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To help get your next campaign ready to launch, an insider walks you through the biggest changes to the crowdfunding…
Indie production is about sharing, not stealing your team's thunder. Here's how Thunder Road's Jim Cummings avoided Hollywood's "rabbit hole…
You went to film school, not business school—yet all the sudden you’re confronted by a bevy of fancy financial terms…
Our crowdfunder pick "Thou Shall Not Tailgate" is "a love letter to the weird and offbeat," says director Greg Hamilton.
MovieMaker’s Crowd Funder of the week is Stuck., a comedy about personal growth and relationships from Jillian Armenante, David Mickel,…
Here are five things I believe every filmmaker needs to get in order before they set foot on a film…
Perfect Song is the story of a struggling artist who embarks on a journey after the death of her abusive…
Tex Montana Will Survive! is already finished, but we are currently running a slightly experimental Kickstarter campaign. We are not…
Lawyers and financiers are all of the unanimous opinion that equity crowdfunding, as applied to independent filmmaking, sucks. Why?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last seven years, you or someone you know has ventured into…
Financing the feature Difret, directed by Zeresenay Berhane Mehari and produced by me, Mehret Mandefro, was a struggle.
Look at Us Now, Mother! is a feature documentary about the transformation of a highly charged mother/daughter relationship from Mommie…
In Hawk the Hunter, the sequel to 1980 cult classic Hawk the Slayer, Hawk swears to avenge the death of…
Twinsters follows Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman, two adoptees living on opposite ends of the earth, who in 2013 discovered…
Fresh off his directing debut, Searching for Sonny (2011), director Andrew Disney makes Balls Out, a flag football comedy from…
Two nurses walk into a bar… No, seriously, we did. And we really did conceive the bones of our documentary,…
In 1938, three French friends attempt the first kayak exploration of the wild Green and Colorado rivers in the documentary,…
How Denny Tedesco spent 19 years making The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about '60 musical legends—and tribute to his father,…
Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical screening organizer, Gathr, is…
Film Critic: The Movie will be a comedy that can only be described as a cross between Christopher Guest and…
Director Jeremy Saulnier retraces his path to winning the Indie Film Lotto with his sleek bullet of a revenge flick,…
In the spirit of our upcoming Spring issue's Activism in Film theme, this week’s crowdfunder pick is the socially-conscious Beware…
This week’s crowdfunder of choice is Night of the Living Deb, a romantic zomedy (or rom-zom-com) with a female lead,…
The paradigm of Kickstarter success that over-worked, exhausted aspiring moviemakers cling to in their darkest moments - a beacon of…