All-in-One Ramblings

Early in the year, Team Detroit asked us to help document the initiatives in quality, safety, technology and the environment underway at Ford Motor Company. The resulting web documentary shorts, part of the Ford Drive One effort, showcase some...

On Tuesday, our stalwart independent film news site indieWIRE turned 12 years old -- the filmmakers who graduated from film school this spring were about ten years old when we started. It was also the day that we signed the...

Sometimes, trivial things like filmmaking and rebooting and what not must be aside for something really important -- like ARGFest-o-Con-apalooza in Boston! I'm sure you can tell from the conference name that it covers weighty academic and professional matters, but...

For the last few months, we've found ourselves up to our armpits in engineers, scientists, developers and designers from Ford Motor Company. It is part of a larger initiative launched recently called Ford Drive One, a part intended to...

It is time again for the Tribeca Film Festival, which means the kick-off of our annual Filmmaker Talks at the Apple Store in SoHo. We're flattered to have an amazing collection of guests again, this year including actor Clive...

Sometimes, we're kinda pleased with how odd we are. Then our next door neighbors scare the crap out of us by blowing something up Mad Max style. Today, they went after the mailman's truck with a rocket launcher, as this...

Back in April, we mentioned there was this game called Eldritch Errors but that we didn't want to spoil any surprises. In December, a Wired article about alternate reality gaming hinted at what we've been aiming at with the project....

January is always a busy month for indieWIRE. Last week, we teamed up with New Line Cinema and Apple to bring filmmaker Michel Gondry to huge crowds at the San Francisco, Chicago and New York City Apple Stores, talking about...

This year, Emerging Pictures and indieWIRE bring you a year-long series intended to discover some of the best films from the previous year that never found a distributor. This year, the winner of the audience award for Undiscovered Gems included...

With the full-list of film picks from 106 film critics' now up on indieWIRE ("There Will Be Blood" was the runaway favorite) , the reactions are starting to roll in. GreenCine called it "one of the major events of the...

Last year, indieWIRE picked up the mantle of an annual poll of film critics at alternative weekly dropped by the Village Voice, expanding the critics list with some of the best film reviewers on the web. Tommorrow, we'll announce the...

We spent a good part of 2007 being vague about one of the product development projects we worked on. Yesterday, our friends at Scholastic's Lab for Informal Learning got some great press in the New York Times about the project,...

Unlike most project launches, a story that relies upon mystery and suspense requires you to cultivate a certain level of intrigue that trumps self-promotional instincts. There's a fine line, though, between mystery and the appearance of deceit. As people discover...

A lot of media has been floating around of some of the panels that kept me on the road in March, digging deep into the topic of alternate reality gaming. Microphones, video cameras and sharp minds make for almost as...

We have a long tradition of working with Apple (especially through indieWIRE's continuous series of panels at the Apple Soho store), but for the Tribeca Film Festival we're stepping it up a notch with a daily series of free in-depth...

Eight years ago, GMD Studios was buried in online discussions about the Clinton impeachment. Working with our friends at Weblab, we were experimenting with how you could structure online dialogs in new ways designed to avoid the classic problems of...

Reflections from the amazing communal experience that was ARGFest-o-Con from the POV of the search for independence during my Death by Junket: the most amazing and terrifying phase of any independent arts movement is when it is a scene but still growing. Scenes are different than industries or genres or movements (although they sometimes grow into those things if they are successful) because they can maintain a sense of intimacy and collaboration -- what you have in common with other members of the scene tends to transcend whatever differences there might be....

I love a good metaphoric roadtrip story, probably more than I actually love being on roadtrips. For the next two weeks I'm on just such a journey, exploring a broad set of communities of American artistic independence. Unfortunately, there's always that pesky and boring travel part, which for me started with 11 hours of airports and travel from Orlando to San Francisco via Texas. I had a companion for the journy, though: songs from 737 of the bands playing at SXSW this year (worth the 3.1 GB download for the glimpse into where the independent music scene breathes and snarls.)...

Getting ready to catch a plane tomorrow for one of the longer conference junkets I've been on in a while. First stop, San Francisco, where the intimacy of the ARGFest-o-Con kicks off on Friday and through the weekend before heading...

We're always pleased to hear when our clients get a little recognition for their work, even when it is among their internal peers. Campbell-Ewald Associate Creative Director Iain Lanivich recently got a pile of just that kind of internal praise,...