You may be pleased to know that all software is not dauntingly and prohibitively expensive, including those applications geared towards filmmakers. There are indeed a chockful of freeware and shareware applications for film production and post-production that can be had for little to no cost, and these tools span the creative range from screenwriting to 3D animation to editing and compositing.

Check out Free Geekery’s collection of fifteen must-have freeware programs for filmmakers for where to find some of these potentially useful apps. There’s a good chance you are already familiar with or using some of these tools, but the list is solid and worth browsing anyway.