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Post date January 20, 2010

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A Truly Free Film Culture: an introduction

the inspiration for this blog was this speech (click to read). Watch Part One here. Read it in Spanish here.

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Product Placement & Brand Sponsorship Tools

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TFF Required Reading

1000 True Fans (Kelly)
A Decade Of Filmmaker Empowerment Is Coming (Beers)
Broderick's 10 Principles of Hybrid Distro
Broderick's Bulletins
Darknet:Hollywood's War Against The Digital Generation (Lasica)
Free! Why $0.00 Is The Future Of Everything
Golden Rules Of Web / Advertising Age (Yakob)
Google Jail For Creating New Film MOdel
Henry Jenkins Blog
How To Do Almost Anything W/ Social Media (Mashable)
ITVS Top Five Digital Strategies & Case Studies (Kirsner)
Power To The Pixel
State Of Fest Pt. 1: Do Fests Matter? / Variety; M. Jones
State Of Fest Pt. 2 / Variety; M. Jones
The Economics Of Giving It Away (Anderson)
Welcome To The New World of Distribution (Broderick)
When The Audience Takes Control (Weiler)

Internet Video Platforms

BigStar.tv
Blip TV
Daily Motion
Hoooka.com
Hulu
Joost
Justin TV
Megavideo
Open Film
Poptent
Revver
Sling
SmugMug
Tube Mogul
Ustream TV
Viddler
Video Embedding Comparison Site
Vimeo
VIRB
YouTube

Truly Free Film Heroes

A Swarm Of Angels
Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
Jon Reiss
Lance Hammer
Lance Weiler
Peter Broderick
Robert Greenwald
Scott Kirsner
Tiffany Shlain

DVD Manufacture, Download, Fulfillment

Ameibo
Breakthrough Distribution
CreateSpace
EZTakes
FilmBaby
FulfillmentByAmazon
FulfillmentConcepts FCI
FulfillmentWorks
Indiepix
MeDeploy
Neoflix
New Image TV
PrecisionDisc
VTMedia
Vuze HD Network

Truly Free Film RESOURCES

100 Blogs For Film Students
Art Home Online
Best Movie Websites
Beth's Blog
Brian Newman's Springboard
CineFile
Cinema Tech
Congressional Entertainment Caucus
Creative Capital
Do-It-Yourself Filmmaking
Film Independent (Los Angeles)
Filmmakers Collaborative (Boston)
FilmSpecific
Hunter Weeks' DIY Manual
Knight Citizens News Network
Let's Make Better Films
namac
Peter Broderick
Power To The Pixel
ReelGrok
Sheri Candler's Indie Film Marketing & Publicity
Shooting People: Tools
Spout
Streaming Media
Tax Incentive Round Up Ent Partners'
The Bechdel Test
The Film Collaborative Blog
UniverseCreation101
Workbook Project

Blogging Tools

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A Sampling of Filmmakers' Blogs

Dennis Cooper / Novelist
Ira Deutchman / Producer & Distributor
Jacques Thelemaque / Filmmaker
Jane Kosek / Producer
John August / Screenwriter & Director
Jon Jost / Filmmaker
Jon Reiss / Director
Noah Harlan / Producer / The401stBlow
Raymond De Felitta / Director
Red Bucket Films / Filmmaker Collective
Rhys Graham / Filmmaker
Sujewa Ekanayake / Filmmaker
William Horberg / Producer

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