Tagged: film

June 27, 2013 @ 4:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Actor and director Paul Sorvino, who is probably best known for his iconic role as a mob boss in Goodfellas, has partnered with controversial comedian Katt Williams , to launch a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for a feature film titled, ‘Christmas in Beverly Hills.’… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 4:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UPDATE: Funding successful! The documentary was fully funded overnight and the project is a go. Kickstarted, the Kickstarter documentary crowdfunding on Kickstarter, is teetering on the edge of missing a funding goal with less than 24 hours left in the campaign. We first reported on… Read More

June 26, 2013 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Seed&Spark CEO and Founder Emily Best Named to Indiewire Influencers List Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding and digital distribution platform for independent film, has recently launched initiatives to shape the future of independent film by strengthening the ties between filmmakers and film audiences. At this month’s LA Film Fest,… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 8:12 am By ArcticStartUp  |  

Before Martin Borgs joined the crowdfunding scene, the largest amount raised for a Swedish film was 393,646 SEK (€45,000) in a month. On FundedByMe, the largest amount raised for any project on the “classic crowfunding” site was 257,914 SEK. Borgs made more than that in… Read More

June 10, 2013 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

Until just recently, the category crowdfunded films and video held the crown of the most popular projects on Kickstarter but now crowdfunding games has usurped this position.  From the Kickstarter stats page games stand as follows: Games Category: Total projects 5,584 Total Dollars $144.21 Million… Read More

June 7, 2013 @ 9:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunded Film Launches  as Day-and-Date Release.   ‘I Send You This Place’ release Is in Conjunction with a Week Long Theatrical Run by IFP at reRun Theater in Brooklyn, NY Seed&Spark, the world’s first crowd-fundingand digital distribution platform made just for independent film, is proud to… Read More

June 6, 2013 @ 4:21 pm By Variety  |  

Kickstarter has leveled the playing field for artists in need of funding. But the influx of pros like Zach Braff has many wondering how crowdfunding will be transformed by showbiz (and vice versa). Over the past four years, Kickstarter has earned a reputation as the place where creators… Read More

June 5, 2013 @ 9:10 pm By The Impaler Speaks  |  

Hybrid Vigor stirred the imaginations of film-lovers and crowdfunders the world over in the summer of 2012 with a Kickstarter campaign for the ages and a nod as Indiewire’s Project Of The Week. Filming is underway and on schedule. The Impaler Speaks has featured two previous interviews with creator Brandon Fowler, which… Read More

June 4, 2013 @ 8:58 am By ReadScreen  |  

Project: Linsanity  Funding goal: US$117,000 Amount raised: $167,916 Kickstarter backers: 2,102 Key takeaway: Have a plan and identify potential “super fans” “Plan, plan, plan” is the main piece of advice coming from Linsanity producer Allen Lu, who oversaw the Kickstarter campaign for the Sundance documentary selection which tracked Asian-American basketball star Jeremy… Read More

June 2, 2013 @ 11:15 am By Real Screen  |  

Project: Inocente Funding goal: US$50,000 Amount raised: $52,527 Kickstarter backers: 294 Key takeaway: Know how much you need Husband and wife directorial team Sean Fine (pictured above, right) and Andrea Nix Fine (left) were in post-production on their 39-minute doc Inocente when they decided to turn to Kickstarter for help. The film… Read More

June 1, 2013 @ 11:09 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Cicadas have been making headlines this year for their once-every-17-year-emergence from the ground on the mid-Atlantic coast. Now Samuel Orr has launched a Kickstarter campaign in hopes of creating a documentary on the phenomenon, and the campaign is fully funded. Orr has announced a $20,000… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 8:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Just launched on Kickstarter is a crowdfunding project for a documentary film entitled “Kickstarted“.   In a poetic fashion the film is chronicling the meteoric rise of crowdfunding and the revolutionary change this innovation is bringing to entrepreneurs everywhere.  Organized by filmakers Jason Cooper and… Read More

May 31, 2013 @ 12:23 am By JD Alois  |  

Seed&Spark Launches $30,000 Crowdfunding Campaign on Seed&Spark. Supporters Will Help Shape the Future of the Seed&Spark Platform. To innovate the way we make and watch movies, Seed&Spark, the world’s first crowd-funding and digital distribution platform made just for independent film, today started a $30,000 crowd-funding campaign…. Read More

May 29, 2013 @ 5:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding and digital distribution platform for independent film, took first place in The Pitch Season 2, BetaBeat’s  pitch competition. Along with BetaBeat glory, Seed&Spark was awarded $10,000 in funding that will go toward improving the website. Featured in Episode Seven of The Pitch,… Read More

May 28, 2013 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kickstarted is the first documentary feature about the crowdfunding revolution that tells the inspiring and dramatic stories of the artists, makers and entrepreneurs who are harnessing the crowd to achieve the impossible. Jason Cooper and Jay Armitage have launched a Kickstarter campaign for their documentary about… Read More

May 27, 2013 @ 5:21 am By Journal.ie  |  

Two Irish filmmakers want to know if thorium could be the answer to the world’s energy woes – and they havelaunched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to finish a documentary on the topic. Frankie Fenton and Des Kelleher want to raise £40,000 so that… Read More

May 25, 2013 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

The Kickstarter  crowdfunding campaign started by Actor / Directory Zach Braff closed yesterday.  The final tally stood at $3,105,473 surpassing the original target of $2 Million by more than a million.  The Braff campaign had captured wide spread media attention following the incredible success of… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 10:06 pm By LA Times  |  

‘Blue Ruin’ and ‘The Opportunist’ were admitted to the festival, bringing their respective teams of young American filmmakers to the Riviera (on the cheap-ish). A few months ago, Jeremy Saulnier had risen early for a flight to Cleveland when he saw a message in his… Read More

May 22, 2013 @ 7:49 am By Film School Rejects  |  

Recently, the act of donating to or promoting a Kickstarter campaign has become a highly politicized and moralized one for movie fans, an act brimming with questions, crises, and conundrums about systemic economic disadvantages normalized by dominant industries of filmmaking. Suspicion has been directed in droves toward… Read More

May 21, 2013 @ 8:03 am By LA Times  |  

Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff’s recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show “Veronica Mars.” Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart, who failed in her efforts to raise $2 million for a romantic comedy in… Read More