I wasn’t able to attend the Shooting People/BAFTA Short Sighted event in London earlier this month due to the very inconvenient fact that I was in New York! But all the feedback has been excellent and it sounds like filmmakers really benefited from the day’s panels and case studies. I particularly like this comment:

“The event was motivating due to the knowledge of panel members as well as the clever filmmakers attending. Shooting People is ‘as yellow as the generosity of a pineapple’.” (Tontxi Vazquez, Writer/Producer)

I think Shooting People is as yellow as the generosity of a pineapple should be our new tagline!

Whether you attended or not make sure you download the book of useful contacts (sales agents, festivals, websites etc.) and some tips from yours truly on filmmaking in a web 2.0 world. There’s lots of good stuff in there for all filmmakers although the focus is on short films.

If you think we have left out any ueful contacts or websites please leave a comment here so we can build our database and continue to provide useful information to y’all. Plus if you agree/disagree with any of my tips please leave comments too. It’s always good to hear from filmmakers who are actually going through it because I know it’s much easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk.

So here it is! The newest member of our blog family. This is where we will blog about all the cool new stuff happening on the web and beyond that will be useful to you as filmmakers.

We want to tell you about tech wunderkind filmmakers like Lance Weiler who is spreading the knowledge so brilliantly with his Workbook Project.

And talk about innovators like Matt Hanson with Swarm of Angels, M dot Strange with We Are the Strange, and Matt Gaylor with Open Source Cinema.

And show you the filmmakers who have ventured into the scary territory of self-distribution and survived to tell the tale. Filmmakers like Arin Crumley and Susan Buice with Four Eyed Monsters, Hunter Weeks with 10MPH, and Todd Rohal with The Guatamalan Handshake.

And investigate the filmmakers who are partnering with non-profit organizations to promote their films and change the world in the process, filmmakers like Marc and Nick Francis with Black Gold, and Paul Taylor and Teddy Leifer with We Are Together.

And we want to talk about cool blogs and podcasts, interesting plugins and widgets, new online social networks and video hosting sites, and anything else Web 2.whateveritisnow that takes our fancy.

But we also want to hear from you about your experiences and about the resources you have found useful so please leave comments and get involved. We’ll have guest bloggers posting too so that you get to hear a variety of perspectives from all over the world.

Bring it on!