Undiscovered Gems

More than reporting the news, indieWIRE's making some of its own today by announcing a partnership with Emerging Pictures to bring as-yet-undistributed films to theaters in "at least 12 cities nationwide." The "six to ten films" will most likely be "culled from indieWIRE's annual list of the best undistributed films," the most recent of which was compiled by Wendy Mitchell, complete with synopses, links, the works, and it's quite a list. "Using digital technology" is the intriguing phrase here, raising all sorts of questions, but these will most likely be addressed in the fall along with the actual titles.

Yesterday, iW editor Eugene Hernandez pointed to Tal Mekel's piece for CNN which basically asks, "What's indie?" At Movie City Indie, Ray Pride pointed to another, similar piece, Desson Thomson's in the Washington Post. In general, it's an open question these days. Specifically, though, this partnership, "Undiscovered Gems," looks like one promising answer.

Posted by dwhudson at August 9, 2005 3:40 PM