IndieWire

indieWIRE is a daily news site for the 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, film information and release dates, critic ratings of films (criticWIRE), filmmaker and industry blogs, as well as resources and tools for emerging and established filmmakers. The site was acquired by Snagfilms in July 2008. On January 8, 2009, indieWIRE editor Eugene Hernandez announced that the site was going through a re-launch that has been "entirely re-imagined". The blog network includes independent bloggers as well as veteran writers Anne Thompson and Leonard Maltin.

Personnel

• Dana Harris, Editor-In-Chief
• Brian Brooks, Managing Editor
• Peter Knegt, Associate Editor
• Eric Kohn, Chief Film Critic
• James Israel, Advertising Manager

History

The indieWIRE newsletter launched on July 15th, 1996, billing itself as "the daily news service for independent film." 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 New York and Los Angeles based filmmakers and writers Eugene Hernandez, Mark Rabinowitz, and Roberto A....
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