FilmChatter: Top 10 Indie Film Tweets of the Week

With our news stories, reviews and features, Indiewire aims to be part of the indie film conversation — both on our site as well as on social media (we even got our own Tumblr and you can follow us on Twitter and Facebook). So it only makes sense that we’d occasionally reflect on that conversation and point out voices that are worth paying attention to. We have highlighted various groups worth following on Twitter, including filmmakers, documentary filmmakers and women filmmakers.

Now we plan to pinpoint interesting conversations that took place over the past week on Twitter and highlight worthwhile messages from the indie film community. To be clear, there is no defined system for selecting these tweets. There’s no ranking system, no winners, no losers. It’s merely a very subjective way of saying that these tweets informed, amused or intrigued us. Check ’em out and then join the conversation.

Netflix sent me an email telling me to watch that action flick Escape From Tomorrow.

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) May 1, 2014

Seeing a rough cut of your film: unreal level of awesome.
Hearing that people actually liked it: brain exploding. #grateful #indiefilm

— Lauren Schacher (@LaurenSchacher) May 1, 2014

Dear Shailene Woodley: here’s the definition of feminism: the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities

— Melissa Silverstein (@melsil) May 5, 2014

David Gordon Green’s #JOE is freaking amazing. See it. Now. (Congrats especially to @TyeSheridan and a magnificent Nicolas Cage!)

— Lynn Shelton (@lynnsheltonfilm) April 24, 2014

Curious what doc won #Tribeca?@PointShootDoc feels like Grizzly Man goes to war! https://t.co/a8T9jNSoMV @marshallcurry @Matt_VanDyke #LIBYA

— Ondi Timoner (@onditimoner) May 6, 2014

Instead of asking my followers to commit revolutionary suicide, I’m simply asking that they rent THE SACRAMENT on VOD pic.twitter.com/YyI97gsMSr

— Ti West (@Ti_West) May 1, 2014

When you go see @jon_favreau‘s ‘Chef’ this weekend, don’t make the same mistake I did and go on an empty stomach. Major food porn scenes.

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) May 9, 2014

Before you go to market again see FED UP. You’ll live longer.

— Albert Brooks (@AlbertBrooks) May 9, 2014

16 years making films, screened in Havana, Tehran and many other places. But never LA. So excited to show @OvernightersDoc at @LAFilmFest

— Jesse Moss (@djessemoss) May 9, 2014

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