The D.FILM Digital Film Festival is a traveling and online film festival showing the ways technology is changing filmmaking.

On June 1st The D.FILM Digital Film Festival will launch the NEW VENUE, an online film festival which will showcase films created for the internet.

This new area of the D.FILM site was developed in association with Stanford University and created by Jason Wishnow.

The web will be a powerful resource for filmmakers working outside of the traditional Hollywood studio/TV network system. It will give

filmmakers the ability to make their work available to anyone anywhere in the world with net access. Even today, movies on the web are

becoming commonplace. Yet virtually all movies that are on the web were created for some other medium, ie, to be projected in a theater

or seen on a TV monitor, and then merely "scaled-down" for the web.

Our goal with the New Venue is to get filmmakers to stop looking at this new medium in terms of the old one and to start developing a

new aesthetic for web filmmaking. Although there are obvious drawbacks to making movies for the web, like smaller window sizes, compression, slower frame rates, etc. we want to get filmmakers working with and incorporating these limitations into a new style of filmmaking. Much as underground filmmakers have used the grittiness of Super 8 and 16mm cameras as hallmarks of the underground film style.

Now this is what we need more of.

http://www.dfilm.com/