All posts tagged "indiegogo"
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Crowdfunder Pick: "Harsh Reality"
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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Crowdfunder Pick: "Goodnight"
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...
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Mission—Moviemaking: How a Group of Military Veterans Raised $1 Mil. on Indiegogo to Make Range 15
It was the spring of 2015 when I first heard the rumblings, on Facebook, of a movie project called Range 15. It was rumored to...
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Crowdfunder Pick: 20 Weeks
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...
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Crowdfunder Pick: Writer Rider
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...
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Cinema Law: Why Moviemakers Should be Very, Very Careful About Equity Crowdfunding
Just days before the American Film Market began last November, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally promulgated regulations (after a two-year delay) that allow...
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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 the depths of crowdfunding. In...
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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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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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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...