrphans.com


Chat:

Site for networking with other filmmakers.
Registration process is free. Includes Message board and Classifieds:
indieclub.com

Discussion group on filmmaking
(requiring membership, and for things like the job listing, a fee):
ReelRap.com


Experimental film:

One of the best Avant-Garde/Experimental Film web sites around:
Flicker

The Open Directory Project (a search engine/index of sites):
dmoz.org/Arts/Filmmaking/Experimental Film


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