IndieWire

IndieWire (sometimes stylized as indieWIRE or Indiewire) is a film industry and review website that was established in 1996. The site's focus is independent film. IndieWire is part of Penske Media.
History.
The original IndieWire newsletter launched on July 15, 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, Cheri Barner, Roberto A. Quezada, and Mark L. Feinsod.
Initially distributed to a few hundred subscribers, the readership grew rapidly, passing 6,000 in late 1997.
In January 1997, IndieWire made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival to begin their coverage of film festivals; 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.
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." In 2011, with the launch of a redesign, the site changed the formal spelling of its name from indieWIRE to IndieWire.
Penske Media acquired IndieWire on January 19, 2016. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Description.
The focus of Indiewire is independent film.
, the company is a subsidiary of Variety, which is part of Penske Media. It has a staff of 26 people, including Publisher James Israel, Editor-in-Chief Dana Harris-Bridson, Chief Critic Eric Kohn, Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson and senior critic David Ehrlich.
Reception.
In "Wired", in 1997, Janelle Brown wrote: "Currently, IndieWire has little to no competition: trades like "The Hollywood Reporter" and "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, which films are opening and what other filmmakers are thinking."
In 2002, "Forbes" magazine recognized IndieWire, along with seven other entrants, in the "Cinema Appreciation" category, as a "Best of the Web Pick," describing its best feature as "boards teeming with filmmakers" and its worst as "glacial search engine." IndieWire has been praised by Roger Ebert.
In 2012, IndieWire won the Webby Award in the Movie and Film category.
Critics Poll.
The IndieWire Critic's Poll is an annual poll by IndieWire that recognizes the best in American and international films in a ranking of 10 films on 15 different categories. The winners are chosen by the votes of the critics from IndieWire.