Actors Fund of America
New York: (212) 221-7300; Chicago: (312) 372-0989
• (323) 933-9244 • web site

Actors Work Program
Career counseling and job training.
• (323) 933-9244

AIVF/FIVF
The Association for Independendent Video & Film (AIVF) is a membership organization serving international film and video makers. AIVF "enhances the growth of independent media by providing: informative seminars and networking events, trade discounts and health/production insurance, a public resource library, and publication of books and directories."
• (212) 807-1400, x 235 • FX: (212) 463-8519 • info@aivf.org • web site

American Academy in Berlin
Residencies for screenwriters
• (212) 588-1755 • FX: (212) 588 1758 • nyoffice@americanacademy.de • web site

American Federation of Film Producers
A collective of film professionals with members from all over the globe.
• (310) 497-6424 • info@filmfederation.com • web site

American Museum of the Moving Image
American Museum of the Moving Image (AMMI) is a museum devoted to movies, television and digital media. AMMI's eclectic programs include contemporary and classic film screenings, gallery exhibitions, education programs and collection.
• (718) 784-4520 • FX: (718) 784-4681 • info@ammi.org • web site

Angelika Entertainment Corporation
Since 1984, the Angelika Entertainment Corporation has been a leader in independent film production, distribution and exhibition, both international and domestic.
• (212) 996-8215 • FX: (212) 876-4365 • info@angelikafilm.com • web site

Apollo Theater Foundation
Apollo Theater Foundation manages a 3,500 sq. ft. production soundstage and 2,340 sq. ft. theater. Features screening rooms, control room, audience seating, dressing rooms, blue-screen capabilities, location packages. Contact: 253 W. 125th St., New York, NY, 10027
• (212) 531-5300 • FX: 212-749-2743 • Theater-info@apollotheater.com • web site

Artist Development Associates
Artist Development Associates, Inc. offers a variety of services including DVD and CD Duplication, Live Video Production, Editing, Mastering, Graphic Design, Web Design, E-commerce, Fulfillment, Artist Legal Services, Publicity, Radio Promotion and Web Sales.
• (888) 782-2378 • natasha@artisdevelopment.com • web site

ASCAP - New York
Filmmakers can use ASCAP at no cost as a resource in all music genres to find composers, songwriters, recording artists, film music agents, music supervisors, record companies and publishers. ASCAP also provides information regarding performance rights clearance, licensing and publishing issues.
• (212) 621-6000 • FX: (212) 724-9064 • sdevine@ascap.com • web site

BMI
BMI supports the music needs of independent filmmakers by serving as a free resource that puts filmmakers in contact with composers, songwriters, music supervisors, record labels, music publishers, composer agents and underrepresented artists. BMI can supply filmmakers with copyright information and answer questions pertaining to music licensing. BMI is a music rights organization representing more than 140,000 songwriters, composers, and music publishers from around the world in all areas of music.
• (310) 659-9109 • FX: (310) 657-2850 • web site

Broadcast Video Rentals
Camera rentals; Contact: 333 W. 52nd St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10019 • (212) 541-5390

Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has been the premiere performing arts center in Brooklyn since 1961. BAM recently transformed itself into a model cutural destination featuring first-run independent, foreign and repretory films as well as mainstage music, dance, theatre and opera presentations.
• (718) 636-4100 • FX: (718) 636-4179 • web site

Center Stage Costumes
Freelance costume designer and seamstress is available for costume design, construction and wardrobe maintenance. Over ten years of experience working with professional theatres and independent film companies. Major credits include costume designer/shop supervisor/wardrobe mistress for the New York Renaissance Faire for two seasons, and work for the Discovery Channel.
• (978) 469-9728 • info@centerstagecostumes.com • web site

Central Props
Props/sets: soft goods, theatrical props, carpentry, upholstry, graphics. Contact: Bob Frigano, 514 W. 49th St., New York, NY, 10019 • (212) 265-PROP

Change, Inc.
Offers emergency grants of up to $1,000 "to artists of all disciplines to cover rent to avoid eviction, medical expenses, unpaid utility bills, fire damage, or other situations constituting an emergency." Grants are given on a one-time basis and are not issued to students. Contact: Change, Inc., P.O.B. 705, Cooper Station, New York, NY 10276 • 212-473-3742

Chinagraph Inc.
Chinagraph Inc. is an editorial company for television commercials, documentaries and feature films. Post-productions services: Avid 8000 and graphics studio, featuring three senior editors, a graphic designer and a music composer. The company is seeking fiction features, documentaries and short films. • (212) 529-1991 • web site

Chop Shop Editorial
Avid Editing in New York and Boston. Offline and uncompressed, 24P Avid. Features include Paramount's "Pootie Tang," and Stratosphere's "Six Ways to Sunday." Television for David Letterman and Errol Morris. Numerous Comedy Central, HBO, Discovery Channel credits.
• (212) 741-9691 • FX: (646) 205-8169 • info@chopshopeditorial • web site

Cine Magic International
Camera rentals. Contact: 247 W. 30th St., 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10001 • (212) 268-0028

The Cinema Guild, Inc.
Film and video distribution of features and shorts of all types to television, home video, theatrical and non-theatrical markets worldwide. Highlights include "Lena's Dreams," "Going Nomad" and "Slam Nation."
• (212) 246-5522 • FX: (212) 246-5525 • thecinemag@aol.com • web site

Cinema World Studios
Features: 7,500 sq. feet soundstage, hard cyc., video screening room, blue screen, medical prop rentals including MRI machine, water tank for underwater shooting, five environmentally designed theme rooms for special event bookings.
Contact: Mark Oppenheimer, 220 Dupont St., Long Island City, NY
• (718) 389-9800 • web site

Cinemax Reel Life
Cinemax Reel Life offers completion funds, and HBO America Undercover provides production funds for American Indie docs.
• (212) 512-1673 • FX: (212) 512-8051 • web site

Cineric Inc.
Cineric is best known for its work in film restoration, special effects, and film transfers.
• (212) 586-4822 • FX: (212) 582-3744 • bob@cineric.com • web site

City Stage
Features: 2 soundstages, 2,444 and 2,502 sq. feet, an MOS stage, cyc., video/film screening rooms, control room, audience seating, catering, two floors (10,000 sq. feet) of office space, T1 Internet access. Contact: Brian Coles, 435 W. 19th St., New York, NY, 10011
• (212) 627-3400 • web site

Colorlab
Colorlab is a full service motion picture film laboratory and transfer facility for all negative formats (including 8mm and Super 8mm). We also offer contact and optical blow up and blow down answer print services. In addition, Colorlab specializes in both film and digital intermediate archival services.
• (212) 633-8172, (301) 770-2128 • FX: (212) 633-8241, (301) 816)-0798 • info@colorlab.com • web site

COMPTU
Council of Motion Picture & TV Unions: Danny Roberts, executive coordinator
• (212) 647-7300

Creative Capital Foundation
Creative Capital is a new, national organization designed to support artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the media, performing and visual arts, along with emerging arts fields.
• (212) 598-9900 • info@creative-capital.org • web site

CSC (Camera Service Center)
Camera rentals, lighting/grip, generators, cranes, dollies, trucks. Contact: 619 W. 54th St., New York, NY, 10019
• (212) 757-0906 • web site

DocuClub
Founded in 1995, DocuClub has become an indispensable resource and forum for the New York-based documentary film community.
• (212) 874-1878 • FX: (212) 874-1952 • web site

DuArt Film and Video
Specialties: 35mm, S16mm and 16mm Color and B&W laboratory with complete video, digital and sound post-production facilities, 24-hour film, video dailies, supervised transfers via the Spirit HDTV, USRA Diamond and Rank Mark IIIC Telecines with Da Vinci Color Correction, tape-to-tape color correction, Editbox and Avid editing. Clients: "American Movie," "Celebrity," "Happiness," "Mickey Blue Eyes," "Three Seasons"
• (212) 757-4580 • FX: (212) 262-3381 • Sales@duart.com • web site

DV Dojo
DV Dojo is a new downtown filmmaker's boutique located right across the street from CBGB offering filmmaking workshops, equipment rentals, screenings and other special events.
• (212) 477-2299 • info@dvdojo.com • web site

EMI Music Publishing
EMI Music Publishing is the world's largest music publisher, representing over a million copyrights from time-honored standards to tommorrow's chart-topping hits. EMI's Music Resources Department works with filmmakers to help find and license songs for their films, as well as providing writers to create original music.
• (212) 830-2000 • FX: (212) 830-5196 • emimusicpub.com • web site

F.I.L.M. Archives Inc.
F.I.L.M. Archives Inc. is the one-stop stock footage source, offering the most comprehensive collection of contemporary and vintage images in the industry. This includes over 100 years of film images, nearly two decades of news video (1986 to present) from Cablevision's award winning News 12 Long Island, and exclusive representation of the British government film library.
• (212) 696-2616 • FX: (212) 696-0021 • info@filmarchivesonline.com • web site

Film Arts Foundation
The Film Arts Foundation is a membership service organization with over 3,500 members, most of whom are in Northern California.
Clients: "Regret to Inform," "Genghis Blues," "Human Remains," "Corpus," "Drylongso"
• (415) 552-8760 • FX: (415) 552-0882 • info@filmarts.org • web site

Film Finders
Film Finders is a tracking service that lists independent films, at no charge to producers, in all stages of production (not scripts), exclusively for buyers and distributors.
• (310) 246-9202 • FX: (310) 246-9203 • filmfinders@compuserve.com • web site

FilmCommissionHQ
FilmCommissionHQ.com is the world’s most current, accurate and complete online directory of Film Commissions and media support offices, allowing media professionals to find regional production expertise quickly. Commissions are listed regardless of any affiliation with us. Commissions do have the opportunity to enhance their listing in our directory with powerful tools such as local directories of vendors, talent and shooting locations.
• info@infilm.com • web site

Filmmakers Collaborative
Filmmakers Collaborative provides a creative environment for filmmakers at an affordable price.
Specialties: Avid Media Composer editing suites, a dual-purpose conference/screening room and a roof deck.
Clients: "Whatever," "Trans," "Trembling Before G-d"
• (212) 966-3030 x230 • FX: (212) 965-0812 • fmc@filmmakers.org • web site

First Look Film Series
The First Look Film Series is a monthly screening program founded by the Tribeca Film Center and Eastman Kodak. Held in New York, First Look provides a premier platform for emerging filmmakers to debut their projects while giving influential members of the independent film community a "first look" at promising new work.
• (212) 941-3889 • FX: (212) 941-3898 • web site
Ford Foundation Media, Arts and Culture Grants
Supports public broadcasting and the independent production of film, video and radio programming; and supports efforts to engage diverse groups in work related to the media and to analyze the media's effect on society. A letter of inquiry is advisable to determine whether the foundation's present interests and funds permit consideration of the request.
• (212) 573-4914 • FX: (212) 351-3649 • j.santos@fordfound.org • web site

Free Library Music
Free Library Music specializes in providing original library music for those who do not have any money to pay for it. This library consists of music that professional composers have let out of their private collections, in hopes of collecting public performance royalties later, should the film or media project be televised or shown theatrically.
• (323) 436-0321 • FX: (323) 436-0321 • Administration@FreeLibraryMusic.com • web site

Globalvision
FILMMAKERS, do you need a Fiscal Sponsor? For Information Contact: The Global Center A Non-Profit, IRS-certified 501 (c) (3) Educational Foundation. May suit your project's needs
• (212) 246-0202 • FX: (212) 246-2677 • roc@globalvision.org • web site

Gotham Writers' Workshop / Writing Class
Gotham Writers' Workshop, New York's leading creative writing school, offers comprehensive 10-week courses in Screenwriting taught online by professional writers at www.WritingClasses.com. In addition to these Screenwriting workshops, the school offers "Film Analysis from a Screenwriter's Point of View", TV Sitcom Writing, and a four-week "How to Sell Your Screenplay" seminar on the Internet. Since GWW launched online writing classes in 1997, the institution has have enrolled over 3,000 students from more than 60 countries, and emerged as one of the most respected providers of quality online writing courses. Recently selected "Best of the Web" by Forbes magazine, GWW's comprehensive writing courses are renowned for:
* a focus on teaching the craft of writing,
* small class size (never more than 18 students),
* excellent instructors (each a professional writer),
*extensive student/teacher interaction.
In addition to Screenwriting, the school offers online courses in writing: Fiction, TV Sitcoms, Nonfiction, Memoir, Poetry, Children's Books, Science Fiction, Romance, Mysteries, and Business Correspondence. Gotham Writers' Workshop also powers online writing classes for other organizations, including "Zoetrope: All-Story", Francis Coppola's literary magazine. GWW recently created writing classes for Barnes & Noble.com for use in the relaunch of Barnes & Noble University. In spring 2003, the "Gotham Writers' Workshop Guide to Writing Fiction" will be published by BloomsburyUSA, the first in a planned series of writing guides.
• (877) 974-8377 • FX: (213) 307-6325 • office@write.org • web site

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts, Inc.
Harvestworks is a non-profit arts organization offering production facilities, education and distribution services to artists working with copmuter-based sound and picture technology. Clients include "China: Born Under the Red Flag," "Birds of Passage" (Neil Hollander), "God is on Our Side" (Mark Eisenstein), "Honeymoon" (Dan Salitt)
• (212) 431-1130 • FX: (212) 431-1134 • harvestw@dti.net • web site

The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter is edited for professionals working in the industry worldwide. Comprehensive coverage includes the latest news developments in television, cable, technology, interactive, music and theater, as well as box office grosses, film and TV production charts and entertainment finance.
• (212) 536-5344 • FX: (212) 536-5345 • web site

Independent Feature Project
Independent Feature Project -- with branches in New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami, Seattle, and Chicago -- is the largest membership organization for independent filmmakers. IFP/New York and and IFP/Los Angeles jointly publish FILMMAKER magazine.
• (212) 465-8200 • http://www.IFP.org

Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Unique in American public television, the ITVS was created by Congress to fund and present programs that "involve creative risks and address the needs of under-served audiences, especially children and minorities," while granting artistic control to independent producers. ITVS has funded more than 375 programs for public television since its inception in 1991. Critically-acclaimed ITVS programs include THE FARMER'S WIFE, AN AMERICAN LOVE STORY, FORGOTTEN FIRES, Emmy Award winners GIRLS LIKE US and NOBODY'S BUSINESS, the Peabody Award-winning documentaries TRAVIS, A HEALTHY BABY GIRL and THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE, and DuPont Award winners TAKEN IN: THE LIVES OF AMERICA'S FOSTER CHILDREN and STRUGGLES IN STEEL: A STORY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN STEEL WORKERS.
• (415) 356-8383 • FX: (415) 356-8391 • itvs@itvs.org • web site

ITVS (Independent Television Service)
Seeks "proposals for new innovative programs of standard broadcast length that tell provocative, spellbinding stories from diverse points of view and diverse communities. Projects in any genre, in any stage of development are considered. No finished works.
• (415) 356-8383 • becky_hayes@itvs.org • web site

Kaufman Astoria Studios
Three soundstages: two 12,060, one 26,040 sq. feet. Features: Film/TV facility, broadcast video facility, control rooms, film/video screening rooms, audience seating, blue screen, online editing suites, dressing rooms, location equipment rental, production offices. Contact: Charles Toufous, 34-12 36th St., Astoria, NY, 11106
• (718) 392-5600 • web site

Kodak Project Access
Encourages individuals with projects budgeted for video to shoot and/or finish on film. Winners will be awarded up to 50% of their film stock budget. Actual amount of award will be determined by the Awards Committee. IDA/KODAK Awards will be given to as many as 10 films per cycle (2 cycles per year) pending qualified applications. Acceptance of the award precludes acceptance of other film stock grants. Film stock must be claimed within the same year of grant award.
• (310) 284-8422 • FX: (310) 785-9334 • ida@artnet.net • web site

Magno Sound & Video
Specialties: Video dailies, audio dailies, digital sound design, ADR/foley, recording, mixing, stereo optical sound tracks, no noise restoration duping, screening theaters, film laboratory, computer graphics, and animation duplication, standards conversions, Avid, tape-to-film, Laserdiscs, ProTools rentals, full service edit, and production suites.
Clients: "Astoria," "Beyond the Pale," "Clouds," "Compensation," "Under Heligate Bridge"
• (212) 302-2505 • FX: (212) 819-1282 • web site

Media Services
Media Services sells Film Production Software and Books and Provides Payroll Services.
• (212) 366-9390 • FX: (212) 366-9398 • steve@media-services.com • web site

NAATA Open Door Completion Fund
The National Asian American Telecommunications Association awards final post-production funds needed to complete Asian Pacific American film and video projects that have the potential for national public television broadcast. Average award: $20,000.
• (415) 863-0814 • FX: (415) 863-7428 • mediafund@naatanet.org • web site

National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) offers grants to individuals and organizations. Media projects include broadcast projects and documentaries on any art form. Projects must have a fiscal sponsor. To receive guidelines, call the NEA Public Information Office at (202) 682-5400 or download from the website. For questions regarding media applications call (202) 682-5452.
• web site

NEA Grants for Arts on Radio and TV
"Supports the development, production, and national distribution of significant radio and television programs on the arts with the potential to reach a significant nationak audience." Must have fiscal sponsorship.
• (202) 682-5452 • web site

The New York Foundation for the Arts
NYFA supports independent media makers through its Sponsorship Program, which provides fiscal sponsorship, financial services and consultation on the development, production and distribution of independent media. Media producers may also receive fellowships through NYFA's Artists' Fellowship Program, which gives $7,000 awards to New York residents in categories including film, video and screenwriting. The annual deadline is in October.
• (212) 366-6910 • FX: (212) 366-1778 • sponsor@artswire.org • web site

New York Screenwriter Monthly
Featuring in-depth interviews with screenwriters, agents and producers giving you the pros' insight.
• (718) 398-7197 • FX: (718) 797-9829 • info@nyscreenwriter.com • web site

New York State Council on the Arts
NYSCA is a public agency that supportsarts organizations and artists in New York through its grant programs. NYSCA's funding covers a broad spectrum of non-profit media arts activities.
• (212) 387-7000 • FX: (212) 366-7168 • web site

New York Women in Film
New York Women in Film & Television is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to helping women reach the highest levels of achievement in film, television and other moving-image media industries, and to promoting equity for women in these industries. In addition to providing services to members, NYWIFT plays an important role in recognizing and encouraging the contributions of women to the field. NYWIFT was founded in 1978 and numbers more than 1,100 professional members, including Emmy and Academy Award-winners, working in all areas of the entertainment industry. NYWIFT produces more than fifty innovative educational programs and special events each year, in which many highly distinguished producers, directors, writers, craftspeople and industry leaders participate as guest speakers and panelists. NYWIFT is part of Women in Film International, a network of 40 chapters representing 10,000 women and men around the world.
• info@nywift.org • web site

Peter J. Owens Emerging Filmmaker Award
Includes a $10,000 cash grant and in-kind editing at KQED in S.F. for an emerging independent filmmaker with a project in any stage of production or post-production.
• (415) 553-2271 • web site

The Prop Company
Props/sets: contemporary furniture, tabletop and antique/country, linens and ephemera, also New York loft shooting studio with 3,500 sq. feet. Contact: Maxine Kaplan, 111 W. 19th St., New York, NY, 10011
• (212) 727-3055

Raw Stock
Raw Stock, Inc. buys and sells 35mm & 16mm motion picture film. Raw Stock, Inc. will allow you to extend your raw stock budget and still purchase new, unopened film with current emulsion numbers. If you need to stretch your budget a bit more, consider shooting recans or long ends.These are often available and offer the opportunity to shoot the best film at huge savings. Contact: Rich Kalinsky, 1133 Broadway, Room 541, New York, NY 10010
• (212) 255-0445 • FX: (212) 463-9420 • recans@aol.com • web site

Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition
The 4th Annual Scriptapalooza Screenwriting Competition offers a $10,000 First Place cash prize and screenwriting software for the top 3 winners and 10 runners up. All thirteen winners will be considered by Scriptapalooza’s outstanding participants which include AMG, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Film Colony, Evolution, Pheonix Pictures and many more. Sponsors include Screenplay Systems (Screenplay.com) and The Writer's Store. All entries must be postmarked no later than April 15, 2002. For further information or an application please visit www.scriptapalooza.com or call 323.654.5809.
• (323) 654-5809 • FX: (323) 650-5824 • info@scriptapalooza.com • web site

SOUND ONE -- A Todd-AO Corporation
The combination of SOUND ONE and Todd-AO Studios East creates the largest independent motion picture post-production facility on the Eastern seaboard, annually post-producing over 100 feature films with over 12 studios and over 90 editing suites.
Clients: "Bringing Out the Dead," "Ciderhouse rules,""The Cradle will Rock," "EdTV," "Man on the Moon"
• (212) 765-4757; (212) 265-6225 • FX: (212) 603-4360; (212) 247-5206

Sundance Documentary Fund
The New York-based Soros Documentary Fund has officially changed hands in early 2002 to become the Sundance Documentary Fund, now based in Beverly Hills, California. The fund, which supports "international documentary films and videos which focus on current and significant issues in human rights, freedom of expression, social justice and civil liberties," will continue to be financed by the open Society Institute in the short term, after which Sundance will seek alternative financing sources. the fund's annual disbursement of $1.5 million will be maintained. Up to $50,000 in production/postproduction funding given to works in progress; $10,000-$15,000 given as seed money to projects in research or preproduction stages. No deadlines.Historical projects, biographies, and series are not eligible.
• (310) 360-1981 • FX: (310) 360-1969 • web site

Sundance Institute
Offers residencies to screenwriters and directors, with access to equipment and editing facilities.
• (310) 394-4662 • web site

Swiss Effects
Swiss Effects is a leading tape-to-film transfer house. Based in Zurich, the company specializes in transferring long-playing films, mastered in video (noth NTSC and PAL), to 35mm film. Contact NY office, or Swiss Effects, CH-8050 Zurich, Thurgauerstrasse 40, Airgate, Switzerland, tel: (41 0) 307 1010, fax: (41 0) 307 1019.
• (212) 727-3695 • jpoynton@swisseffects.ch • web site

Sync Sound, Inc./Digital Cinema, LLC
Sync Sound is a full-service, 12-room, audio post-production facility. The most recent addition, Digital Cinema, is a spacious art-deco digital mixing theater equipped with an AMS/Neve Logic 2 DFC, totally automated, digital console.
Specialties: sound editing and design, ADR, foley, an extensive sfx library, mixing in stereo, Dolby Surround, 5.1 and laybacks to all video formats.
• (212) 246-5580 • FX: (212) 399-6099 • web site

Tape House Digital Film
Founded in 1993, Tape House Digital Film is part of a larger consortium of companies dedicated to all aspects of film and video. Three of its recent projects were screened at Sundance 2002: Tadpole, On_Line and Personal Velocity.
• 212 319 5084 • FX: 212 983 4083 • web site

Unitel Video/New York
Four TV studios at three Manhattan locations: 3,200 to 7,000 sq. feet. Features: broadcast video facility, control rooms, audience seating, blue screen, online editing suites, dressing rooms, production offices. Contact: Adrienne Shevlo, 508-510 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019
• (212) 265-3600

Urban-American Filmmakers Workshop
The Urban-American Filmmakers Workshop (UAFW) is a two-day intensive workshop designed for the independent filmmaker and actor of color. The workshop tours ten major metropolitan cities and is expected to reach approximately 5,000 young, urban filmmakers from all over the country. Established filmmakers, industry executives, and actors will be brought in to serve as guest instructors.
The first workshop will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on September 7th and 8th, 2002 and will continue on to Chicago, Houston, Miami, Oakland, New Orleans, New York, Baltimore, Detroit, and conclude in Cleveland in May 2003. UAFW is the only workshop of its kind that specifically addresses the unique challenges that face today`s filmmakers of color.
• (404) 733-6688 • FX: (404) 733-6563 • info@uafw.org • web site