Reel Sisters of Diaspora
www.reelsisters.org
Jewish Women's Film Festival
www.ncjw.org
Reel Venus Film Festival
www.reelvenus.com
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Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals
U.S.A.
Adam Baran Honolulu Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
www.hglcf.org
Aspen Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
www.gayskiweek.com
Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
www.agliff.org
Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
bostonlgbtfilmfest.org
Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
www.outfilmct.org
Houston Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
www.q-fest.org
Image Out: The Rochester Lesbian And Gay Film Festival
www.imageout.org/index.htm
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
www.mglff.com/blog/
Mix: New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video
Festival
www.mixnyc.org
North Carolina Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
festivals.carolinatheatre.org/ncglff/
The New Festival - The New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
www.newfestival.org
Ohio Lesbian Festival
www.ohiolba.org
Out On Film Festival Atlanta's Gay And Lesbian Film
Festival
outonfilm.org
Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
www.outfest.org
Out Takes: L/G Film Festival (Dallas)
www.outtakesdallas.org
Philadelphia Intl. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
www.qfest.com
Pikes Peak Lavender Film Festival
www.pplff.org
Pittsburgh International Lesbian And Gay Film Festival
www.pilgff.org
Portland LGBT Film Festival (Sensory
Perceptions)pdxgayfilm@aol.com
Q Cinema: Fort Worth's Gay & Lesbian International Film
Festival
web.me.com/qcinema/Site_2/Home.html
Reel Affirmations: Washington DC's International Gay &
Lesbian Film Festival
www.reelaffirmations.org
San Francisco International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival
www.frameline.org
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
threedollarbillcinema.org/programs/SLGFF/
Spokane's Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
www.spokanefilmfest.org
Tampa International Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
www.tiglff.com/index.cfm
Australia
Mardi Gras Film Festival
www.queerscreen.com.au
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
www.melbournequeerfilm.com.au
Queerdoc
www.queerscreen.com.au
BELGIUM
Festival Du Film Gay Et Lesbien De Bruxelles
www.fglb.org
CANADA
Fairy Tales Intl. Queer Film & Video Festival
www.fairytalesfilmfest.com
Image+Nation, Montreal's Queer Film Festival
www.image-nation.org
Inside Out Film Festival (Toronto)
www.insideout.on.ca
Making Scenes Film/Video Festival (Ottawa)
jack-of-all-trades.ca/scenes
Vancouver Queer Film And Video Festival
www.outonscreen.com
FRANCE
Cineffable- Paris Lesbian Film Festival
www.cineffable.fr/en/editoEn.h
GERMANY
Freiburger Lesbenfilmtage E.V.
www.freiburger-lesbenfilmtage.de
Lesben Film Festival Berlin
www.lesbenfilmfestival.de
Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg
www.lsf-hamburg.de
Verzaubert International Queer Filmfestival
www.verzaubertfilmfest.com
ITALY
Immaginaria Internaltional Lesbian Film Festival
www.immaginaria.org
U.K.
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
www.outuk.com/llgff/
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Additional Film Festival Lists
General Listing
http://www.filmfestivalsource.com
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Film_Festivals/
International
www.1worldfilms.com/International%20Film%20Festivals.htm
Multicultural/Special Interest
General Special Interest
www.caryn.com/indie/festivals/special.html
Jewish Film Festivals
www.sfjff.org
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DISTRIBUTOR INFORMATION
Independent Film
Distributors
Aquarius Health Care Videos
www.aquariusproductions.com
Aquarius produces & distributes award-winning programs on
health & education issues. They distributes more than 500
videos to health care professionals and educational
institutions, libraries, hospitals, hospices, government
agencies and youth groups.
Arab Film Distribution
www.arabfilm.com
Arab Film Distribution provides American and Canadian
theaters, universities, colleges, museums and media centers
with Arab films of high artistic and educational value.
Artistic License
www.artlic.com
Film distribution company seeking films with strong
potential in the competitive market place. Primarily works
with feature films, recent examples include Afterlife and
Ratcatcher. Filmmakers are encouraged to send in work on
video.
ArtMattan Productions
www.africanfilm.com
ArtMattan Productions distributes films that focus on the
human experience of black people in Africa, the Caribbean,
North and South America and Europe.
Bullfrog Films
www.bullfrogfilms.com
An environmental right film company that exposes many
excellent environmental and anti-nuke films that have been
under-viewed because of their controversy. They distribute
over 300 titles about environmental activism to schools,
colleges and public libraries.
California Newsreel
www.newsreel.org
California Newsreel has over the years focused on developing
media and audiences in order to broaden and deepen the
discussion of selected social issues. It was founded in
response to the civil rights, student, and anti-war protests
of the late 1960’s.
Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc.
www.cambridgedocumentaryfilms.org
Cambridge Documentary Film distributes social issue
documentary work to colleges, universities, churches,
business organizations, community and religious groups, and
individuals around the world. They are also involved in
public service announcements, Amnesty International and work
on oral and visual histories for libraries and social issue
media projects.
Canadian Filmmaker Resource Centre
www.cfmdc.org
Canada’s oldest artist-run organization is a prime
disseminator of experimental, gay, and lesbian titles from
around the world.
Canyon Cinema
www.canyoncinema.com
One of the world's leading distributors of experimental and
independent film, Canyon is an artist-run organization
dedicated to the support, promotion, distribution and
preservation of motion picture film as an art form.
The Cinema Guild
www.cinemaguild.com
A for-profit distributor of nearly 500 titles representing a
wide variety of independently produced films and videos,
documentary and fiction, features and shorts, in all
markets, including theatrical, semi-theatrical, television
and home video.
Electronic Arts Intermix
www.eai.org
A resource for art videos and alternative media, EAI's
collection spans an eclectic range of genres, styles, and
themes, from performance-based and conceptual works to
experimental narratives and CD-ROM projects.
Facets Multimedia, Inc.
www.facets.org
Facets Multimedia is an arts organization based in Chicago,
Illinois. Facets also has the world’s largest and most
unique collection of foreign, classic American, independent,
experimental, documentary, cult, fine arts, and children’s
videos and DVDs. A select number of films exclusively
acquired for the Facets Video collection are also released
theatrically and in television markets.
Fanlight Productions
www.fanlight.com
A for-profit distributor of films and videos that focus on
health care, mental health and related issues. Independent
filmmakers produce most titles, although Fanlight also
handles ‘Frontline’ and other made-for-television
documentaries.
Filmmakers Library, Inc.
www.filmakers.com
A for-profit distributor of quality shorts and documentaries
for the U.S. educational and television market. The Library
focuses on films dealing with social and political issues
for universities, schools, libraries, and community groups.
Films for the Humanities and Sciences
www.films.com
The largest distributor of videos and CD-ROMs to schools,
colleges, and libraries in North America. Represents every
genre and style, but primary focus is documentaries.
First Run/Icarus Films, Inc
www.frif.com
Distributors of documentary film and video in the U.S. and
Canada, with a primary focus on non-theatrical markets. Open
to any length, format, language or subject matter.
Focus Features
www.focusfeatures.com
Focus Features is a motion picture production, financing,
and worldwide distribution company committed to bringing
moviegoers the most original stories from the world’s most
innovative filmmakers. Focus Features is the specialty
films unit of Universal Pictures, a division of Vivendi
Universal Entertainment.
Fox Searchlight Pictures
www.foxsearchlight.com
Fox Searchlight Pictures (a division of Fox Entertainment
Group, Inc.) is principally engaged in the development,
production and worldwide distribution of feature films and
television programs, television broadcasting and cable
network programming. The company aims to release films
that appeal to an upmarket audience and also have the
potential to cross-over commercially.
Frameline
www.frameline.org
Frameline’s mission is to support, develop, and promote
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer visibility
through media arts. Through a variety of programs and
activities, Frameline provides access to films and videos
dealing with a wide variety of issues related to sexuality
and gender.
Microcinema International
www.microcinema.com
Microcinema International provides film, video and digital
art to the International Microcinema Network, a syndicate of
exhibition venues that program unique media in alternative
venues around the world.
Milestone Film and Video
www.milestonefilms.com
The Milestone Film and Video collection ranges from the
earliest days of cinema, to the golden age of the silents,
to the postwar foreign film renaissance, to the new America
independent features, documentaries and foreign films.
New Day Films
www.newday.com
A national distribution cooperative of independent
filmmakers making social issue films. Primarily work with
colleges and universities, libraries, high schools, and
community groups.
Noodlehead Network
www.Noodlehead.com
Distributors and producers of videos made with kids.
Specialize in videos on geography, video production, health
and guidance issues for K-12 schools.
Paper Tiger Television
http://papertiger.org
A weekly public access series that analyzes and critiques
issues involving media, culture, and politics. The Paper
Tiger collective of artists and activists produces about
twenty half-hour programs per year that feature critics,
artists, and scholars addressing the ideological assumptions
and social meanings of the mainstream media and the
opportunities for alternative communications sources.
PBS Home Video
www.pbs.org
The home video arm of PBS promotes PBD programming via
direct-to-consumer distribution services that include:
shopPBS, the PBS Home Video catalog, on-air direct response
sales, and third-party catalog and special market outlets.
Phoenix Learning Group
www.phoenixlearninggroup.com
The Phoenix Film and Video media library contains over 5,500
educational videos plus DVDs, CD-ROMs. Laserdiscs, and
multi-media programs for K-12 schools, colleges and
universities, public libraries, museums, business &
industry, staff development and other specialized markets.
Porchlight Entertainment
www.awrtnyc.org
Provides advocacy, educational programs, networking opportunities… to
women in the electronic media industry.
The Brooklyn Arts Council
www.brooklynartscouncil.org
A service organization dedicated to helping artists, arts
organizations, and community groups promote and sustain the arts.
It provides grants, resources, referrals, networking opportunities, and
seminars.
Cine Women
www.cinewomenny.com
Organization developed to give female filmmakers and craftswomen much
needed recognition.
Downtown Community Television
www.dctvny.org
An independent non-profit media center that provides public access
to the electronic media arts with an emphasis on helping marginalized
communities that could not otherwise afford a media arts education,
providing at-cost classes as well as the most advanced cameras and
editing systems available.
Experimental Television Center
www.experimentaltvcenter.org
The Center’s mission is to support the creation of work using new
technology by providing space, time, and funding to artists as well as
to encourage informed appreciation of media art by supporting it’s
exhibition.
Film Forum
www.filmforum.com
A non-profit movie house for
independent premieres and
repertory
programming.
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
www.hallwalls.org
An art center and exhibition space located in Buffalo, Hallwalls mission
is to bring the newest and most challenging work in the contemporary
arts, including experimental film, video art, activism, and documentary
film, to the interested public.
Harvestworks
www.harvestworks.org
A non-profit organization that cultivates artistic talent through
electronic technologies. Harvestworks programs provide the artist with
production studios, grant opportunities, education, communal lab
practice, and distribution.
The International Agency for
Minority Artist Affairs
www.aboutharlemarts.org
The IAMAA, which is also the Harlem Art Council, has a mandated
mission to serve the multi-ethnic constituency of the region by
developing programs and services that encourage and provide the means
for the general public's arts participation and to nurture the
professional development of the performing, visual, and literary artists
and arts organizations among other initiatives.
The Kitchen
www.thekitchen.org
A multi-disciplinary presenting organization that provides visionary
artists with much needed technical, artistic, and administrative
resources for performances and exhibitions.
Media Workshop New York
www.mediaworkshop.org
Supports educators through the process of integrating new media and
technology into the practice of teaching and learning. Provides
workshops and resources. (New York)
Millennium Film Workshop
www.millenniumfilm.org
A non-profit organization offering various programs and services such as
filmmaking workshops and equipment access, which includes facilities for
editing, screening and shooting, as well as continuously presenting on
going film-talks and screenings. (New York)
New York Film and Video Council
www.nyfvc.org
A non-profit organization that provides the opportunity for a
diverse cross-section of the New York media community to view new works,
discuss major issues confronting the field, encounter new technologies,
meet visiting producers, and share resources..
New York Foundation for the Arts
www.nyfa.org/home.html
NYFA serves individual artists, promotes their freedom to develop and
create, and provides the broader public with opportunities to experience
and understand their work. NYFA accomplishes this by offering financial
and informational assistance to artists and organizations that directly
serve artists.
New York Women in Film and
Television
www.nywift.org
A non profit membership
organization dedicated to helping women reach the highest levels of
achievement in film, television and other moving-image media industries,
and to promoting equity for women in these industries.
Reel Women
www.reelwomen.com
A full service video and film production firm.
Specialize in documentaries and magazine format programming as well as
award wining travel documentaries across the globe.
Squeaky Wheel
www.squeaky.org
A grassroots, non-profit media arts center, dedicated to promoting
and supporting film, video, computer, digital, and audio art through
providing low-cost access to video and film equipment rental, editing
suites, workshops, and screenings of independent and avant-garde film
and video.
Standby
www.standby.org
The Standby Program, celebrating it’s 25 years as a media arts access program.
A non-profit dedicated to the democratization of video, audio and film
post-production for independent artists and non-profit organizations.
Participants in our program receive broadcast quality services at top post
houses around the city at 30%- 80% discount. Services include: broadcast quality
video editing, color correction, digital video effects, audio post-production,
35mm, 16mm & Super-8 processing, film to tape transfers, video format
conversions, and more.
Third World Newsreel
www.twn.org
An alternative media arts organization committed to the creation and
appreciation of independent and social issue media by and about people
of color, and the peoples of developing countries around the world.
Provides distribution, fiscal sponsorship and workshops.
Thundergulch
www.thundergulch.org
The new media arts initiative of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council,
Thundergulch is an exhibition initiative that provides new forms of
interaction between artists, audiences, and emerging technologies.
Visual Studies Workshop
www.vsw.org
A center for media studies, including photography, visual books,
digital imaging, film, and video. It serves visual artists and the
general public with diversified programming in education and
exhibitions. Artists residencies, access programs, and internships make
the facilities available for the production of artworks and for
scholarly research.
Regional Media Organizations
911 Media Arts Center
www.911media.org
A Media Arts Center that supports the expressive use of innovative
media tools by providing the access, training, and environment needed to
create/exhibit works of enduring merit and artistic excellence.
(Seattle, WA)
ACES Media Arts Center
www.MediaArtsCenter.net
Committed to providing access and agency to underrepresented and
disadvantaged groups, the ACES Media Arts Center offers equipment,
instruction, education and job training through services in video, pre
production, post production and broadcast preparation. (New Haven, CT)
www.athensfest.org/
Formed in 1974 as an appendage to the Athens Film Festival, the Athens
Center for Film and Video seeks to support and develop the growth of
independent and alternative media arts in Southeast Ohio area. (Athens,
OH))
Austin Cinemaker Co-op
www.cinemaker.org
A non-profit film
resource center, the Austin Cinemaker Co-op offers a variety of
educational workshops, low-cost super 8 film equipment rental and film
festivals throughout the year. (Austin, TX)
Bay Area Video Coalition
www.bavc.org
BAVC is the largest and most advanced independent media arts center
in the country, providing workshops, training programs, equipment
rental, editing suites, and tape preservation. (San Francisco, CA)
Boston Film And Video Foundation
www.bfvf.org
BFVF offers programs in education, equipment access, exhibition, and
financial and technical assistance, and promotes artistic endeavors in
individual and community empowerment through the use of media. (Boston,
MA)
Community Art Center-Teen Media
Program
www.communityartcenter.org
The Teen Media Program offers production, promotion and distribution
facilities for teens from the Cambridge area through mentoring, video
training, media literacy courses and access to equipment. (Cambridge,
MA)
Chicago Filmmakers
www.chicagofilmmakers.org
Chicago
Filmmakers is a non-profit media arts organization that promotes
opportunities for artists to create video and film media of social and
political impact that will offer audiences images different from the
ones reflected in the mainstream sphere by providing equipment access,
classes, lectures and seminars, internships, outreach programs,
production classes and workshops. (Chicago, IL)
Cleveland Filmmakers
www.cleavelandfilm.org
A program of the Cleveland Film Society, Cleveland Filmmakers serves
independent filmmakers in the Northeast Ohio region through educational
and professional support, exhibition and advocacy. (Cleveland, OH)
Detroit Filmmakers Coalition
www.detroitfilm.org
Detroit Filmmakers Coalition’s mission is to provide resources and
support for production, exhibition and promotion for independent
filmmakers in the Detroit area by offering classes, workshops and
equipment access. (Detroit, MI)
Film Arts Foundation
www.filmarts.org
FAF is a non-profit organization providing comprehensive training,
equipment, information, consultations, and exhibition opportunities to
independent filmmakers. (San Francisco, CA)
Grand Rapids Media Center
www.grmc.org
The Grand Rapids Media Center
offers tools and training in media through consultations, lecture
series, workshops and internship programs. (Grand Rapids, MI)
Greater Philadelphia Filmmakers
www.film.org
Greater Philadelphia
Filmmakers serves artists by offering services such as seminars,
training, networking opportunities, internships, resource organization
and screenings. (Philadelphia, PA)
IFP Minneapolis/MARC
www.ifpnorth.org
IFP Minneapolis is a
non-profit arts organization that encourages the diversity and quality
of independent media production by providing media artist services,
workshops, internships, consultations, exhibitions and access to
facilities and equipment. (Minneapolis, MN)
Image Film & Video Center
www.imagefv.org
IMAGE is a non-profit organization that exists as a support system for
independent film and video artists, offering filmmaking workshops and
networking resources. (Atlanta, GA)
Intermedia Arts
www.intermediaarts.org
A nationally recognized organization that fosters dialogue between
cultures through art, providing educational opportunities to youth and
artists that provide participants with the artistic means to create
dialogue. (Minneapolis, MN)
Media Alliance
www.media-alliance.org
A non-profit training and resource center for media workers,
community organizations, and political activists. (San Francisco, CA)
Nebraska Independent Film Projects
www.lincolnne.com/nonprofit/nifp
NIFP’s mission is to bring diversity to film, television and web
audiences through the support of Nebraska's independent filmmakers and
media artists. NIFP supports film projects, acts as an advocate
for filmmakers, and offers educational opportunities to filmmakers.
(Lincoln, NE)
New Orleans Video Access Center
www.novacvideo.org
NOVAC’s mission is to foster the creation and appreciation of
independent, non-commercial video by offering low-cost access to
facilities, workshops, newsletters, consulting, projection, script
assistance, production, and post production services and fiscal
sponsorships. (New Orleans, LA)
Northwest Film Center
www.nwfilm.org
Founded to encourage the study, appreciation and utilization of the
moving image and to foster artistic excellence in the discipline,
though providing a variety of film and video exhibitions and education
programs. (Portland, OR)
Philadelphia Independent Film/Video
Association (PIFVA)
www.pifva.org
PIFVA is a non-profit organization that offers independent film, video
and new media artists of all genres and levels of experience a variety
of service programs including production assistance, instruction,
mentoring, internships, networking opportunities and advocacy.
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
www.pghfilmmakers.org
One of the oldest independent media organizations in the country,
Pittsburgh Filmmakers offers programs in exhibition, equipment access,
education and community outreach in their commitment to advancing
artistic excellence in the media arts. (Pittsburgh, PA)
Real Art Ways
www.realartways.org
Offering audio-digital
skills workshops, internships and community outreach programs, Real Art
Ways is an alternative, multi-disciplinary organization that exhibits
and promotes emerging and accomplished artists and their projects.
(Hartford, CT)
Richmond Moving Image Co-op
www.rmicweb.org
The Richmond Moving Image
Coop is a non-profit organization promoting and supporting media artists
by offering information, resources, classes and workshops, equipment
access and public screenings. (Richmond, VA)
Scribe Video Center
www.scribe.org
With a focus on engaging
people of color, women, disabled and those with limited economic
resources, Scribe Video Center is a non-profit video arts center located
in Philadelphia that promotes the advancement of new media, film and
video as tools for progressive social change through Fiscal Sponsorship
programs, education, community outreach, production consultations and
equipment access. (Philadelphia, PA)
Southern Stories Foundation
www.southernstories.org
A foundation committed to supporting filmmakers and other artists from
southern United States, Southern Stories Foundation offers training,
internships, workshops, mentoring programs and distribution projects.
(Montgomery, AL)
Southwest Alternate Media Project
www.swamp.org
A non-profit media arts center, SWAMP promotes film, video, and new
media through education, information and presentation activities.
(Houston, TX)
The Austin Film Society
www.austinfilm.org/site/PageServer
Dedicated to fostering the art of film and to supporting the
creative vision of filmmakers; the Society screens films by independent
filmmakers, holds workshops, and has a production fund. (Austin, TX)
The North West Film Forum
www.wigglyworld.org
A non-profit organization that programs artistic film, houses a studio
for use by up and coming film artists, and helps independent filmmakers
each year through workshops, filmmaking grants, and access to production
and post-production equipment. (Seattle, WA)
Women In The Director's Chair
www.widc.org
WIDC is a Chicago-based, international media arts/activist center
which exhibits, promotes, and educates audiences about media made by
women, girls and trans-gendered people—work that expresses a diversity
of cultures, experiences, and issues. (Chicago, IL)
Women in Film
http://www.wifdallas.org/index.asp
A
nonprofit organization committed to promoting and enhancing the
recognition of all professional women in the film and video industry as
well as pursuing equitable treatment and opportunities. (Dallas, TX)
Asian American Arts Alliance
www.aaartsalliance.org
Founded to increase the support, recognition, and appreciation of Asian
American arts by providing a centralized information network, vital
resources and advocacy services, and ongoing technical assistance to
Asian American artists and organizations.
The Association of Independent Video
and Filmmakers
www.aivf.org
AIVF is the largest national organization representing independent media
artists working at all levels across all genres. Its mission is to
increase the creative and professional opportunities for independent
video and filmmakers and to enhance the growth of independent media by
providing services, advocacy, and information.
Beyondmedia’s Women International
Information Project
www.beyondmedia.org/wiip.html
WIIP assists
women in creating videos and web- sites that communicate their world
views, share information about their economic and social initiatives,
and facilitate political participation within their constituencies. WIIP
supports women's social change from the grassroots level, through
women's community-based organizations, by providing media workshops,
media-producing equipment, and ongoing partnerships. (Chicago, IL)
Center For Independent Documentary
www.documentaries.org
The Center collaborates with independent producers to create films and
videos on issues of contemporary social and cultural concern and is
committed to the successful completion and distribution of these
projects, through contributing production equipment, access to
discounted post-production facilities, providing fundraising assistance,
distribution assistance, fiscal sponsorship, creative, and even moral
support.
The Corporation for Public
Broadcasting
www.cpb.org
A
private, non-profit corporation that funds more than 1,000 locally
operated
public radio
stations and
public television
stations across the country and the production of
independent educational programming.
Independent Feature Project
www.ifp.org
IFP is a not-profit service organization dedicated to providing
resources, information, and avenues of communication for its members:
independent filmmakers, industry professionals, and independent film
enthusiasts. They hold workshops and large-scale conferences.
Independent Television Service
www.itvs.org
ITVS brings independently produced programs to television, programs that
engage creative risks, advance issues, and represent points of view not
usually seen on commercial or public television.
The National Alliance For Media Arts
And Culture
www.namac.org
NAMAC is a non-profit association composed of organizations who provide
a wide range of support services for independent media, including media
education, production, exhibition, distribution, collection building,
preservation, criticism, and advocacy.
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