Funding

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Sponsume.com

By MarBelle ⋅ December 6, 2010 ⋅ One comment

All we (or anybody else) seem to be banging on about these days is crowd funding and how it’s the filmmaking wave of the future now. Whilst there are new funding sites popping up all the time, the popular choice for filmmakers lies between Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Both sites are fairly similar in their approach; [...]

Sound It Out: Adventures in Crowd Funding

By Jeanie ⋅ November 14, 2010 ⋅ 12 comments

I was at Sheffield Doc/Fest last week and crowd funding was everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE! It felt like the thing that was being talk about and discussed more than ever before. A year ago it was a vague notion that was on the periphery of my experience but now I’m acutely aware of it as [...]

LYNCHthree Wants You!

By MarBelle ⋅ June 29, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

It’s become increasingly apparent that filmmakers need to look, not to the ever conservative and risk adverse Hollywood machine for the funding of their projects, but to the fans of film and the numerous crowd sourcing options which have sprung up in recent years to connect makers with consumers. Whether this will eventually become the [...]

Flattr Makes Social Micropayments Easy

By MarBelle ⋅ February 16, 2010 ⋅ One comment

We all know there’s a massive disconnect between consumption and commerce online – after nearly four years of DN it’s something we’ve been thinking about more and more. Well, Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde’s been thinking about it too and has come up with a possible solution in Flattr. The video below explains how the [...]

Playing to the Crowd

By Alex ⋅ January 6, 2010 ⋅ 15 comments

There’s no denying that in recent years the consumption of media has changed. With the rise of new spectatorship models it seems that the old models of production and distribution are becoming less and less viable, especially for low budget projects. In the place of the old models therefore, there are a number of new [...]

A Gift for Dickie

By El Vez ⋅ May 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A Gift for Dickie is an ambitious and inspiring project, which aims to provide the legend that is Richard (Dickie) Attenborough with the funds needed to make the film of his dreams (What is the Film Project?).