kickstarter

  • 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
  • MM Guide 2019

The Road Less Traveled: To Get Your Indie Made, Treat Your Crew Like Your Family and Put Your Audience Above Yourself

Soon after my film “Thunder Road” won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, I…

6 years ago
  • Movie News

Indie Law: Put the Green in Greenlight With This Guide to the Most Effective Film Financing Tactics

You went to film school, not business school—yet all the sudden you’re confronted by a bevy of fancy financial terms…

6 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: "Thou Shall Not Tailgate"

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

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
  • Producing

Slate Up: Five Things to Prepare Before Starting Your Film

In partnership with Film Slate Magazine, we’re publishing “Slate Up,” a fortnightly series with practical filmmaking advice and musings. New articles,…

8 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Perfect Song

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

8 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick
  • Distribution

The Case for Donations: Why I am Distributing My Next Film, Tex Montana Will Survive!, Via Creative Commons

It is possible to make a living as a filmmaker. You would be wise, however, to read that sentence as…

8 years ago
  • Cinema Law

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…

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
  • How They Did It
  • Producing

How They Did It: The Myriad Sources of Financing for Ethiopian Drama Difret

Financing the feature Difret, an unapologetic narrative about two Ethiopian women who had altered that country’s legal history, was a…

9 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Look at Us Now, Mother!

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

9 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Hawk the Hunter

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

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
  • Interviews

Balls Out: The Making of an Indie Sports Comedy with Director Andrew Disney

As an intern who worked on Balls Out from the first table read to the Tribeca Film Festival premiere, I…

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
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Voyagers Without Trace

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

9 years ago
  • Directing
  • Documentary

Formats, Licensing, Creative Fundraising: The Epic 19-Year Making of Music Doc The Wrecking Crew

How Denny Tedesco spent 19 years making The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about '60 musical legends—and tribute to his father,…

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: Film Critic: The Movie

Our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week is Film Critic: The Movie, a comedy about following your passions in a way…

10 years ago
  • How They Did It

How They Did It: The Incredible-but-True Story of Blue Ruin

Prologue I’ve come to embrace the story of Blue Ruin as one of smashing success. My initial attempts to diminish…

10 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick
  • Documentary

Crowdfunder Pick: Beware of Images

In the spirit of our upcoming Spring issue's Activism in Film theme, this week’s crowdfunder pick is the socially-conscious Beware…

10 years ago
  • Crowdfunder Pick

Crowdfunder Pick: Night of the Living Deb

This week’s crowdfunder of choice is Night of the Living Deb, a romantic zomedy (or rom-zom-com) with a female lead,…

10 years ago
  • Articles
  • blog-test

Jason Dohring Interview: The Actor’s Role in a Crowdfunding Campaign

The paradigm of Kickstarter success that over-worked, exhausted aspiring moviemakers cling to in their darkest moments—a beacon of hope in…

10 years ago