Tagged: film

December 11, 2013 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo has scheduled a series of Google Hangouts focusing on crowdfunding campaign tips.  Today’s Hangout, which takes place at 11AM PST (2PM EST) will be hosted by John Trigonis the Indiegogo team Film expert.  Each 45 Minute session will be followed by Q&A so ask… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 4:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

As PBS MediaShift continues to focus on crowdfunding this week, The Mediatwits held a Google+ Hangout with various players from the crowdfunding space. They include… Slava Rubin, Indiegogo CEO Ernst-Jan Pfauth of news magazine De Correspondent Todd Ruppert, co-producer of the upcoming musical “Happy Days” Zak Piper, co-producer… Read More

December 4, 2013 @ 4:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Film crowdfunding super-start Veronica Mars, created by Rob Thomas has announced the Kickstarter hit will be released on March 14, 2014.  One of the largest crowdfunding campaigns ever, the film closed on Kickstarter  this past April having raised over $5.7 Million creating a title wave… Read More

December 1, 2013 @ 7:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Alex Winter, famous for his character in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the Lost Boys and more, is crowdfunding a film on Kickstarter and the campaign has some really Excellent rewards. Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and The Silk Road, is a documentary… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 2:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

John Trigonis, Indiegogo’s Campaign Specialist for Film and Video, was caught on video giving a brief pitch for his book on “Crowdfunding for Filmmakers: The Way to a Successful Film Campaign”.  The publication shares his tactics for how to launch a successful film campaign which… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UK alternative energy crowdfunding platform Abundance shared the preceding trailer on their blog this week. The trailer is for an upcoming documentary called Transforming Finance. The film is sponsored by The Finance Innovation Lab and aims to “inspire a financial system that sustains people and planet.”… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 10:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

“Black Friday” is the term given to the Friday after Thanksgiving. It’s the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season and the day that many retailers go from being “in the red” to “in the black” for the first time all year. It’s also become… Read More

November 25, 2013 @ 10:49 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Every once in a while an interesting conversation pops up on Reddit involving crowdfunding and the public’s perception of crowdfunding as a means of raising money. Recently Reddit user mavspade solicited opinions on crowdfunding as a way of raising money for films, asking on subreddit /r/Filmmakers “is… Read More

November 23, 2013 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Another busy week at Crowdfund Insider as we had the privilege of participating in the Small Business Forum held at the Securities and Exchange Commission this past Thursday. This is an exciting time not only for rewards based crowdfunding offerings but for the future of… Read More

November 22, 2013 @ 7:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Film marketplace IndieReign, which allows filmmakers to self-distribute and sell their content directly to fans online, has formed a partnership with rewards based crowdfunding platform Indiegogo. Now filmmakers may decide to leverage the services for their projects and help capture extra support and coverage during… Read More

November 19, 2013 @ 12:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Talon Clemlow is crowdfunding his independent surf documentary Thundercloud on Pozible and if you watch the trailers this film looks pretty awesome. Based around one of the most spectacular days in surfing history, June 8th 2012, when a swell of massive proportions arrived at Cloudbreak,… Read More

November 16, 2013 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

For this weeks Crowdfunding Mailbox we have four crowdfunding campaigns all from Indiegogo.  Pivothead SMART , Freeze Frame which displays your Facebook photos in a digital picture frame, CloudPhone 3G and The Call:  Cool to be Tobacco Free a film which aims to prevent kids… Read More

November 12, 2013 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

On October 2nd, 2006, Charles Carl Roberts IV, walked into a one-room Amish school house in Nickel Mines, PA, close to where he lived. There he shot and killed five young Amish girls and injured five more. Moments later he took his own life. The… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 10:20 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States, a day to celebrate the sacrifices made by American soldiers throughout history. The day marks an armistice between the Allies and Germany that brought and end to fighting during World War I, on the eleventh hour of… Read More

November 9, 2013 @ 2:03 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Hollywood Reporter | ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ Producer: What They Don’t Tell You About Crowdfunding (Guest Column) David T. Friendly’s effort to crowdfund a documentary about shoe collectors is way behind schedule, having raised just over $5,000 of a $100,000 goal on Indiegogo (Despite being flexibly funded)…. Read More

November 6, 2013 @ 9:45 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Huffington Post | Who Let the Dog Out: On New Crowdfunding Rules and Why It Is Time for Us to Wise Up In this piece for the Huffington Post, Victoria Silchenko aggregates the thoughts of people like Tim Draper (pictured, right) and Slava Rubin on… Read More

November 5, 2013 @ 10:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Sleeping Room is a “supernatural gothic horror film” from the same producers that made the film Panic Button, which received 5.2/10 stars on IMDb on an estimated budget of £300,000. The film is now offering a 10.42% equity stake to investors on UK crowdfunding platform… Read More

November 2, 2013 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

For this weeks Crowdfunding Mailbox campaigns we have projects from three categories. Film, Fashion and Food. First of all we have RightBread from Toronto, Ontario which is creating something  that I want (and need).  Bread which is high in protein and low in carbs.  Hmmmm… Read More

November 1, 2013 @ 10:37 am By Charles Luzar  |  

VentureBeat | The JOBS Act leaves crowdfunding investors unprotected — the SEC is working with a flawed law According to the article, Jenny Kassan of Cutting Edge Capital filed the original petition to the SEC to create a crowdfunding exemption. In this article, she argues that… Read More