Reel Sisters of Diaspora

African American Women in Cinema Festival

www.aawic.org

Jewish Women's Film Festival
www.ncjw.org

Reel Venus Film Festival

www.reelvenus.com

Chick with Flicks Film and Video Festival

www.chickswithflicks.org

Gurl.com Film Festival

www.gurl.com/film

Through Her Eyes Women's Film Festival

www.gaycenter.org/events/LFF2004

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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
www.mfa.org/film

Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
www.ctglff.org

Film Forum's“Sapph-O-Rama”
www.filmforum.com/sapphorama.html

Harmony Network (CA)
Auriel2@netzero.net

Houston Gay/Lesbian Film Festival 
www.hglff.org

La Lesbian @ La Pena Film Festival (Berkeley, LA)
www.lapena.org

Image Out: The Rochester Lesbian And Gay Film Festival
www.imageout.org

Mesilla Valley Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
www.fountaintheatre.org

Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
www.miamigaylesbianfilm.com

Minneapolis-St. Paul Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Film Fest
jennyjones@oakstreetcinema.org

Mix: New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival
www.mixnyc.org

North Carolina Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
www.carolinatheatre.org/

NY Les/Gay Film Festival (New Festival)
www.newfestival.org

The New Festival - The New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
www.newfestival.org

Ohio Lesbian Festival
www.ohiolba.org

Out Far! Phoenix International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
www.OutFar.org

Out On Film Festival Atlanta's Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
www.outonfilm.com

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.phillyfests.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
www.qcinema.org

Reel Affirmations: Washington DC's International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
www.reelaffirmations.org

San Antonio Lesbian/Gay Film Festival
OutfilmTX@aol.com

San Francisco International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival
www.frameline.org

Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
www.seattlequeerfilm.com

Spokane's Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
www.spokanefilmfest.org

Tampa International Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
www.pridefilmfest.com
 

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)
scenes@fox.nstn.ca

Vancouver Queer Film And Video Festival

www.outonscreen.com

FRANCE

Cineffable- Paris Lesbian Film Festival

www.cineffable.fr.fm

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  

Festival Del Cinema Lesbico

Immaginaria Internaltional Lesbian Film Festival

www.immaginaria.org

MEXICO

Mix Mexico Sexual Diversity Film Festival

mixmexico@go.com

NEW ZEALAND

Triangle Television Gay TV Festival
www.tritv.co.nz

SWEDEN

Dykeye Queer & Feminist Film Festival

U.K.

London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
www.outuk.com/llgff/

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Additional Film Festival Lists

Canada

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Unofficial/Canadiana/CA-filmfests.html

Gay and Lesbian

http://www.planetout.com/popcornq/fests/

General Listing

http://www.filmfestivalsource.com
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Film_Festivals/A/
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Movies_and_Film/Film_Festivals/
http://www.medianetworkgroup.com/filmfest.html

International

www.womenfilmnet.org/festies.htm
www.netribution.co.uk/festivals/
www.1worldfilms.com/International%20Film%20Festivals.htm
www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/festivals.html#international

Multicultural/Special Interest

General Special Interest
www.netribution.co.uk/festivals/
www.caryn.com/indie/festivals/special.html

Jewish Film Festivals
www.sfjff.org/guide/jffswwlist.php3

Short Films

http://www.indiefilms.com/bag/filmfest.htm
http://www.funandsun.com/1tocf/film/floridafilms.html

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DISTRIBUTOR INFORMATION

Independent Film Distributors

Appalshop
appalshop.org
Appalshop Films have been dedicated to documenting the culture and social concerns of the people of Southern Appalachia. 

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.

ArtCom
www.artcom.com
A San Francisco based cultural organization, which specializes in the interface of contemporary art and new communications technologies.  

Artisan Entertainment
www.artisanent.com
Artisan Entertainment, Inc. is a leading independent producer and distributor of theatrical, television and home entertainment products.  With a prestigious and prolific library of more than 7,000 titles, Artisan continues to build a stable of commercially and critically successful entertainment  properties that are recognized worldwide.

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.

AtomFilms.com
www.atomfilms.com
A next generation entertainment company displaying international short films and animations on its web site. Licenses content to on-line companies, as well as domestic and international TV, airlines, VHS/DVD, major Internet sites and some theatrical outlets.  

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.

Cross Current Media (NAATA)
www.naatanet.org
A specialized distribution service focusing on works about Asian Americans that provide an accurate portrayal of the culture. Cross Current is a service of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA). 

Deep Dish T.V. Network
www.igc.org/deepdish
Deep Dish distributes alternative media via satellite to public access stations nationwide. It seeks non-commercial programs that are aimed at affecting social change. 

Direct Cinema Limited Inc.
www.directcinemalimited.com
A for-profit distributor of film and video in the non-theatrical and special interest marketplace.

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. 

Fine Line Features
www.finelinefeatures.com
Fine Line Features (a subsidiary of New Line Cinema) produces and distributes art house features and documentaries, as well as foreign language films for commercial markets.  

First Look Pictures
www.flp.com
First Look Pictures was created in 1933 to focus on the U.S. domestic distribution and marketing of independent films, headed for the past seven years by MJ Peckos.

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.   

Intermedia Arts
www.intermediaarts.org
A non-profit contemporary arts center serving artists and their audiences through education, exhibition, distribution and artist service programs. The distribution program markets independently produced videos reaching non-theatrical audiences to broadcast markets for educational, art and advocacy uses.   

The Kitchen
www.thekitchen.org/about.html
The Kitchen's mission is to identify, support, and present artists whose art influences its medium and contemporary culture. It promotes the growth of artists, audiences, and the presenting field by pushing the accepted boundaries and definitions of contemporary culture, using artistic exploration and education as tools and its own extensive history as a resource. A non-profit arts center that produces independent video works for television and single channel exhibition and distributes over 300 titles. 

Lot 47
www.lot47.com
Independent distribution company interested in North American rights of diverse independent American features, great documentaries, and foreign language films.

Mediarights.org
www.mediarights.org
Nonprofit community web site designed to make social-issue documentaries and advocacy videos easy to find. 

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.

Miramax Films
www.miramax.com
Miramax Films has cultivated a reputation as an effective distributor of independent specialty films, many of which have become award winning successes through aggressive marketing and non-traditional publicity campaigns.  It acquires films which are considered too offbeat for major studios.

The Museum of Modern Art’s Circulating Film & Video Library
www.moma.org
A film collection designed to serve the film study needs of educational institutions by providing a wide and historical range of video and film works, experimental and avant-garde.

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. 

New Yorker Films
www.newyorkerfilms.com
The New Yorker Library is a source for trailblazing works that are controversial and challenging and considered to be untouchable by other distributors.  In addition to its theatrical premieres, New Yorker’s strength is its ability to service the non-theatrical market, catering to the specialized needs of film society and classroom venues that fall beneath the radar of larger, more monolithic companies.

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 Films and Video
www.havahula.com/phoenix/frame1.html
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.PorchLight.com
An independent distributor of films and TV focusing solely on programs that promote positive values and/or are family-friendly.

Seventh Art Releasing
www.7thart.com
Theatrical distributor with a video label and a full-time world sales unit, working mostly in docs. 

Sony Pictures Classics
www.sonyclassics.com
Sony Pictures Classics is an autonomous company of Sony Pictures Entertainment that acquires, produces and distributes independent films from around the world. The company has a working relationship with Columbia Tristar Entertainment to distribute films on home video.

Strand Releasing
www.strandrel.com
Independent distribution company that handles shorts and feature films, especially those with lesbian and gay themes.

SubCine
www.subcine.com
SubCine is an artist-run and artist-owned collective of Latino issue film and video makers.

Tapestry International, Ltd.
www.tapestry.tv
Tapestry is one of the leading producers of reality and documentary programs, primarily working in the science, medical, history and wildlife markets, but occasionally taking on social issue films.  On virtually every project they acquire the act as Executive Producer.  This allows them to shape and guide projects to make them as sellable as possible. They focus their efforts on knowing their market and remaining closely connected to the projects they are involved in throughout the production process.

The Sync
www.thesync.com
Internet broadcasting company that provides streaming audio and video services to businesses, as well as original content on its site for Internet viewership.    

THINKFilm
www.thinkfilmcompany.com
THINKFilm is a North American Distributor formed by highly experienced industry veterans. The company is committed to aggressive, strategic release of high product, representing the best of the independent filmmaking community.

Third World Newsreel
www.twn.org
A nonprofit media arts organization that fosters the creation and dissemination of independent film and video made by and about people of diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. Also work with social justice media.  

United Artists
www.unitedartists.com
The studio was established in 1919 by the distinguished ensemble of Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith.  Rather than own production facilities and soundstages, United

Artists functioned almost exclusively as a distribution entity.  United Artists has enjoyed an unparalleled reputation throughout decades of history as a forum for artists to nourish the projects other studios refused to risk.

Video Data Bank
www.vdb.org
A nonprofit that has assembled and distributes one of the largest collections of videos by and about artists to museums, galleries, alternative spaces, festivals, and in curricular programming.  

V Tape
www.vtape.org
A distribution system for media works by artists and independents, strongly committed to the medium of video and media artworks.  

The Video Project
www.videoproject.net
The non-profit Educational Film and Video Project produces and distributes affordable documentary video and film programs on critical global issues, beginning with nuclear arms race.

Wellspring Media
www.wellspring.com/
Wellspring Media produces, licenses, and distributes programming worldwide for home video, television, theatrical, online, and consumer markets.  Wellspring Media is a leading supplier, in all visual media, of best-of-class programming in three complimentary niches: International Independent Cinema, Performance and the Arts, and Holistic Living. (Formerly Fox Lorber/Winstar International) 

Women Make Movies
www.wmm.com
The world's largest distributor of films and videotapes by and about women, is a non-profit feminist, multicultural media organization which provides services to both the producers and users of media by and about women. 

Zeitgeist Films
www.zeitgeistfilms.com
Since 1988, Zeitgeist Films has accumulated a collection of the best international cinema by working with the most talented and innovative filmmakers in the world.  Zeitgeist Films is a North American independent film distribution company based in New York.

MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS

 

New York Media Organizations

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)

National Medial Organizations

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.  

National Video Resources
www.nvr.org
NVR designs and implements projects that help enable individuals and organizations to acquire and use independent film and video. NVR also commissions and publishes research on issues of concern to independent media makers, distributors, educators, activists, and individuals.