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Is the success to a crowdfunding campaign just down to foot fall?

By on March 2, 2012 in Crowd Funding

My good friends James Collie and Leilani Holmes’ crowdfuning campaign for their documentary, A Very British Cult, ends today – click here http://www.indiegogo.com/A-Very-British-Cult. I asked if they could share one insight they have had during their campaign. It’s sounds simple, but the solution is anything but! I’ve only done a couple of crowdfunding drives so [...]

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The Popcorn Test, crowdfunding team out of The Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

By on February 24, 2012 in Crowd Funding, Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass

Guest blog by Justin Tagg. www.sponsume.com/project/mouse Filmmaking is not about I. It’s about we. Maybe that WE is the crew you surround yourself with. Maybe it’s the characters in your story or maybe it’s the friends that support you when the going gets tough and celebrate with you when you make it BIG. Maybe it’s [...]

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Why Iron Sky could NEVER have been made without crowdfunding

By on February 8, 2012 in Crowd Funding

You can see the pitch meeting… ‘At the end of World War 2, Nazis left the earth and built a base on the dark side of the moon… and now they are coming back to invade…’ I suspect that most writers or film makers would have been greeted with ‘Nazis from the moon?…OK… what else [...]

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CrowdFunding 101, ‘The Urn’

By on February 4, 2012 in Crowd Funding

‘Urn’ is a short film being made by a team of film makers who met at the Guerilla Film Makers Masterclass last year, headed up by actress, and now producer, Francesca De Luca… Their IndieGoGo campaign ends in the next few days and I asked her to share what she has learned on her crowdfudning [...]

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How to shoot your movie on Oxford Street (or other ridiculously public location)

By on February 1, 2012 in Crowd Funding, Shooting

Yesterday I shot the pitch video for the crowdfunding campaign for my next feature film. The project is under wraps just now, and I am still working out the details of our plan of attack for the campaign. Also, I am not directing this film, I am producing, which will free me to spend time [...]

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How To Crowd Source Your Movie Poster Design… run a competition!

By on September 23, 2011 in Crowd Funding, Gone Fishing

Leilani Holmes, film maker and friend, was one of the most vocal supporters of ‘Gone Fishing’. And so when I heard she was making a film, ‘Clowning Around’, and running an IndieGoGo campaign, I was one of the first to contribute. Lielani and her team ran a stellar campaign and raised $8,900 in total. One [...]

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