Cdn. doc collects Sundance award

PARK CITY, Utah Winnipeg filmmakers James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot were visibly shell-shocked when they walked onstage to pick up hardware at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for their documentary Indie Game: The Movie.

The first-time feature directors won the award for best editing in the World Cinema Documentary Competition, and were the only Canadians to take home a prize in what had to be the best showing for Canadians in Sundance history, with three documentaries in competition.

Indie Game: The Movie tells the story of independent game development, where teams of one or two people spend years of their lives writing code for video games. They can either go broke or make it big.

The movie has mirrored the two former industrial producers’ own lives of late as it reaffirms the importance of personal conviction and creative control.