Openfilm: Home for Great Films

If you want to see the real new wave of filmmakers it's not places like Sundance and Cannes you should be visiting. The REAL new wave of gifted filmmakers are showing and sharing their work in sites like Openfilm. This movie and social networking share tool is an online video platform that let's you discover a community of filmmakers, film schools and festivals.
 
Openfilm.com is an online video platform for discovering, distributing and financing independent films online. Through its various third-party distribution platforms Openfilm offers independent filmmakers the opportunity to gain exposure and earn revenue for their work. The Openfilm Advisory Board includes professional members of the film industry James Caan, Robert Duvall, Scott Caan and Mark Rydell, all of who offer independent film advice to the Openfilm community of filmmaker and film fan members. Openfilm presents opportunities for its members to enter online film contests to win money and gain exposure. The Openfilm Get It Made competition–its featured short film contest–offers contestants the chance to win a generous cash prize and a film financing contract with Openfilm Studios. The grand winners can use this contract to develop their short film into a feature length film. Openfilm supports its filmmaker members by providing a rich list of national and international film festivals to which they can submit their films to via the site. Through the Openfilm film festivals calendar, filmmakers and film fans can find the right festivals by checking upcoming deadlines, submission criteria and locations. This is one of the many tools Openfilm offers it members to promote and expose their work in the independent film industry.
 

Conclusion
If you are sick of the seemingly never-ending plethora of Hollywood remakes being churned out in Tinseltown today and hanker for something with a bit more substance then Openfilm is the place to go. This beautifully designed free movie tool is a gem for the film fan. Here you will find unseen original documentaries and short films that may well give you hope for the future of movies...because there's not a lot of originality in Hollywood right now, that's for sure.