Tagged: film

July 17, 2014 @ 2:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Kickstarter is ready for the first showing of the 2014 Film Festival in Brooklyn! The crowdfunding giant shared some details about the event, which will take place this Friday (July 18th). The festival features a selection from the platform’s favorite films, shorts, web series, animations,… Read More

July 15, 2014 @ 6:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

One of the biggest names in film crowdfunding, Zach Braff’s “Wish I Was Here” is scheduled to hit cinemas across the country this Friday, July 18th.  The film raised $3.1 million crowdfunding on Kickstarter in May of 2013.  More than 46,000 fans supported the project… Read More

July 13, 2014 @ 10:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Boosts Equity Crowdfunding Offer – Raising £450,000 on Seedrs. Nicola Horlick, one of the UK’s most well known and highly regarded fund manager, has announced that her new fund management firm, Glentham Capital, is increasing the target for its core film finance fund from $100… Read More

July 10, 2014 @ 9:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few hours before the closing of its Indiegogo campaign, Don Cheadle’s “Miles Ahead”  reached its goal of raising $325,000 with the support of over 2,000 backers. As previously reported, the “Iron Man 3” star decided to launch the crowdfunding campaign for the feature film… Read More

July 6, 2014 @ 5:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hitting the final stretch of its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, Rooster Teeth’s featured film “Lazer Team” stood at over  $2,365,958 from over 35,000 backers. The project first made headlines when it reached its initial goal of $650,000 within the first 24 hours. Not only was it… Read More

July 1, 2014 @ 4:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to share some details about its 2014 Film Festival, global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter revealed the films, locations and dates earlier this week. Organizers of the event took to the platform and wrote, “Our celebration of features, shorts, documentaries, animations, and other video art made… Read More

June 29, 2014 @ 6:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

This is a crowdfunding tale appropriate for the moment as the world gathers to root for their favorite national team while hundreds of millions are glued to their screens with the World Cup at hand.  Black Flash is a film about Laurie Cunningham, the first… Read More

June 28, 2014 @ 8:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Two tech campaigns, and one truly independent film, our part of  this weeks’  mailbox. First up is Discov3y Extruder “Do more than ever with your 3D printer”.  Now I must admit that there is so much press these days on 3D printers that you start… Read More

June 23, 2014 @ 9:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stepping out to introduce his new independent film “Da Sweet Blood of Jesus,” director Spike Lee attended the New York’s SVA Theater in Chelsea to debut the film on Sunday during the final day of the 18th annual American Black Film Festival. Last year, Mr. Lee… Read More

June 23, 2014 @ 4:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Continuing to draw more attention to its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, Rooster Teeth announced the “Lazer Team” project has had a ton of success within the last couple days. Over the weekend, the Rooster Teeth crew took to their website for a special live-stream event… Read More

June 19, 2014 @ 3:27 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With his new film “Wish I Was Here” set to hit theaters July 25th, actor-turned-filmmaker Zach Braff along with his co-star Donald Fasion sat down with Time Warner Cable News’ Victor Diaz to discussing the highly anticipated comedy/drama. Last year, Braff launched a crowdfunding campaign… Read More

June 12, 2014 @ 3:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Independent film crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark has formed a partnership with American Express.  According to the site, American Express will select five films each month from the Seed&Spark library of films. These selected films will be distributed across the American Express channels including NOW – a… Read More

June 7, 2014 @ 4:20 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Rooster Teeth, the YouTube network behind the hilarious sci-fi comedy “Red vs Blue,” “Achievement Hunter,” “The RT Podcast,” and “RWBY,” has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for it’s first ever feature length movie called “Lazer Team”.  The campaign easily beat their initial goal of $650,000… Read More

May 30, 2014 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than two day to go, director and producer Sara Bordo’s crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for her upcoming documentary “The Lizzie Project” has surpassed the initial $180k goal and raised $206,799 from 3,370 backers. The film features Elizabeth “Lizzie” Velasquez, who was labeled as… Read More

May 28, 2014 @ 9:33 am By JD Alois  |  

indieFilmFunding (iFF), a crowdfunding platform targeting the indie film sector is broadening their reach to include the indie music world. Indie bands may now crowdfund everything from music videos, movie scores, studio time, demos and even the logistics behind touring. iFF has already signed up… Read More

May 24, 2014 @ 3:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

A-Film Benelux and Symbid have formed an agreement for cooperation for crowdfunding various movie titles. Dutch investment crowdfunding platform Symbid has already had several films such TRIPPEL trample funded, thus demonstrating that crowdfunding is a valuable addition in the film financing. Symbid will be exclusive… Read More

May 23, 2014 @ 5:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Google spawn YouTube made a major announcement today about their future product roadmap.  As part of the announcement where they discussed forthcoming new tools, apps and more, they recognized the importance of advertising revenue generated by the global video megalith (of which they make tons… Read More

May 22, 2014 @ 1:46 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

indieFilmFunding.com (iFF), a crowdfunding platform exclusively based in the indie film sector, announced on Thursday morning its top three winners of their video promo contest. The contest, which opened on January 15th, used both a panel of qualified judges and promotions on social to choose… Read More

May 16, 2014 @ 3:15 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

For over five years, The Palestinian Motor Sports and Motorcycle Federation has constructed temporary tracks around major cities in the West Bank. Now, The Speed Sisters, are ready to share details about their participation in racing cars. Currently, the first all-women’s racing team are raising… Read More

May 15, 2014 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Blue Mountain State: The Movie closed their successful crowdfunding campaign a few moments ago have raised $1,911,827 from 23,999 backers.  The film set out to raise $1.5 million and they crossed that mark this past weekend as they picked up momentum in… Read More