LINKS
Film Festivals
Film festivals.com
InsideFilm.com -"Inside Film" magazine's film festival directory.
DocumentaryFilms.net
Austin Film Festival -- October 11 - 17, 2007
Bangkok Film Festival -- July 2007
Berlin Film Festival -- February 7 - 17, 2008
Calgary Film Festival -- September 21 - 30, 2007
International Film Festival Rotterdam -- January 23 - February 3, 2008
New York Film Festival -- September 28 - October 14, 2007
Sundance Film Festival -- January 17 - 27, 2008
Toronto International Film Festival -- September 6 - 15, 2007 (note: They change their web address from time to time.)
Guilds
WGAeast - New York
WGAwest - Los Angeles
Australian Writers' Guild
Writers Guild of Canada
Writers' Guild of Great Britain
Producers Guild
Directors Guild of America
The Screen Actors Guild
Independent Film
The Independent Feature Project (IFP)
Read Screenplays
Scripts posted on these sites will be in many different formats, from rough drafts to submission script format to shooting script format to film transcripts. Do not base your own work on one of these scripts unless you know what type you are copying.
Drew's Script-O-Rama - the very first online screenplay database.
Movie-Page.com
The Daily Script
Reference
The Internet Movie Database - Credits & reviews for many, many films.
Behind the Name - The etymology and history of lots of first names.
Babynames.com - Less sophisticated than Behind the Name but boasts 10,000 names and their meanings (as of 3/28/06.)
Currency Convertor
Dictionary/Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online Language Center.
Translator - Je parle Francais. Et toi?
Screenwriting Contests
MovieBytes
Software
Final Draft
Scriptware
Sophocles
The Writers Store - There are often good sales on software.
Take A Break
Pogo.com - Games, addictive.
Writers Services
Library of Congress Copyright Office
