Lorien Green is a filmmaker, documentarian, gamer, parent, and introvert. In 2009, without any background in video production, she set out to film a documentary about the growing popularity of board games. The result, Going Cardboard, was a success, setting her on the path to her current project: a documentary about the resurgence of pinball called Shoot Again.
In this episode of Polygamer, Lorien discusses how she got into filmmaking and pinball collecting and the technical know-how needed for both; the challenges of attending conferences, shooting interviews, and conducting director Q&A as an introvert; how she juggles these pursuits with her growing addiction to indie games on Steam; and how she’s raising her two children to be the next generation of geek.
Download the audio edition of this interview below or from iTunes, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Spoke, Overcast, Pandora, Pocket Casts, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, RadioPublic, or the Internet Archive. Click past the jump for links to resources mentioned in this episode.
- Lorien Green on Twitter
- The Pubcast interview with Lorien about social media & inbound marketing
- Going Cardboard documentary about board games
- Going Cardboard on Kickstarter
- The Civil War documentary by Ken Burns
- King of Kong review
- Unity Games and Total Confusion conventions in Massachusetts
- Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen, by Sheila Curran Bernard
- Jason Scott’s documentaries, BBS and GET LAMP
- Good Time Emporium of Somerville, Mass. (closed as of June 30, 2008)
- Pinball Wizard of Pelham, New Hampshire
- The Tolkien origin of Lórien
- Pinball documentaries:
- MAME mod for TRON pinball
- "Pinball Love" by Blake Faucette of Distractotron
- Mario Warfare by Beatdown Boogie
- Chicago Pinball Expo
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain
- Is President Obama an introvert?
- Lorien Green plays This War of Mine
- Lorien’s kids play Elite: Dangerous
- Lorien’s Steam picks:
- djWHEAT & FrameLoss
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