Useful Links
Acting
- Back Stage
- Ecole International de Theatre Jacques Lecoq
Major French theater and physical theater institute. - Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute
- Film Circle
UK based film network and casting board. - Groundlings
Famous L.A. improv comedy troupe, offers classes. - Improv Everywhere
Awesome public improv actions. - Screen Actors’ Guild
- Second City
Famous Chicago improv theater, offers classes in Chicago, Toronto and L.A.
Business
- Austin Film Festival
- Box Office Mojo
- Fade In Magazine
- Film Circle
UK based film network and casting board. - Filmmaker Magazine
- Filmmaking Stuff
- Hollywood Reporter
- IFP
Indie resources and networking. - IMDb
- Indie Wire
A great overall Indie filmmaking site. - Movie Maker Magazine
- New York Film Festival
- Rotten Tomatoes
- Scott Kirsner
A blog about independent and alternative distribution technology and economics. - The Workbook Project
Articles about DIY media. - Truly Free Film
A blog about independent and alternative distribution, and filmmaking generally. - Variety
Cinematography
- American Cinematographer
- American Society of Cinematographers
- Cinematography.com
Community site for camera crew members. - Millimeter
- Stu Maschwitz
Former Orphanage founder, and fellow CG artist and indie auteur. - Studio Daily
Directing
- Alex Cox
Director of excellent films like Sid & Nancy, Repo Man and Revenger’s Tragedy. - Directors’ Guild of America
- Directors’ Guild of Canada
- Emma Coats
Fellow indie auteur, and storyboard artiste. - Grzegorz Jonkajtys
Fellow CG artist and indie auteur. - Jon Reiss
Independent Director, and fellow former SRL collaborator. - Josh Cooley
Excellent storyboard artist and fellow maker of strange little films. - Mark Andrews
Storyboard Artist and Director extraordinaire. - Peter Marshall
Directing consultant. - Rhys Graham
Australian Indie filmmaker. - Stu Maschwitz
Former Orphanage founder, and fellow CG artist and indie auteur. - Tiffany Shlain
Bay Area art film Director.
Directories
Distribution and Exhibition
- Scott Kirsner
A blog about independent and alternative distribution technology and economics. - Truly Free Film
A blog about independent and alternative distribution, and filmmaking generally.
Editing
Festivals and Contests
- Austin Film Festival
- Blue Cat
- Comic-Con
- Creative Screenwriting Expo
- New York Film Festival
- Nicholl Fellowship
- Produced-By Conference
- Scriptapalooza
- Slamdance
- Sundance
- Wild Sound
- Zoetrope
General
- Film Site
- Filmmaker.com
- Filmmaking Central
- Filmmaking Stuff
General site/blog about how to make films. - IFP
Indie resources and networking. - Movie Maven List
Indie film reviews. - SlashFilm
- The Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?
Guilds and Societies
- American Cinema Editors
- American Society of Cinematographers
- Art Directors’ Guild
- ASIFA Hollywood
- British Academy of Film and Television Arts
- CG Society
- Costume Designers’ Guild
- Directors’ Guild of America
- Directors’ Guild of Canada
- Producers’ Guild of America
- Screen Actors’ Guild
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Visual Effects Society
- Writers’ Guild of America
Postproduction
- Millimeter
- Post Magazine
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- Stu Maschwitz
Former Orphanage founder, and fellow CG artist and indie auteur. - Studio Daily
Producing
Production Design and Allied Arts
- 365 Supers by Everett Downing
Animator Everett Downing creates a new superhero each day. - Art Directors’ Guild
- Bill Cone
Pixar production designer and fine landscape painter. - Bill Presing
Storyboard and pin-up artist, and creator of Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher. - Chris Foss
Space ship concept designer extraordinare. - Costume Designers’ Guild
- Derek Thompson
Storyboards and monsters! - Feng Zhu
Brilliant concept artist. - Lou Romano
Production designer and concept artist. - Movie Title Stills
Cool collection of movie title screen stills. - Neil Blevins
Excellent CG artist who understands the whole animation and VFX pipe from production design to final rendering. - Stephan Martinere
Sci-fi oriented concept artist - Syd Mead
World reknowned concept artist.
Publications
- American Cinematographer
- Animation Magazine
- Animation World
- Back Stage
- Cinefex
- Cinema Editor Magazine
- Creative Screenwriting
- Fade In Magazine
- Filmmaker Magazine
- Hollywood Reporter
- Indie Wire
A great overall Indie filmmaking site. - Millimeter
- Movie Maker Magazine
- Post Magazine
- Script Magazine
- Variety
Schools
- AFI
- AFTRS
- CalArts
- CLCF
- Columbia
- Ecole International de Theatre Jacques Lecoq
Major French theater and physical theater institute. - Eugene O’Neill National Theater Institute
- Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
- National Film and Television Academy (UK)
- NYU
- Państwowa Wyźsza Szkoła Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna
- Ringling College
- Sheridan
- UCLA
- USC
Screenplay Repositories
- Alex Cox’s Scripts
- Daily Script
- Drew’s Script-o-Rama
- JoBlo’s Scripts
- John August’s Library
- Movie Script and Screenplays
- Simply Scripts
- Star Wars Scripts
- Weekly Script
Screenwriting
- Austin Film Festival
- Creative Screenwriting
- Filmmaking Stuff
- Jane Espenson
Useful and interesting writing info. - Jennine Lanouette
Professional story consultant, especially good with short films. - John August
Best screenwriting blog in town. - Jordan Mechner
Screenwriter and video game designer. - Josh Friedman
Screenwriting war stories and more. - Ken Levine
Comedy writer for TV. - Scott Mullen
Scott’s notes are the best script feedback value in the business, period. - Script Magazine
- Selling Your Screenplay
- Steve Purcell
Storyboard artist, screenwriter, and creator of Sam & Max. - Ted Elliott and Craig Mazin
Bunches of useful stuff about the art and business of screenwriting. - Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio
More bunches of useful stuff about the art and business of screenwriting. - Tim Albaugh
The best script consultant I’ve ever worked with. - Writers’ Guild of America
Sound
Storyboarding (and Comics)
- Austin Madison
Animation, Comics and Acting. - Bill Presing
Storyboard and pin-up artist, and creator of Rex Steele: Nazi Smasher. - Brian Larsen
Storyboards and production art. - Derek Thompson
Storyboards and monsters! - Emma Coats
Fellow indie auteur, and storyboard artiste. - Josh Cooley
Excellent storyboard artist and fellow maker of strange little films. - Mark Andrews
Storyboard Artist and Director extraordinaire. - Scott Morse
Comic Book and Storyboard artist. - Steve Purcell
Storyboard artist, screenwriter, and creator of Sam & Max. - Ted Mathot
Storyboard and comics artist (check out Rose & Isabel!)
VFX and Animation
- Animation Magazine
- Animation World
- ASIFA Hollywood
- Cartoon Brew
- CG Society
- Cinefex
- Computer Graphics World
- Don Bluth
- Grzegorz Jonkajtys
Fellow CG artist and indie auteur. - Millimeter
- Motionographer
VFX, animation, and cool weird short films. - Neil Blevins
Excellent CG artist who understands the whole animation and VFX pipe from production design to final rendering. - Scott Squires
VFX professional and an editor of the VES Handbook. - Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- Stu Maschwitz
Former Orphanage founder, and fellow CG artist and indie auteur. - Studio Daily
- Todd Vaziri
Visual Effects artist. - VFX Planet
- VFX Talk
Web forum for VFX practitioners. - VFX World
- VFXblog
- Visual Effects Society
About The Indie Auteur
A blog about filmmaking, independent and otherwise, by Stephan Vladimir Bugaj: senior technical artist at Pixar Animation Studios by day, underproduced screenwriter and low/no-budget filmmaker by night.
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