Resources

ARC Seminars:
- The It Factor – with Casting Director Robi Reed and CW Exec Lori Openden (ARC/Merge Summit)
- Master Class with Actor Harry Lennix (ARC/Merge Summit)
- Voice Over Pros
- Cold Reading Workshop (with Casting Director Phaedra Harris)
IMDB (A online film, TV & videogame database of talent, crew, titles in development, production stages, etc.)
Actors’ Access (Casting calls, acting workshops, and mentorship.)
LA Casting (Casting calls in Los Angeles)
Central Casting (Casting for Background Actors)
Casting Frontier (Casting Website)
Audition Sides (Audition Sides and Monologues)
Sundance Theater Lab (A 3 Week Retreat to support the creation of theatrical plays.)
Deadline Hollywood (Trade News for Hollywood)
Backstage (Online resource for casting directors and talent searching for work)
Let it Cast (Productions cast for talent/talent submit their audition tapes via video.)
Sanford Meisner on Acting (It reads as if you’re a fly on the wall observing the class.)
“An Actor Prepares” (Constantin Stanislavski’s humble beginnings of his acting craft.)
“The Art of Acting” (Stella Adler’s take on the craft of acting)

Indiegogo (Crowdfunding)
Kickstarter (Crowdfunding for productions, inventions, and concepts)
Hatchfund (Crowdfunding website funded by GAP financiers, equity investors and the 1%.)
Slated (Crowdfunding website funded by GAP financiers, equity investors and the 1%.)
Seed and Spark (Non-monetary crowdfunding website. Users can ask for donations such as art department needs, props, costumes, etc.)

Women Moving Higher in Hollywood (ARC Seminar)
IMDB (A online film, TV & videogame database of talent, crew, titles in development, production stages, etc.)
FilmContracts.net
Sundance Directors Lab
Sundance Creative Documentary Lab
Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship & Lab
Plural Eyes (Post Production – Sync Audio with Video)
Save Vid (Save Video Files)
Freeplay Music Audio (Production Music – Royalty Free Music Database)
Casting Frontier (Casting Website)
Deadline Hollywood
Mandy.com (Production Resource)
“Directing the Actor” by Judith Weston (A textbook breaking down the craft of directing)
Directors Guild of America (Directors Union)
Creative Cow (Troubleshooting: peer-to-peer support community support for media production.)

ARC Seminars:
- How to Write a Marketable Script (with screenwriter Michael Elliot)
- Real Talk for Writers (with Crystal Flores)
Celtx (Free Screenwriting)
Ted Talks (Writers/Inspiration)
Sundance Screenwriters Lab
Script Magazine (Magazine for aspiring and professional screenwriters)
Save the Cat (Screenwriting help)
Writers’ Guild of America (Writer’s Union – Industry talent development opportunities)
Simply Scripts (Script Database)
Books:
- “The Foundations of Screenwriting” by Syd Field
- “The Art of Dramatic Writing” by Lajos Ergi (18th Century Dramatic Writing)
- “The Coffee Break Screenwriter” by Pilar Alessandra (Write your screenplay ten minutes at a time)
- “Poetics” (Aristotle’s rules of dramatic storytelling)

ARC Seminars:
- The Keith Harris Experience – Music and Programming
- Music Publishing 101 with Producer Harmony Samuels and Oronde Jenkins
Guitar Center (Equipment & Free Events/Classes)
Music Publishing 101
Audio Software:
- Pro Tools
- Logic
- Reason
- Ableton
- Garage Band
Performance Rights Societies
- ASCAP
- BMI
- SESAC
“Sound Theory, Sound Practice” by Rick Altman (Film Audio)
Keith Harris
Tuts+ (Tutorials)