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FILM, TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Professional Guilds, Unions, and Organizations
The Writers Guild of America --- http://www.wga.org
The Producers Guild of America --- www.producersguild.org
The Director's Guild of America --- www.dga.org
The Writers Guild of America Media Communications Association Int'l --- www.mca-i.org
Formerly the ITVA, the International Television and Video Association, the Media Communications Association International has been around for over thirty years and has just recently changed its name to broaden its scope to incorporate all the new media being developed. A professional networking forum, especially forbusiness communicators (industrials, broadcast infomericals, WWW sites, CDROMs, etc.)ScriptWriters Network --- http://www.scriptwritersnetwork.com/
Great industry organization for screenwriters to meet and mingle, great for educational seminars and workshops, script library, triad (critiquing trios), local writers groups, and so on.IFP --- www.ifp.org
Independent Filmmaker organization dedicated to educating, supporting, and promoting independent filmmakers. Home to the inner circle Independent Spirit awards.The Industry LA --- www.theindustry.la.com
Get connected with the people who are connected - an online networking community.
Conferences, Festivals & Contests
Heartland Film Festival --- www.heartlandfilmfestival.org
Truly Moving Pictures --- www.trulymovingpictures.com
Angelus Awards --- www.angelus.org
Heart of Film Screenwriters Conference (http://www.austinfilmfestival.com/) - Austin, Texas.
The Austin Film Festival is dedicated to the writer as the heart of the creative process of filmmaking. The AFF uncovers outstanding, emerging writers; fosters their development through panels, workshops and master classes conducted by industry professionals.Moondance International Film Festival (http://www.moondancefilmfestival.com/) - Boulder, Colorado. Dedicated to promoting and encouraging women screenwriters, playwrights, short-story writers and women who make independent films, and the best work by women, in any genre, including feature films, animation, documentaries, short films, stage plays & short stories.
WinFemme Film & Screeplays / Women's Image Network (http://www.winfemme.com)
820 N. San Vicente Blvd. #69-1774 LA CA 90069
Selects films for its annual WinFemme Film Festival and hosts monthly screenplay readings for films and scripts that TELL WOMEN'S STORIES WELL. MEN are WELCOME.
Conferences, Festivals & Contests Emphasizing Faith and Culture
BIOLA Media Conference --- www.christiansandmedia.org
168 Film Festival --- www.168project.com
Damah Film Festival --- www.damah.org
City of the Angels Film Festival --- www.cityoftheangelsfilmfest.org
Screenwriting Magazines
Creative Screenwriting --- www.creativescreenwriting.com
Written By - The official magazine of the Writer's Guild of America --- www.wga.org/writtenby
Screenwriter --- www.screenwritermagazine.com
Scr(i)pt magazine --- www.scriptmag.com
MovieMaker Magazine --- www.moviemaker.com
Hollywood Trade Magazines
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER --- www.hollywoodreporter.com
Daily trade information on the Entertainment industry.DAILY VARIETY --- www.variety.com
The source for entertainment news.
Screenwriting Software
Final Draft - Official Software of Act One: Writing for Hollywood --- www.finaldraft.com
Movie Magic --- www.screenplay.com
Dramatic Pro --- www.dramatica.com
The Writers Store --- www.writersstore.com
Faith-Based Arts & Culture Organizations
Voice Behind --- www.thevoicebehind.org
Brehm Center --- www.brehmcenter.com
Faith-Based Arts & Cultural Magazines, Journals & Online Commentary
Image - Quarterly Journal - Faith, Art and Mystery --- www.imagejournal.org
Relevant Magazine --- www.relevantmagazine.com
Brewing Culture --- www.brewingculture.org
A division of "The Voice Behind"SolPix --- www.webdelsol.com/f-solpix.htm
A premiere electronic publication focusing on films and books, interviews movers and shakers from these two worlds while commenting on cultural hot buttons and reviewing new releases.
Charisma Magazine --- www.charismamag.comChristianity Today --- www.christianity.net/ct/
Moody Magazine --- www.moody.edu/MOODYMAG/
Culture Isn't Optional --- http://www.cultureisnotoptional.com
An organization seeking to equip Christians to be faithful servants by uniting the body of believers and learning together how to actively redeem all of culture. Every two weeks, the website features articles about other Christians who are faithfully living out the Word of God in various spheres of God's creation.Catholics On Call --- http://www.catholicsoncall.org/
Faith-Based Film Commentary - Online
MOVIE MISSION --- www.moviemission.com
This site provides a unified forum for the religious community to improve the quality of Hollywood movies by targeting worthy films and actively supporting them opening weekend.Film Forum --- www.thefilmforum.com
Movie Parables --- www.christiancritic.com
Hollywood Jesus.com --- www.hollywoodjesus.com
Los Angeles Churches featuring Ministries and Fellowships for Entertainment Industry Professionals
Hollywood Connect's website has a comprehensive listing, but here are a few...
Hollywood Presbyterian Church --- www.fpch.org
Bel Air Presbyterian Church --- www.belairpres.org
Lake Avenue Church --- www.lakeave.org
Job Search
Hollywood Connect - Comprehensive Job Resource Listings --- www.hollywoodconnect.com
A few of note...
Variety.com - classifieds --- www.variety.com
Hollywood Reporter - Classified Ads Online --- www.hollywoodreporter.com
Settico.com --- www.settico.com
Production Hub --- www.productionhub.com
EntertainmentCareers.net --- www.entertainmentcareers.net
ShowBIZdata.com --- www.showbizdata.com
Hollywood Creative Directory Online --- www.hcdonline.com
Greenlight jobs --- www.greenlightjobs.com
Online Writer & Producer Resources
Hollywood Creative Directory --- http://www.hcdonline.com
The Film and Television Industry Bible. Click here to order the Creative Directory.Movie Bytes --- http://www.moviebytes.com
For Screenwriting Contests and Markets online.Screenplay Systems, Inc --- http://www.screenplay.com
Tools and resources for Screenwriting, Story Development and Outlining.Screenwriter's Online --- http://www.screenwriter.com/
A collection of Master Classes online, articles, links and other resources.Screenwriter's Utopia --- http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/
An incredible source of movie news, workshops, screenwriting articles, and other resources.ScriptCrawler --- http://scriptcrawler.net
The internet's largest searchable database of free movie, tv, and radio scripts.StoryXchange --- http://www.screenwritersutopia.com/http://www.successliterary.com
The most comprehensive marketplace for the buying and selling of stories in any format, about any topic, and from anybody.Wordplayer --- http://www.wordplayer.com
The premiere resource for screenwriters on the net.Writer's Connection --- http://www.thewritersconnection.com
TheWritersConnection.Com invites you to submit your writing contests, market updates, and anything related to writing to our NEW online resource for writers. The Writer's Connection provides writing resources, market news, book reviews, recommended agents, publishers, contests, events and more!Abe Books --- http://www.abe.com
New, used and rare online bookseller. Great for hard-to-find titles.Inktip --- http://www.inktip.com/
Internet Writers Directory --- http://www.writers.net/
Script Pimp --- www.scriptpimp.com
A membership forum, but great resource for writers contests and other information.Success Literary Services ---
The Success Trust Literary Family, established since 1984 and members of the EFA and NWA, is listed number one on Google under the keywords 'Literary Services' out of a category of over 300,000. According to SBC Internet logs we are the most highly trafficked editing site in the United States and Canada.TV Writer.com --- http://www.tvwriter.com
The Visual Writer, Ltd. --- http://visualwriter.com/descript.htm
Writers Digest --- http://www.writersdigest.com/
Writers on the Net --- http://www.writers.com/
WriterSpeaker.com --- http://www.writerspeaker.com/
MoviePartners.com --- Stars and their agents.
Done Deal --- http://www.scriptsales.com/ DDScriptSales.htm
All sorts of great information on spec and literary script sales, among tons of other stuff!Who Represents...? --- http://www.WhoRepresents.com
Trying to track down someone's agent? Need contact information for a manager or a publicist? This is the place.Hollywood Creative Directory --- http://www.hcdonline.com
Internet Movie Database --- http://www.imdb.com
A great resource for "Who was that actor in...?" and "What else has she directed...?" Verifying credits and tracking down cast and crew for attachments or potential hit lists for producers.
Christian Online Research & Resource
Classics Ethereal Library --- www.ccel.org
Gospel Communications --- www.gospelcom.net
Internet Christian Library --- www.iclnet.org
Scripts - Free and For Sale
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