All posts tagged "kickstarter"
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MM Guide 2019
Working the Crowd: How Indie Crowdfunding Campaigns Have Evolved, and Some Savvy Ways to Keep Up
December 20, 2018Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative,...
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Directing
The Road Less Traveled: To Get Your Indie Made, Treat Your Crew Like Your Family and Put Your Audience Above Yourself
October 24, 2018Soon after my film “Thunder Road” won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016...
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Cinema Law
Indie Law: Put the Green in Greenlight With This Guide to the Most Effective Film Financing Tactics
June 6, 2018You went to film school, not business school—yet all the sudden you’re confronted by a bevy...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: "Thou Shall Not Tailgate"
August 16, 2017Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Stuck.
July 25, 2016This week’s Crowdfunder Pick is Stuck., a fresh and funny take on personal growth and relationships...
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Producing
Slate Up: Five Things to Prepare Before Starting Your Film
March 28, 2016In partnership with Film Slate Magazine, we’re publishing “Slate Up,” a fortnightly series with practical filmmaking advice...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Perfect Song
March 21, 2016Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or...
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Crowdfunder Pick
The Case for Donations: Why I am Distributing My Next Film, Tex Montana Will Survive!, Via Creative Commons
February 12, 2016It is possible to make a living as a filmmaker. You would be wise, however, to...
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Cinema Law
Cinema Law: Why Moviemakers Should be Very, Very Careful About Equity Crowdfunding
January 6, 2016Just days before the American Film Market began last November, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...
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MM Guide 2016
The Cardinal Rules of Crowdfunding:The Five Basic Tenets You Need to Follow for a Successful Campaign
November 27, 2015Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last seven years, you or someone you...
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How They Did It
How They Did It: The Myriad Sources of Financing for Ethiopian Drama Difret
October 22, 2015Financing the feature Difret, an unapologetic narrative about two Ethiopian women who had altered that country’s...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Look at Us Now, Mother!
October 5, 2015Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Hawk the Hunter
September 3, 2015Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or...
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How They Did It
Thank You, Internet: How Social Media Sparked and Enabled the Documentary Twinsters
July 23, 2015Twinsters follows Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman, two adoptees living on opposite ends of the earth, who...
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Interviews
Balls Out: The Making of an Indie Sports Comedy with Director Andrew Disney
June 17, 2015As an intern who worked on Balls Out from the first table read to the Tribeca...
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Documentary
Story Seeking Teller: How Two Nurses Turned an Idea Into the Documentary The Milky Way
May 5, 2015Two nurses walk into a bar… No, seriously, we did. And we really did conceive the...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Voyagers Without Trace
April 30, 2015Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or...
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Directing
Formats, Licensing, Creative Fundraising: The Epic 19-Year Making of Music Doc The Wrecking Crew
March 10, 2015How Denny Tedesco spent 19 years making The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about ’60 musical legends—and...
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Distribution
Alternative Bedfellows: Gathr’s New Fund Puts Crowdfunded Films in Theaters
June 16, 2014Even low-budget indie films funded on Kickstarter will have a shot at theatrical distribution. Demand-based theatrical...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Film Critic: The Movie
April 29, 2014Our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week is Film Critic: The Movie, a comedy about following your...
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Directing
How They Did It: The Incredible-but-True Story of Blue Ruin
April 23, 2014Prologue I’ve come to embrace the story of Blue Ruin as one of smashing success. My...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Beware of Images
April 15, 2014In the spirit of our upcoming Spring issue’s Activism in Film theme, this week’s crowdfunder pick...
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Crowdfunder Pick
Crowdfunder Pick: Night of the Living Deb
March 18, 2014This week’s crowdfunder of choice is Night of the Living Deb, a romantic zomedy (or rom-zom-com)...
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Articles
Jason Dohring Interview: The Actor’s Role in a Crowdfunding Campaign
March 13, 2014The paradigm of Kickstarter success that over-worked, exhausted aspiring moviemakers cling to in their darkest moments—a...
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