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Saul Bass
The fascinating site, beautifully designed in the style of the legendary Hollywood craftsman, is a fitting tribute to the man who revolutionised the movie credit sequence and helped Alfred Hitchcock create some of his most memorable scenes. There's a wealth of video, audio and stills, plus a look at his legacy.
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Say it in Russian
Andrew Lambert (Steven Brand), a successful American divorce attorney, travels to Paris for business, where he’s introduced to Daria Larina (Agata Gotova), a beautiful and enigmatic Russian woman, by the lovely Jacqueline De Rossy (Faye Dunaway). Head over heels from virtually the minute he sees her, Andrew pursues her with intensity, aware that Daria has trust issues. Charming and a bit relentless in his amorous dance with Daria, Andrew succeeds in winning her heart, but a greater challenge awaits when he accompanies Daria to her father’s wedding in Russia. Raf Larin (Rade Sherbedgia), Daria’s father, is a powerful Russian official, being pressured by associates of his former comrade in arms, Oleg Razhin, a criminal mastermind, once a friend of Raf’s, who spent the last 7 years in prison. Razhin’s men on the outside kidnap Daria, part of a maneuver to force Raf to obtain him a pardon and release him from prison. Andrew is horrified when Daria is kidnapped, part of a maneuver to put Raf to the screws. At the same time, Raf arranges the release, and meets Razhin in prison, convincing him to set Daria free. However, after he is released, Razhin is gunned down by unknown assassins. Willing to risk his life to rescue Daria, Andrew works independently of Raf to break open the circle of kidnappers and set Daria free.
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Scope: An On-line Journal of Film Studies
Scope is an entirely free online journal of film studies edited by staff and students within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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Screen Door Jesus
It's the Baptists vs. the Pentecostals in this satirical look at life in small town Texas. Winner of the Hampton's Film Festival (2003)- also for best Cinematography and Music- this film suffered the most unfortunate run of luck during it's theatrical release- getting great reviews, decent opening weekend crowds, but always in cities right after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Imagine- Producers in the lobby supervising refunds due to rolling blackouts! Now, thank God, available on DVD.
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ScreenDaily.com
ScreenDaily.com is the daily online news service for the international film industry. Generated by the team of publishes Screen International -- the leading trade paper for the internatioanl film business. This site delivers the latest film industry news, reviews, and box office comment from around the globe.
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Screenplay Europe
Regular news about screenwriting, writers and movies from a European perspective. Contains news and lnks about the festivals, competitions and changes in the global European scene, mostly the UK, France, Germany and Spain.
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ScribbleBibble.com
Official site of independent film production team Attles and Polite of Scribble Bibble Productions and Vino Ray Films and So Fresh, So Clean a down and dirty comedy - an urban flick fresh from its standing room only world premiere at the SF Black Film Festival. The site covers filmmakers, the movie, its cast, crew, and making of. Info on upcoming projects and more.
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SDD Global Solutions
A Legal Process Outsourcing Company based in Mysore, India. This Company undertakes legal work of any nature and houses experts in US laws and but charges about 1/8th of what a US Attorney charges.
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SeaHawk Productions
Movie site for Putnam Palace and producer's site for SeaHawk Productions.
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Seasons & A Muse
Arts and film production corporation, founded by artist/filmmaker Jeanne Marie Spicuzza in 1993, carries a slate of projects, including the much-anticipated feature film BREATH OF GOD, the story of twelfth-century visionary composer and abbess Hildegard von Bingen. David Lynch, Protozoa Pictures, Vincent Ward and the Vatican endorse the project, over 12 years in development...
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The Self-Destruction of Gia
"The Self-Destruction of Gia" is a feature-length documentary telling the story of Gia Carangi -- super model, heroin addict, dead at age 26. This moving and provocative film traces her meteoric rise and devastating fall. "The Self-Destruction of Gia" takes you on a trip into the heart of darkness. While the world saw a supermodel, Gia was sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss of heroin addiction, a frightened young girl grasping for something meaningful in her life. In what many people have called a loving tribute to her life and now legend, JJ Martin exposes a tormented soul spiraling out of control. For Gia, the American dream turned into a nightmare.
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SelfMadeTV
SelfMadeTV.com is Online Television Network focusing on the development and production of creative programming for the web. This platform offers a plethora of original programming such as short films, features, documentaries, animation, sports, games, selfmade readio and Hotties in Real-time. SelfMadeTV.com serves up a fresh concept to video and music via the web. With hundreds of thousands of viewers, the site is growing everyday. We offer our expanding community unique and provocative programming from up and coming film makers, artist, comedians, entrepreneurs and others. SelfMadeTV.com is the future of Online Media.
The Best Way To Predict Your Future...Is To Create It! SelfMadeTV.com
SelfmadeTV.com also offers online and offline distribution to our top rated programs via retail distribution through Navarre/Studio. One on the largest independent distributors in the world.
SelfMadeTV.com is currently interested in aquiring content for the site, and full length independant features for retail distribution.
For effective exhibition and distribution SelfMadeTV.com has everything you need to create your own success int he entertainment world.
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Sense Of Need
Web site for the feature film by Shady Srour, that was shot in both Jerusalem and San Francisco.The movie is a personal drama about an expat piano student from Jerusalem who comes to the States to study classical music, and about the challenges and fears of being a foreigner. It brings to mind the struggles of being caught between Palestinian and Israeli culture and has a cultural undertone that is progressively Arab but still not an aggressively political.
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Senses of Cinema
An online journal devoted to serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.
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September Tapes
An American journalist sets off to Afghanistan one year after September 11th, searching for the truth about the hunt for Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden.
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The Sexy Chef
Love. Obsession. Insanity. Kitchen Utensils. The Sexy Chef is an offbeat comedy for everyone who has hated their job so much that they jumped in a car with 3 neurotic friends to chase a mysterious woman in a chef hat. It is also a road trip filled with witches, 70s' classic rock burnouts, and Smurf fetishists.
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Shadow Glories
Multi-award winning feature film by Ziad H. Hamzeh about a down-and-out ex-kickboxer, once contender for the heavyweight title, struggling to rebuild his shattered life as he journeys back home to to his lost love and his one last chance at resurrecting his tortured soul.
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Shelly Silver
Web site of the New York-based filmmaker whose latest work, the feature length Suicide, screened in the Forum section of the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.
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Shill's Video Movies Title Screens Page
“A unique catalog of movies on video...specifically, screen captures of movie title screens! What good is it? Whatever use you put it to. Browse and admire title and logo designs, check out the differences in multiple releases of the same title (see Aliens or Invasion of the Body Snatchers for a good example), check to see just how 'wide' is the widescreen (width/height=aspect ratio...and does it match the sleeve description?).”
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Shock-O-Rama
Shock-O-Rama is the horror branch of the independent film company, ei Independent Cinema. Shock-O-Rama features recent and soon-to-be released films produced either in-house or acquired from outside indie filmmakers (such as "Prison-A-Go-Go" by Barak Epstein, starring Mary Woronov and Rhonda Shear, which the company will distribute in 2005).
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Shocking Videos
"You will find quite a bit of raw language and caustic humor on this site.* References to racism, misogyny, misanthropy and dwarf tossing should be taken in the spirit intended -- as just good, clean fun. If you are easily offended or have aspirations toward political "correctness" you probably shouldn't be here."
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Shooting Livien
A dark drama from Velveteen Films, "Shooting Livien" is the story of John Livien (Jason Behr), a disillusioned New York rock musician struggling with the authenticity of his identity and goals. His band on the brink of success, his fantasy becomes dangerously blurred with reality as Livien struggles with his crisis, falling further into the illusions of who he is expected to be. A story for anyone that has ever chased their dreams, "Shooting Livien" takes us inside the life of an artist trying to find his voice, and make peace with the world around him.
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Shooting People
SP SO FAR Shooting People started in the UK and now has a membership there of close to 30,000 online members who receive its daily email bulletins covering Film, Animation, Screenwriting, Documentary, Casting and Music Video. In September 2003, Shooting People launched a New York community with the aim of providing a similar service to New Yorkers, as well as opening up collaborations between the US and UK.
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The Short List
The Short List has brought the art of short film to U.S. series television season after season. The series airs nationwide via American Public Televison and is a co-production with Cox Channel 4 San Diego. The series is produced in The Production Center for Documentary & Drama at San Diego State University in association with the Eastman Kodak Company. Five Kodak product grants are awarded each season to selected filmmakers on the showcase.
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Short Scripts Online
This site was created to provide a central location where short scripts can be found quickly and with ease. For the writer, Short Scripts Online provides a free method of advertising short scripts to a worldwide market. For the independent filmmaker, Short Scripts Online provides fast, free, easy access to short scripts from around the world.
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Showbizdata
Info site for news and box-office grosses.
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Showboy
When Christian Taylor, a writer for HBO's wildly popular "Six Feet Under," agrees to let a British Television crew follow him for a series about Brits working in Hollywood, he finds that his true calling may be in the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas's stage and not in the harsh world of Hollywood show business.
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Sidestreets
"It's the hottest day of the summer in the five boroughs of NYC. Twenty-four hours across Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island — different lands with different languages, smells and tastes, where dramas unfold, new joys are discovered and love reinvented. With a cast of U.S. and international stars including Rosario Dawson, Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Leon, Art Malik, John Ortiz and Mirjana Jokovic, 'Side Streets' takes its audience into a New York City rarely seen in movies."
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Sight and Sound Creations
Sight and Sound Creations, Inc. is an independent digital film production company located in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Sights Unseen
An independent film company located in Central Valley, California. Current working on the feature lenght action/thriller, "Hunting Ground".
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Sigur Rós
Our favorite Icelandic pomp rock group. Site features tour diaries, ordering facilities, interviews and those lucky enough to speak Icelandic can check out the lyrics.
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Simmons Lathan Media Group
Simmons Lathan Media Group is the foremost urban production, acquisition, and distribution company providing opportunities for urban filmmakers through their partnerships in internet through Russell Simmons Hip Hop Channel on Kazaa, home video, video on demand, pay per view television and festivals.
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Single Reel
A free short film site.
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Sisters in Cinema
Yvonne Welbon has been researching and writing a dissertation on the subject of African-American women directors since 1997. It is her intention that this site becomes one of many records documenting African-American women within film history. Welbon has also produced a 57-minute documentary, also called "Sisters in Cinema," which offers a historical overview of the lives and the films of African-American women feature film directors from the early part of the century to today.
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Sixteen Tongues
Official website for low-budget horror director (and Filmmaker magazine contributing writer) Scooter McCrae's most recent production, "Sixteen Tongues." Synopsis: Adrian Torque is a police officer who has lost more than half his skin to an explosion that should have killed him. Instead, his destroyed epidermis has been replaced with the tongue meat of all the people who were killed that horrible night. He is now being slowly driven mad by a never-ending stream of tastes. Virginia Chin is a genetically engineered combatrix with a clitoris implanted beneath the epicanthic folds of each eye and a taste for blood. Her uncontrollable murderous impulses keeps her barely one step ahead of the law ... and each blink of her eyes keeps her tightly poised within a state of heightened stimulation that only the blood of her enemies can sate. Now, in a run-down adults-only franchise called the Sappho Motel, where even the most obscure desire of every occupant can be met for a price, they are about to collide...
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Skinny Giraffe Films
This is the site for Skinny Giraffe Films. The site introduces the independent film company born and growing in South Louisiana and its heart and soul, founding memebers, Roy Windsor Harris and Kirk K. Kepper. Post-production information is up on THE AMERICAN STANDARDS, the movie produced by Skinny Giraffe last year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The site should be updated soon with the other projects completed by Skinny Giraffe and those currently underway and I hope to sneak in some entertaining clips and photos of the "Boyz" from Louisiana!
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Skinny Giraffe Films
This is the site for Skinny Giraffe Films. The site introduces the independent film company born and growing in South Louisiana and its heart and soul, founding memebers, Roy Windsor Harris and Kirk K. Kepper. Post-production information is up on THE AMERICAN STANDARDS, the movie produced by Skinny Giraffe last year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The site should be updated soon with the other projects completed by Skinny Giraffe and those currently underway and I hope to sneak in some entertaining clips and photos of the "Boyz" from Louisiana!
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Skye Films
Skye Films is an independent documentary production company based in New York City. The company's first project, The Tartan Apple, an historical documentary about Scots in New York City is currently in production.
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Slamcast
Short films worth watching.
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Slice
Seven years after the free and easy days of high school, four friends meet up at the "Wide Open," a wild, after dark, golf tournament. The foursome made up of Ben, Fast, Nick and Jack -- now men with separate lives and separate perspectives -- reunites in the thick woods of  Virginia at Woody Hole Golf Club, which just so happens to reopen just in time to host their annual golf outing. But when a stranger stumbles onto the remote course and into their lives, chaos explodes. Soon, these friends are thrown into a horrifying struggle with creatures determined to destroy them.
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Slow Motion Angel
Derek Jarman Information and Resource Site including images, forum and general information on a greatly loved and missed filmmaker.
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Small Town Folk -- Gumboot Pictures
"Small Town Folk" is a new feature film from Gumboot Pictures. Written and directed by Peter Stanley-Ward, it stars Dan Palmer -- of "Freak Out" fame -- along with a host of other freaky co-stars. A cross between Looney Tunes and "The Hills Have Eyes", "Small Town Folk" is set to finish around summer 2005.
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Smart Indie Films
Smart Indie Films is distributing THE WEDNESDAY NIGHT SAVE-THE-WORLD SOCIETY, recently awarded best feature at the miniDV Film Festival in Hollywood ("Fest Director's Choice").
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smartparts
Official website for the independent sci-fi feature film smartparts.
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Soiree DC Comedy
Find out what happens as a crazy shrink, two married couples once in love with each other’s spouses, and a daughter infatuated with mom’s ex, try to untwist a hilariously twisted love pentagon. All the makings of a classic French farce... for those among you who hate to read subtitles.
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Sokota Pictures
Web site for filmmaker Craig Marsden.
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Soldiers Pay
Directors David O.Russell, Juan Carlos Zaldivar and Tricia Regan see Soldiers Pay as a meditation on the current war in Iraq. The filmmakers interviewed dozens of people over a six-week period and created a chorus of voives, including veterans of the war, Iraqis who rose up against Saddam after the last war and escaped to the U.S., journalists, politicians, psychologists and even a two star general, who led the Marines to victory in the first Gulf War.
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Solitary Fracture Offical Website
An average man living an average life loses everything and in the process realizes that he had nothing to begin with. The story follows Mike Peters (Deniz Michael) in his downward spiral and takes you through the struggles of his everyday life. This is the first film for filmmaker Deniz Michael who wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in and wrote the score for "Solitary Fracture". It took Deniz Michael over 2 years to complete this movie. He began working on Solitary Fracture when he was 23 years old and finished working on the film just shy of his 26th birthday. "Solitary Fracture" is unique because there is only one character shown in the film (only a few other voices are heard in the background). This technique is used to show isolation and withdrawal from society. Deniz Michael believes the use of only one character, is groundbreaking, as well as being very risky for audience approval. Nevertheless, he attempted and finished this unusual project.
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Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican
A Cape Verdean American Story, is about the destruction of a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of Providence, Rhode Island. Three generations of Cape Verdeans were forcibly displaced by urban renewal in the l960s and l970s to make way for the fancy coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses that now fill the streets of Fox Point. The tragedy and scandal of a legacy lost is told through the voices of the Cape Verdean elders, and spans the sea of memory and time of a community set adrift.
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Something Weird Video
Source for obscure cult horror, exploitation, and sexploitation titles.
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Sonar
Sonar: Advanced Music and Multimedia Art, June 17-19, Barcelona, is the essential meeting point for an alert public, cutting-edge artists and the most influential professionals from the sectors of music and modern arts.
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Sonyboo Productions
Short online films.
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Southland Tales
The Web site for this new film by director Richard Kelly ("Donnie Darko") is just as fascinating and creepy as the"Darko" site, and hopefully the movie will be as well.
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Space:Unicorn
Space Unicorn was founded by production company Ghost Robot and their technology partner Diffuse.us to create websites for independent films.
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Spotless
Web site for the feature film, "Spotless", which was directed by James Kelsey and shot in Denver in 2003. In the depths of lower downtown Denver, a stylish and twisted drama is about to play out. Obsession will lead men and women to turn on their friends, loved ones, and even strangers. And obsession will ultimately lead to murder.
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The Standby Program
Standby provides artists and independent makers access to state-of-the-art media services at affordable rates. Standby is an innovative program that allows the arts community access to the resources of the private sector.The program operates out of several top-rated media post-production studios located in New York City. These facilities drastically discount their rates for Standby clients by as much as 50 -90% off list prices.
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Stanza
Stanza is an artist who deals with net art, multimedia, electronic music and painting. Stanza studied at Goldsmiths and Central Saint Martins in London. The work has gained an international reputation for net specific artworks and number of these interactive audio visual online net artworks have been exhibited internationally. This main stanza site features lots of work, including the internet art project 'The Central City' as well as lots of soundtoys, interactive movies and the gallery of fine art. The intention is to make an interesting, interactive, multimedia website, with sounds, pictures and artworks. The site also contains multimedia work and electronic music; cd players are built into the site so that you can listen to my music as you browse. You can navigate around from each of the cells on the home page and you can go to to various experimental interactive audio visual pieces. Also online are paintings, photos and conceptual pieces from 1984 when at Goldsmiths', to the present day. Within the site are generative areas, areas where you can mix sounds and interact with images. There is a jukebox on the stanza main site and a karoake machine in the central city area.
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Star Productions
Check out the latest films by up and coming director Star Victoria.
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Stogiebros.com
A site for young filmmakers to display their films.
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Stop Motion Studies
Says artist David Crawford, "The Stop Motion Studies extend my long standing interest in narrative and, in particular, look at the subway as a stage upon which social dynamics and individual behavior are increasingly mediated by digital technology. As one of the most vibrant and egalitarian networks in our cities, subways bring people from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds into close contact with each other. This process plays a significant role in shaping both the character of a city as well as our individual identities."
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The Strand, Venice, CA
Directed by Dan Myrick ("The Blair Witch Project"), "The Strand" is an uncensored look at the lives of several off-beat characters that inhabit the unique world of Venice Beach, California, and how they are all interrelated. Utilizing many of the method-film techniques that were incorporated into "Blair Witch," "The Strand" maintains a sense of authenticity that cannot be found in large-scale productions. Real people and actors populate a fictional world in which spontaneous as well as scripted dialogue bring a sense of unpredictability and realism to the characters and situations.
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Strange and Beautiful Music
Website of Lounge Lizard John Lurie covers all his activities in music, film and TV ("Fishing with John").
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Strange Stuff Productions
StrangeStuff.com is an independent film news, entertainment, and information site featuring interviews, reviews, and more.
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Street Kid
A tragic story of two inner-city kids who have fallen through the potholes of a failed system.
Booney, 15, a product of Brooklyn's notorious housing project "The Hook". A guidance counselor tells Booney "Take charge. Be the man of the house," help your mother who tries to support the family with a temp job, food stamps and prayer.
Ginx, 16, the product of an upscale middle class family whose mother is a registered nurse, stepfather a doctor and a sister attending college. Ginx lashes out on the world, due to the dislike of his stepfather and the lack of love and attention from his mother.
Booney and Ginx cross paths at the Community Youth Center, an alternative high school for troubled youth, where they embarked on a treacherous journey of crime and drama which ultimately ends in tragedy for one and hope for the other.
As told by Booney, who is now 40 years of age, struggling towards the future with the scars of his past.
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Strickly Film School
A dynamic, evolving personal homage journal dedicated to the analysis of landmark world cinema from an academic perspective: universal themes, symbols and imagery, historic context and artistic genres.
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Strike The Set
On-demand film site, where indie filmmakers can submit thier films, and where film lovers can download a large selection of films...
Site is a digital media rights site what works on both MAC and PC based systems.
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Strongeyecontact.com
A new networking website for filmmakers and entertainers, Strongeyecontact.com is an excellent place for filmmakers to find all that they need to make their film a success; actors, crew, and one of the most important tools of all, publicity.

Getting started is easy. After registering at strongeyecontact.com, filmmakers can go in and submit a film, specifying all the details of their project. After the actors and crew are gathered and the film is produced, filmmakers can then upload their film to gain exposure for their work. For actors and filmmakers alike, it's a guaranteed win.
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Student Filmmakers
This Web site is a resource and community for Student Filmmakers and independent filmmakers.
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Student Films
Online Student Films From The UK's Finest Student Filmmakers
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Substance Productions
Take a ridw tih indie film mavericks, the Butler brothers, who are making funny and insightful films with real characters in real situations.
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Suite 101 - Reality of Indepedent Filmmaking
Filmmaker Jon Bruno writes articles about his life in indie film production.
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Sujit Manke
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Supercollider Films
Supercollider Films is a new film company based in Atlanta, GA, whose debut release, "Kotoran Jiwa," received homorable mention in the Neo-Pangea Cyber-Tech festival.
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Superfecta Films
A new documentary filmed in Greece about people in Greece who still worship the ancient 12 gods and are persecuted politically, legally, and socially. Check it out www.superfectafilms.com for trailer, audio excerpts from interviews, etc...
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Survival Research Labs
Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.
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Swampwater Sketch Pad
Swampwater is a comedy website, free to the public, which was developed to showcase a wide variety of comic talent in writing, video production, graphics, and music. The site is an ongoing project which will see further developement of characters and situations. We are currently working on an "introductory" independent video for festival submission. A visit to the site puts a relieved twist on the phrase, "You ain't from around here." You will be glad you ain't!
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Synoptique: The Journal of Film and Film Studies
A journal founded by grad students at Concordia University in Montreal.
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