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Advice on Film Distribution
This section contains information on strategies for putting together distribution for your film, as well as extensive Q&A interviews with leading independent film distributors from around the country. In these interviews, the distributors describe what they look for in a film, how they structure deals, at what stage in a film's development do they want to be approached, and more.

Advice for Documentary Filmmakers
How much should you budget for archival footage? Should you try to script your documentary? What should you take into consideration when planning to shoot in a foreign country? Is it ever okay to bring your kids with you while you're filming? These and other questions are tackled in the Ask the Doc Doctor series. Also see interviews and how-to's in our Documentary section.

Advice on Film Financing
Whether you're cobbling together $100,000 through friends and families are making a film for $2,000 charged to your credit card, we can help. This section features articles on ways filmmakers scrimp and save, as well as information on key funding sources, from the Sundance Institute to the Women in Film Finishing Fund.

Advice on Screenwriting
How do writing teams actually function? What are some smart ways to think about adapting a book into a film? Can you turn a script for a short into a feature-length film? And just how much should you change the contours of a story in the editing process? This section features answers to these questions and more.

Read about Legal Issues
A look at matters including film credits and fair use rights.

Advice on Marketing Your Film
This section looks at ways you can get attention for your film, with advice on making a splash at film festivals, drawing attention from the press, building a killer press kit, marketing your film online, and more. Plus: how to effectively market a film that's tied to a social cause.

Advice on Technology
The way we make films is constantly changing, and this section looks at the latest technology, with an eye towards what works well—and what's affordable.

Free Downloads for Filmmakers
Here you can find sample grant applications, budgets, shooting schedules, location releases, actor releases, etc., which we have made available free to all users who are logged in. You can also add yours.