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All links provided below were active on website launch. However, due to the dynamic nature of the Internet, links do occasionally become inactive. If you find a link that has become inactive, please try using a search engine to locate the website in question.

A Conversation With My Black Son
By Geeta Gandbhir and Blair Foster
Hotel 22
By Elizabeth Lo
Last Minutes With Oden
By Eliot Rausch
Marie’s Dictionary
By Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
The Shrimp By Keith Wilson

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Here are some useful links to documentary funding and proposal-writing resources:

BRITDOC
British Film Institute (BFI)
Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
Independent Television Service (ITVS)
Indiewire
International Documentary Association (IDA)
POV
Calendar
Resources
Links to Fiscal Sponsorship Resources for Documentary:
ITVS List of Fiscal Sponsors
Docs in Progress Article “12 Things You Should Look For in a Fiscal Sponsor”

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Here are some links from broadcasters and others that offer guidelines for ethical and legal issues related to documentary production:

Radio TV Directors Ethics Guide
PBS Editorial Standards: Editorial Standards and Guidelines
PBS Frontline
BBC Editorial Guidelines
University of Wisconsin Center for Journalism Ethics on Global Media Ethics
The Center for Social Media and Impact at American University is an important source of information on all aspects of documentary practice. For ethics, take a look at the CSMI pamphlet “Honest Truths: Documentary Filmmakers on Ethical Challenges”.
The National Film Board of Canada Blogsite
Witness.org offers a variety of trainings for producing human rights videos including ethics: “Ethical Guidelines: Using Eyewitness Videos in Human Rights Reporting and Advocacy”

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Here are some useful links for documentary preproduction. While a simple web search will turn up several commercial insurance companies that offer production insurance there are some places to start:

In the US, Fractured Atlas is an arts service organization that offers insurance.
For the United Kingdom, try the British Film Commission's list and the BBC. The BBC site also has information about rights and clearances, as well as other legal issues.
For budgeting, Robert Bahar’s article is essential reading.

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The Abel Cine Field of View Calculator

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This is a free, open-source soundwave visualization tool.
This is an online tone generator that takes you from 0 to 20,000 Hertz in 60 seconds.

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Several audio service companies have location survey and sound reports available on their websites:
Pro-Sound
Greenside Productions

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StoryCorps has several excellent lists of questions that can get you started in your researching and interviewing process.

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Figure 18–10 Chris Marker's The Last Bolshevik

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Archival Resources and Links:

Large commercial stock footage repositories such as Getty Images dominate archival film. Smaller organizations like Pond 5 may offer a less expensive alternative.
The Internet Archive houses the Rick Prelinger Archives, as well as a broad variety of film, audio, and text based materials, and is free.
Other collections such as Critical Past are royalty free, with cost to download based on quality.
In the US there are two main government collections: www.archives.gov/, which has a lot of material available online, and The Library of Congress, which features several digital collections of maps, photos, and documents, as well as audiovisual material.
The British Film Institute also has a variety of collections.
Several film producers have started making material available on YouTube. In addition to the BFI channel you'll find Mosfilm, and British Pathé.
Mosfilm YouTube Channel of Soviet Films
www.youtube.com/user/britishpathe
Regional collections can also be helpful, such as this archive of Northern Ireland Film Commission material.
Or other national collections, such as the Swedish Nation Film Archive.
Film Archives Online, is a collaboration of 18 archives, focused on non-fictional materials from all over Europe.
Flicker Commons has become the home for a wide variety of photographs, both historical and contemporary.

Alternatives to copyright:

For filmmakers who see the creative space as a shared one, there are several alternatives to copyright.
See in particular the organization Creative Commons: Fair Use—Another useful link when dealing with "fair use" of copyrighted material in the US is The Center for Social Media and Impact (CSMI). See www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use for a rich variety of resources including pamphlets, discussions of best practices, and more.

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Here are some links to internet music resources (some are free):

Here are some links to online sound libraries:

There are numerous places on the Internet where you can download sample Music Cue Sheets. Here is one: Film Sourcing

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Here are some resources related to festivals that program documentaries:

POV maintains a list of good festivals for documentary, as well as a calendar you can subscribe to in order to stay on top of submission deadlines:
Calendar
Film Festivals
Sites where you can upload material and apply to multiple film festivals:
Film Freeway
Without a box

Here are some links related to distribution:

POV list of DIY Digital Distribution Platforms

Here are some links related to documentary and social impact:

The Impact Field Guide & Toolkit
Working Films
ActiveVoice
Impact Partners
Britdoc Doc Impact Award
The Fledgling Fund
HotDocs publication “Documentary Impact: Social Change Through Storytelling”
Skylight