Hey everyone,

We're leaving behind the first week of June with new featured content and noteworthy additions to Film Annex!

Featured Filmmaker

José Mauricio Vargas Mercado is a filmmaker from Mexico who makes fantasy/adventure and horror films. His film Save with Conscience was the most voted film on Film Annex in May and got Mercado the $1000 award in the War of Films contest.

Read our interview with José Mauricio Vargas Mercado.

Featured Film

Anxiety Acres is a short film by the filmmaking duo Jessica King and Julie Keck about a couple who move to the country to find peace and quiet, but have to deal with new things to worry about instead. Anxiety Acres was launched on Film Annex on June 1st and is being shown on the web for the first time! In this unique, fun, and witty film, you will find many unexpected things, including zombies, hitchhikers, and chocolate cake. So get ready!

Featured Web TV

Red Notice TV is a web television highlighting the pre-production and audition period of Film Annex's upcoming original web series Red Notice. Inspired by Dante's Inferno, each episode is a modern adaptation of this timeless classic and involves spine-tingling crime investigation stories taken from current events.

Featured Blog Post

Join the Catalyst Campaign - Support Creative Commons! On June 1st, Creative Commons launched The Catalyst Campaign in order to fund their Catalyst Grants program.

Catalyst Grants enable organizations or individuals like you to make use of the power of Creative Commons and encourage the the use of CC tools, licenses, technologies, and help communities be creative and self-sustainable. The grants are between $1,000–$10,000. To read the rest of the blog click here.

PLEASE NOTE: We are now featuring blog posts on our homepage! If you want your blogs to be seen by our half a million daily users, post articles, write about your films, your filmmaking process, other films you like, basically anything that will help our film community to get to know you better! Bloggers are allowed to put their own advertising on their pages. For more information, send us an email at info@filmannex.com.

ALSO NOTE: If you're uploading HD versions of your movies, please make sure they are optimized for progressive streaming.

Have a great weekend and stay tuned,

The Film Annex Team