Indie Game: The Movie

Indie Game: The Movie
Directed by	James Swirsky Lisanne Pajot
Produced by	James Swirsky Lisanne Pajot
Starring	Edmund McMillen Tommy Refenes Phil Fish Jonathan Blow
Cinematography	James Swirsky Lisanne Pajot
Edited by	James Swirsky Lisanne Pajot
Music by	Jim Guthrie
Production companies	BlinkWorks Flutter Media
Distributed by	BlinkWorks Media
Release dates	20 January 2012 (2012-01-20) (Sundance) 12 June 2012 (2012-06-12) (digital distribution)
Running time	94 minutes (Canada) 103 minutes (International)
Language	English

Indie Game: The Movie is a 2012 documentary film made by Canadian filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot. The film is about the struggles of independent game developers Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes during the development of Super Meat Boy, Phil Fish during the development of Fez, and also Jonathan Blow, who reflects on the success of Braid.^[1]

After two successful Kickstarter funds,^[2][3] interviews were conducted with prominent indie developers within the community. After recording over 300 hours of footage, Swirsky and Pajot decided to cut the movie down to follow the four developers selected.^[4] Their reasoning behind this was to show game development in the "past, present and future" tenses through each individual's story.^[5]