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Mark your calenders for another chance to hear Brian Clark speak about his passion for new media!
Jan 18, 2012 by

Collaborative Storytelling: Transmedia and Social Media ยป Social Media Week

We couldn't be more excited about welcoming long-time collaborator Brian Cain aboard as our new Executive Creative Director.
Jun 24, 2011 by Brian Cain

Brian Cain's Portfolio

Many thanks to Nick Braccia of Culture Hacker for gathering us to talk about how important Dave was.
May 25, 2011 by Haley Moore / workbookproject

Transmedia Talk 26 - Dave Szulborski Memorial Show

Clark is excited about sitting on a panel with Brian Seth Hurst in San Fran on May 17.
Apr 29, 2011 by Interactive TV Today

The TV of Tomorrow Show SF 2011

Interesting round-up from the indieWIRE perspective about yesterday's Power to the Pixel NYC event.
Apr 20, 2011 by Eric Kohn / indieWIRE

Toolkit | 5 Lessons About Transmedia from The IFP/Power To The Pixel Cross-Media Forum

Looking forward to this conference on April 12, where I'm sitting on a transmedia panel for broadcasters and their sponsors..
Apr 06, 2011 by MediaPost

ReVision - The Future of Television

Super excited to be helping Power to the Pixel spread to this side of the pond as part of their spectacular line-up for April 19 in NYC.
Mar 28, 2011 by Power to the Pixel

Power to the Pixel Programme Announced

A nice scrapbook of ideas, quotes, comments and reactions about my DIY DAYS fireside chat yesterday with Faris.
Mar 06, 2011 by Kevin Shockey

DIY Days New York 2011 - Brian Clark and Faris Yakob

Psyched to be sponsors and participants again of this great event.
Mar 05, 2011 by DIY Days

DIY DAYS - a roving conference for those who create

Had a wonderfully time being Skyperviewed by the brilliantly insightful Brian Seth Hurst.
Feb 24, 2011 by Brian Seth Hurst

Video: Crowdsourced Storytelling - InteractiveTV Today

Happy Valentine's Day - check out the debut of "When Strangers Click" on HBO tonight. It was a joy to work with Marc Weiss again.
Feb 14, 2011 by HBO Documentaries

When Strangers Click: Five Stories From The Internet

From Robert Kenner, the director of last year's Oscar nominated 'Food, Inc.' and Marc Weiss, the creator of the celebrated TV series P.O.V.

Always love the annual gathering of alternate reality game enthusiasts & creators: hats off to Brooke Thompson for organizing this year.
Aug 12, 2010 by ARGN

ARGFest 2010: Hotlanta Recap - Wired

Futures of Entertainment at MIT was mindblowing. I was part of a panel with Michael Monello (as well as Derek Johnson, Victoria Jaye, Patricia Handschiegel and Jason Mittell):
Dec 07, 2009 by MIT TechTV

Producing Transmedia Experiences: Stories in a Cross-Platform World

I was on a panel at SXSW about our alternate reality game for children about the Troubled Asset Release Program ... or was I?
Mar 19, 2009 by wonderweasels

Stop TARP ARG at SXSW

Meet Eugene Hernandez

Our business partner for 12 years in indieWIRE, now moved on to new challenges.

We spent much of 2007 secretly working with Scholastic on how a series of novels, a collectible card set and an online game could work together to tell one story.
Aug 21, 2008 by Scholastic

The 39 Clues

It is time you know the truth. You are a member of the Cahill family, the most powerful family the world has ever known. 39 Clues hidden across the globe guard the source of the Cahill family's secret power, and it's up to you to find them. The hunt is on. Are you ready for the challenge?

I've been intending for a long-time to sit down with Lance and his amazing Workbook Project to start contributing to its repository of D.I.Y. production knowledge. Lance and I took a small first bite out of that in a Sunday podcast.
Aug 13, 2008 by The Workbook Project

Filmmaking, Audiences & Breaking Rules

Meet Mike Monello

We have literally been collaborating with Mike on entertainment properties and advertising since we formed the company.

After 12 amazing years bootstrapping the heart of independent film to the Web, we couldn't be more thrilled to find a home for it where it can continue to grow and thrive.
Jun 16, 2008 by Dade Hayes, Anne Thompson / Variety

New Site Snags indieWIRE, Leonsis Venture Offers 250 Titles

Former AOL vice chairman Ted Leonsis believes he has a cure for documentary films' box office blues in his new Web distrib outlet, SnagFilms. Additionally, SnagFilms has acquired New York-based IndieWire, the independent film newswire, social network and hub.

Lurching from the grave into a half-life near you: Freakylinks on the air again!
Feb 12, 2008 by Shadow

FreakyLinks to air on DIRECTV'S Chiller TV

In my interview with Frank, I let slip part of the business model we're exploring with our Eldritch Errors property.
Dec 20, 2007 by Frank Rose / Wired

Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games

Our friend at Scholastic break the news on their new transmedia series.
Dec 18, 2007 by New York Times

Scholastic - The 39 Clues

Meet Brooke Thompson

Our beloved collaborator in immersive experience design for more than 7 years.

On a Halloween weekend, we tried a daring experiment in collaborative immersive experience design: the way we think about creating with audience was changed forever.
Nov 05, 2007 by Brian Clark

If We Were Willing to Tease the Press

Cultist lures Internet users to West Virginia wilderness - strangers narrowly avoid becoming victims, return alive with their tale. Monday, November 5, 2007 (Cass, West Virginia)

For our indieWIRE 10th anniversary party, we gave b&w Kodak camera to attendees. These are some of the photos they took.
Dec 19, 2006 by the indieWIRE party

indieWIRE 10th Anniversary Party Photos

Meet Justice Mitchell

A collaborator since the mid-90's, our Creative Director from 2005-2006, and all-around madman.

In 2005 and 2006, we worked with the San Francisco Film Society to launch a new journalism brand to cover the Bay-area film scene.
Mar 22, 2006 by San Francisco Film Society

San Francisco Film Reviews and News | sf360.org

Launched in March, 2006, and currently published by the San Francisco Film Society, SF360.org serves a regional and national audience of filmmakers, industry professionals and aficionados who visit the site, subscribe to the weekly newsletters and participate in the fast-growing SF360.org community.

Sat down over Tex-Mex with ARGNet's Dee Cook for an interview in Austin.
Mar 14, 2006 by Dee Cook / ARGNet

SXSW Interactive: Brian Clark of GMD Studios

Wow, we're blushing over here.
Jun 09, 2003 by the Webby Awards

indieWIRE Wins Webby for Film

Let this be a lesson to us all about the accidents that fans can make remixing your work.
Apr 04, 2003 by BBC News

Bill Gates hoax hits Korean market

Best compliment I could imagine from Variety: "these actors playing 'real' people seem so unawares, so uncannily un-actorly".
Feb 24, 2002 by Scott Foundas

Variety Reviews - Nothing So Strange

Leave it to Wired to get beyond the surface controversy and into the meaty details of our 2002 debut of "Nothing So Strange".
Jan 16, 2002 by Jason Silverman

New Film: Enemy at the Bill Gates

"I still think most of Hollywood doesn't get the Web, which has been relegated to marketing departments along with poster design and television advertisements. (The studios) approach the Web as a way to promote product and end up missing out on the incredible opportunities it provides for storytelling and interacting with fans."

In 2001, we launched an art preservation effort for sideshow banner painter Johnny Meah with our longtime collaborator Michael Monello.
Aug 09, 2001 by GMD Studios & Michael Monello

The Czar of Bizarre

From the late 1950's to the present, Meah painted approximately 2,000 canvases. Amazingly, however, very few of the old banner survived the indifference of time: they were generally regarded as disposable advertising in the 40's and 50's.

In late 1999, Haxan Films' Gregg Hale had an idea: take part of the pilot money from a television show deal and put it into a Web counterpart. In January 2000, Freakylinks.com launched and was the #3 television show website by the show's debut in July 2000.
Jan 20, 2001 by Fox Television

Welcome to Freaky Links

I'm Derek Barnes, your friendly host and resident raving loon. The web site is concerned with but not limited to; monsters, freaks, ghosts, demons, psychic powers, anti-gravity, teleportation, unknown animals, things from space, unexplained natural phenomenon, and if you can boil gasoline.

Early coverage of our new experimental film project with Brian Flemming from the tech press.
Dec 13, 2000 by Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet

'Blair Witch' makers 'kill' Bill Gates

Meet Karol Martesko-Fenster

Our partner in indieWIRE for 12 years, and our collaborator in other ventures for longer than that.

A great archive of clips and related media from the Freakylinks show.
Nov 22, 2000 by

Video Archive - Freakylinks

FreakyLinks was an American television show that combined elements of horror, mystery, and comedy. It aired on the Fox Network from October 2000 until June 2001, for a total run of 13 episodes. The feel of the show closely modeled that of The X-Files and other supernatural-themed shows that were popular at the time. In 2008, the series began airing on Universal's horror network Chiller.

More than a year before the first festival debut in Park City, our "documentary from an alternate universe" was making waves online and in the media.
Oct 22, 2000 by Brian Flemming & GMD Studios

NOTHING SO STRANGE

When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was shot dead on December 2, 1999, it was a tragedy that resonated throughout the world. But as time wears on, that tragedy has developed into a mystery for many observers, who see police misconduct and a cover-up where others see an open-and-shut case. NOTHING SO STRANGE follows the efforts of an organized group of these skeptics.

Out the gate with our first real non-preview issue of ifcRANT (the start of more than two years of a joint publishing partnership with Cablevision).
Jun 25, 2000 by Independent Film Channel

Revolutionary Issue of ifcRANT Features Director John Waters

Established to give a voice to those who are passionate about films and taking real chances in filmmaking, ifcRANT is the first interactive, cross-platform publication comprised of print, television, Web, broadband as well as internet and satellite radio components. Launched in May 2000, the bi-monthly magazine is a publication of The Independent Film Channel (IFC), published six times per year as a co-venture with indieWIRE LLC.

A labor of love that became a critical force in the world of independent film, sold to SnagFilms 12 years later and still going strong.
Jul 15, 1996 by indieWIRE

About indieWIRE

The leading news, information, and networking site for independent-minded filmmakers, the industry and moviegoers alike, indieWIRE launched on July 15, 1996. Winner of the Webby Award for best film website, lauded as a 'must read' by Variety, branded the 'online heartbeat of the world's independent film community' by Forbes, and dubbed 'best indie crossroads' by film critic Roger Ebert.

In 1995, we worked tech start-up Rockslide to use the Web to connect artists with fans, including the earliest downloadable song (in MP2, because MP3 hadn't been invented) from a major label.
Aug 11, 1995 by Chris Van Valen

Downloadable Single from King Crimson's VROOOM

Meet Gregg Hale

We've been collaborating with each other for over a decade on films and advertising.