New sites

Moving Image Source
Created by the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, USA, Moving Image Source is a website devoted to the history of film, television, and digital media. It features original articles by leading critics, authors, and scholars; a calendar that highlights major retrospectives, festivals, and gallery exhibitions at venues around the world; and a regularly updated guide to online research resources.
The Magic Lantern Society
The society aims to "exchange knowledge, co-ordinate research and disseminate information about the history and development of the magic lantern and lantern slides."
BBC Commissioning Independent Starter Pack
Information about BBC commissioning and detailed guidelines relating to the production process.
Europa Film Treasures
About fifty films from the last century are available to view online.
BBC Film Network filmmaking guide
Intended to help new filmmakers find out about the filmmaking and exhibition process, from pre-production through to marketing and distribution. The filmmaker's guide seeks to answer common questions that BBC Film Network receives from filmmakers.
Contemporary Films footage archive
Contemporary Films' eclectic footage library covers a vast archive of rare and unique material concentrating on the political, the cultural and the social.
FILMCLUB
FILMCLUB distributes films across the range of genre and period for screenings at in-school film clubs.
Nisi Masa
Supported by the European Union, the Council of Europe, GREC and Fondation de France, Nisi Masa is a pan-European network of associations related to European cinema. Their aims are to discover new talent, to foster European awareness through cinema, to develop cross-cultural cinema projects, and to create a platform for collaboration and discussion. Website contains Nisi Masa competition information (for 18-28 year olds), upcoming events, Network contact details, news and links.
mediabox
Mediabox offers grants to develop and produce projects for film, television, radio, online and multi media platforms that express the ideas and/or views of young people age 13-19 in a creative way.
FilmSound.org
Comprehensive information on film sound and sound recording. Includes sound terminology, articles, a Q and A section and a useful bibliography.
BFI Media Courses and Multimedia Courses Directory
In association with Skillset, The Media Courses and Multimedia Courses Directory provides details of courses across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and can be searched by subject, location or institution.
jobs.ac.uk
Promoted as the 'top recruitment site in its sector' in the areas of research, science and academic professions, this site advertises 30,000 jobs annually. Claiming to be 'more effective at placing candidates than the print media', site includes a list of all its clients and is arranged for use both by jobseekers and recruiters. Positions can be searched by sector and specialist area.
Lumiere
Created by the European Audiovisual Observatory, the Lumiere database records admissions to films released in Europe since 1996. Users can search by title and director.
DOC-AIR
Doc-Air offers mainly European contemporary documentary and 'experimental' films streamed or to download. The catalogue is searchable by title, director, country or thematic category. Interesting - important even - films at really cheap prices.
filmarchives online
Filmarchives online provides access to the catalogue information of film archives all over Europe. The website has been developed as part of the MIDAS project (Moving Image Database for Acess and Re-use of European Film Collections) and provides information principally about non-fiction material.