Have y’all checked out the Renew Media Resources blog? It’s packed with lots of really useful information for filmmakers from great writers and documentary cheerleaders like Agnes Varnum and Pamela Cohn and is definitely worth adding to your blog list. Pamela Cohn’s most recent entry is an interview with Brent Hoff of Wholphin. Now anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge fan of Wholphin and that I nag and nag people until they subscribe but nobody holds it against me cos the films are that good! You can watch some films on their website right now, including David Lowery’s Some Analog Lines and David and Nathan Zellner’s hilarious Quasar Hernandez. You should also know that Kent Osborne features in at least two films I watched on the site recently but he has a mustache in one of them. True story.

There are a bunch of really interesting podcasts online from BRITDOC 07. I just listened to John Bates from the London Business School talking about How to Kill a Growing Creative Business which has some incredibly useful info for people who are trying to navigate the precarious territory where commerce and art intersect. This is not just about how to avoid starving in a garret but about how to build a business that is creative, innovative and sustainable.

You can also learn about online distributors, turning your film into a campaign, how to pitch, and the secrets behind the docs that have made big money.

Click here to download the podcasts.