As traditional sources of funding in the movie industry have dried up for independent and other filmmakers, help has been pouring in from the online crowd.
The arrival four years ago of creative work crowdfunding web portals such as Indiegogo and Kickstarter has been a godsend to artists of all types – but especially filmmakers, who make up the largest group of campaigners on both sites.
The sites allow filmmakers to raise funding for their ideas from the public, sometimes in donations of just $5 or $10.
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