crowdfunding

  • Crowdfunding We Love

Help Fund The Cutting Room Floor, a Story of an Editor Blurring Reality, Memory and Fantasy

Filmmaker Victoria DeMartin was editing her 2013 film “Winter Rye” when she had the first inkling of the idea for…

12 months ago
  • MM Guide 2019

Working the Crowd: How Indie Crowdfunding Campaigns Have Evolved, and Some Savvy Ways to Keep Up

Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative, to rewards, to backer…

5 years ago
  • Annual Lists

50 Film Festivals Worth the Entry Fee in 2018

Stamping the MovieMaker seal of approval on each destination in our annual guide to the 50 Film Festivals Worth the…

6 years ago
  • MM Guide 2018

Scaring Up Funds: How to Acquire Investors When Your Movie’s in Horror, the Most Profitable Genre of Them All

We’ve all heard the stories. Paranormal Activity, a film with a budget slightly less than a used Honda, made $193…

6 years ago
  • Producing

Deal or No Deal: Movie Maker Academy Preaches an Unorthodox Way to Turn a Profit on Your Film

Give your film away for free, and you’ll make more money than you ever would selling it to distributors or…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Endless Poetry: Alejandro Jodorowsky on the Freedom of Losing Money, and Making Movies at 88

Absent from the limelight for over 20 years, the revered visionary, artistic shaman and extreme multi-hyphenate Alejandro Jodorowsky chose to…

7 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: "WARped"

Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…

7 years ago
  • MM Guide 2017

Getting Financed, The Lowdown: What Works and What Doesn’t, From the Producer of Swiss Army Man

Is financing an indie film more difficult than ever? There’s so much content out there and so few companies that…

7 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Stuck.

This week’s Crowdfunder Pick is Stuck., a fresh and funny take on personal growth and relationships from award-winning director Jillian…

8 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: 20 Weeks

Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…

8 years ago
  • Movie News

The Cardinal Rules of Crowdfunding:The Five Basic Tenets You Need to Follow for a Successful Campaign

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last seven years, you or someone you know has ventured into…

8 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: “Learning to Drive”

Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…

8 years ago
  • Documentary
  • Interviews

Walking and Talking: A Son Meets His Father Anew in Documentary Life in a Walk

Life in a Walk is football coach-turned-filmmaker Yogi Roth's voyage to understand his personal hero—his father, Will. Funded in part…

9 years ago
  • Other

The Pocket That Fits My Hand: Why Crowdfunding is More Vital and Necessary Than Ever

Being an independent filmmaker means, in some capacity, being addicted to failure. It means you put yourself out into the…

9 years ago
  • How They Did It

Thank You, Internet: How Social Media Sparked and Enabled the Documentary Twinsters

Twinsters follows Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman, two adoptees living on opposite ends of the earth, who in 2013 discovered their…

9 years ago
  • Documentary

A One-Man Crew in Taliban Country: Brent Huffman is Saving Mes Aynak

Saving Mes Aynak is a film I believed in so deeply I repeatedly risked my life to make it: the story…

9 years ago
  • Documentary

Story Seeking Teller: How Two Nurses Turned an Idea Into the Documentary The Milky Way

Two nurses walk into a bar… No, seriously, we did. And we really did conceive the bones of our documentary,…

9 years ago
  • Producing

Dream Big, Plan Bigger: Winston Baker’s Film Finance Forum East

The aptly named Dream Downtown Hotel, in the hip meatpacking district of New York City, hosted Winston Baker's 7th Annual…

9 years ago
  • Distribution
  • Movie News

Alternative Bedfellows: Gathr’s New Fund Puts Crowdfunded Films in Theaters

Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical screening organizer, Gathr, is…

10 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: An American in Texas

This week's Crowdfunder Pick is An American in Texas, a dramatic exploration of youthful rebellion from Texas native Anthony Pedone.…

10 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: Documentary Equal Means Equal Made 158 Percent of its Goal on Kickstarter

It is no secret that successfully crowdfunding a film takes a lot of time and dedication. Sometimes it even seems…

10 years ago
  • Articles
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  • MM Guide 2013
  • Producing

How to Crowdfund, Really: An Actionable Timeline

Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, explains why crowdfunding is more about the crowd than the funding, especially if you…

11 years ago
  • Producing

Five Great Indiegogo Film Campaigns: and What You Can Learn from Them

John T. Trigonis, Category Marketing Manager of Film, Web and Video at Indiegogo, takes an instructional look at five success…

11 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Trailblazer Tuesday Crowdfunder of the Week: Anomaly

MovieMaker’s second Trailblazer Tuesday Crowdfunder of the Week is Anomaly, a feature film Kickstarter campaign by Dan DiFelice and Salomon…

11 years ago