fun stuff: monthly survey & special links

monthly survey for november/december:

well, it's not quite the oscars and i'm sure they'll never ask my opinion, so these are MY 6 nominees for best film. there will be a new survey every month, so keep coming back!

feel free to e-mail me at tranch@icelation.com with a question of your own that you might be interested in seeing for a future survey...

to view the results of past months' surveys, click here:
past survey results

cool links: whenever i'm poking around on the web, these are some of my favorite film-related sites to visit.

here are some links to sites about some of my favorite filmmakers, sites with interesting articles and current news & gossip, sites where you can download just about any movie scripts, sites about film festivals, etc.

the internet is a very good source of information on the film industry if you know where to look. hopefully i've made it a little easier for you. enjoy!

p.s. if there are other great film sites out there that you like that i may have overlooked, please let me know. e-mail me at tranch@icelation.com and let me know what i'm missing out on.

www.alwaysif.com: the official website of Always Independent Films, which features the first 2 and a half minutes of my short film Just Outside the Door. click on the link for "shorts" and search for it. you'll see a page dedicated to my film!.

www.tviff.com: the official website of the Temecula Valley International Film Festival, which my short film Just Outside the Door was accepted to and will screen at in mid-june 1999.

www.starwars.com: the official website of the star wars films, with lots of great info on the films, including video clips!

www.filmmag.com: 'filmmaker' magazine's website, with features on the latest in independent film

www.indiewire.com/film/festivals: recaps of recent indie film festivals

www.lifilm.org: official site of the long island film festival, which in 1997 exhibited my short film from NYU, "form space & murder"

www-scf.usc.edu/~rskelley: a tribute site to one of my favorite filmmakers, john sayles

www.script-o-rama.com: an unbelievable resource for accessing movie scripts for just about ANY film you want!

www.flf.com/sweet: the official site of one of my favorite films, 1997's "the sweet hereafter"

us.imdb.com/Title?Godfather%3A+Part+II,+The+(1974): information on another of my all-time favorite films, "the godfather, part 2"

www.sfiff.org/index-js.shtml: the official site of the san francisco film society

www.scriptshop.com: links to various sites with movie scripts

www.imdb.com: the 'internet movie database,' which supposedly has info on virtually every movie ever made.

www.film.com/Default.htm: for reviews, movie clips, news, you name it!

us.imdb.com/top_250_films: for some healthy debate, go to this page and get ready to argue! it lists the supposed top 250 films of all time, as voted by visitors to that website.

film.tierranet.com/directors/scorsese: a good site about one of my favorite directors, martin scorsese

www.geocities.com/~aral/rmain.html: for some interesting and original movie reviews, check out 'the mutant reviewers from hell' website!

www.mrcranky.com: for the most cynical film reviews you'll ever see (but done in a truly tasteless and amusing way), visit the mr. cranky website.

www.viewaskew.com: the official website of "viewaskew films", the production company behind fellow new jersey filmmaker kevin smith (clerks, mall rats, chasing amy)

www.mediaalliance.org/advocacy: a site that has information regarding film funding and other helpful info to filmmakers