Tagged: documentary

September 15, 2014 @ 8:55 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Ready to give the world an inside look at the unaccredited teaching organization, Singularity University, a group of filmmakers have launched their own crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a new feature documentary, The University. According the campaign’s description, The University tells the story of the… Read More

July 22, 2014 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks following the closing of his “Reading Rainbow” campaign on Kickstarter, former host of the PBS children’s series LeVar Burton discusses his initial reaction to the project’s launch and success on the crowdfunding platform. Over 105,000 backers pledges a total of $5.4… 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 10, 2014 @ 8:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week until it closes, the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the documentary “LADDIE” has surpassed its goal of $67,350. The film follows one of the most influential film moguls that “no one has ever heard of.” As previously reported on Crowdfund Insider,… Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 7:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Setting out to share a special story about survival and motivation, first-time director Sara Bordo launched a brand new campaign on Kickstarter titled “The Lizzie Project.” The official documentary is based on 25-year-old Lizzie Velasquez, the breakout speaker of the YouTube video “How… Read More

April 16, 2014 @ 4:30 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington co-directed an acclaimed film called Restrepo, which followed Second Platoon for a year in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. It was a sobering look at the things American soldiers faced while on deployment. Junger and Hetherington would shoot about 150 hours of footage over… Read More

April 4, 2014 @ 11:23 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted in May of 2013 of a host of horrific charges related to late-term abortions and other medical misgivings. Some have called him “the most successful serial killer in the history of the world” while estimating that he may be responsible… Read More

March 19, 2014 @ 11:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Below is the trailer for Startupland, a documentary series we reported on last year that will follow the stories of startup founders as they work to build their businesses. All of the participating startups were embedded in the now defunct Fortify Ventures Accelerator Program. The first… Read More

January 26, 2014 @ 3:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunded films were everywhere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Kickstarter alone fielded 20 alumni and Indiegogo chipped in six more. A complete list of Kickstarter-and-Indiegogo-funded entries are available in the following articles… Sundance Film Festival Includes 20 Kickstarter Funded Films for 2014 Indiegogo at… Read More

January 5, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Filmmakers Travis Doering and Jason Bourque have been raising funds for a documentary about Edward Snowden since the fall of 2013 with a plan of ending their funding campaign on January 1, 2014. That date has come to pass, and the result of their effort… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:26 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Life Itself is a documentary film currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. It aims to document the life and times of Roger Ebert, the beloved film critic who passed away in April of this year. RELATED | On Indiegogo: Stars Align To Crowdfund Roger Ebert Documentary “Life… 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

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 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

September 10, 2013 @ 5:31 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story promises to be a dramatic biopic covering the life and times of now-ubiquitous NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and the project is crowdfunding on a custom, WordPress-and-IgnitionDeck-powered crowdfunding solution. “Classified: The Edward Snowden Story” is a biopic that will tell the… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Peter Mayhew made history playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars franchise. At 7’3″, he was also born with Giantism. His large frame has degraded his knees to the point of needing surgery in order to walk unassisted again, and a fully-funded Kickstarter campaign for a… 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