Association for Independent Video and Filmmakers http://aivf.org/ The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers (AIVF)
is a 25-year old national trade association based in New York City
that provides support for individual producers and advocacy for
the media arts field. AIVF provides information services (including
phone advice and referrals, and the publication of The Independent
Film & Video Monthly), The AIVF/FIVF Resource Publication
Program, a comprehensive online resource through their website,
maintenance and operation of a resource library for independent
producers, a seminar program with over 80 programs a year, regional
salon meetings, advocacy and membership services (including health
insurance).
Eyebeam http://www.eyebeam.org
Eyebeam Research and Development (R&D) develops emerging technologies, and extends
existing ones. Their broadly interdisciplinary work is sustained through partnerships
with academic institutions, corporate labs, andartist-inventors. Courses, apprenticeships,
and special events give students, professionals, and the general public direct
access to the R&D process. Ongoing R&D topics include social network
theory and viral media, rapid
prototyping technology, surveillance technology and new models for learning.
FilmFestivals.com http://www.filmfestivals.com/
Film Festivals.com includes business news, a bulletin-board forum, gossip, who's-who
articles, and streaming video-news.
Film/Video Arts http://www.fva.com The largest nonprofit media arts center in the New York region,
Film/Video Arts’ mission is to make
the tools and skills of the media arts available to those who might
otherwise not have access to them.
Film/Video Arts provides an environment where emerging and established
film, video and digital media producers, editors, directors and hobbyists of
diverse backgrounds can take courses taught by seasoned film industry veterans.
Film/Video Arts members are eligible to receive fiscal sponsorship for their
projects and have access to the tolls needed to edit their projects affordably.
Over 2,500 individuals and organizations participate in Film/Video Arts programs
every year.Film/Video Arts' Education Department provides quality, hands-on
instruction in a year-round schedule of beginning, intermediate
and advanced courses in digital filmmaking. Each semester, courses
range from rudimentary technical training in digital film production;
to editing courses on the Avid Media Composer and Final Cut Pro;
to theory courses in history and critical analysis; and finally,
pragmatic courses in fundraising, publicity, promotion and distribution.
Courses take place at Film/Video Arts, 462 Broadway, Suite 520
and at Women
Make
Movies, 462 Broadway, Suite 500.
Independent Feature Project http://ifp.org
Independent Feature Project online is a directory of people, companies, and projects
associated with independent filmmaking. Produces an email newsletter about Independent
Feature Project events, programs, indie films in release and ticket giveaways.
Classified ads are printed online, and members can access job postings. Local
screening and event news items are avialable for New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,
Miami, and Minneapolis.
IndieWIRE http://www.indiewire.com/
IndieWIRE is an independent film publication, available as a daily email digest.
Their website includes news, competition and submission deadlines, discussion
threads, reviews, and classified ads for equipment sales, contacts, tickets,
festivals and competitions, grants and scholarships, jobs and opportunities,
lectures and academies.
The Kitchen http://www.thekitchen.org/
The Kitchen is an interdisciplinary laboratory for emerging and established artists.
It includes multidisciplinary performance spaces, a video archive, and a summer
insititute for young artists. The Kitchen acts as a kind of cultural center,
serving an international artistic community while acting as a resource in New
York's Chelsea neighborhood.
National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture http://www.namac.org/
National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture is a membership organization whose
members include media arts centers, production facilities, university-based programs,
museums, film festivals, media distributors, film archives, multimedia developers,
community access TV stations and individuals working in the field. Its site is
searchable for independent film and video resources, National Alliance of Media
Arts and Culture members, announcements (national events, new publications, job
openings, news, funding opportunities), publications (internal publications available
from National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, other industry publications
link to Amazon.com), annotated links for festivals and conferences, art agencies,
education, funding sources, streaming media, and many arts sites within and outside
of the media industry).
Northwest Film Forum's WigglyWorld Studios http://www.nwfilmforum.org/wigglyworld
WigglyWorld Studios is Washinton State's largest filmmaker's collective. As
the production arm of the Northwest Film Forum, WigglyWorld Studios supports
the creation and apprectiation of artistic local film, providing grants, low-cost
equipment rentals, workshops and special programs, exhibition opportunities,
and a community of like-minded artists.
