This week sees the release of Iron Sky, an independent film about space Nazis that has clawed its way onto the big screen thanks in large part to crowdfunding. Although some have speculated that the fad for raising money this way cannot last, it's attracting an increasing amount of interest from established filmmakers. What leads people to finance their films this way, and how well can it really be expected to work?
Jarrod Whaley used crowfunding for his second feature, The Glass Slipper, which was released last year. "It helped that I'd already made a film," he says, referring to Hell Is Other People. "A lot of my online contacts had seen it or had at least read some of the reviews. Another thing that made things easier, I think, was the fact that we'd shot a complete test scene and posted it to the Kickstarter page, my Web site,...
Jarrod Whaley used crowfunding for his second feature, The Glass Slipper, which was released last year. "It helped that I'd already made a film," he says, referring to Hell Is Other People. "A lot of my online contacts had seen it or had at least read some of the reviews. Another thing that made things easier, I think, was the fact that we'd shot a complete test scene and posted it to the Kickstarter page, my Web site,...
- 5/22/2012
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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