This is the best all round guide I know of:
http://makeinternettv.org/

Another useful resource is:
http://www.ourvideo.org/

Some free software projects worth investigating:
http://blog.plumi.org/ (plone)
http://plone4artists.org/ (plone)
https://wiki.koumbit.net/FilmForge (drupal)
http://showinabox.tv/ (wordpress)

Networks to get involved with/ places to find people to help:
http://transmission.cc/
https://shootingpeople.org/

http://mandy.com/

Places to upload your videos:
http://www.vimeo.com/
http://blip.tv/
(those are the two most film maker people I know use)
(one of them lets you automatically add them to http://www.archive.org
which is a good idea)
(and, of course, you should upload to youtube too – where the biggest
audience is)

http://qik.com is cool because it always people to send video to the web straight from their phones http://bestbefore.tv/2008/11/videoboo-simple-video-upload/ does a similar thing to qik but is on your computer and lets people interview
themselves which is pretty nifty.

My two favourite online video shows:
http://peakmoment.tv/
http://submedia.tv/

A cross of those shows would be absolutely fantastic (i.e. the postive
content of Peak Moment in the edgy and funny style of SubMedia)

And my friend Vinay’s take on How Not To Do Video:
http://blip.tv/file/1685403

See also these docs:
how_to_make_good_activist_videos.pdf
video-activism-resources.rtf

And perhaps check out these books:

[amtap book:isbn=0745317707]
[amtap book:isbn=0470037881]
[amtap book:isbn=0745324126]
[amtap book:isbn=0240808312]
[amtap book:isbn=0240810295]
[amtap book:isbn=0321429176]
[amtap book:isbn=0471971774]
[amtap book:isbn=0240809351]

What have I missed?

PS thanks to Viv Gooding (who ran the build of Ben Law‘s house, incidentally) for asking me about this stuff whilst I was at Embercombe (the text above is basically an e-mail I sent him), and to tav too (his recent post on becoming a film maker prompted me to whack this info up here )

Wildlife film maker Rebecca Hosking investigates how to transform her family’s farm in Devon into a low energy farm for the future, and discovers that nature holds the key.

With her father close to retirement, Rebecca returns to her family’s wildlife-friendly farm in Devon, to become the next generation to farm the land. But last year’s high fuel prices were a wake-up call for Rebecca. Realising that all food production in the UK is completely dependent on abundant cheap fossil fuel, particularly oil, she sets out to discover just how secure this oil supply is.

Alarmed by the answers, she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future. (from BBC)

An examination of the commercialization of Christmas in America while following Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse (the end of humankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt.) The film also delves into issues such as the role sweatshops play in America’s mass consumerism and Big-Box Culture. From the humble beginnings of preaching at his portable pulpit on New York City subways, to having a congregation of thousands – Bill Talen (aka Rev. Billy) has become the leader of not just a church, but a national movement.

“The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole…Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world’s money…” THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned “central” bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.”

We’re screening it at 7.30pm on Saturday December 15th @ Sessions of Spontaneity

Watch the trailer now:

And watch the whole thing!

(NOTE: although much if not most of the film above is in English there are no subtitles on the spanish bits)