Tagged: documentary

July 22, 2014 @ 8:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a few weeks following the closing of his “Reading Rainbow” campaign on Kickstarter, former host of the PBS children’s series LeVar Burton discusses his initial reaction to the project’s launch and success on the crowdfunding platform. Over 105,000 backers pledges a total of $5.4… Read More

May 30, 2014 @ 10:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than two day to go, director and producer Sara Bordo’s crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter for her upcoming documentary “The Lizzie Project” has surpassed the initial $180k goal and raised $206,799 from 3,370 backers. The film features Elizabeth “Lizzie” Velasquez, who was labeled as… Read More

May 10, 2014 @ 8:35 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

With less than a week until it closes, the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for the documentary “LADDIE” has surpassed its goal of $67,350. The film follows one of the most influential film moguls that “no one has ever heard of.” As previously reported on Crowdfund Insider,… Read More

May 6, 2014 @ 7:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

    Setting out to share a special story about survival and motivation, first-time director Sara Bordo launched a brand new campaign on Kickstarter titled “The Lizzie Project.” The official documentary is based on 25-year-old Lizzie Velasquez, the breakout speaker of the YouTube video “How… Read More

March 19, 2014 @ 11:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Below is the trailer for Startupland, a documentary series we reported on last year that will follow the stories of startup founders as they work to build their businesses. All of the participating startups were embedded in the now defunct Fortify Ventures Accelerator Program. The first… Read More

January 26, 2014 @ 3:41 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Crowdfunded films were everywhere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Kickstarter alone fielded 20 alumni and Indiegogo chipped in six more. A complete list of Kickstarter-and-Indiegogo-funded entries are available in the following articles… Sundance Film Festival Includes 20 Kickstarter Funded Films for 2014 Indiegogo at… Read More

January 5, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Filmmakers Travis Doering and Jason Bourque have been raising funds for a documentary about Edward Snowden since the fall of 2013 with a plan of ending their funding campaign on January 1, 2014. That date has come to pass, and the result of their effort… Read More

December 11, 2013 @ 12:26 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Life Itself is a documentary film currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. It aims to document the life and times of Roger Ebert, the beloved film critic who passed away in April of this year. RELATED | On Indiegogo: Stars Align To Crowdfund Roger Ebert Documentary “Life… Read More

December 7, 2013 @ 4:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

As PBS MediaShift continues to focus on crowdfunding this week, The Mediatwits held a Google+ Hangout with various players from the crowdfunding space. They include… Slava Rubin, Indiegogo CEO Ernst-Jan Pfauth of news magazine De Correspondent Todd Ruppert, co-producer of the upcoming musical “Happy Days” Zak Piper, co-producer… Read More

November 30, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

UK alternative energy crowdfunding platform Abundance shared the preceding trailer on their blog this week. The trailer is for an upcoming documentary called Transforming Finance. The film is sponsored by The Finance Innovation Lab and aims to “inspire a financial system that sustains people and planet.”… Read More

November 29, 2013 @ 10:44 am By Charles Luzar  |  

“Black Friday” is the term given to the Friday after Thanksgiving. It’s the unofficial start to the holiday shopping season and the day that many retailers go from being “in the red” to “in the black” for the first time all year. It’s also become… Read More

November 11, 2013 @ 12:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

PCMag | Can Crowdfunding Give the Private Space Race a Boost? PCMag takes a look at the private space race in the context of a company called the LiftPort Group. LiftPort raised over $110,000 on Kickstarter to build a prototype with an eye toward building… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 5:31 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Classified: The Edward Snowden Story promises to be a dramatic biopic covering the life and times of now-ubiquitous NSA leaker Edward Snowden, and the project is crowdfunding on a custom, WordPress-and-IgnitionDeck-powered crowdfunding solution. “Classified: The Edward Snowden Story” is a biopic that will tell the… Read More

September 9, 2013 @ 9:36 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Peter Mayhew made history playing Chewbacca in the Star Wars franchise. At 7’3″, he was also born with Giantism. His large frame has degraded his knees to the point of needing surgery in order to walk unassisted again, and a fully-funded Kickstarter campaign for a… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 1:48 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

BOOM or DOOM is a documentary currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter that aims to put an interesting spin on the crowdfunded documentary model. See, project creators Sean and Alan plan on using Kickstarter to raise funds for an upcoming party game, entitled Two Rooms and a Broom…. Read More

August 24, 2013 @ 11:31 am By Charles Luzar  |  

While working at a Puma shoe and apparel store, Calvan Fowler says he often saw patrons walk in with Air Jordans on. Furthermore, he recognized that often times those Jordans came with a story. The filmmaker in him realized there was an opportunity to capture… Read More

August 17, 2013 @ 5:33 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

We previously reported on Citizen Koch, a documentary aiming to explore the interplay between money and politics in the United States. In order to stake a claim to a digital copy of the upcoming film, backers had to pony up $75. Backer Nick Guillaume expressed his… Read More

July 29, 2013 @ 10:14 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A documentary about the interplay of private funds and politics is approaching $150,000 in funding, which would double the original goal of $75,000. We first reported on Citizen Koch earlier this month when the campaign had just surpassed the stated goal. Kickstarter has stepped in as a… Read More

July 8, 2013 @ 10:35 am By Charles Luzar  |  

This release was submitted to Crowdfund Insider and republished in its entirety. Scott Conditt is an Arizona-based filmmaker launching a documentary about Kickstarter project creators. A project titled “Kickstarted: Documenting the Crowdfunding Revolution” recently received funding through the premiere crowd-funding entity itself, Kickstarter.com. Indie-film and crowd-funding enthusiast… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 9:11 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The Center for Independent Documentary has chosen Mimoona as the service provider for their new documentary-focused crowdfunding platform. Mimoona is one of a number of white-label crowdfunding platforms that enable entrepreneurs to launch a crowdfunding platform quickly and easily. Mimoona takes 2.5% of total funds raised… Read More