Tagged: film

August 31, 2013 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Inaugural Fair Trade Filmmaking Festival, WestFest to Be Held at The HUB LA in Los Angeles, October 1st through 3rd. Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding plus digital distribution platform for independent film, has announced that it will host their first fair trade filmmaking festival, WestFest, from October 1-3,… Read More

August 30, 2013 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Back in April of this year filmmaker / comedian Stuart Ashen (AKA Ashens) from Norwich, England crowdfunded the film, “Ashens and The Quest For The Game Child” and generated $73,690 on a goal of $50,000.  Over 1200 backers came to aid his project on Indiegogo…. Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 1:48 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BOOM or DOOM is a documentary currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter that aims to put an interesting spin on the crowdfunded documentary model. See, project creators Sean and Alan plan on using Kickstarter to raise funds for an upcoming party game, entitled Two Rooms and a Broom…. Read More

August 24, 2013 @ 11:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

While working at a Puma shoe and apparel store, Calvan Fowler says he often saw patrons walk in with Air Jordans on. Furthermore, he recognized that often times those Jordans came with a story. The filmmaker in him realized there was an opportunity to capture… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 2:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Add another Hollywood film to the credits of crowdfunding film,  Reach Me, a project by Director / Writer John Herzfeld launched this week on Kickstarter in an attempt to raise $250,000 to finish the already started film.  The project stars erstwhile action star Sylvester Stallone… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Indiegogo + Raindance to be at TIFF Party. Indiegogo is kicking off their partnership with Raindance Film Festival and Schools next month by participating in Raindance Toronto’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Industry Party.  The event also features a $2000 prize for a Pitch Video… Read More

August 23, 2013 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Over 1600 backers helped to push animated film crowdfunding project “Art Story” over their $350,000 funding goal on Kickstarter during the campaigns final hours.  Creators and Disney Veterans, Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams, launched a final push to crowdfund their dream and their request was rewarded as… Read More

August 17, 2013 @ 5:33 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We previously reported on Citizen Koch, a documentary aiming to explore the interplay between money and politics in the United States. In order to stake a claim to a digital copy of the upcoming film, backers had to pony up $75. Backer Nick Guillaume expressed his… Read More

August 17, 2013 @ 11:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee can start celebrating. He just surpassed a $1.25 million goal on Kickstarter for his new film, which as of now is still shrouded in a bit of mystery. It’s about love and it’s about blood, but in the words of Lee “The reason… Read More

August 17, 2013 @ 9:55 am By JD Alois  |  

For this week’s Mailbox we received a note from one of the Directors of a film crowdfunding now on Kickstarter.  The title of the film is Frame by Frame and it is a feature length documentary about photography and freedom of the press in Afghanistan…. Read More

August 13, 2013 @ 12:37 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Despite being razzed by Trish Regan on live TV and catching flack from others, Spike Lee has successfully raised over $1 million on Kickstarter for his new film. His campaign seems on track to hit his $1.25 million goal by the time the campaign ends in… Read More

August 10, 2013 @ 9:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Another week in the world of crowdfunding and while things do slow down a bit in August crowdfunding moves forward.  This past week saw the Crowdfunding Professionals Assocation (CfPA) hold their annual event and we expect to receive some interesting reports from this gather this… Read More

August 8, 2013 @ 6:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

The 3rd Annual Kickstarter Film Fest was held this past week and reports from Kickstarter show it was an incredible success.  The event held in Brooklyn under the shadow of the Williamsburg bridge was a gather filled with music, film and much fun by all… Read More

August 6, 2013 @ 11:40 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee is making headlines again regarding his currently-running campaign on Kickstarter. Yesterday he was interviewed by BET and one of the subjects at hand was his recent tiff with CNBC pundit Trish Regan, who led an interview with Lee by alluding to criticisms he… Read More

August 3, 2013 @ 2:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

Another week in the world of crowdfunding.  We had some good news this week as it appears we will finally have clarity from the SEC in regards to popular crowdfunding later this fall.  It will be fascinating to see how investment crowdfunding impacts rewards based… Read More

August 3, 2013 @ 8:52 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Spike Lee has a high-profile Kickstarter campaign for his new film and the campaign has just crossed $500,000 of funding with a little over two weeks to go. As is often the case with celebrities on Kickstarter, Lee has carried the torch for crowdfunding and… Read More

August 2, 2013 @ 4:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Shelby and the Bread Factory was a film which was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter. At the end of the campaign – which had surpassed their $30,000 crowdfunding goal – funds were refunded to backers and the campaign was inexplicably cancelled. In true film-making spirit the… Read More

August 2, 2013 @ 2:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowfunding on FundAnything Platform Carolla Surpasses $1 Million Target with 15 Days Left in Campaign Actor, comedian and podcasting aficianado Adam Carolla’s crowdfunding  campaign for his new movie “Road Hard” has surpassed the $1 million goal initially set for his fundraising effort on FundAnything.  … Read More

July 31, 2013 @ 8:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Accomplished Film Director Spike Lee was interviewed on CNBC today regarding his current Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a future film about human beings addicted to blood.  He is looking to raise $1.25 Million and he is almost half way their with just under $500,000.  Steven… Read More

July 30, 2013 @ 11:08 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Screenrant recently followed up on an appearance by Keving Heffernan and Steve Lemme on the Bertcast podcast. On it they discussed a current deal on the table with Fox to produce a sequel to the campy cult classic Super Troopers. From the article… The deal basically puts… Read More