HAPPY BIRTHDAY INDIEWIRE!
Has a Web site ever gotten so many happy birthday shoutouts as indieWIRE, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary? Unlikely.
Count us in as the latest toastmaster. It’s not an understatement to say that indieWIRE — led by its tireless, inspiring editor editor, Eugene Hernandez — is more respsonsible than any other individual or organization for bringing independent film and the Internet together. If they hadn’t created the blueprint, there would probably no Greencine, Movie City News, Cinematical, etc. They also survived the collapse of the dot com economy, a feat that only a handful of specialized online publications that launched in the 90s were able to do. (If you don’t believe me, just ask anyone who got laid off from an overpaid job in 2000 or 2001.)
I worked as the senior editor of indieWIRE for all of 2002, and my experience there has proven to be invaluable to my career as a journalist and filmmaker. So happy birthday, and congratulations to Eugene, Karol Martesko, Brian Brooks, Brian Clark, James Israel and the rest of the team over there!
