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Filmmakers, directors, cinematographers, editors, vfx gurus, composers, sound people, grips, electrics, and more meet to share their work, tips, tutorials, and experiences. A place where professionals and amateurs alike unite to discuss the field and help each other. Founded 2009 · 3.1M members

3.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 18.2K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.1Mmembers
18.2Kbest post
913most comments
970posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

30% 27% 21% 12% 8%
Text 30% Video 27% Question 21% Image 12% Gallery 8% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 310 Discussion 188 Film 186 General 62 Looking for Work 44 Image 43 Request 26 Article 16 Review 15 Meta 14

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Probably one of the best shots of my Career.

↑ 18.2K 💬 409 video 2018

Found This Interesting

↑ 14.8K 💬 317 image 2025

If you ever feel bad about your storyboard drawings, here is what Rian Johnson drew for Knives Out.

↑ 14.7K 💬 259 image 2021

BTS of my first one-shot commercial

↑ 13.8K 💬 285 video 2020

I got to direct Bill Murray in a project, so I got that going for me, which is nice.

↑ 13K 💬 159 image 2017

It's told that the camera adds 10 pound..

↑ 11.1K 💬 318 image 2018

I’m a 16 year old student filmmaker. Here’s a short stop motion film I made last year.

↑ 9.7K 💬 438 video 2024

Yall think this is intentional? 🤔

↑ 8.6K 💬 306 video 2026

A film can’t exist without CINEMAtography

↑ 8.5K 💬 352 image 2019

This shot is from 1931

↑ 8.2K 💬 108 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Filmmakers, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Filmmakers?
r/Filmmakers describes itself this way: Filmmakers, directors, cinematographers, editors, vfx gurus, composers, sound people, grips, electrics, and more meet to share their work, tips, tutorials, and experiences. A place where professionals and amateurs alike unite to discuss the field and help each other. It was founded in 2009 and has 3.1M members.
How many members does r/Filmmakers have?
r/Filmmakers has about 3.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 970 of its posts; the biggest reached 18.2K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Filmmakers?
"Probably one of the best shots of my Career." reached 18.2K upvotes and 409 comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Filmmakers.
What subreddits are similar to r/Filmmakers?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats.
What kind of posts do best on r/Filmmakers?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are text posts and 27% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Filmmakers?
Across 970 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 04:00 UTC (6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 21:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 00:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Filmmakers?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Filmmakers has 6.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 307 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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