indieWIRE is a daily news and social networking site for the international independent film community. It covers indie, documentary and foreign language films, as well industry news, film festival reports, filmmaker interviews, and movie reviews. The website has sections for high-profile film festivals, the indieLOOP community, filmmaker and industry weblogs, as well as resources and tools for emerging and established filmmakers.
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History
The site launched on July 15, 1996. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) [1] Following in the footsteps of various web- and AOL-based editorial ventures, indieWIRE was launched as a free daily email publication in the summer of 1996 by a group of New York and Los Angeles based filmmakers and writers. Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in the fall of 1997.
Sundance '97
In January 1997, indieWIRE made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to begin their coverage of film festivals. The Sundance Film Festival is a Film festival that takes place annually in the state of Utah, in the United States. It offered indieWIRE: On The Scene print dailies in addition to online coverage. Printed on site, in low tech black and white style, the publication was able to scoop traditional Hollywood trade dailies Variety and The Hollywood Reporter due to the delay these latter publications had for being printed in Los Angeles. Variety is a weekly entertainment trade newspaper founded in New York in 1905 by Sime Silverman The Hollywood Reporter is a major trade publication of the Film industry in the United States. Due to a zealous staff that was willing to print and distribute said dailies at all hours of the day and night, often handing them out to audiences waiting on line for films, indieWIRE was soon dubbed The School Paper. While the style and look of the print dailies improved over the years, the nickname stuck.
Fee-based service
In January 1998, indieWIRE announced it would be charging for their services. While met with cautious optimism by Wired magazine,[2] the experiment failed and indieWIRE returned to a free service less than a year later. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993
Reception
indieWIRE is said to cover lesser known film events ignored from the mainstream perspective. [3] Forbes gave it the 2002 "Best of the Web" award. Forbes is an American Publishing and media company Its flagship publication Forbes magazine is published bi-weekly [4] indieWIRE has been praised by Roger Ebert,[5] Kevin Smith, James Schamus, and Tom Barnard. Roger Joseph Ebert (iːbɝt born June 18, 1942) is an American film critic and Screenwriter. Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2 1970 is an American Screenwriter, Writer, Film director, Actor and Comic book writer James Allan Schamus is an American Academy Award nominated BAFTA Award winning Film producer and Screenwriter, noted for his work on critically Tom Barnard (born November 7, 1951) is a Radio Talk show host and former Voice-over talent
References
- ^ "The New York Times and Emerging Pictures in Association With the . . . ", MarketWatch. MarketWatch operates a financial information website that provides business news analysis and stock market data to some 6 million people Retrieved on 2007-09-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France "IndieWIRE now in its eleventh year . . . is the leading source of . . . "
- ^ Brown, Janelle (December 22, 1997), Wired Magazine http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/12/9312
- ^ "indieWIRE", Wired. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 Retrieved on 2007-09-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France "Currently, indieWIRE has little to no competition: trades like Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety may cover independent film, but from a Hollywood perspective, hidden by a huge amount of mainstream news. As filmmaker Doug Wolens points out, indieWIRE is one of the few places where filmmakers can consistently and reliably keep on top of often-ignored small film festivals, what films are opening, and what other filmmakers are thinking. "
- ^ "Best of the Web", Forbes Magazine, March 25, 2002. Forbes is an American Publishing and media company Its flagship publication Forbes magazine is published bi-weekly Events 1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on April 6. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved on 2007-09-25. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 303 - On a voyage preaching the Gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France
- ^ "Unknown title", Yahoo Internet Life, 1999-06-18. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Events 618 - Coronation of the Chinese governor Li Yuan as Emperor Gaozu of Tang, the new Emperor of China, initiating three centuries