Hulu Resources for Filmmakers

If you've been paying attention this week you can't help but have noticed the hullabaloo about the Criterion Collection abandoning Netflix and moving to Hulu. As a subscriber to both Netflix on demand and Hulu Plus the only difference to me is the portal I use to get to this great resource. If you're not a Hulu Plus subscriber but you are a movie lover, the Criterion might be a good impetus to subscribe for a couple of months. If you're a filmmaker you don't even have to subscribe to Hulu to get a little education and entertainment - mostly not as high-brow as Criterion's movies but fun none-the-less. If there's nothing on TV here are a few suggestions from Hulu and, if you're a film student either in a real school of through your own invention, you can even count this as studying:

• Edit Your Own Damn Movie - directors talking about directing - not especially deep but very entertaining 
• American Grindhouse - a history of american exploitation film
• RiP! A Remix Manifesto - the complexities of intellectual property in the era of peer-to-peer file sharing
• Blood, Boobs And Beast -  story of Don Dohler, whose movies have been called everything from oddly brilliant to some of the worst films of all time
• Bergman Island - Ingmar Bergman discusses his work, his fears, his regrets, and his ongoing artistic passion (Hulu Plus only)
• Touch The Sound - challenges the way we think about sound
• Poultry In Motion: Truth Is Stranger Than Chicken - hilarious documentary that follows cult director Lloyd Kaufman as he tries to make a feature with no money
• Dreams on Spec - screenwriters talk about breaking in to screenwriting