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.
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.
Harlem Arts Alliance
http://www.harlemaa.org/index.cfm
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
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 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
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.
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)
Atlanta Film Festival 365
http://www.atlantafilmfestival.com
Atlanta Film Festival 365 (ATLFF365) is a membership-based 501(c)(3) arts
non-profit with a mission to lead the community in creative and cultural
discovery through the moving image. ATLFF365 presents a diverse slate of
year-round offerings for film-lovers, filmmakers, and established & emerging
industry professionals. Year round programs—screenings, events, discussions,
workshops, panels, and educational activities, coupled with an interactive
website, and engaged social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN &
more)—provide a forum for building the community of film lovers and film
supporters. (Atlanta, GA)
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)
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)
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)
Grand Rapids Community Media Center
http://www.grcmc.org/
Grand Rapids
Community Media Center offers tools and training in media through consultations, lecture
series, workshops and internship programs. (Grand Rapids, MI)
IFP: Minnesota Center for Media Arts
http://ifpmn.org/
IFP: Minnesota Center for Media Arts 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)
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)
Media Arts Center of Orange
http://www.mac-orange.com/index.php
The Media Arts Center of Orange offers professional, state-of-the-art video
editing facilities, website design, DVD authoring and duplication services,
software development, package design. (Orange, CT)
Nebraska Independent Film Projects
http://www.nifp.org/
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 Film Office
www.film.org
Greater Philadelphia
Filmmakers serves artists by offering services such as seminars,
training, networking opportunities, internships, resource organization
and screenings. (Philadelphia, PA)
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
http://nwfilmforum.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/
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.
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 Filmmaker 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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