The New Venue [ ABOUT ]
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The New Venue is an arbiter of quality, presenting the most innovative "new movies for a new medium" to a world-wide media-savvy community. The New Venue features short indie films which break aesthetic and technical barriers, bringing story and style to the Internet and to the Palm O.S. The New Venue also empowers digital filmmakers with "FlickTips", the complete guide to making web movies. The New Venue interface is a cardboard box for the viewer to explore with his or her own imagination. The focal point is the feature film and the filmmaker interview, not the site design. Submit your digital flick today! (it's non-exclusive) [ Viewer Response ] "Maintained by the enfant terrible of digital film, Jason Wishnow, the New Venue is easily one of the classiest film sites on the Web." - Yahoo! Internet Life, Vol 6 No 4 "New Venue is about what's happening now." - RES, Vol 2 No 2 "Kind of feels like entering a cafe in Williamsburg to sit back and watch some independent flicks." - Silicon Alley Reporter, Vol 3 No 9 re: showing movies online - "We got more feedback and better feedback from New Venue users than from anywhere else." - Chadd VanZanten, New Venue Filmmaker "Driving PSA" re: Jan 2000 site re-launch - "thank god..." - Aron, Copenhagen re: FlickTips - "Read through all of your information about digital compression and whatnot. Amazing that you were on top of all this stuff two years ago." - Shaun "More penache than Robert Menache." - Tanya, London Email your  .
[ History ] Jan 1996 - Jason Wishnow receives a grant from Stanford University to build a "virtual theater" on the Internet. The technology is not quite ready. The site is seen only by a limited audience of beta-testers. Nov 1997 - D.FILM selects the New Venue as its online counterpart. April 1998 - The New Venue officially launches as the first showcase dedicated to movies made expressly for the Internet. June 1998 - The New Venue begins showing movies amid a flurry of press from the likes of WIRED, Newsweek, The New York Times and Le Monde. German and Japanese news crews start following Wishnow around, making him nervous. July 1998 - Wishnow is fired from his day-job at Woody Allen's production office. May 1999 - Atom Films, D.FILM and the New Venue join forces for "The Qui-Gon Show", bringing together audience-written scripts, acclaimed digital filmmakers and Billy Dee Williams. An Internet first. Jan 2000 - NewVenue.com re-launches with support from Apple. After a 6 month hiatus, the New Venue returns to the scene with a more robust site, more movies, a stronger international presence and a channel on Apple's QuickTime TV network. Oct 2000 - The New Venue and Generic Media announce "The Aggressively Boring Film Festival" the first ever film festival for the Palm O.S. [ Contact Info ] email:
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Creator & Founder Cardboard & Design |
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CGI / Javascript |
David Nestor |
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The New Venue Sticker |
Robert Huber |
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Publicity Photos |
Alex Freund |
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Thanks to |
Edward Bender Glenn Bulycz Bart Cheever Alex Castex-Porter James Copeland N'Gai Croal Lane Dunlop Sian Edwards Michael Green Evans Hankey Peter Hoddie George Hungerford Duncan Kennedy Ana Kronschnabl Charles Kerns Charles Lyons Evan Mather Rachel McKosky Brent Muhle Alexander Nemerov Greg Lam Niemeyer Adrienne Nishina Kristie Lu Stout David Siegel Ben Squire John Stravapoulos Sarah Teale Josh Tunick Alder Yarrow |
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