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Lucas McNelly Up Country Maine Noir
August 17, 2021
Filmmaker Lucas McNelly spent a decade struggling with depression and other setbacks as he tried to finish his thriller Up…
Dwayne The Rock Johnson Movie News
June 4, 2020
Today's movie news: How to get your movie made without going broke; Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has some thoughts; and…
Seed&Spark NFMLA New Filmmakers Los Angeles
June 3, 2020
NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) will hold its film festival online this month with the highly respected crowdfunding and SVOD platform…
August 24, 2017
The cast and crew of Make Out Party worked entirely for free. Their mission: Make a feature with an uncompromising…
March 24, 2016
These five essential podcasts are representative of the variety of perspectives available, and deserve recognition for the particularly valuable information…
March 1, 2016
The Carnival centers on a wild, unhinged, booze-fueled house party, where a group of struggling millennials bash into each other,…
January 28, 2014
Our Crowdfunder Pick of the Week highlights Robbie Bryan’s new Seed&Spark-backed project, Black Hat, which pushes its strong anti-bullying message…
October 22, 2013
Click Here, director Pete Chatmon’s sophomore project, is a crowdfunding campaign right up our alley: made by film lovers (evident…
October 14, 2013
Emily Best, founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, explains why knowing how to crowdfund is more about the crowd than the…
September 24, 2013
This week MovieMaker is mixing things up with a theater project from Seed&Spark. Instead of spotlighting a film, we're shifting…
August 27, 2013
MovieMaker’s Trailblazer Tuesday Crowdfunder of the Week is The Dog, a fascinating documentary on John Wojtowicz, the real-life bank robber…
April 9, 2013
This summer, the team behind Dogfish Pictures (one of the companies that helped produce last year's Compliance, and this year's…
April 2, 2013
On February 20 of this year, 75 days after launching their beta site, Seed&Spark—one of the most innovative crowdfunding platforms