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Is there a social network / kickstarter like site for making movies. A LinkedIn for Actors, Writers, Directors and everybody else you need to make film and television.

I'd be interested in building a site that helps people find each other, review projects and scrape together whatever funding they need to make indie films happen.

There have got to be hundreds of people floating around Hollywood trying to get into the mainstream industry.

How hard is it for these people to find each other right now?

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Most good blogs and communities are more specialized than that. Aspiring screenwriters go to John August's blog [1], documentary filmmakers go to The D-Word [2], cinematographers go to forums like DVXUser [3] and RED User [4], sound folks go somewhere else, etc.

Your idea sounds swell, though. I think a lot of people would be interested in a such a site, if done well.

[1] http://johnaugust.com/

[2] http://www.d-word.com/

[3] http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/

[4] http://www.reduser.net/

Francis Ford Coppola has a site that is a "virtual studio" called Zoetrope (http://www.zoetrope.com/). I haven't visited in a few years but it was a lot of aspiring screenwriters at the time.

I'm currently working on a collaboration tool for filmmakers and am hoping to launch it in a month or two.