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And the Oscar Goes To…: Kickstarter Announces Funded Projects Nominated for the 2017 Award Show

With the 89th Academy Awards set to take place this Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter announced the projects that were nominated for this year’s big award event. The funding portal stated: “Since 2011, at least one Kickstarter-funded film has… Read More

Kickstarter Celebrates Creators Nominated For 88th Annual Academy Awards

With the 88th annual Academy Awards (Oscars) airing this Sunday evening, Kickstarter joined in on the event’s festivities by celebrating crowdfunding creators that have been nominated. The famous portal  revealed that since 2011 at least one Kickstarter-funded film has been nominated for an Oscar each… Read More

Crowdfunded Film “The Square” Nominated for Oscar (Video)

Crowdfunded on Kickstarter where the film raised $126,020 on a $100,000 goal this past March, The Square has been nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This is the first Academy Award Nomination for creators Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer. The documentary film follows the events… Read More

How ‘crowdfunding’ is changing the way movies are funded

The movie Argo may have picked up the biggest prize in last week’s Academy Awards ceremony, but it was the Best Documentary Short winner that had many on the Internet buzzing. Inocente, a film about a 15-year-old homeless girl who dreams of becoming an artist,… Read More

Kickstarting the Oscars: 4 Crowdfunding Tips from the Makers of Academy Award-Nominated “BUZKASHI BOYS”

Thousands of films get their funding on Kickstarter, but so far in the site’s history, only three have made their way to the Academy Awards. February 24, that number will double, when documentary shorts Kings Point and Inocente and live action short Buzkashi Boys arrive… Read More

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