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Wednesday, 7 November 2012

BSC: Professional Industry Project

Opportunity knocks

Below is a list of sites that could provide you with links to funding, screening or further information regarding your future aspirations.

Good Screenings



Good Screenings is a way for companies, community groups, charities, schools, churches and ordinary people to organise their own screenings of good films - films that make you think about the world in a different way. Screening organisers can charge for tickets and keep the profits.
Simple.
It’s made possible by revolutionary film distribution system – a clever piece of software called Indie Screenings. Indie Screenings lets you make your own booking of a film online, it automatically calculates the screening fee, takes your payment and the whole thing takes about 5 minutes.

http://www.goodscreenings.org/


Kickstarter


Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. Every week, tens of thousands of people pledge millions of dollars to projects from the worlds of music, film, art, technology, design, games, fashion, food, publishing, and other creative fields. Since April 2009, more than 2.7 million people have pledged more than $360 million to projects by creators who always maintain full ownership and complete creative control of their work.

http://www.kickstarter.com/


Puma Creative


A better world in our vision—PUMAVision—would be safer, more peaceful, and more creative than the world we know today. Through the programs of PUMA.Safe (focusing on environmental and social issues), PUMA.Peace (supporting global peace) and PUMA.Creative (supporting artists and creative organizations), we are providing real and practical expressions of this vision.


A & E Indie Films



A division of A&E Television Networks, A&E IndieFilms commissions, acquires and provides finishing funds for feature documentaries. IndieFilms partners with distributors on films including "The September Issue" (Roadside Attractions), "American Teen" (Paramount Vantage), "Murderball" (ThinkFilm), "Jesus Camp" (Magnolia Pictures), "My Kid Could Paint That" (Sony Pictures Classics), “The Tillman Story” (The Weinstein Company), and it’s latest, “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer” (Magnolia).



Arts Council England


Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people's lives. We support a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Great art inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves, and the world around us. In short, it makes life better.


Arts Engine

Arts Engine, Inc. supports, produces, and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public.



 BIG Lottery Fund



We are committed to bringing real improvements to communities, and to the lives of people most in need. BIG is the largest distributor of Lottery money to good causes and is responsible for delivering 40 per cent of all funds raised for good causes by The National Lottery. Since 2004 BIG has awarded over £4.4 billion to projects supporting health, education, environment and charitable purposes. Most of our funding is awarded to voluntary and community sector organisations.

We are interested in working with film makers and broadcasters to engage the public in having a say in how Lottery funds are spent.



BRITDOC Foundation




BRITDOC is a social entrepreneurship organisation that exists to nurture new talent and new approaches in documentary filmmaking. So far our grants have enabled 60 wonderful, award winning and influential films to be made. But our work only begins there – we train, inform, inspire, broker and campaign too. We started the Good Pitch two years ago and partnered with the Sundance Institute Documentary Program to take it around North America.

Films are the best medium for changing hearts and minds and lives, by bringing stories and issues to the widest possible audiences. Films inspire people to engage and act. That's why we broker relationships between third sector and filmmakers.

http://www.britdoc.org

Catapult Film Fund



Catapult Film Fund provides early development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell. We support powerful stories, and moving storytelling, across a broad spectrum of issues and perspectives.

http://catapultfilmfund.org/projects.html

Chicken and Egg Pictures



Chicken & Egg Pictures is a hybrid film fund and non-profit production company dedicated to supporting women filmmakers who are as passionate about the craft of storytelling as they are about the social justice, environmental and human rights issues they’re embracing, translating and exploring on film.

We match strategically timed financial support with rigorous, respectful and dynamic mentorship, creative collaboration and community-building to nurture women filmmakers whose diverse voices represent a range of lived experience and realities that have the power to change the world as we know it.

http://www.chickeneggpics.org/

Cinema in Tent




Cinema InTent was born directly from the Occupy London movement. We are a group of cine-activists who screened films in the Uni tent near St. Paul's and in Bank of Ideas. Our past and future screenings are an eclectic mix of jammed up juxtapositions: classics, countercinema, docs, fictions, experimental with filmmakers, discussions, popcorn and sometimes poetry.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/cinemaintent/

Cinereach



Cinereach is a NY-based non-profit film production company and foundation that champions vital stories, artfully told. Cinereach empowers fiction and nonfiction filmmakers from all over the world through Grants & Awards, The Reach Film Fellowship, an internal Productions department, and through partnerships with the Sundance Institute and other organizations. Since 2006, Cinereach has disbursed over $4.5 million in grant funds to more than 90 projects at the intersection of engaging storytelling, visual artistry and vital subject matter.

http://www.cinereach.org

Cineuropa




Site dedicated to European cinema, films, actors, filmmakers, professionals, producers, distributors, sales agents, scriptwriters, film finance and the film industry as a whole… Cineuropa was created in 2002 in order to provide up-to-date information and other services essential to know one another better to cinephiles from all over the world interested in knowing more about European films, as well as to film and television professionals.

http://cineuropa.org/

City Screen/Picturehouse Cinemas


City Screen are the leading independent cinema operator in the UK, with independent, art-house and foreign language films being central to their ethos.
Our regular Picturehouse DOCS programming strand works with distributors and filmmakers to bring the best in documentary film to cinema screens.
http://www.picturehouses.co.uk/

CODOC



CODOC is an award-winning media platform dedicated to creating spaces for critical thought through media. We aim to help build a culture defined by free expression, equality and creativity. Our collective experience in post-conflict zones around the world helped instill a sense of responsibility to disrupt current forms of journalism and documentary storytelling.

We believe that it is time for a new form of participatory driven documentary to emerge that invites open discussion and seeks to engage, inform as well as entertain. Our upcoming interactive web channel CODOC.TV will harness the growing convergence of media platforms globally.

http://www.codoc.org

Doc Alliance films



The aim of Doc Alliance is to support the diverse nature of documentary film and to increase audience awareness. It represents a dynamic platform offering filmmakers and producers alternative forms of distribution for films that are often difficult to get onto the market. The purpose of Doc Alliance is to help documentary films reach as many viewers as possible, and to systematically support their distribution on the festival market and through its website, DAFilms.com.

http://dafilms.com/

DocHouse




DocHouse is dedicated to the promotion of Documentary. We have been showcasing the best documentaries from around the world since 2002 in cinemas across London. As a leading force for the exhibition of documentary both internationally and in the UK we have run Festivals, Events, Masterclasses and Education Courses - nurturing new talent for the future.
DocHouse works in partnership with distributors, broadcasters, cinemas, universities, festivals and sponsors to promote UK and International Documentary through showcase screenings with panel discussions, events and masterclasses. In education our Summerdocs Course in partnership with the NFTS has an international reputation for excellence.

http://www.dochouse.org

Dogwoof




Dogwoof is the biggest UK film distributor for Documentary and social issue films. Our vision is to make a difference thru film on a global scale through our films such as Age of Stupid, Food Inc, Burma VJ, A Small Act, & End of the Line. Dogwoof is a social enterprise and works with NGOs and corporations such as The co-operative and Cisco to deliver this.
Distribution of films across the UK on all platforms: Cinemas, DVD, online, non-theatrical,TV Creating the largest awareness campaigns about key issues by working closely with the filmmakers, partners, and engage the audience with the film Supported by large online and offline campaigns, especially thru PR and social media as a key Outreach tool


Envy Post Production


We are based in London and one of the leading Post Production Houses in the UK. We work on programmes including Documentaries and Feature Docs, Factual, Drama, Comedy, Light Entertainment and we collaborate on design, branding and commercials.
Envy is at the cutting edge of technology and is a beta test site for Avid, Discreet and Film Light. We are at the fore front of technological developments within all areas of digital broadcast television.
http://site.org/www.envypost.co.uk

Firelight Media


Firelight Media is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing talented documentary filmmakers who tell stories about people, places, cultures and issues that are underrepresented in the mainstream media.
Firelight Media and its profit arm, Firelight Films, use media to help provide information about issues and little known events in the mainstream media, to underserved communities and to PBS. We also provide professional development and support to 20 producers in the Media Lab. Stanley Nelson is the President and his film Freedom Riders is scheduled to air on American Exp. to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Riders.
http://www.firelightmedia.org/

Media Desk UK




The role of the MEDIA Desk UK is to help UK filmmakers and other audiovisual industry professionals understand and apply to the MEDIA Programme’s funding schemes, and to promote the programme in the UK.


Shooting People


The international networking organisation dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmakers.


Taskovski Films


Taskovski Films is a London based world sales and production company of independent documentary and fiction films. We aim to nurture and support both newcomer and established talent, welcoming innovative, playful and risky forms of filmmaking, capable of engaging and surprising audiences around the globe. Our passion is discovering new talent and authorial stories.


The BERTHA Foundation



The Bertha Foundation believes that bright ideas, combined with resources and strong leadership, can create profound social impact. We believe in the power of activism to generate social, political, economic and environmental change. We hope those touched by The Bertha Foundation will in turn be inspired and motivated to create meaningful opportunities for others. Like BRITDOC, we are dedicated to supporting the creation and distribution of social impact media projects.
We believe in the power of visual storytelling to educate, inform and inspire action, and are dedicated to supporting the creation and distribution of social impact media projects. We work to build audiences for documentary content, nurture talent, and cultivate partnerships and alliances in the media realm.
http://www.berthafoundation.org

Thats just  a few possible links...there are more.

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