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The Top 7 Kickstarter Films (and 3 Secrets to Crowdfunding Success)
While almost any project can be crowdsourced, few have the capacity to capture a wide audience. We've listed the top seven of those that did; click here for more stories about their successes. And here's how Jennifer Fox made the system work for her.
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Has Kickstarter Reached Its Goal of Changing the Way Movies are Made?
Veteran documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox entered Kickstarter’s Hall of Fame May 28 when she raised over $150,000 for her latest project “My Reincarnation,” a portrait of a High Tibetan Buddhist teacher and his Western-born son.
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Tribeca Gucci Doc Fund Names 9 Projects for $150K in Grants
Nine projects will share $150,000 in funding by the Gucci Tribeca Documentary Fund. Now in its fourth year, the initiative provides finishing finances, year-round support and guidance to domestic and international documentary filmmakers with feature-length films "highlighting and humanizin...
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Jennifer Fox Raises $150,000 for "My Reincarnation" on Kickstarter
After raising $154,456 via the crowd-funding website Kickstarter, Jennifer Fox's spiritual documentary "My Reincarnation" became the top-raising finished film in the platform's history and their fourth highest earning film project at any production phase.
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Adventures in Indie Film Marketing: Miranda July Talks About Not Selling "The Future"
Welcome to Adventures in Indie Film Marketing, in which we take a look at the campaigns that manage to leapfrog our cynicism and capture our attention.
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5 Projects to Root For: Ira Sachs' Autobiographical Breakup Film and 4 More from Kickstarter
For this week's in-production column, iW speaks to Ira Sachs ("Married Life," "Forty Shades of Blue") about his new film that deals with his addiction-riddled past relationship and explores gay life in New York City. We also profile three more projects from Kickstarter -...
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Five Projects iW is Rooting For: Katie Aselton & Duplass's All-Girl Thriller, Jay DeMerit Doc & More
In this week's indieWIRE in-production column, iW speaks to "The Freebie" director Katie Aselton about her new project, the all-girl in-the-woods thriller "Black Rock," written by her husband Mark Duplass. We also have news on a documentary about the creation of a basket...
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The Five Smartest Things Said at the Cannes Distribution Panel
All this week, the American Pavilion in Cannes has been hosting a series of industry and talent conversations. On Friday afternoon, AmPav took on the always tidy subject of releasing a film in its panel, "Indie Film Innovators: Keeping Up with New Thinking in Distribution." As usual, ...
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Five Projects iW is Rooting For: Justin Long & Weixler in "Lumpy," "Matthew Shepard" and More
This week's in-production column has the usual slate of five we're rooting for, and we also have an announcement of an exciting partnership with what's become one of the most important institutions in indie film.
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Oprah's Doc Club Kicks Off: Oprah Does for "Becoming Chaz" What She Did for Books?
At this year's Sundance Film Festival, Oprah Winfrey made a surprise appearance with Rosie O'Donnell, the Oprah Doc Club curator, to announce that it was her intention to do for documentaries what she did for books. Last night, the Oprah Winfrey Network debuted the first in their (for n...
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