movinglmages07 Web Resources

Production Skills + Techniques

• YALE FILM STUDIES: Film Analysis Web Site 2.0 The Film Analysis Guide was developed to meet the needs of faculty and students at Yale who are interested in becoming familiar with the vocabulary of film studies and the techniques of cinema.
  
  
• Flicktips http://www.newvenue.com/flicktips/ - New Venue's (see below) resources section on all things video post-produciton for the web, excellent demos adn info on compression techniques.
  
  
• Digital Filmmaking Secrets! http://2learnfilm.com/ Learn the secrets of digital filmmaking from script-to-screen with online tutorials, tips and advice in screenwriting, directing, cinematography, digital film making.
  
  
• Video Production Tips http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/depts-bcu/newsite/Helps/VIDEOPRO.html
  
  
• Stop Action Animation Handbook http://stopmotionanimation.com/handbook/ and Resources http://stopmotionanimation.com/links/
  
  
• Digital Art Source http://www.digitalartsource.com/pages/film.shtml - is a guide for students & professionals interested in art-related websites utilizing or exploring digital media& computers: Cinema Resources & links
  

New Venue http://www.newvenue.com - the first online showcase for movies made specifically for viewing over the Internet. Created by Jason Wishnow and D.FILM to advance the aesthetic of web movies, the New Venue is both a curated exhibit space and a filmmaker resource, proving that the "generative constraints" of bandwidth can yield to intense creativity.

DOGME 95 - http://www.dogme95.dk/ - is a collective of film directors founded in Copenhagen in spring 1995 by then independent filmmaker, now internationally renown and innovative Director Lars Von Trier. DOGME 95 expressed goal of countering “certain tendencies” in the cinema today and has a manifesto and a number of rules that filmmakers must follow known as THE VOW OF CHASTITY, in order for their films to be considered DOGME 95 films.

Atom Films http://www.atomfilms.com - the largest catalog of award-winning animation and live-action entertainment available. A loyal supporter of independent filmmakers and animators, AtomFilms has built a platform for artists seeking worldwide distribution. An independent company founded in Seattle in 1998.

ZED Interactive http://zed.cbc.ca/ - a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) initiative to present local, Canadian and international emerging artists working in music, new media, animation and video art and documentary.

Belief | broadcast design & live action studio http://www.belief.com/home/index.php

Trollback | broadcast motion graphics and advertising http://www.trollback.com/

PLEIX experimental video, animation, and motion graphics http://www.pleix.net/films.html

Stash Media Magazine of commercial and experimental video, animation, and motion graphics http://www.stashmedia.tv/

• FEED - Stash Media's online community of latest video, animation, and motion graphics works http://feed.stashmedia.tv/categories/
  
  
• Stash Media's 2006 GLOBAL STUDENT ANIMATION AWARDS http://www.stashmedia.tv/gsaa/index.htm

Digital Film and Video Festivals

FCMM : Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media http://www.nouveaucinema.ca/2006/en/index.php

New Forms Festival - Vancouver Festival of New Media, Music and Art http://www.newformsfestival.com

Vidfest - Vancouver's Commercial Festival of Digital media, Animation, Motion Graphics and Games http://www.vidfest.com/

Victoria Independent Film And Video Festival www.vifvf.com/

Res Fest - http://www.resfest.com/

• Res Fest is a yearly traveling showcase of independent short films, animation, music videos and commercials. Films can be seen online as well at http://www.res.com/watchandlisten/index-home.html or check out
  
  
• Sputnik 7 http://www.sputnik7.com/features/ for the latest anime, music videos and music, where Res Fest films can be seen.

SXSW Film, Interactive and Music Festival 2007 - http://www.sxsw.com/

• 2006 Film Winner archives http://www.sxswclick.com/categories/
  
  
• 2005 Film Winner archives http://2005.sxsw.com/film/click/
  

Sundance Film Festival http://festival.sundance.org/2006/watch/index.aspx

D.FILM http://www.dfilm.com - The Digital Film Festival is a traveling and online showcase of films made with new technology. The goal of the festival is to entertain, by showing audiences the very best work done by today's new breed of digital filmmakers, and to inspire, by actively teaching them how they can do it themselves. To this end, D.FILM is at the center of the grassroots digital revolution. D.FILM offers this distinctly online film festival as a complement to its traveling, "real world" digital film festival.

Tulsa Overground Film Festival http://www.tulsaoverground.com/main.html

Annual NY Underground Film Festival http://www.nyuff.com/2006/

European Media Arts Festival http://www.emaf.de/