NewEnglandFilm.com Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 065

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of two digital files: 1. A web crawl, or snapshot, of the NewEnglandFilm.com website as of 2023, and 2. An export of the site's Directory, a listing of film and production vendors, venues, suppliers, agencies, and talent. When the web crawl was captured on November 17, 2023, the directory had been removed from the website.

Dates

1997 - 2022

Conditions Governing Use

The web crawl and export of the directory from NewEnglandFilm.com are restricted to in-office use.

Biographical / Historical

The NewEnglandFilm.com website was launched and founded in August 1997 by Michele Meek. She founded the site "... to keep film people informed about the industry" (Hatfield, 1999). The site quickly expanded with new content and by 1998, it included a News page, Jobs page, Events page, Discussion area, and a Directory showcasing film and production resources across New England. The site was run and maintained by Michele Meek and her husband, Geoffry Meek.

In 2009, Meek started the Online New England Film Festival, a free online film festival showcasing currated short local films. Later in 2019, she established the New England Film Star Award, an in-kind grant awarded to a New England filmmaker for their film project. The mission of the Award was to "...benefit a filmmaker who has been marginalized/minoritized in mainstream cinema due to their race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, class, able-bodiedness, and/or other factors" (New England Film Star Award, 2024).

The site became inactive in 2022, and the Jobs page, Directory, and Star Award pages from the NewEnglandFilm.com site were taken over by another New England film organization, the Women in Film and Video New England (WIFVNE): https://wifvnejobs.org/.

Extent

2 digital files

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Existence and Location of Copies

The NewEnglandFilm.com website was crawled and preserved by Archive-It, a web archiving service from the Internet Archive, the capture of the website is publicly accessible through the Archive-It site: https://archive-it.org/home/NewEnglandFilm.

Citations

The following articles were consulted to write the biographical and historical note:

Hatfield, Julie. "Posse of Five: Woman Filmmakers Speak Up: [City Edition]." Boston Globe, May 04 1999, p. D1. ProQuest. Web. 09 February 2024.

Meek, Michele. "The 25-Year Legacy of NewEnglandFilm." NewEnglandFilm.com, 9 February 2024, https://wayback.archive-it.org/18020/20221224233950/https://newenglandfilm.com/magazine/2022/05/farewell-to-newenglandfilm.

NewEnglandFilm.com. https://web.archive.org/web/19980711222637/http://newenglandfilm.com/. Accessed 10 February 2024.

"New England Film Star Award." NewEnglandFilm.com. https://wayback.archive-it.org/18020/20221224233950/https://newenglandfilm.com/star-award. Accessed 09 February 2024.