Sundance Talking: Q's & Q & A's

Here's a couple of videos of us chatting up IGTM.

CBC's Q with Jian Ghmoeshi:  The first is one that we were super excited to do.  We were lucky enough to be invited to be a guest on CBC's Q.  'Q' is a big deal up in Canada.  To give you an idea - it kind of occupies the same Canadian mind-space as NPR's 'This Amercian Life' (though the two are completely different).

Being invited on 'Q' was a wonderful full circle moment for Lisanne and I.  Early in the production of this film, we were sitting around talking about what 'type' of film we wanted to make.  We started saying in a (half) joking manner:

"Let's make a smart movie"  

"Yeah, like the kind of movies they talk about on Q!"  

"Yeah, let's make a movie that'll get us on 'Q'!"

"Totally!  We'll make a smart 'Q' movie!"

Seriously. That is, almost verbatim, what we said 14-15 months ago.  We were being silly, but also serious. Fast Forward to Salt Lake City and there we were.  On stage in front of a live theater audience, chatting up the movie with Jian Ghomeshi (nicest dude in the world btw).  And preceeding Margaret Atwood (another Canadian icon) to boot!

So here we are talking about our smart 'Q' movie on 'Q'....

Salt Lake City Q & A:  Someone was kind enough to film and post the Q & A from our third IGTM screening.  I liked this one quite a bit, Tommy gave some great answers.  Fun fact about this one:  As we were doing this, the HBO news hit creating a bit of a Twitter storm.  So if you were wondering where we were during the intial wave of crazy that happened, we were here...

Big Thanks to 'the69lover69'  (giggles) for posting that!

Indie Game: The Movie - Official Selection of SXSW!

Hey Everybody!  

We are super proud and happy to announce that Indie Game: The Movie is an official selection of the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival.  

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New Screening: Santa Cruz, March 2nd

A new preview screening has been added!  

Santa Cruz, CA

 The Rio Theater, 7:00pm March 2nd, 2012

Team Meat & the Directors will be in attendance for a Q&A.

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IGTM Wins At Sundance!

Sooo, last night was kinda the best night ever...  

Indie Game: The Movie won Best Editing within the Sundance World Cinema Documentary Competition.  We can not tell you how much this means to us and how completely and utterly our minds are blown.  We shot over 300 hours of footage in making this film, and the edit was, by far, the most difficult aspect of the process. We couldn’t be more proud to receive this award.

When we started this project, we had no idea it would evolve and progress to the point of taking us up on stage at the Sundance Film Festival....it’s crazy....it really is.

The two people pictured above were clearly having an out-of-body experience behind that podium.  It was a blur, a fantastic blur.  But lost in crazed haze were a few people we forgot to thank.

We would not be anywhere close to this point in our lives if it wasn’t for our amazing parents:  Remi, Debra, Betty and Ed. We can’t believe we forgot them...and it’s something I’m sure we’ll be hearing about for the next little while :)

And of course, thank you so much to the Sundance Film Festival.  The festival’s belief in this little film has very much changed our lives.  It’s been amazing, hugely educational and most importantly, endlessly inspiring. Specifically, we need to thank David Courier for his support and Shane Smith for his invaluable early encouragement.

Thank you again to everyone who supported the film - be it by preorder, tweet, blog, word of mouth and/or good vibes.  You made this honor possible.

Talk to you soon,

James & Lisanne.

Amazing People Saying Nice Things...

Whoa!  Today was a very rewarding day on the Twitters.  At our last showing, none other than Lee Unkrich (Dir, Toy Story 2 & 3, Monsters Inc, & more) and Brad Bird (The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, MI:4) were in attendance.   We know, amazing right?!?!?  

Here's what they had to say...

We so wish we knew they were in the audience that day.  Would've have been great to say hi and thank them for coming.   

In other surreal, idol-mention news:  Kevin Smith gave us a nice shout out on his blog here  (kinda in reference to this post)

After working on this film in a relative vaccum for the past 2 years, we can not tell you how fantastic these mentions make us feel.  ALL of the feedback (celebrity and non-celebrity) is making everything seem pretty darn worth while.

Thanks to Brad, Lee, Kevin and EVERYONE who has checked out the movie so far.  We really appreciate it!

-James & Lisanne