Writing Short Films

Crafting Short Screenplays that Connect

Shorts

Aspen Shortfest
Cinema Shorts Online Festival
Cinema Texas also Cinema Kids
Flicks on 66 Digital Shootout (NM)
Be one of ten filmmakers to win the opportunity to shoot, edit, and screen your 10 minute film during one exciting week in July.
Hollywood Shorts
Rolling admissions - monthly event
Los Angeles Int'l Shorts
National Projects 2 Minute Trials
In Minneapolis in the summer. Super 8 or 16mm. Space is limited and provided on a first come, first screen basis.
Rochester Int'l
Short Attention Span
Short Film Group (LA)
Shorts Int'l (NY)
Sometime in October (NC)

Canon XL1S MiniDV Digital Camcorder w/ SuperRange Optical Image Stabilization & Interchangable Lenses

Digital/Animation

AFI DVCam Fest
This festival is sponsored by Sony, and all entries must utilize Sony Professional Equipment at some/any stage of production.
ResFest (LA)
World Animation Celebration

Digital Filmmaking 101: An Essential Guide to Producing Low-Budget Movies

The IFILM Digital Video
Filmmaker's Handbook 2001

Canon GL1 MiniDV Digital Camcorder
with Lens & Optical Image Stabilization [MINIDV] also wide angle lens

Docs

Amnesty Int'l (Amerterdam)
Cinema du Reel
DocFest (NY)
Doclands (Ireland)
Double Take (NC)
DOXA (Canada)
Hot Docs (Canada)
Hot Springs (AR)
IDFA (Amsterdam)
Jackson Hole Wildlife
Jazz on Film (Denver)
Margaret Mead
One World (Prague)
Silver Docs
Sheffield Int'l (England)
StockStock
UNAFF
Vermont Int'l
Yamagata

Film Directing Shot by Shot

Online

Always Independent
The Sync

Editing Techniques with Final Cut Pro

Final Cut Pro 2 Editing Workshop

Directing Actors
by Judith Weston

What They Don't Teach You at Film School:
161 Strategies to Making Your Own Movie
No Matter What

Ethnic/Gender

American Indian/Native
Red Earth (OK)

Asian/Asian-American
Asian American (San Francisco)
Asian-American (Chicago)
Asian (San Diego)

Black/African-American
African Diaspora
Black Friday
Hollywood
Jamaican Film & Music Fest
Pan-African Film & Art (LA)
Urban World

European-Ethnic
Irish (NYC) 
Los Angeles Italian Film Awards

Gay, Lesbian & Transgender
Aspen Gay & Lesbian
Miami Gay & Lesbian
New Festival: NY Gay & Lesbian
Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian
Reel Affirmations: Wash D.C. Gay & Lesbian
San Francisco TrannyFest

Ethnic/Gender cont.

Jewish
SFJFF Online Guide

Latino
Cine Las Americas (TX)
Los Angeles Latino
Marin County (San Francisco)
NY Int'l Latino
San Antonio Cinefest
San Diego

Hollywood 101: The Film Industry

Middle Eastern
Arab-San Francisco

Women

Madcat (San Francisco)
Moondance (CO)
New York Women's Film Fest
Rocky Mountain Women's Fest
Winfemme (Los Angeles)
Women in the Director's Chair
Women of Color (Santa Cruz)

Others

Chicago Int'l Children's Film Fest

Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival
Offers emerging filmmakers the opportunity to win a $1,000,000 feature film production deal courtesy of the Chrysler brand, Hypnotic and Universal Pictures. The 2003 Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival will be accepting qualified short film submissions at www.chrysler.com now through December 2002.

Winslow Film Festival

Dances with Films
Only films with no known directors, actors or producers

Hometown Cinema
Student films made in the Midwestern US

Int'l Wildlife (MT)
The mission of IWFF is to foster knowledge and unerstanding about wildlife and habitat through excellent and honest wildlife film

Media