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  • Established primarily as a network for artists who either use or are inspired by science and technology, ASCI has become a magnet for some of the best examples of this type of contemporary art and for scientists and technologists wishing to collaborate. ASCI was instrumental in reinvigorating the art-sci-tech movement in the United States during the mid-1990's and helped coalesce the art-science movement (1998-2002).
  • In 1985 AFS was born, honoring classic and independent film with screenings in public venues all over Austin. By 1995 our mission had expanded from appreciating the movies we were screening, to supporting the filmmakers who made them. Since then we have earned the Directors Guild of America's first DGA Honors Award in recognition for our support of regional film production and culture.
  • Aimed at developing British cinema and published by the Film Department of the British Council. See the site map for a full listing of resources.
  • CDD is committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet in the broadband era, and to realizing the full potential of digital communications through the development and encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming.
  • CFVA was founded in 1987 by a group of about 20 film and video industry professionals who wanted to gather regularly for the purposes of personal and professional interaction with each other and to encourage growth in the Charlotte area film industry.
  • Serving Santa Cruz County, Monterey and the central coast of California, we provide a venue both on-line and off for anyone interested in the filmmaking process. Santa Cruz has always been a haven for creative people of all types. Artists, craftspeople, writers,actors, musicians and others are drawn to this small town and flourish in an atmosphere of acceptance and freedom. The goal of Cinemar is to create a thriving film community in Santa Cruz county by bringing local filmmakers together with the resources they need to produce their work.
  • A comprehensive resource center for filmmakers with links to associations, cinematography, distributors, editing, film schools, video and other film related topics.
  • IFP was founded in 1979 on a belief that a truly vital American cinema must include the personal, idiosyncratic, and sometimes controversial voices of filmmakers working outside of the established studio system.
  • Filmmakers, festival programmers, distributors, and others dedicated to support, promotion, and production of American independent films. Useful for its Job Bank and Classifieds.
  • The mission IDA is to promote nonfiction film and video around the world by supporting and recognizing the efforts of documentary film and video makers, increasing public appreciation and demand for the documentary, and providing a forum for documentary makers, their supporters and suppliers.
  • maxfilmpro is a global resource guide for film, television, commercial and video production.
  • A free contact directory for the New York City filmmaking and media community.
  • NW Film Center is a regional media arts organization founded to encourage the study and appreciation of the moving image arts foster their artistic and professional excellence and to help create a climate in which they may flourish. The Center provides a variety of film and video exhibition, education and information programs. The Film Center is a component of the Portland Art Museum.
  • A categorized list of New York State resources available to independent media, artists, and filmmakers.
  • A resource center covering different aspects of film/video production, exhibition and distribution as well as eduction, forums and news.
  • Documentaries have a unique power to inform, empower and enlighten. since 1981 the Center for Independent Documentary has been exclusively dedicated to the creation of these films through collaborations with independent producers.
  • Women In Film was founded in Los Angeles by Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, the former Publisher and Editorin-chief of The Hollywood Reporter and a group of women who represented various disciplines within the film and television industries. WIF has evolved and expanded over the last thirty years and today there are over forty WIF chapters worldwide spanning four continents, eighteen countries, and 10,000 global members.