Tagged: films

March 15, 2016 @ 4:58 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, award-winning Australian documentary Gayby Baby, announced it was finally getting its theatrical and digital release dates. The film successfully secured over $100,000 through its crowdfunding campaign on Pozible a couple years ago. Per its synopsis, Gayby Baby follows the lives of four kids – Gus, Ebony, Matt… Read More

March 12, 2016 @ 11:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced details about its presence at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, which is being held in Austin, Texas. The Kickstarter crew revealed: “South by Southwest takes over Austin, Texas March 11–20, and we’ll be there with bells on. Here’s a… Read More

March 11, 2016 @ 9:54 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With the 2016 SXSW Film Festival set to kick off in Austin, Texas today, global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo announced that 13 lucky films have selected for the famous annual event. Indiegogo noted that the projects being presented at SXSW include first-person shooter action film, HARDCORE HENRY… Read More

March 10, 2016 @ 12:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, Creative England announced that 16 teams have been selected to crowdfund, develop and produce their short films through the latest round of Creative England’s iShorts, delivered as part of the BFI NET.WORK. The campaigns will go live on Crowdfunder UK next month. Creative England revealed… Read More

March 3, 2016 @ 9:41 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, crowdfunding platform for independent films, Seed&Spark, announced it has completed a distribution arrangement to extend its reach to millions of cable customers across the U.S. Through this new agreement, major cable providers will now have access to Seed&Spark’s library of excellent independent content… Read More

February 25, 2016 @ 10:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the announcement that two animated Kickstarter-funded films have been recognized by The Academy, the crowdfunding giant’s film team has decided to reveal their cartoon movie favorites. Kickstarter’s Liz Cook, George Schmalz, and Dan Schoenbrun have put together a list of animated works that have… Read More

February 12, 2016 @ 8:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Kickstarter announced it has formed a partnership with Berlinale Talents, which is an initiative of the Berlin International Festival (also known as Berlinale). This new collaboration is reportedly part of the crowdfunding platform’s ongoing initiative to provide education and mentorship opportunities for emerging… Read More

February 4, 2016 @ 10:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Following the closing of the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, Kickstarter offered up some details about its experience at this year’s big event. The crowdfunding giant shared: “We’re dusting off the snow from our parkas and boots this week as the Kickstarter Film team settles back… Read More

January 22, 2016 @ 2:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this month, crowdfunding platform for films Seed&Spark celebrated 2016 by taking a look back at its 2015 achievements. The Seed&Spark team shared: “2015 was a year of firsts (and thirds, and fourths) for Seed&Spark. We produced our first VR film. For the first time,… Read More

January 20, 2016 @ 2:26 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than 24 hours until the 2016 Sundance Film Festival kicks off, Indiegogo announced details about the 5th annual Array Soiree, which will be hosted by Ava DuVernay, founder of Array, and Danae Ringelmann, co-founder and chief development officer of Indiegogo. The global crowdfunding platform… Read More

January 19, 2016 @ 3:40 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced that it is dubbing 2016 the “Year of the Trailer.” The crowdfunding giant declared in a blog post: “Each month, the Film team will curate three to five new campaigns from some of our favorite filmmakers. But not for new feature… Read More

December 4, 2015 @ 3:22 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Horror Equity Fund, Inc, an investment platform for solicitation and sale of funding solutions for pre-screened and professionally vetted Horror genre entertainment projects, announced on Thursday the launch of its new funding campaign on Crowdfunder to raise $750,000. Horror Equity Fund is not a production company. It offers… Read More

November 25, 2015 @ 2:36 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Kickstarter announced that eleven of its funded film projects received a total of nineteen Independent Spirit Awards nominations. The crowdfunding giant declared on its blog: “Film Independent recently announced the nominees for the 2016 Indie Spirit Awards and we’re excited to share that 11… Read More

October 15, 2015 @ 9:52 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

This evening, this year’s Kickstarter Film Festival is set to premiere in 32 theaters nationwide. The crowdfunding platform declared: “For one night only, 32 theaters across the country will be screening our biggest festival yet. We combed through thousands of the features, documentaries, and shorts… Read More

August 25, 2015 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

It’s that time of the year again! On Tuesday, Kickstarter announced details for its fifth annual film festival that is set to kick off on October 15th. The crowdfunding platform shared: “Not just Brooklyn. Not just L.A. For the first time ever, we’re bringing the… Read More

May 28, 2015 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

This week, crowdfunding giant Kickstarter announced some exciting news about certain films projects that have appeared on its platform. During a recent update, Kickstarter revealed: “One hundred and eight films across categories, from narratives to documentary shorts, from animation to experimental creations — it’s time… Read More

April 28, 2015 @ 9:36 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The movie has been shot and the crowd has lined up to voice its opinion: over 57,080€ of the 100,000€ goal has been raised by 109 Companists for the German urban comedy Wie Männer Über Frau Reden (How Men Talk About Women).  German comedies tend to generate high… Read More

March 10, 2015 @ 3:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fresh off the announcement of Seed&Spark’s partnership with FiOS TV, founder of the crowdfunding platform, Emily Best sat down with Verizon to shared details about the new collaboration and revealed her thoughts about the always evolving indie film industry. During the interview, Best discussed the platform’s history,… Read More

March 2, 2015 @ 11:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seed&Spark, a crowdfunding and distribution platform made just for independent film, is set to partner with Emerging Pictures, an all-digital film and alternate content network of theaters in the U.S., to extend theatrical distribution to filmmakers who crowdfund on the Seed&Spark platform. Starting in March, both feature… Read More

October 27, 2014 @ 10:03 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Sunday (October 26th), former actor and independent filmmaker, Joe Fossum-Perez, announced that a new   IndieFilmIt crowdfunding platform will be launching next month. MyTalentNetwork is a single window online crowdfunding platform that has been tailored to serve all specific requirements of independent filmmaking. It has… Read More