This was a question that came up often while I was making Indie Film Blogger Road Trip. My guess is that there are several hundred to several thousand sites that I would consider indie film blogs or perform the same function - offer news, opinion, reviews, etc. re: indie film & related matters. So let's take a few days, scan the interwebz, & see if we can figure out how many indie film blogs - roughly - there may be. I am going to limit this list to blogs & sites written in English (since that's what I can read well) and I'll probably skip most blogs & sites set up to promote just one movie - unless such sites also talk about indie film stuff in general. Post your suggestions in the comments section, will check 'em out & add them to the list. I'll probably build the links list until early to mid January.
2/6/09 2:29 AM UPDATE: 133 sites linked, off to promote IFBRT screening & release DNO DVD & make the Brooklyn comedy, will update the list throughout the year as time permits. 1/7/09 3:11 PM UPDATE: adding some new links, will re-number the list later this week. :: 1/1/09 1:35 AM UPDATE: 128 blogs listed & linked! 12/29/08 - 10:57 PM UPDATE: 104 blogs listed & linked (a lot more links - dozens, maybe even hundreds, coming in early January!) Older Updates: 12/26/08, 10:25 PM UPDATE: - Got 69 blogs & sites listed & linked. :: 12/28/08, 12:13 AM UPDATE: - got 85 blogs linked :: 12/28/08, 10:34 PM UPDATE: - 99 blogs listed & linked
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INDIE FILMS BLOGS & BLOGESQUE SITES - A LINKS LIST
a work in progress from late december 2008 to mid january 2009
A
1- Action! Jackson
3-All About Indie Filmmaking
4 - All These Wonderful Things
5 - Alternative Film Guide
6- anonymous insider
7 - Anthony Kaufman's blog
8 - Arbogast on Film
9-Armando Valle
10 - Around the Block: Doug Block's Doc Blog
11 - The Art of Memory
12 - ArtForum/Film
13 - Atlanta Film Festival Blog
14 - The Auteurs' Notebook
B
15 -B-Scene Films
16 - The Back Row Manifesto
17 - Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film
18 - Beyond Mumblecore
19 - Salon's Beyond the Multiplex
20 - Boredom at Its Boredest
21 - Brian Flemming's Weblog
22 - Bright Lights After Dark
23 - Bright Lights Film Journal
C
24 - Carnivalesque Films blog
25 - The Chutry Experiment
26 - Cinema Echo Chamber
27 - CinemaTech
28 - Cinematical
30-The Circuit
31 - Criterion blog
32- Cynematik
D
33-The Daily [at] IFC.com by David Hudson
34-Davekehr.com
35 - The Documentary Blog
36-Digital Independence
37 - DIY Days
38 - DIY Filmmaker Sujewa
39 - Doc It Out
40 -Docs Interactive
42-Docu-Blog/Steve's POV
E
43 -Enzian Theater
44 - Everything Else Is Rim Light
45 - eugonline
F
46 -Film Essent
47 - Film Independent
48 - Film Independent filmmaker blogs
49 -Film of the Month Club
50 - FilmInFocus
51-A Filmmaker's Life
52 - Filmmaker Magazine blog
53 - The Film Panel Notetaker
54 - Friends Are My Art Form
G
55- Gabe's Declaration of Principles
56-Good Small Films
57 - GreenCine Daily
59 -Guardian Film Blog
H
60 - Hammer To Nail
61- HD For Indies
62 - Hollywood Is Talking
63 -Horror 101
64 -The House Next Door
I
65 - The Independent
66-Independent Film Blog
67-The Independent Eye/IFC blog
68-Indie Features
69-Indie Film Blog
70 - indieWIRE
71 - indieWIRE blogs page
72-iW Insider
73-Info Wants To Be Free
74 - infinicine
75 - The Inside Skinny
77-Invisible Woman...Black Cinema At LARGE
J
78-J.D. Ashcraft's Blog
81-JonathanRosenbaum.com
82-Jurgen & Marcy's Independent Film Blog
83-johnaugust.com
85-King Blog
L
89-The Lost Boy
M
90-Making Movies In Flyover Country
91- Matt Dentler's Blog
92-Michael in Sao Paulo
93-Movie City Indie
94-Movie Marketing Blog
95-MYFILM "Independent Film News"
N
96-New Breed
98-New York Movie Reviews - Village Voice
O
99-100 Films
100-The Obenson Report
101-Observations on film art and Film Art
102 - One Way Community
103 -Out of Focus
P
106-Pullquote
Q
R
107-The Rabbi Report
108-The Real Indie Film News Blog
109- Reel Artsy
110- The Reeler
111-Reverse Shot
S
112- The Scandy Factory
113-Screen Rush
114- The Screengrab
115- Self-Reliant Film
116- Shooting Down Pictures
117- Shooting People: Shooting From The Hip
118- ShortEnd Magazine
119 - SoCalFilm Group
120-Some Came Running
121 - Spout
122- Spout blog
123-SpringBoardMedia
124- Steady Diet of Film blog
125-Steven Rosen
126- Still in Motion
T
127 - Truly Free Film
128 - TrustMovies
U
129-The Ugly Betty Blog
V
W
130 -Week of Wonders
131-WendyWIRE
132-Women & Hollywood
133- Workbook Project
X
Y
Z
OTHER - New blogs, & or mostly Hollywood stuff/some indie stuff blogs, etc. - not counted in the indie film blogs list above, but linked (might be of interest to people interested in indie film blogs):
MORE LINKS COMING SOON
32 comments:
Wow! Thanks for the kind mention, Sujewa!
No prob STM, your blog is weird (in a good way) & interesting - I of course go there mostly for the text.
Don't forget mine: Making Movies in Flyover Country -- christopherhansen.blogspot.com
will add it chris.
also i need to add that woody allen blog that i found today.
(is woody allen indie? - i think so - even though he is distributed through h-wood he seems to call all the shots on his movies & i think arranges financing outside of studios)
Nice list! And thanks for the inclusion. Beyond TrulyFreeFilms, I have two other film related blogs -- granted I don't post as regularly to them as TFF.
http://www.letsmakebetterfilms.blogspot.com/
and
http://www.infowantstobefree.blogspot.com/
and I recently added a "Filmmakers'Blogs" column at TFF (where I linked to you) and I think a few of those are not on your list either...
Any chance you can add the CineVegas Blog to this already fantastic list?
www.cinevegas.com/blog
Yeah, Cinevegas blog should work for this list - will check it out & add it this week.
Thanks for the suggestions Ted, will check 'em out this week & thanks for linking to me.
What a great idea. Thanks for the link, Sujewa!
Hi Ekanayake, great idea and resource. I have one that I recently started for my latest feature.
http://www.thebraveandthekind.com/diary/
we're in post now, but the videos and posts should be picking up.:-)
Cheers and happy holidays!
Hi Sujewa,
Great resource! I just started one in November. It's called All About Indie Filmmaking at allaboutindiefilmmaking.blogspot.com. I am going to add yours to mine now. Thanks.
Erin, nice name for your blog - reminds me of Fugazi's album Steady Diet of Nothing - http://www.amazon.com/Steady-Diet-Nothing-Fugazi/dp/B000000JOM
Hey Neil,
At the moment I am leaving blogs dedicated to just one film off the list, but I am sure some people will discover it through your comment.
If you start blogging about indie film stuff in general & or other indie films besides your own, let me know. Thanks.
JaneKK, will check out your blog this week for addition to the list. thanks.
I also need to add the link to David Hudson's new IFC blog, also there are a bunch of iW hosted blogs that I haven't added yet, plus I may be missing some from the IFBRT bloggers list - maybe at least another 20 blogs total there (from all 3 sources listed above) to add to this list - which will take the total # over 100.
Plus Village Voice & a few other alterna weeklys may have film blog type pages on their sites that would qualify for this list.
Thanks for the add! I appreciate it. I look forward to checking out the list you have gathered and refer those who read my blog to it. It's a really great way to promote indie filmmaking in this DIY atmosphere. - Jane
No prob JaneKK. Yup, good links = happy readers.
Until about a week ago, I had blogged only on my film production sites, but sprawl was becoming an issue. My new blog about film(s) in general is here: www.alejandroadams.com. (A whopping two entries!)
Good to see the list is growing rapidly! I wrote a piece about your project over at my 'spot earlier today. Hope it helps.
Definitely Jennifer MacMillan's Invisible Cinema
Yeah, both the cinetrix blog & invisible cinema blogs should work for this list.
will also check out your blogs alejandro.
also, i need to take a look at the links at Chutry Experiment, GreenCine Daily, Filmmaker Mag blog to see which blogs might work out for this list - probably at least another 50 good candidates through links on those 3 blogs.
I am the editor for Film Independent's newly revamped website, FilmIndependent.org
We have blogs, interviews and headlines all pertaining to the indie film world.
Alejandro,
Visited your blog. I like the 2 entries there BUT since it's just 2 entries (but the blog is promising) I placed in under a category called OTHER - for blogs that are too new, or cover mostly Hollywood stuff/some indie stuff, etc. Good luck with the blog.
No problem. I'm used to having my own category. Glad you liked the entries.
Hey Alejandro,
Cool, maybe in a couple of months or so or a dozen more blog entries later we can group your blog in with the rest. At the moment I want people to find a quite a bit of interesting stuff when they click on most of the numbered blogs. Also, let us know when & where your movies can be seen.
And, did you see Mongol? (recent russian? pic - part one of a multi-part bio epic about genghis khan (sp?))
- Sujewa
For a unique look. Please add mine:
www.alpercagatay.com
I've been slow at updating my iW blog, but try to keep it fresh as much as possible: indiewire.com/blogs/kohn
I need to add The Evening Class to this list.
I plan on doing the next update to the list on 1/1 or 1/2.
Happy New year All!
If ya think of more blog suggestions for inclusion in this list, leave 'em please.
Our Indie film is keeping a blog on the movie's website, as it heads to festivals:
http://whatsthematterwithkansas.wordpress.com
It's not too busy yet, but we're planning to post a revealing behind-the-scenes production diary as well.
Beautiful idea! Here's one:
http://www.forloveofindiefilmmaking.blogspot.com
I've recently started an indie filmmaking blog to document the creation of my first feature. It's also a resource for new indie filmmakers, providing helpful links and industry connections. Thanks for your time & consideration.
Here's a suggestion... not a blog, but an indie filmmaking site: Indie Filmmaking
Please check out THE IFP INDEPENDENT FILM LAB BLOGS, there are a bunch of films there supported by IFP
http://lab.workbookproject.com/
and my blog:
http://mountainthief.wordpress.com/
Thanks!
The Mountain Thief
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