helpful links for indpendent media makers

 

		web based resources

Flicker is a great page produced by Scott Stark, get on his mailing list! Caryn.Com has an Indie Film Page and a newsgroup for writers, actors, producers and directors to use to swap project and casting info. Indieclub.com - These folks in Olympia have an excellent web directory for independent filmmakers and whatnot. Actors Northwest callboard is a great place to find talent! Media-Match is an industry site to link up those looking to work with those looking to hire. Microcinema has a great venue list put together by Joel Bachar. AlterNet.org AlterNet.org is dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. Freespeech TV Free Speech Internet Television is the first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by the people who use it. Guerilla News Network An underground news organization exposing people to important global issues through guerrilla programming on the web and on television. Indymedia Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. IndieWIRE IndieWIRE provides an empowering tool and space for interactive and informed discussion, reflection, and opinion for an international group of indie artists, producers, and enthusiasts. Listen Up! "Listen Up! Messages from America's Youth" is a network of youth media producers who are contributing messages for a public service campaign. D-Word Community Is an useful site for independent documentary filmmakers to meet and collaborate on projects.

 

		media arts centers

NAMAC has links to every media center in the US. NOVAC is an excellent media center in New Orleans. It's been providing access since 1972! Bay Area Video Coalition is the largest media arts center in the world! Artist Television Access has some great programs. Olympia Film Society shows fresh indie movies and hosts hard core bands! Northwest Film Forum Seattle's non-profit film center. Film Arts Foundation is a great resource in San Francisco. Northwest Film Center presents the Northwest Film and Video Festival every year. We really dig these folks Image Film and Video Center is a cool arts center located in Atlanta providing resources and opportunity to the independent media makers Franklin Furnace is an excellent artists collective presenting works at their gallery and on the web. ITVS solicits, funds, packages, promotes and distributes work by independent television and filmmakers for broadcast primarily on American public television. ITVS has brought to public television over 250 single programs and limited series since its inception in 1991. DCTV Downtown Community Television Center believes that expanding public access to the electronic media arts invigorates our democracy Global Action Project Global Action Project, Inc. is a media arts organization that provides training in video production and new media technologies for youth both locally and internationally. In the Mix Award-winning TV series for teens and by teens, brings you all of it...and gets everyone talking. Just Think Teaches young people to understand the words and images in media and think for themselves. KidsNet A national resrouce for children's television and radio. Paper Tiger TV PTTV believes that increasing public awareness of the negative influence of mass media and involving people in the process of making media is mandatory for our long term goal of information equity. Video Databank Features innovative video work made by artists from an aesthetic, political or personal point of view. Witness Empowers people to record injustic as it happens and makes us all eye-witnesses to human rights violations. Women Make Movies The largest distributor of women's media in North America. Youth Channel The Youth channel is an alternative to mass media created to provide equal access to all young people, regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or social status.

 

		youth film festivals

Chicago International Children's Film Festival The largest children's film festival in the United States, presenting 160 screenings and scores of workshops with guest directors. "Cannes for Kids". Do It Your Damn Self Created by the Teen Media Project youth in reaction to their strong feelings that not enough youth video is available for viewing, and that they should celebrate the creation and production of material they do themselves. Dominique Dunne Film Festival Hosted by Fountain Valley School of Colorade, providing a showcase for high-school fimmakers. Hampton International Film Festival The Youth Media Program features discussions and panels with youth media prodcuers and facilitators, hands-on demonstrations, an ongoing documentary workshop, screenings of shorts including animations, docs and live action videos made by young people Hazel Wolfe Environmental Film Festival Brings together diverse segments of our society, (from filmmakers to activists to educators and business leaders) to create a synergy of action and environmental issues and public opinion. Sundance Gen-Y Studio The Gen-Y Studio gives Generation-Y filmmakers the opportunity to share ideas, explore film, engage in dialogue, and learn about new technology. Taos Talking Pictures Tower of Youth Concentrates access to, and mastery of, cutting edge information and communications technologies to create a far reaching youth cultural voice, messages and images rooted in the values of interdependence, creativity, human worth, service to others, and caring in order to change society in the coming century. Women in the Director's Chair International media arts /activist center which exhibits, promotes, and educates about media made by women that expresses a diversity of cultures, experiences, and issues. Northwest Film Center's Young People's Film & Video Festival Celebrates artistic excellence, technical achievement and originality in live action, documentary and animated films and videos made by kids, schools and youth organizations in OR, WA, and ID.