Fans of documentary film should be happy to hear that there's a new force on the block: SnagFilms has just opened their internet doors, and in the process they've brought (and bought) our good friends over at indieWIRE with them. Founded by three former top AOL executives (Ted Leonsis, Steve Case and Miles Gilburne), SnagFilms is a unique site in that it showcases entire documentary films for you watch online for free, but then also makes those same films available to snag like, say, YouTube does, and then embed the entire film anywhere you'd like. Check out the widget below ...Pretty cool, huh? Fans of indieWIRE will still get to read all the same, great content, as well as a new blog called Docsider, which comes to us from iLine and indieWIRE co-founder, Mark Rabinowitz. To read more about the SnagFilms/indieWIRE deal, check out this letter to readers from Eugene Hernandez. Definitely head on over to play with the site a bit; with over 225 documentaries available now (and about 750 available by the end of 2008), I'm sure there's plenty of content to keep you busy for awhile. Let us know what you think!
1. Erik: Thanks very much for the shout out. We love Eugene and the guys at indieWIRE as much as you do, and we are so excited about what we can do with them and the passionate, creative people that make up the world of indie film.
Hope you will tool around snagfilms.com and tell us what you think - including how we can improve it. We really are in beta, and have a lot of enhancements already being developed.
Stay tuned!
Rick Allen
SnagFilms
Posted at 9:35PM on Jul 17th 2008 by Rick Allen