indieWIRE

We have a long-term love affair with the independent film movement, and indieWIRE has been at the heart of that love affair since we first started helping to build the brand in the summer of 1996. What started as an email newsletter for independent film professionals has grown over the years into one of the key connections between indie filmmakers, cinephiles and related professionals. Call iW a news website if you want, we do a remarkably good job at that, especially if you're into specialty film and film festivals.

We know that indieWIRE's core product is really community, in both the real world and digital senses. Each week, indieWIRE.com is enjoyed by tens of thousands of film company executives, filmmakers, journalists, students, and aficionados: those fans (whether professional or movie lovers) see indieWIRE as an important articulator and champion of the independent and specialty film causes.

Along the way, it's picked up a few "Best of the Web" awards too, including a Webbie for best film site in 2003. Shift Magazine called us "one of the 10 most exciting indies in high tech," but our favorite is still when Variety called us the "virtual 'Daily Variety' of the independent film scene." Not that it's all swank parties, schwag bags and awards, mind you.