Reid Rosefelt founded SPEED CINE to index on-line content. His site is speedcine.com.

The first thing you learn when you go on Twitter is that nearly everyone on there is a Social Media Marketing Expert. I realize that being a Social Media Marketing Maven on Twitter is commensurate to writing that you savor long walks on the beach in your Match.com profile, but it got me thinking: if each one of these geniuses could generate a thousand dollars (more…)

How do we know it’s a slow summer weekend? Well, for one, I checked the logs on our mail server and I see that the amount of spam received and rejected by our mail server is the lowest it has been in several years. Years! Do you think spammers are affected by economic conditions? In any case, that was a great opportunity to check around to see what Matt Dentler, and Ted Hope, and Agnes Varnum and others are talking about this weekend. Here’s my summary … (more…)

Several weeks ago, Scott Kirsner, writer, speaker, panel moderator, and blogger at CinemaTech, asked me to review his new book, the cover of which is highlighted above. The finest way to complement an author is to buy his or her book, so the first thing was to visit Amazon and buy 5 copies. Passing around four of them quickly generated feedback (more…)

While everyone is at out at the beach absorbing sun, we here at IndiePix would rather be at the cinema absorbing what we love most — film!

Below, you can find our staff picks for most anticipated summer film of the year. Agree? Disagree? Follow the picks on the inside, and voice your opinion. Leave us your picks in the comment box below. (more…)

A few days ago, Eugene Hernandez, at IndieWire, raised an interesting question about the struggles of independent film in an essay on “art vs commerce”. There has been a lot of noise about the commerce of independent film, hardly comparable to the hoopla of art and celebrity, but let’s suppose there seems to be more tension between “art” and “commerce” today versus yesterday. What do we make of that? (more…)

This is not a parlor trick or a cocktail party question. Let’s try to focus on what Joost was all about and whether — in retrospect, or even in prospect — we might have thought that it was not a serious enterprise. The people who promoted it were serious. But was the concept of the business based on a detailed understanding of the internet and media on the internet that would hold out the prospect of success for this venture? (OK — all those who are not into heavy business analysis can leave here!) (more…)