Venkat's handpicked articles and websites :

1. Skillset for Director
                    Skillset.org - If you are a wanna be director this article helps .

2. List of film directors in hundreds of movies - filmref.com
                     Strictly Film School is a dynamic, evolving personal homage journal dedicated to the analysis of landmark world cinema from an academic perspective.

3. Directors Guild of America
                     The Directors Guild of America represents more than 12,000 members working in U.S. cities and abroad. Their creative work is represented in theatrical, industrial, educational and documentary films and television, as well as, videos and commercials. Following is a brief history of their Guild.

4. Masterpiece movies from 1910 to 2006
                   Moviemartyr.com is a wonderful site. Abbas Kiarostami’s 1991 pseudo-documentary masterpiece Life and Nothing More…(also known as And Life Goes On…) is an astonishing film, and probably the finest Iranian movie

5.Guardian Film article and interviews
                    Guardian.co.uk has a very good coverage of film news and interview of directors.

6. François Truffaut was cinema - A inspiring life of a filmmaker -
                    sensesofcinema.com - A passionate and sensitive man, and a committed and independent artist. A director who, more than loving cinema, represented it. He was cinema. He was François Truffaut.

7. Debut director as proud as a peacock - newsgd.com
                     I like chinese film. This article is about the film peacock written by Li Qiang and directed by Gu, the internationally renowned cinematographer who has long collaborated with film directors Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige for such acclaimed films as Red Sorghum (Hong Gaoliang), King of the Children (Haizi Wang), Ju Dou and Farewell My Concubine (Bawang Bieji) since the late 1980s.

8. THE FILM DIRECTOR
                     A long and very important article for every film student from filmmakers.com. A director interprets the script, coaches the performers, works together with the montagist, etc., interrelating them all to create a work of art. .

9. Lots of cinema news
                    cinemablend.com has lots of news for you.

10.Chicago Filmmakers
                     Chicago Filmmakers is a 30 year-old media arts organization that fosters the creation, appreciation and understanding of film and video as media for artistic and personal expression, as well as media of important social and community impact.

11.M. Night Shyamalan, director
                      hollywoodreporter.com has this article about the filmmaker M Night shyamalan.

12.Experimental Filmmakers links and directory -
                     dmoz.org has this long list of experimental filmmakers and Yahoo directory of film directors .

13.Filmmaking articles and film directing tips -
                     I learnt a lot from articles by Peter D. Marshall at actioncutprint.com

14.CREATING A VISUAL - An Interview with Filmmaker Scott Rice
                     Its a old interview but its for those of you who are shooting on mini Dv.

15.James Cameron - Listing of movies he made
                     imdb.com - The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University but, after graduating, drove a truck to support his screen-writing ambition. He landed his first professional film job as art director, miniature-set builder, and process-projection supervisor .

16.Video interviews of Hollywood directors and producers
                    hollywoodfutures.org - sucessful directors and producers talk about what it takes to oversee the production of a successful film--from small independent projects to multimillion dollar budgets like Spider-Man. .

I look farward to add more articles and sites as and when i come across them. Please send your Articles , recommendations to venkatrocks66@gmail.com