Links

DIY Video Resources

24P
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 post production processes using film, 1080P/24, or 720P/24 HD Sources. Contains links to production and editing resources.

The Digital Filmmaker's Resource Site
This site has job listings, news articles, and discussion forums for the digital filmmaker.

Avid
There is information at this site on all Avid products for broadcast, finishing and compositing, HD, storage and workgroups, video editing, animation, audio, and digital asset and production management solutions for specified markets. Offers support for Avid problems, information on Avid training courses, and the purchase of Avid systems.

Digital Video News and Forum
The Digital Video site serves the informational need of professionals involved in the production, post-production, and delivery of digital video. There is in depth digital video product information, news, and a forum.

Apple's Final Cut Pro Studio
Final Cut Pro Studio offers real time editing for DV, SD, HD, and film. The site contains information on all aspects of the Final Cut Pro Studio program.

Video University
This site contains resources on many factors in video production. Also contains a detailed video and film distributors' list.

Final Cut Pro and the Art of Filmmaking
Final Cut Pro and the Art of Filmmaking, authored by DCTV Instructor, David Teague with his brother. Highlights methods to use Final Cut Pro the most effectively. Web site also contains reviews of the book.

New York City Mayor's Office of Film
This site gives you bureaucratic guidelines to the legal procedure of shooting a film in New York.

Distribution/Funding

Indiewire
Indiewire offers an extensive look into the latest news and business aspects of the independent movie scene. Includes a comprehensive film festival guide list, queer and world cinema pages, a community chat board, and classified forum. Distributor?s page tracks distribution companies? box office results.

Independent Feature Project
IFP is a not-for-profit service organization dedicated to providing resources, information and avenues of communication for its members: independent filmmakers, industry professionals and independent film enthusiasts. It is committed to the idea that independent film is an important art form and a powerful voice in society. It offers news on the industry, a filmmaker?s library, forums, a networking center, and sponsors grants.

New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA)
NYSCA is a funding agency that supports the activities of nonprofit arts and cultural organizations in New York State and helps to bring high-quality artistic programs to the public. NYSCA invites nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that meet basic eligibility requirements to apply for grants.

Docuclub
The mission of DocuClub is to facilitate filmmakers in the making of their documentaries within a non-competitive, supportive community. DocuClub's programs help enhance the quality of documentary films produced, from the pitch through to the completed work, by offering filmmakers constructive feedback and a chance to network with their peers. Docuclub hosts screenings and workshops for filmmakers.

Youth-based Organizations:

EVC
EVC is a nationally recognized model of a media arts education program that makes a difference in the lives of some of the most hard-to-reach youth. EVC is dedicated to the creative and community-based use of video and multi-media as a means to develop the literacy, critical thinking, and work preparation skills of inner city youth.

Youth Channel
The Youth Channel is a channel that is programmed and governed by youth affiliated with the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. Anyone under 25 is encouraged to submit their video work to be broadcast on the network.

Peer Organizations

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.

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.

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), shortwave radio and the internet.

Manhattan Neighborhood Network
MNN is responsible for administering the public access cable television services in Manhattan. Their purpose is to ensure the ability of Manhattan residents to exercise their First Amendment rights through the medium of cable television and to create opportunities for mutual communication, education, artistic expression and other noncommercial uses of video facilities on an open, uncensored and equitable basis. MNN offers access to video production equipment, holds various video production workshops for free, and funds grants to non-profit organizations and individuals.

Rooftop Films
Rooftop Films is a non-profit film festival and production collective that supports, creates, promotes, and shows daring short films worldwide and in a weekly summer rooftop film festival. People also have the possibility to curate their own Rooftop film evenings or host a Rooftop event. They have a filmmakers? fund available to filmmakers whose works they show each year.

Independent Media Publications
Independent Media Publications aims to inform, promote, encourage and mobilize the independent and grassroots media arts movement. Founded in 2007, the organization inherited the rights to the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers’ (AIVF) publications, including the 30-year archives of The Independent Film & Video Monthly and several books.

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.

The Asia Society
The Asia Society is America's leading institution dedicated to fostering understanding of Asia and communication between Americans and the peoples of Asia and the Pacific. A national nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization, the Society provides a forum for building awareness of the more than thirty countries broadly defined as the Asia-Pacific region.

Asian CineVision
Asian CineVision is a nonprofit media arts organization dedicated to promoting and preserving Asian and Asian American media expressions.

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.

The New York Public Library: Donnell Research Center, Film and Videos Collection
The Donnell Media Center has a 16mm film collection; a reserve video collection containing independently produced documentaries, video art, film, and world cinema; a popular video collection; a reference collection; and periodicals and newsletters regarding the film industry.

Experimental Television Center
Provides support and services to the media arts community.

Bay Area Video Coalition
BAVC was launched in 1976 as a way to make emerging video technology accessible to independent mediamakers. Today, with that mission still at its core, BAVC has evolved into a media arts "teaching hospital."