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Want to know what is happening in the industry? Not sure where to turn for additional information? Then this is the section for you.

 

 WIFV is proud to offer a list of the top resources in our industry and be able to call these organizations friends and colleagues.

Film Schools & Resources
D.C. Film Festivals
Government Archives
Television & Film Archives and Research Centers
Unions and Guilds
Anti-Piracy Web Campaigns
Other Resources

FILM SCHOOLS & RESOURCES:

The Documentary Center at George Washington University
http://www.gwu.edu/doccenter/home.htm

School of Communications at American University
http://soc.american.edu/

Center for Social Media at American University
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/
 
Howard University
http://www.howard.edu

The Maine Media Workshops
http://www.theworkshops.com

American Film Institute 
http://www.afi.com


DC FILM FESTIVALS

Comcast Outdoor Film Festival
www.filmfestnih.org

DC Independent Film Festival
www.dciff.org

DC Shorts Film Festival
www.dcshorts.org

Environmental Film Festival 
www.dcenvironmentalfilmfest.org

Film Fest DC
www.filmfestdc.org

Georgetown Film Festival
www.georgetownfilmfest.com

SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival
www.silverdocs.com

Washington Jewish Film Festival
www.wjff.org


GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES

Library of Congress
www.loc.gov

Smithsonian
www.smithsonian.org/research

National Archives and Records Administration
www.archives.gov/index.html

TELEVISION & FILM ARCHIVES AND RESEARCH CENTERS

Academic Film Archive of North America
www.afana.org

American Film Institute
www.afi.com

American Museum of Natural History: Film Collection
www.amnh.org/science

Anthology Film Archives
www.amnh.org/science

Archive of American Television
www.emmys.com/foundation/archive/index.htm

Center for Southern Folklore
www.southernfolklore.com

CNN ImageSource 
www.cnnimagesource.com

Gallaudet University: Film/Video Collection
http://archives.gallaudet.edu

Georgetown University, Special Collections
www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/index.htm

Harvard Film Archive
http://harvardfilmarchive.org

Human Studies Film Archives
www.nmnh.si.edu/naa

International Museum of Photography and Film
www.eastman.org/home.htm

Internet Moving Images Archive
www.archive.org/movies/movies.php

The King Center
www.thekingcenter.com

Motion Picture & Television Reading Room   
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/mopic

George Mason University: Special Collections and Archives
www.gmu.edu/library/specialcollections

Museum of Broadcast Communications
www.museum.tv/index.shtml

Museum of Modern Art
http://moma.org/research/archives/index.html

Museum of Television and Radio
www.mtr.org

National Public Broadcasting Archives
www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/index.html

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
www.nypl.org/research/sc/sc.html

New York State Archives
www.archives.nysed.gov/aindex.shtml

Northeast Historic Film
www.oldfilm.org

Public Affairs Video Archives (C-SPAN)
http://pava.purdue.edu

Will Rogers Institute
www.wrinstitute.org/index.html

UCLA Film and Television Archive
www.cinema.ucla.edu

USC Moving Image Archive
http://cinema-tv.usc.edu/archives/index.html

US Holocaust Memorial Museum Film and Video Archive www.ushmm.org/research/collections/filmvideo/right.htm

University of Maryland, Library of American Broadcasting
http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB/

West Virginia Division of Culture and History
http://www.wvculture.org/agency/index.html

West Virginia State Archives              
 http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvsamenu.html

West Virginia University Libraries      
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvcollection/index.htm

UNIONS AND GUILDS

Actors’ Equity Association    
www.actorsequity.org/home.html

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
www.aftra.org

Directors Guild of America
www.dga.org

The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Pictures Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts, of the United States, its Territories and Canada
www.iatse.lm.com

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
www.ibew.org

Screen Actors Guild
www.sag.com

Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers 
www.ssdc.org

Writers Guild of America
www.wga.org

ANTI-PIRACY WEB CAMPAIGNS

http://www.mpaa.org/anti-piracy/

http://respectcopyrights.org

OTHER RESOURCES

Women in Film & Television International
www.wifti.org 

International Women's Media Foundation
www.iwmf.org 

Fund for Women Artists    
www.womensart.org 

Chicken & Egg Pictures    
www.chickeneggpics.org


 

 


 

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