Why this film? Why you? Why now? Each arm of your crowdfunding campaign—from video, to narrative, to rewards, to backer…
Soon after my film “Thunder Road” won the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, I…
You went to film school, not business school—yet all the sudden you’re confronted by a bevy of fancy financial terms…
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…
This week’s Crowdfunder Pick is Stuck., a fresh and funny take on personal growth and relationships from award-winning director Jillian…
In partnership with Film Slate Magazine, we’re publishing “Slate Up,” a fortnightly series with practical filmmaking advice and musings. New articles,…
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…
It is possible to make a living as a filmmaker. You would be wise, however, to read that sentence as…
Just days before the American Film Market began last November, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally promulgated regulations (after…
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, an unapologetic narrative about two Ethiopian women who had altered that country’s legal history, was a…
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…
Twinsters follows Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman, two adoptees living on opposite ends of the earth, who in 2013 discovered their…
As an intern who worked on Balls Out from the first table read to the Tribeca Film Festival premiere, I…
Two nurses walk into a bar… No, seriously, we did. And we really did conceive the bones of our documentary,…
Crowdfunding has become an invaluable tool for the indie filmmaker seeking funds for the start or completion of a project.…
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…
Our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week is Film Critic: The Movie, a comedy about following your passions in a way…
Prologue I’ve come to embrace the story of Blue Ruin as one of smashing success. My initial attempts to diminish…
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 hope in…