Film
A guide supporting the study and production of Film across ASU.
Industry Web Sites and Blogs: Trade Publications
These sites are all great places for tracking current news and developments in the Film Industry. Most of them have Twitter, Facebook or RRS feeds that will allow you to follow them more easily.
This is just a sample of the multitude of sites and blogs available, courtesy of Diana King at UCLA.
- The A.V. ClubCovers all entertainment industries, or pretty much.
- Billboard bizBillboard Magazine's online business news site.
- Company Town (Los Angeles Times)Great source for movie industry news.
- Motion Picture AssociationIn 1922, motion picture studios formed the organization now known as the Motion Picture Association to protect and support the nascent film industry. Since that time, the MPA has served as the leading advocate of the film, television, and streaming industry around the world, advancing the business and art of storytelling, protecting the creative and artistic freedoms of storytellers, and bringing entertainment and inspiration to audiences worldwide.
- Screen Daily Film NewsVery industry business focused.
- VarietyA major entertainment industry source.
- IndieWireFor over 25 years, IndieWire has been covering the business and art of entertainment. With the respect of film and TV creators, executives, and passionate fans alike, IndieWire is known for being ahead of the curve with a unique editorial voice that combines in-depth industry reporting and analysis, breaking news, and its best-in-class Oscars, Emmys, and crafts coverage. IndieWire began in July 1996 as an online chat room and evolved to become one of the earliest online entertainment news outlets.
Film Industry Professional Sites
- AFI: American Film Institute The American Film Institute is America's promise to preserve the heritage of the motion picture, to honor the artists and their work and to educate the next generation of storytellers. As a nonprofit educational arts organization, AFI provides leadership in film and television and is dedicated to initiatives that engage the past, the present and the future of the moving image arts.
- Association of Moving Image Archivists a nonprofit international association dedicated to the preservation and use of moving image media.
- BFI: British Film Institute The British Film Institute combines cultural, creative and industrial roles, bringing together the BFI National Archive and BFI Reuben Library, film distribution, exhibition and education at BFI Southbank and BFI IMAX, publishing and festivals.
- Directors Guild of America The Directors Guild of America is a labor organization that represents the creative and economic rights of directors and members of the directorial team working in film, television, commercials, documentaries, news, sports and new media.
- FilmSound.org Learning Space dedicated to the Art of Film Sound Design.
- The Independent Filmmaker Project IFP guides storytellers through the process of making and distributing their work. It offers creative, technological and business support through year-round programming, which includes Filmmaker Magazine, Independent Film Week, Envision, The Gotham Independent Film Awards, and the Independent Filmmaker Labs.
- Margaret Herrick Library The Margaret Herrick Library is a world-renowned, non-circulating reference and research collection devoted to the history and development of the motion picture as an art form and an industry. Established in 1928 and now located in Beverly Hills, the library is open to the public and used year-round by students, scholars, historians and industry professionals.
- National Film Board of CanadaA wealth of films from up north.
- National Museum of Cinema Traces the history cinema.
- New York Public Library - Best of the Web Curated collection of Industry websites.
- ScreenLex ScreenLex is a pronunciation guide for film and TV students, containing dozens of terms and filmmakers’ names.
- Writer's Guild Foundation Founded in 1966, the Writers Guild Foundation is the premier resource for emerging writers and movie and TV lovers in Hollywood. Boasting a busy calendar of high-value events and a vast, seemingly bottomless toolbox for writers, the Foundation is unmatched in its mission to promote and preserve the craft, history, and voices of screen storytelling.
- Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio ArtistsSAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists and other media professionals.
- Hollywood Foreign Press AssociationThe Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s annual Golden Globe Awards have enabled the non-profit organization to donate more than $45 million in the past 26 years to over 70 entertainment-related charities, as well as funding scholarships and other programs for future film and television professionals. In the year 2020, the donations reached a total of over $5.1 million in grants destined to non-profits, institutions, and charities.
- Reverse ShotReverse Shot is a publication of the Museum of the Moving Image.