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Indies
on

the

Internet
Scores of new Web
sites offer ambitious

more

than 16 million

more

a

media players

independent

on

filmmakers an outlet
for their projects -
but is this growing
trend a healthy one?

that

people have

video in the past year, and
than 100 million streaming-

streamed

have been downloaded
predicted

the Internet. It's also
consumer access

will

to

broadband

from two million
subscribers today to more than 30
million by 2004. Even more fascinat¬
ing is Forrester Research's prediction
that by 2005, some 92 percent of U.S.
grow

online households will create and
share

personal multimedia content.
coming into
play, it's often said that the next Blair
Witch Project will not be promoted
online, but will actually be online.

by Neil Matsumoto

With all of these factors

Star

film movement and Thomas

I hanks in part to the Dogma95
Vinterberg's

1998

film

The

Celebration, digital technology
and its "DIY" (Do It Yourself)

ethics have revolutionized both the
film

industry and the medium itself,

much like the French New Wave did
in 1959. In the United States, the wide

releases of
such

and

as

Bennett Miller's The Cruise

Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck

Because of this

such

as

growing trend

all of these

we see

films? There

simply not enough

are

or

every

theaters

to accommo¬

filmmaker's personal

project.

only viable solu¬
growing problem of

tion to the

HD

According to Arbitron Research,

distribution has been the Internet.

the recent

of AOL and Time Warner
sent shockwaves throughout the
business world and signaled a new
type of collaboration between
Hollywood and Silicon Valley.
Following in the footsteps of online
digital music distribution, a great
merger

number of online entertainment
Web sites

are streaming films in the
hope that the Net will be the future
screening space of new and exciting

work. "TV
vision of

execs
a

have ditched their

500-channel universe,"

journalist Laura Rich of The
Industry Standard, which
has dubbed itself "the newsmagazine
of the Internet economy." Instead, she
adds, "they're banking on thousands
says

Thus far, the

George Lucas and Spike Lee are
getting in on the act: Lucas used Sony
24p digital cameras on the new

In the main arena,

Lee

film,

lem: where will

date

filmmakers

latest

pendent films being produced by
filmmakers who all have great hopes
for fame, money and even artistic
achievement. But there is one prob¬

and

renowned

his

and the great advances in technology,
we will soon see hundreds of inde¬

distributors

Hollywood has quickly jumped
the bandwagon. Even world-

and

movie,

Bamboozled, in Mini DV.

(see AC July '00) have caused a stir,
on

84 December 2000

independent DV films

Wars

photographed

Australian

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