Tagged: film

March 26, 2013 @ 11:16 am By Kevin Fitzpatrick  |  

Only twelve days into its thirty-day campaign and the ‘Veronica Mars’ Kickstarter movie project has nearly doubled its projected goal, creating a high benchmark for the next TV series to attempt funding from a crowd-sourcing campaign. While a number of TV creators and stars have proposed Kickstarter… Read More

March 17, 2013 @ 10:51 am By Business Standard  |  

Fund management company Starting Blocks Media Ventures will launch a new crowd funding model, Catapooolt, dedicated to creative projects including movies, music and other performing arts. Catapooolt will be launched during the Hong Kong Asia Film Festival later this month. The company has join hands… Read More

March 16, 2013 @ 3:51 am By Slate  |  

It took three days for Veronica Mars to change the way movies are made. Or maybe it didn’t. As the Kickstarter for the Veronica Mars Movie Project sailed past its $2 million goal in a scant 10 hours—as I write, the budget is at $3.3 million and counting—bereft fans of Terriers, Chuck,Pushing Daisies,… Read More

March 15, 2013 @ 5:09 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Interesting comments from film industry vets Elle Schneider and Joe Rubinstein share their thoughts on where Kickstarter is going, what they can do to improve and a need for due diligence for rewards crowdfunding campaigns. Watch below…

March 14, 2013 @ 10:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

We reported yesterday on the incredible success of the Veronica Mills film on Kickstarter.  As of today the crowdfunding project has raised over $3,000,000 from well over 48,000 supporters.  Wow. In a comment on their project page they note: We were the fastest Kickstarter project… Read More

March 9, 2013 @ 6:14 am By JD Alois  |  

Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding and digital distribution platform made just for independent film, rolled out new social viewing and following features during SXSW 2013. More than 2,000 Seed&Spark users can now follow their friends on Seed&Spark and invite them to watch a movie from the Cinema… Read More

March 8, 2013 @ 7:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter + Films = SXSW 2013 A film crowdfunded by Kickstarter just won an Oscar.  Over $100 Million has been raised, for over 9000 film projects, on the Kickstarter platform over the past three years alone. So what is next?  SXSW of course.  Kickstarted films… Read More

March 7, 2013 @ 8:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

The world’s first crowdfunding and digital distribution site made just for independent film, Seed&Spark, added nine more films to their  Cinema collection recently. The new round of films shines a spotlight on diversity: films made by minority filmmakers or films about under-represented communities, with a… Read More

March 7, 2013 @ 7:00 am By Hollywood Reporter  |  

The theatrical rollout for Jules Bishop‘s quirky comedy Borrowed Time, starring Phil Davis and Theo Barklem-Biggs, will be bankrolled by cash raised from crowdfunding service Kickstarter. Berlin 2013: Metrodome Picks Up U.K. Rights To Tim Roth Starrer ‘The Liability’Produced by Olivier Kaempfer of Parkville Pictures, the… Read More

February 25, 2013 @ 8:14 pm By SGEntrepreneurs  |  

If there’s an Oscars-related story more fascinating than Anne Hathaway’s unsurprising win for Best Supporting Actress in Les Misérables, it has to be this: a Kickstarter-funded short film has won an Oscar. Inocente — which tells the tale of a 15-year-old girl in pursuit of her dream… Read More

February 22, 2013 @ 5:24 pm By UticaOD  |  

Geoff Orlowski wants to take his filmmaking talents to the next level. The Whitesboro resident has been writing and making his own movies — from short films in college to his first feature film that he shot last year in Utica. To get to the… Read More

February 19, 2013 @ 3:17 pm By CrowdCrux  |  

To date $90.74 million has been raised on Kickstarter in the film & video category, making it the largest category in terms of funds raised. Projects in this category have had a 39% success rate and comprise 21.8% market share of the 13 categories listed… Read More

February 18, 2013 @ 2:27 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

February 13, 2013 @ 10:36 pm By TheWrap  |  

Freddie Wong and the team behind the blockbuster web series “Video Game High School” have shattered the record for a film campaign on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site that has helped a number of aspiring and established filmmakers secure financing for their projects. Wong, Brandon Laatsch… Read More

February 13, 2013 @ 6:42 pm By Karsten Strauss, Forbes  |  

Several months ago we spotlighted a soon-to-launch crowdfunding company that sought to bring crowdfunding to independent film. That company – Seed & Spark – has launched and now boasts an upcoming film starring Edward Burns among its list of financing projects. Largely financed by Atlantic Pictures, the… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 5:15 pm By Forbes  |  

Several months ago we spotlighted a soon-to-launch crowdfunding company that sought to bring crowdfunding to independent film. That company – Seed & Spark – has launched and now boasts an upcoming film starring Edward Burns among its list of financing projects. Largely financed by Atlantic Pictures, the… Read More

February 11, 2013 @ 4:04 am By ArcticStartUp  |  

It seems like crowdfunding is half of what I’m writing about these days, but it is an industry in its infancy that’s really starting to pop in the Nordics. By now you might think you have every crowdfunding platform figured out, but Lund-based startup,Crowdme, is… Read More

February 4, 2013 @ 8:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Seed&Spark, an Independent film crowdfunding site launched last year, has crowdfunded over $146,000 in funding plus goods and services for seven films in first 60 days.  Seed&Spark, founded by Emily Best, set out last year on a quest to create a crowdfunding platform and ecosystem… Read More

January 23, 2013 @ 5:07 am By JD Alois  |  

At the Sundance Film Festival 2013, Seed&Spark, Dogfish Accelerator, and Nice Dissolve revealed a new community forum to help independent filmmakers stay indie . “We are three companies working together to innovate the industry from different angles to restore true independence to filmmaking. This includes introducing… Read More

January 14, 2013 @ 8:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

Expedition PR announced today that Seed&Spark, the first end-to-end solution for independent films to fund, produce, and distribute their films using the power of the crowd, has named Expedition PR as its public relations and marketing partner. Founded in 2009 and based in Brooklyn, NY, Expedition PR… Read More