As today’s global financial markets struggle, the U.S. presidential candidates are raising over $1,000,000 a day online in sub $1,000 contributions from individuals. In other industries, companies like Prosper, Kiva and Sellaband are eliminating the middlemen and democratising fundraising as well. The secret is crowdfunding and fan participation. Through a direct connection (i.e. social networks, email, distribution outlets, blogs, house parties, twitter, chat) and a call to action, each case study is converting niche audiences into their fundraising and promotional base.
“Show Me The Money” discusses the trends, the tools and the companies pioneering DIWO (Do-It-With-Others) Funding and Filmmaking. As social networking approaches mainstream, online fundraising accelerates, the cost of production falls, and the growth of “pulled” media outpaces that of “pushed” media. It’s never been a better time for independe...
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AFM 2008 Reflection From: famousmonstersoffilmland.com Post Date: 2008-11-13 17:23:47
We’ve reached the conclusion of this year’s American Film Market held at the Loews Santa Monica Hotel in Los Angeles, CA where each year over $800 million production and distribution deals are sealed. It sounds glamorous at first, very enticing…come sell your film at AFM.
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Panaji, Dec 2 (IANS) Celebrated Kazakh documentary film maker Sergei Dvortsevoy’s film “Tulpan” Tuesday won the Golden Peacock award and a cash prize of Rs.4 million on the concluding day of the 39th International Film Festival of India in Panaji. ‘Tulpan’, which has in the past won the best feature film and the Golden Eye [...]... more
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