The Ultimate (and growing) list of Free Film Stuff

Students and Independent filmmakers are always in need of low cost/no-cost opportunities. So we here at Filmmaker U decided to put together the ultimate list of free resources for filmmakers. Including Free Sound FX, Free Music, Free Special Effects, Free Plugins, Free Stock Footage, and Free Images.

This list of free resources is a live list, so if you see a free resource missing, please add a comment below!

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Last updated June 22, 2020 

Free SFX

• BBC Sound Library
• Adobe Free Sounds
• Youtube SFX Library
• Facebook Sound Effects
• American University Free Archive
• Freesound.org
• Freesoundeffects.com
• Producer Spot
• Free SFX UK
• 99 Sounds
• ZapSplat
• Partner’s In Rhyme
• Sound Jay
• Sound Gator
• Ambient Mixer
  
• Community Audio
• Orange Free Sounds
• GR Sounds
• FXHome
• Premium Beat Ambient Backgrounds
• Premium Beat Free Epic Sound FX for Trailers
• Cornell Lab of Ornithology Sounds Macaulay Library (Recording quality is hit or miss)
  
• Premiumbeat's Free Footsteps
• Cinematic Atmospheres

Free SFX But With A Hitch

• Audio Blocks (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Sound Bible (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Elements (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Envato (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Audio Micro (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Film Stocks (Requires Login/Sign Up)

Royalty-Free Music

• Moby’s Free Music For Students
• Free Music Archive
• Youtube Free Music
• Facebook Creator Studio
• Musopen
• CCTrax
• AudioNautix
• Incompetech
• Free Stock Music
• TechnoAxe
• CCMixter
• Partner’s in Rhyme
• Scott Buckley
• Royalty Free Planet

Free Music But With A Hitch

• Premium Beat Option One (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Premium Beat Option Two (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Ben Sound (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Hook Sounds (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Go Sound Track (Requires Login/Sign Up)

Free VFX

• Youtube Free Stuff Channel
• Premium Beat Fog Overlays
• Premium Beat Explosions
• Videvo (Search for Free FX if it doesn’t appear)
• Videezy
• Premium Beat Camera Shake Presets
• Digital Meals Smoke Billows
• Digital Meals Smoke Wisps
• Premium Beat Computer and HUD VFX
• Detonation Films Dirt, Fire, Flare, and Smoke Effects
• Video CoPilot Smoke Effects
• Premium Beat Video Overlays
• Cute Film Stock
• Pixabay
• Unity 3D Fire, Explosions, & Smoke
• Chroma Key Backgrounds 
• Premium Beat Compositing Elements
• Premium Beat Space Textures
• Premium Beat Lens Flares
• Rocket Stock's Volumetric Light and Dust

Free VFX But With A Hitch

• Film Stocks (Effects) (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Production Crate (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Action VFX (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Rody Polis Fire (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Envato Elements (Requires Login/Sign Up) 
• FX Elements (Requires Login/Sign Up) 
• VFX Central (Requires Email Sign Up)
• Unity Assets Cartoon FX (Requires Login/Sign Up)

Free Motion Graphics

• Premium Beat Logo Reveal
• Videvo
• Premium Beat Transitions
• Premium Beat Animated Icon Set
• Rocket Stock Overlays
• Premium Beat Transitions for After Effects
• Neon Text Typeface Animations
• Premium Beat Free Marketing Graphics Pack
• Rocket Stock Rounded Titles Lower Third Animations
• Premium Beat Free Motion Graphics
• Videezy Motion Graphics
• Pixabay
• Premium Beat Motion Graphic Accents
• Movie Tools
• Motion and Design
• Brush Stroke Motion Graphics
• Textured Motion Graphics

Free Motion Graphics But With A Hitch

• Envato (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Motion Array (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Story Blocks Option One (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Story Blocks Option Two (Requires Login/Sign Up)

Free LUTS | Free Looks (Color)

• Premium Beat LUTS for Log Footage
• Rocketstock 
• Premium Beat Looks for Lumetri
• Rocket Stock Da Vinci Resolve LUTs
• Motion Array Premiere Pro LUTs
• Juan Melara Emulation LUTs
• Frank Glencairn Kodachrome LUTs
• Shutterstock Grain Overlays
• Premium Beat Color Presets for After Effects
• IWLTBAP (Scroll down for Sample)
• FILMiC Pro LUTs
• Filter Grade
• Motion Array
• Motion Array Action Movie LUTS
• Preset Pro
  

Free LUTs But With A Hitch

• Film Crux LUTs (Requires Email)
• Ground Control Color (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• SmallHD (Requires Form to Be Filled In)
• Digital Colorist (Requires Form to Be Filled In)
• Color Grading Central (Requires Email Sign Up)
• On1 LUTs (Requires Email Sign Up) 
• Rocket Rooster (Requires Email Sign Up)
• Fresh LUTs (Requires Email Sign Up)
• Motion VFX MLUTs (Requires Email Sign Up)
• Colorist Factory (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Studio Binder (Requires Email Sign Up)
• LUT House (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Go Film Now (Requires Email)
• Film Simplified (Requires Login/Sign Up)
  
• Holy Grain (Requires Login/Sign Up)

Short Stories to License

• Stephen King’s Dollar Babies (Requires $1)

Free Plug-Ins

• Audio Bombs (Audio Presets)
• Core Melt 
• Creative Impatience (Premiere Pro Plug-Ins)
• FXFactory Plug-Ins
• VHS Glitch (Requires Login/Sign Up)
• Projector Films Light Leaks
• Pro Tools Experts Free Plugins

Free Stock Footage

• Vimeo (Free shutter Flicker)
• Pexels
• Stock Footage For Free
• Videezy

Free Stock Footage But With A Hitch

• Film Stocks (Video)

Misc. Free NLE’s, DAW's, Tools and More

• Everything Free for FCPX
• Blackmagic Resolve
• Lightworks
• Blackmagic Fusion
• Paint.net (Image & Photo Editing Tool)
• Reaper (Sound Editing Software)
• Shortcut (Open Source NLE)
• Audacity (Sound Software)
• Cakewalk by Bandlab (Sound Software)
  
• Autodesk (Open to Students)
• Blender (Open Source 3D Creation Suite)
• Celtx (Scriptwriting Software)
• Gimp (Image & Photo Editing Tool)
• Handbrake (Transcoder)
• NVIDIA (Texture Tools for Adobe)
• Scriptation (Free Scripts for Research)
• Internet Movie Script Database (Free Scripts for Research)
• Magic Lantern (Canon Camera Software)
• Pro Tools First (DAW | Requires Account)
• Avid Media Composer First (NLE | Requires Account)
• Pencil2D (Animation Software)
• Krita (Animation Software)
• SketchBook (Animation Software)
• OpenToonz (Animation Software)
• Synfiq (Animation Software)

If you know of something we're missing, let us know in the comments below!