My partner and our chairman (and our Visionary Leader), Barnet Liberman, and I want to thank the IndiePix community for helping make this event — the inaugural Cinema Eye Honors — the success that it was. Thank you.

AJ (our co-host, from whom this idea sprang) and Danielle can tell you better how magical this event seemed, but not in some “never-never-land” way — magical in the sense of historic. I think we felt that this was a moment when a community of filmmakers and friends gathered to say — like Jason Kohn said in his acceptance speech — (except I’m going to quote from another movie) “we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more!”

OK — step back here — the fact is that the affection and camaraderie among the attendees from Germany, Denmark, Brazil, and all over the States — as well as the warmth and good wishes of the many Academy Award winners who were among the presenters, and in the audience — the sense of good will was awesome. And the sense of community was part of the historic quality of the event.

IndiePix was warmly congratulated for having helped pull this off, and we were overwhelmed by the wave of affection that we received.

I want to share that with the IndiePix community. We did what we should have done. We did more than we thought we could. We did what we had to do. We did what we thought you would have wanted us to do. But we could not have done any of it without you.

Those who visit our site, who support IndiePix filmmakers, who browse our catalog of great independent films — we could not have done this without you. You are the ones who gave us this opportunity through your support. And I hope you are proud of us for having given back to the community through this wonderful event.

There is more to do — and we’ll soon post Jason Kohn’s acceptance speech so you’ll see and hear his challenge. But I think we can — together — do much more. And we are emboldened to try with your support.

Thank you.