All posts tagged "crowdfunding"
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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. And here at MovieMaker, we applaud...
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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 by Indiegogo, the documentary, Roth’s...
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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 world, time and time again,...
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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 strikingly similar appearances through YouTube....
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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 of a true-life Afghan Indiana...
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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, The Milky Way, right there...
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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 Film Finance Forum East on...
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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 specifically targeting crowd-funded films via...
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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. Anthony Pedone is a moviemaker...
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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 impossible. But one of our...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Taylor Russell on Waves and Why She’s OK With Being an Adult Who Plays High School Students
In director Trey Edward Shults’ Waves, Taylor Russell plays the younger sister of Kelvin Harrison Jr., even though she’s five days older than him in real life. In fact,...
Inside the Issue: Directing
Rob Zombie: Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker
Rob Zombie still can’t let go of some of his past off-screen nightmares. “After I finished Halloween II, I was so beat up by the process that I hated...
Inside the Issue: How To
Edward Norton Walks Us Through Every Part of Making Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton is the best possible person to explain each stage of the moviemaking process for his new drama Motherless Brooklyn—he’s the film’s writer, director and lead actor. For...