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r/Filmmakers

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
100posts 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.

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Image 51% Video 46% Gallery 2% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

Image 35 General 22 Discussion 15 Meta 10 Film 9 Tutorial 3 Video Article 2 Looking for Work 1 News 1 Offer 1

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

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Filmmakers, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.