Filmmaker Resources During COVID-19 Outbreak
March 19, 2020
As Bob Dylan once sang “the times they are a-changin'” and we must change with them. As we enter a new, temporary online world, DOC NYC strives to support the filmmaker community at large. Check out the list of online classes and resources below for documentary filmmakers. If you have suggestions to add to this list, please fill out this form.
Online Classes and Events:
- DOC NYC: Friday Fix
- Women Make Movies: Virtual Film Festival for Women’s History Month
- Sundance Co//ab: Archive of Classes Currently Free
- Firelight Media: Beyond Resilience
Online Resources and Emergency Funding:
- American Documentary: Artist Emergency Fund
- Annuity Org: Financial Guide for Small Businesses
- Art House Convergence: Preparedness Resources
- Creative Capital: Arts Resources During COVID-19 Outbreak
- COVID-19 & Freelance Artists: Resources
- Dear Producer: Resources for Artists During Covid-19
- D-Word: The Doc Industry & COVID
- Electronic Frontier Foundation: What You Should Know About Online Tools During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Field of Vision: Virtual Mentorship & Consultation Service for the Documentary Community
- Film Sprites PR: Pro Bono PR Services for Films with Festival Cancellations
- FormsPal: Learn about the Nation’s Healthcare System
- Global Impact Producers: The Documentary Impact Producer Relief Fund
- HowlRound Theater Commons’ Panel: Artists In a Time of Global Pandemic
- I Care If You Listen: Emergency Funding and Artist Resources
- IDA: Apply For Federal Coronavirus Relief as a Filmmaker
- IFP Made in NY Media Center: Ways to Help Artists and Creatives During the COVID-19 Outbreak
- Kickstarter: Inside Voices
- NYFA: COVID-19 Resources
- Sofii: Fundraising in a Time of Crisis
- Women and Hollywood: Has Your Project Been Impacted by SXSW or Another Fest’s Cancellation? W&H Wants to Help
- Women Make Movies:
Articles on Covid-19 Impacting Documentary
- Brian Newman: Ideas for responding to COVID-19 in the Film Industry
- Chicago Tribune: Kartemquin Films’ Gordon Quinn hospitalized due to coronavirus
- Doc Society: To Film or Not To Film
- Indiewire: Privilege and Pandemic: How COVID-19 Reveals the Documentary Sustainability Crisis
- Indiewire: Most SXSW Shorts Are Streaming Free Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp
- Indiewire: Netflix Announces Support for TV Industry
- Mark Cousins: 40 Days to Learn Film
- DOC NYC: Monday Memo
- The Collaborative: A Way of Life in Peril
- The New York Times: Select Film Festivals and Indie Movies Figure Out Online Access
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