Festival Information
Women's Film Festivals
Gay & Lesbian
Film Festivals
Additional Film
Festival Lists
Distributor Information
Independent Film
Distributors
Fiction Specialty Film
Distributors
Online Distribution Platforms
Crowdsource Distribution
Media Organizations
New York Media
Organizations
Regional Media
Organizations
National Media
Organizations
International Sales Agents
Additional Links
FESTIVAL INFORMATION
Women's Film Festivals
Athena Film Festival
Bird's Eye View Fest(UK)
Bitmap Black Women Film
Festival
Blue Stocking Film Series
Breakthroughs
Film Festival
Broad Humor
Davis Feminist FF
Elles Tournent Women’s Festival
Etheria Film Night
Everett Women's Film Festival
Female Eye Film Festival
Femcine: Festival Cine de Mujeres
Femina
Film Mor
Films De Femmes
Freiburger Lesben Filmtage
Fusion Film Festival
High Falls Film Festival
IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival
Image Of Black Women Film Festival
Internationales Frauen FF
International Film Festival
International Black Women’s Film Festival
L'Origine Del Mondo
LA Femme FF
Lady Filmmakers Film Festival
London Feminist Film Festival
London Lesbian Film Festival
Margaret Mead FF/NY
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
Moondance International Film Festival
Mostra Internacional Films de Dones
Mujeres en Foco
Mumbai Women's International FF
Paris International Lesbian and Feminist FF
The Portland Women’s Film Festival
Post Alley Film Festival
Reel Affirmations: Washington DC's International LGBT Film
Festival
Rocky Mountain Women's Film Festival
Sarasota Film Festival
Season Film Festival
Through Women's Eyes FF
Tricky Women: Animation FF
Underwire 2001
United Nations Association Film Festival
Women + Film VOICES FF
Women's Film Festival (Brattleboro, VT)
Women's International Film and Arts Festival
Women in Film & Television (Vancouver)
Women of African Descent Film Festival
Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals
Adam Baran Honolulu Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
Boston Gay & Lesbian Film/Video Festival
Cineffable- Paris Lesbian Film Festival
Connecticut Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Fairy Tales Intl. Queer Film & Video Festival
Festival Du Film Gay Et Lesbien De Bruxelles
Freiburger Lesbenfilmtage E.V.
Houston
Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
Image+Nation, Montreal's Queer Film Festival
Image Out: The Rochester Lesbian And Gay Film Festival
Immaginaria Internaltional Lesbian Film Festival
Inside Out Film Festival (Toronto)
Lesben Film Festival Berlin
Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Mardi Gras Film Festival
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Mix: New York Lesbian & Gay Experimental Film/Video
Festival
North Carolina Gay/Lesbian Film Festival
The New Festival - The New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Ohio Lesbian Festival
Out On Film Festival Atlanta's Gay And Lesbian Film
Festival
Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
Out Takes: L/G Film Festival (Dallas)
Philadelphia Intl. Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Pittsburgh International Lesbian And Gay Film Festival
Portland Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Q Cinema: Fort Worth's Gay & Lesbian International Film
Festival
Queerdoc
Reel Affirmations: Washington DC's International LGBT Film Festival
San Francisco International Lesbian/Gay Film Festival
Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Tampa International Gay And Lesbian Film Festival
Vancouver Queer Film Festival
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Additional Film Festival Lists
Multicultural/Special Interest
Jewish Film Festivals
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DISTRIBUTOR INFORMATION
Independent Film
Distributors
Arab Film Distribution
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
Film
distribution company seeking films with strong potential in
the competitive market place. Primarily works with feature
films, recent examples include Afterlife and
Ratcatcher.
ArtMattan Productions
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
An environmental right film
company that exposes many excellent environmental and
anti-nuke films that have been under-viewed because of their
controversy.
California Newsreel
California Newsreel has over the years focused on developing
media and audiences in order to broaden and deepen the
discussion of selected social issues.
Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc.
Cambridge Documentary Film distributes social issue
documentary work to colleges, universities, churches,
business organizations, community and religious groups, and
individuals around the world.
Canadian Filmmaker Resource
Centre
Canada’s oldest artist-run organization is a prime
disseminator of experimental, gay, and lesbian titles from
around the world.
Canyon Cinema
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
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.
Collective Eye Films
Collective Eye is an educational film distribution
company which represents compelling films that build bridges between cultures
and provide unique perspectives by exploring the untold stories of our time.
Electronic Arts Intermix
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.
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.
Films for the Humanities and
Sciences
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
Distributors of documentary film and video in the U.S.
and Canada, with a primary focus on non-theatrical markets. Took on the Fanlight collection
of films on health issues a number of years ago.
Frameline
Frameline’s mission is to support, develop, and promote lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and queer visibility through media arts.
Media Education Foundation
The Media
Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other
educational resources to inspire critical thinking about the social,
political, and cultural impact of American mass media.
Microcinema International
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 Films
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
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
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
A weekly public access series that analyzes and critiques issues involving
media, culture, and politics.
PBS
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
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
An independent
distributor of films and TV focusing solely on programs that promote
positive values and/or are family-friendly.
Seventh Art Releasing
Theatrical
distributor with a video label and a full-time world sales unit, working
mostly in docs.
Strand Releasing
Independent
distribution company that handles shorts and feature films, especially those
with lesbian and gay themes.
SubCine
SubCine is an artist-run and artist-owned collective
of Latino issue film and video makers.
Third World Newsreel
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.
Video Data Bank
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
A distribution system for media works by artists and
independents, strongly committed to the medium of video and media
artworks.
Women Make Movies
The world's largest distributor of films 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
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.
Fiction Speciality
Distributors
Focus Features
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.
Fox Searchlight Pictures
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.
Sony Pictures Classics
Sony Pictures Classics is an autonomous company of Sony Pictures Entertainment that acquires, produces and distributes independent films from around the world.
Fandor
iTunes
BitTorrent Film Distribution
Vimeo on Demand
Netflix
SundanceNow
Snag Films
VHX
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Crowdsource
Distribution
Gathr Films
Tugg
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The Brooklyn Arts Council
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.
Downtown Community Television
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
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
A non-profit movie house for
independent premieres and
repertory
programming.
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
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
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.
Harlem Arts Alliance
Harlem Arts Alliance (HAA) is a not-for-profit arts service organization
committed to nurturing the artistic growth and the development of artists and
arts organizations based primarily in Harlem and its surrounding communities.
The Kitchen
A multi-disciplinary presenting organization that provides visionary
artists with much needed technical, artistic, and administrative
resources for performances and exhibitions.
Millennium Film Workshop
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
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
NYFA serves individual artists, promotes their freedom to develop and
create, and provides the broader public with opportunities to experience
and understand their work.
New York Women in Film and
Television
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
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
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
The Standby Program allows
artists and independent producers access to the highest
quality post production facilities available. Services
include editing, audio post production, DVD authoring,
duplication and conversions, preservation restoration, film
processing and film to tape.
Third World Newsreel
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.
Visual Studies Workshop
A center for media studies, including photography, visual books,
digital imaging, film, and video. Artists residencies, access programs, and internships make
the facilities available for the production of artworks and for
scholarly research.
Regional Media Organizations
NORTHWEST
Washington Filmworks
Northwest
Production Index
Oregon
Film
Portland Film Office
Northwest Documentary
Montana Film Office
The North West Film Forum
911 Media Arts Center
SOUTHWEST
Nevada Film Office
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Film
Colorado Office of Film, Television, and Media
Denver Film Society
New
Mexico Film Office
Texas Film Commission
Austin Film Commission
MIDWEST
Film North
Nebraska Independent Film Projects
Grand Rapids Community Media Center
Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
Chicago Film Office
Chicago Filmmakers
Oklahoma Film and Music
Ohio Film Office
Film
Cincinnati
Youngstown Regional Film Commission
Film Columbus
Film Hamilton
Dayton Film
Commission
Greater
Cleveland Film Commission
Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture
Southern Oklahoma
Filmmaker Collective
Tulsa Film Collective
Minnesota
Film and TV
Minnesota Lawyers for the Arts (MnLA)
Minnesota Women in Film and Television
AdFed
FilmNorth
Minnesota Interactive
Marketing Association
Bush
Foundation
Metropolitan Regional
Arts Council
Minnesota
State Arts Board
Upper Minnesota Film Office (UMFO)
SOUTHEAST
Arkansas Production Alliance
Arkansas
Cinema Society
Louisiana Entertainment
Film New Orleans
Jefferson
Parish Film Office
Louisiana's Northshore Film Commission
Baton Rouge
Film Commission
Southwest Louisiana Film Alliance
St.
Bernard Parish Office of Film & Television
Shreveport-Bossier Film Office
NOVAC New Orleans and Baton Rouge
Alabama Film
Mobile
Film Office
Mississippi Film Office
Kentucky Film & Entertainment
Louisville
Filmmaker Commission
VisitLEX
Southern Kentucky
Film Commission
Florida
Office of Film and Entertainment
Bradenton Area Film Commission
Emerald
Coast Film Commission
Film Tampa Bay
Florida Keys & Key West Film &
Entertainment Commission
Jacksonville Film Commission
Orlando
Economic Partnership
Film
Miami
Palm Beach County Film and Television Commission
Florida
Film Office
Miami Film Office
Paradise Coast Film Commission
Film
Birmingham
Film Sarasota
Space Coast
Film Commission
St. Petersburg / Clearwater Film Commission
James River Film Society
Atlanta Film Festival 365
Film
South Carolina
Carolina Film
Alliance
North Carolina Film
Office
https://www.charlottefilm.com/
Piedmont
Triad Film Commission
Wilmington
Regional Film Commission
North Carolina Arts Council
Virginia Film Office
Virginia Screenwriters Forum
Virginia Production Alliance
West Virginia Film
West Virginia
Filmmakers' Guild
Creative
Alliance
Atlanta Film Society
SOUTHW EST
New Orleans Video Access Center
Southwest Alternate Media Project
Austin Film Society
Women in Film Dallas
Austin Cinemaker Co-op
Media Arts
Center of Orange
Media Alliance
NORTHEAST
Scribe Video Center
Philadelphia Film Office
Philadelphia Independent Film/Video
Association (PIFVA)
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Real Art Ways
Media Arts Center of Orange
Brooklyn Arts Council
Film Forum
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center
Television, Internet, & Video Association of DC, Inc.
Washington-Mid Atlantic SAG-AFTRA
KvM Film Rental
Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts
Baltimore Film Office
Maryland Film Office
Maryland Film Industry Coalition
Enoch Pratt Free Library
D.C. Office
of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment
Oz Publishing
DC Shorts
Filmmakers for Tomorrow Foundation
Pennsylvania Film Office
IATSE Local No. 8 Philadephia
Philadelphia
Independent Film & Video Association
Greater Philadelphia Film
Office
Pennsylvania Film Industry Association
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Maine Film Office
Maine Film Association
Rhode Island Film & Television Office
RHODYWOOD
Portland Media Center
Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development
New
Milford Film Commission
Massachusetts
Film Office
Massachusetts Production Coalition
Color of Film Collaborative
Boston Avid User Group (BAVUG)
Filmmakers
Collaborative
Women in Film & Video New England (WIFVNE)
Center for
Independent Documentary
Documentary Educational Resources
Downtown Community Television (DCTV)
Harvestworks
Harlem Arts Alliance
The Kitchen
Millennium Film Workshop
New York Film and Video Council
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIFT)
Squeaky Wheel
The
Standby Program
Third World Newsreel
Visual Studies
Workshop
ALASKA, HAWAII, VIRGIN
ISLANDS
U.S. Virgin Islands Film Office
Hawaii Film Office
Honolulu Film Office
Hawaii Filmmakers Collective
Asian American Arts Alliance
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.
Beyondmedia’s Women International
Information Project
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. (Chicago, IL)
Center For Independent Documentary
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
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 Filmmaker Project
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
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
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.
International Sales
Agents
Ampersand (France)
Autlook Filmsales (Austria)
Andana Films (France)
Arte (France)
Autentiic (Germany)
Beyond Distribution (UK)
Cat & Docs (France)
Celluloid Dream (France)
Cinephil (Israel)
Deckert Distribution (Germany)
Doc & Film International (France)
Dogwoof Global (UK)
Dreamlab Films (France)
DR International Sales (Denmark)
Filmoption (Canada)
Films Boutique (Germany)
First Hand Films (Switzerland and Germany)
Forward Entertainment (US)
GA&A International (Italy)
Go2films (Israel)
HanWay Films (UK)
Illumina Films (The Netherlands)
Java Films (France)
JMT Film Distribution (Israel)
Kinosmith (Canada)
Kudos Family Distribution (Norway)
Le Pacte (France)
Les films du 3 mars (Canada)
Looking Glass International (Australia)
Louise Rosen LTD (US)
NPO/RNW Sales (The Netherlands)
Nordic World (Norway)
Off the fence (The Netherlands)
Paul Thiltges Distribution (Luxembourg)
Rise and Shine World Sales (Germany)
Ro*co Films International (US)
Ronin Films (Australia)
Ruth Diskin Films (Israel)
SD Cinematografica (Italy)
Sideway Film, LTD (UK)
SND Films (The Netherlands)
Submarine Entertainment (US)
SVT Sales (Sweden)
Taskovski Films, LTD (UK)
Telepool (Germany)
Trustnordisk (Denmark)
Vantage Media International (US)
Wavelength Picture (UK)
Wide House (France)
Wide Management (France)
Windrose International (France)
The Yellow Affair (Sweden)
Zed (France)
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Additional Links
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Anthology Film Archives
California Lawyers for the Arts
Directors Guild of America, Inc.
Film Fatales NYC
A collective of female filmmakers based in New York City.
Fair Use Project
Filmmakers Alliance
Film Forum
Hudson Valley Film Commission
IFP
International Documentary Association
Indiewire
Kids Guide to Making Movies
LGBTQ College Guide
Melbourne
Video Production
Offers a glossary of video
terminology for beginners.
The National Alliance for Media and Culture (NAMAC)
Peerspace
Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique spaces that
can be utilized for a variety of creative and productive uses. Whether
you’re looking to book a film shoot, hold a casting session, collaborate
with colleagues, host a screening, or throw a wrap party, Peerspace is the
first platform to easily find and book space for any of your production
needs, on any budget.
Quad Cinema
Screen Actors Guild
SAGIndie
Welcome
Change
Welcome Change is a small independent documentary production company owned by
Academy Award® nominated director
Alice Elliott. Since 1991, Welcome Change has been making films that focus
on people with disabilities and communities that are reinventing themselves. Our
mission is to lead social change by revealing the big stories hidden in the
human heart.
Writers Guild of America, East
Writers Guild of America, West
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