Filmmaking

Film Stylo - short video essays about the current situation

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Manfrotto’s “Four Walls Short Film Festival”

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Roger Corman Wants Your Short for His Quarantine Film Festival

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Bored Filmmaker Challenge (competition date has passed?)

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“Bored at Home” 60-Second Filmmaking Competition

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Sigma Announces #SigmaShotatHome Cinematography Contest

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Corona short film festival

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Writing

Golden script competition

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Several calls for submission

Reading

20 best Pandemic Books (don't scare yourself, it's only fiction. Mostly.) Start with The Stand.

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A Dystopian Reading List (Start with Station Eleven,)

Photography

Shutout - lots of photography competitions and challenges

Learning

Coursera - free courses from the world's best universities, including...

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...film stuff...

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... photography stuff...

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... creative writing stuff...

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... and Yale's all-time most popular course: The Science of Wellbeing.

Watching

Martin Scorsese's list of films all aspiring filmmakers should watch. What do you MEAN you've never seen The Godfather?

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Rolling Stone's 100 Best TV Shows Ever. Extremely biased towards America. Try Fargo. (Then watch the movie.)

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Terrifying movies about pandemics and dystopias.