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. 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. 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. http://www.dfilm.com/