During the current COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an outpouring of support in our local and film communities. We have compiled a list of some resources, including TONS of beautiful films currently available for free streaming !
Know of other great resources or want your own films or resources included in this list?
Shoot us an email at info@maysles.org!
film resources
Free Adobe Creative Cloud subscription for students through May 31, 2020
Emergency relief grant for women-identified artists impacted by the COVID-19 crisis
Resource guide for Art House Cinemas and Arts Nonprofits
Open in summer 2020
Fund that can be accessed by cinema workers whose hours have been curtailed because of this crisis and who are not being otherwise compensated.
List of various emergency funds for freelancers and artists
Art-House America Campaign: urgent financial relief to art house cinemas struggling during the COVID-19 closures.
Virtual Mentorship & Consultation Service for the Documentary Community
Deadline is April 6, 2020
Deadline June 10, 2020
Worker Relief Fund
Daily public dispatches of film content
Deadline April 30, 2020
Collab Master Classes for FREE!
Deadline June 15, 2020
NYC RESOURCES
Impact Fund to assist small business communities impacted by recent events.
An emergency rental assistance program that will help keep low-income families throughout New York in their homes
COVID-19 resources for undocumented communities
Compiled resources for NYC
COVID-19 resources for undocumented communities
Movimiento COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Immigrants in El Barrio (East Harlem)
Network of groups organizing to provide aid and support in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic
FREE Home cooked meals and groceries to Black, Brown and Indigenous people in need for the duration of the COVID 19 crisis.
Download a free e-reader for access to 300,000 NYPL titles
Webinars free online
Free online films
The 58th annual edition of North America's longest running experimental film festival will take place online with a series of scheduled streams from March 24th-29th
Every Friday they release a new doc from their archives.
The short experimental films High Noon, DEEP SLEEP, and we began by measuring distance, are available in their entirety on the filmmaker's Vimeo page
Collaborative list of experimental films and videos for everyone's viewing pleasure! Sorted alphabetically and by content.
250 Films from the French Film collective streaming for free
A series of films by filmmaker Iara Lee
Stream over 300 documentaries for free on IDFA's website.
Online Shorts
Elephant’s Dream tells the story of three public sector-workers in a rail station, the central post office and the only existing fire station in Kinshasa. Regardless of their painful working conditions, these workers show humanity, pride, humor, and above all strength to carry on in times of deep crisis.
Online platform that showcases projects by and about black filmmakers
"The ballad Genesis and Lady Jaye", An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of groundbreaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) and his other half and collaborator, Lady Jaye, centered around the daring sexual transformations the pair underwent for their “Pandrogyne” project
"The Rest I Make Up", a documentary about the playwright Maria Irene Fornes, temporarily available for free on Vimeo.
Stream 3 free months of rotating films
A variety of festivals are online, here are a few
A Letterboxd user's (gump) list of over 800 films available online, with links, including many documentaries and experimental works
A Maysles curated essential documentary channel streaming on Ovid.tv
Four early documentaries by the filmmaker on his Vimeo page.
Filmmaker Penny Lane has made three of her feature documentaries temporarily available for free on her Vimeo page (THE PAIN OF OTHERS, NUTS!, OUR NIXON)
Quarantine Shorts - 1 per day until its over
Free streaming of all of this experimental filmmakers work free on his website
Iara Lee
Daily free short film from the cancelled Tribeca Film Festival
Virtual Film Festival
