Home Page was a 1999

1999 in film

The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

 documentary

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 by Doug Block

Doug Block

Doug Block is an American independent director, cameraman and producer.Doug Block's documentary credits include:*The Kids Grow Up...

 on the genesis of weblogs and the lives of early independent content producers on the Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

. It was filmed between 1996 and 1998. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival

Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...

, and was released in limited theaters in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, while being made available on home video and on iFilm

IFilm

ifilm.com was an online archive of short films, movie trailers, and other video clips of interest. Ifilm.com was originally founded by independent filmmaker Raphael Raphael in 1997 as an independent film and media collective...

, simultaneously.

Cast

The documentary focuses on the personal lives of some of the people involved with ground-breaking Internet sites of the time, including Justin's Links from the Underground, suck.com

Suck.com

Suck.com was one of the earliest ad-supported content sites on the Internet. It featured daily editorial content on a wide variety of topics, including politics and pop-culture and was targeted at Generation X...

, Cybergrrl, HotWired

HotWired

Hotwired was the first commercial web magazine, launched on October 27, 1994. Although it was part of Wired Ventures, Hotwired was a separate entity from Wired, the print magazine, and had original content....

, and Feed Magazine

Feed Magazine

Feed or feedmag.com was one of the earliest e-zines that relied entirely on its original online content. Feed was founded by Stefanie Syman and Steven Johnson in 1995, and soon found a devoted online following. The zine had daily content, and focused on media, pop culture, technology, science and...

.

Personalities filmed in the documentary include:

• Justin Hall
  Justin Hall
  Justin Hall , is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger , and for writing reviews from game conferences such as E3 as well as the Tokyo Game Show....
  
  
• Sammi Quince
• Joey Anuff
• Carl Steadman
  Carl Steadman
  Carl Steadman is co-founder of suck.com, creator of several pieces of early web-savvy literature and current operator of plastic.com. He was also production director for HotWired....
  
  
• Steven Johnson
  Steven Johnson
  Steven Johnson may refer to:* Steven Berlin Johnson , American popular science author* Steven Johnson , Australian V8 Supercar racing driver-See also:* Steve Johnson * Stephen Johnson...
  
  
• Stefanie Syman
• Jaime Levy
  Jaime Levy Russell
  Jaime Levy Russell, formerly Jaime Levy, is an interface designer and user experience strategist who is best known for her groundbreaking new media projects in the 1990s...
  
  
• Aliza Sherman
  Aliza Sherman
  Aliza Sherman is a new media entrepreneur, author, women's issues activist, and international speaker....
  
  
• Julie Peterson
• Howard Rheingold
  Howard Rheingold
  -See also:* Collective intelligence* Information society* The WELL* Virtual community-External links:***** at TED conference** a 48MB Quicktime movie, hosted by the Internet Archive...
  
  

Reaction

Home Page was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival. Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert is an American film critic and screenwriter. He is the first film critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.Ebert is known for his film review column and for the television programs Sneak Previews, At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, and Siskel and Ebert and The...

 named the movie his pick of the week, and the movie was named one of the best documentaries of the year by the Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is an American daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the flagship paper of the Sun-Times Media Group.-History:The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city...

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External links

• The Home Page homepage - Official production site
• Making Movies on Cyber-Location from the Austin Chronicle
  Austin Chronicle
  The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly, tabloid-style newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demographic...