The Rebirth of Max It Magazine

Long, long ago, on an indie film site far… Well, actually!

Long before Sony was hacked, a growing indie film site, www.MaxItMagazine.com was hacked! With both Brutal Denial of Service and Brute Force attacks, until finally they gained access to the server. Not to steal information from the site, but rather to use the server for their own malicious means.

Over time the coders worked to recover from the damage, but to no avail. The hackers were in too deep! Anonymous even tried to help keep it online. Holding the site together with bailing wire, duct tape, bubble gum and sheer willpower, the site was able to stay together for another year. That is until finally, due to the expanding code corruption, the site finally imploded, taking the servers with it.

Some interesting facts about that indie film site include:

• In the first year of launch it had 1.2 million visitors.
• It never took payment for indie filmmakers to submit a press release.
• It helped indie filmmakers raise well over $1 million for their projects.
• It helped over 3,500 indie filmmakers get their projects out to the world.
• It helped get several films distributed.
• It is one of the few sites that IMDB accepts as confirmation of an indie film production and the only that lets indie films list as in development.
• It helped filmmakers from development, pre-production & crowdfunding all the way to post-production and release!

Making those contributions to the indie film world and being the only website completely dedicated to indie filmmakers, not simply studio films claiming to be indie, make www.MaxItMagazine.com a crucial tool for their success. This is why we've done a complete rebuild from top to bottom and have now relaunched it!

There's still a lot of work to be done, with a massive amount of new features we haven't turned on yet. You can help with that work by getting us your press releases, testing the site and letting us know if you find a bug, along with sharing it as you did with the first site. It was this collaborative indie attitude that made it a success the first time. It'll be that same effort that makes it even bigger than what it was originally! 

I say thank you now for what you've already done and what you will hopefully do. Together we can give indie film its voice back.

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The Founder, 

Scott C. Brown

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