According to Adam Leipzig, film and theatre producer, writer, Cultural Weekly’s Publisher and former executive at Disney and National Geographic, a perfect storm has developed from the collision of new technologies, new business models, and new creative talent and it’s creating a new Golden Age in cinema.
A sign of the digital times, YouTube made a bit of a splash in Venice this year by awarding the first prize at the world’s oldest film festival. Not exactly front and center, but, still, the sidelines count for something, which is where YouTube announced the winner of Your Film Festival, its inaugural online competition for short films, spearheaded by director Ridley Scott and designed to find and foster new talent.
INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won the award for best editing in the World Documentary Competition.
It’s the story of four struggling independent game designers, Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes, and Johnathan Blow, and the three games, Fez, Super Meat Boy, and Braid, they fought tooth and nail to create.
It’s also the story of two independent filmmakers from Winnipeg,
Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky,
and how they’ve used the internet to bring their feature-length documentary to life in the digital age.
It’s not too late to view and vote!
The first-ever PBS Online Film Festival
doesn’t conclude its five week run
