James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot of BlinkWorks Media in Winnipeg, MB, Canada began advertising their project called Indie Game: The Movie last year. The film crew earned $8,000.00 over its Kickstarter target of $15,000.00 in just 48 hours. Needless to say, the indie community and beyond wanted this documentary to happen. The film is not only about indie games themselves, but also the developers and their craft. The team has chosen a select few indies to follow thoroughly their journeys and present them to the rest of the world.

The team is currently asking fans where screenings should be held. They have posted a specific screening blog post for interested persons to fill out. They seem to also encourage people who know anyone that can host such a venue or those persons in charge of such venues to leave contact information to make this screening dream a reality. They would like to have post-screening Q&A sessions, with hopefully a few developers from the movie tagging along.

The timing for all this indie stardom seems perfect. Big wigs IGN/Gamespy have taken some indies under their wings with Indie Open House. The current generation of consoles have paved the way for indies into millions of consumers’ homes thanks to WiiWare, XBLA/XBLIG, and PSN. Digital download services like Steam and Desura support indies even more today, as well.

But before all of this excitement and industry attention, there were indies making games for the love of games. The documentary crew picked up on this devotion. The film has been a critical success already in award shows. It won $5,000, taking home Pitchfest‘s Best Pitcher Award at the Westdoc Conference in Santa Monica, CA last year. There are several high profile indies featured in the film, as listed in Indie Superstar’s follow-up, including Adam Saltsman (Canabalt) and Jon Blow (Braid).

Do you want to see these guys on the big screen in your home town? Fill out screening blog post.

Source: Indie Game: The Movie