Best of: The Indie Film Landscape

Noah J Nelson on Tuesday, Jul. 3rd

We’re taking a little well earned R&R this week, but we’re still thinking about you, loyal reader. So we’ve gathered some of our favorite posts from the past year into these handy-dandy Best of Turnstyle News pages. One for every day this week.

From Sundance to SXSW to the LA Film Festival, this has been an exciting year for independent film. Here’s a few of our favorite pieces and movie reviews from the year so far.

REVIEW: Beasts of the Southern Wild

Five Things We Learned At Sundance

‘Mosquito y Mari’ Director Defies All Convention

The Road to Sundance and Beyond– Indie Game: The Movie

Is SXSW Film Festival The Best Fest?

Bindlestiffs: A Raunchy Teen Comedy Made by Teens

Hacktavisim in the Spotlight: An Interview with the Documentarians Behind ‘We Are Legion’

Elizabeth Olsen, Star of ‘Silent House’ is an Actor’s Actor

REVIEW: The Iran Job

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Hangout w/Jesse Vigil, Game Designer [Freeq]

Now streaming: the archive of our Google Hangout On-Air with Jesse Vigil of Psychic Bunny, one of the designers of the new audio adventure game FREEQ (iOS/Android).

Watch This: To The Last, Dir. Matt Luck

We’ve featured dancer Matt Luck’s work before.

Sifteo Cubes: Blurring the Edges of Play

I first encountered Sifteo Cubes back at IndieCade last October, and spent some time playing around with the little blocks which I first mistook for iPod Nanos.

Lighting Is An Underestimated Art

Over the weekend I was having a conversation about the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Museum that’s been announced.

THE WEEKENDER: PRESENT SHOCK

I’m going to go out on a limb here and promise you that this will be the first of two posts on Present Shock, the Douglas Rushkoff book that has been getting a mountain of attention in the tech press since it was released earlier this month.