The core of the indieWIRE experience is the community, especially that edge where it becomes physical (the indie film community that we're a part of.) That's best manifested in the indieWIRE membership that recieves indieWIRE:Daily (you can sign up as a member for free here.) We're getting ready to send out one of our extremely-rare emails that isn't an actual issue of the Daily explaining to that core community what the indieWIRE relaunch is about and where we are heading in the next few months.

Yesterday we launched the first phase of a new indieWIRE site we've been working on for the last few months (just in time for Toronto!) You might have noticed something different if you clicked on links from yesterday's edition (or if you looked at today's edition unveiling the new look of indieWIRE:Daily.)

What we've launched is the tip of the iceberg of the new features we'll be unveiling over the next few months to become a better resource (as well as news source) for indieWIRE members like you. Alot of the changes we just launched set the stage for more exciting developments to come, but there's alot packed into the new site.

Our coverage for filmmakers and film professionals is now grouped together in indieWIRE Insider -- biz coverage, profiles of people, box office reports and our new regular Buzz & Rumors bits. Lead stories get bubbled up to a more cinephile-friendly news page (along with our movie and festival coverage.) Our new Calendar expands our abilities to give you a forward glimpse into movie and DVD releases, festivals and their call for entries, and other events happening in the indie film movement.

You'll probably also notice an increased focus on photography on indieWIRE -- big images with articles like this and huge iPoP from on the scene (how can you not love photos like this?)

In the months to come, we'll launch some new features that expand on these themes: unleashing people like you as photographers (iPoparazzi anyone?), the expansion of our community (with a special emphasis on the blogging community), deeper professional resources in Insider, and an "encyclopedia of indie" in "In Depth" that organizes indieWIRE's more than nine years of coverage into an effective research tool.

One thing about indieWIRE hasn't changed: our commitment to you (the indie community) as our number one priority. We hope indieWIRE's growth is aimed in that direction, supporting both the indie professional and film fan communities that indieWIRE feels a part of. Which means your feedback (and indulgence as we work out the kinks) is always appreciated -- my blog at http://blogs.indiewire.com/bclark/ is as good a place as any to start for comments.

Whatever made you become a part of the indieWIRE community, we hope the new site starts giving you even more of that (and on behalf of the entire indieWIRE team: thanks again for being an indieWIRE member.)

Best,

Brian Clark (Producer/Manager, indieWIRE)
http://blogs.indiewire.com/bclark/