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Kickstarter enjoys a huge year financing film in 2013
Thursday January 02nd 2014Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website launched in 2009, is a source of finance for film projects of all kinds, and it had a pretty good 2013.
According to online news source Indiewire, 9516 film and video projects were launched last year through Kickstarter, with a total of $79,305,924 pledged.
In a Hollywood context, this is pretty small potatoes. Think of it as equal to the reported budget for Grown Ups 2, or half of Star Trek Into Darkness, or twice that of American Hustle.
There has been a certain amount of angst over the fact that high-profile filmmakers such as Spike Lee and Zach Braff have financed films this way, and that Rob Thomas, creator of the cult TV series Veronica Mars, was able to go to Kickstarter to raise $5 million for a Veronica Mars movie.
Their films are set for release this year and there’ll be a lot of interest in what they have done with their supporters’ money.
Australian-based Kickstarter projects have sought more modest amounts, with the most ambitious campaigns aiming for sums in the tens of thousands. A recent example is Out in the Line-up, a documentary about the taboo of homosexuality in surfing. Producer Thomas Castets says that the filmmakers went to Kickstarter seeking $30,000 to finish post-production. In December 2013, they reached their target, in a process that went fairly smoothly, he says, noting that it was helpful to be able to reach a target group, the online community gaysurfers.net. The film has its premiere in Sydney on February 28 during Mardi Gras, and will screen in Melbourne in March.
Juliette Binoche – whose films to be released in Australia this year will include Camille Claudel 1915 and Godzilla – is an actress with many strings to her bow. She paints regularly; her artwork was featured in Leos Carax’s 1991 film Les Amants du Pont Neuf, and she has exhibited portraits of directors she has worked with and characters she has played. In a new film, Words and Pictures, directed by Fred Schepisi, she plays a painter and art teacher with arthritis. As she did in Les Amants du Pont Neuf, she produced her character’s paintings. It wasn’t easy, she says, for all sorts of reasons, including time constraints. She started out figurative and ended up abstract. ”Me, Juliette, maybe I wouldn’t paint like this,” she says. ”But I had to be her. So you can say that it was an interpretation.” In fact, she adds, ”instead of putting it into the acting, I was putting it into the painting”.
Source: Sydney Herald
Front Page, Industry News
Kickstarter enjoys a huge year financing film in 2013
Thursday January 02nd 2014Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website launched in 2009, is a source of finance for film projects of all kinds, and it had a pretty good 2013.
According to online news source Indiewire, 9516 film and video projects were launched last year through Kickstarter, with a total of $79,305,924 pledged.
In a Hollywood context, this is pretty small potatoes. Think of it as equal to the reported budget for Grown Ups 2, or half of Star Trek Into Darkness, or twice that of American Hustle.
There has been a certain amount of angst over the fact that high-profile filmmakers such as Spike Lee and Zach Braff have financed films this way, and that Rob Thomas, creator of the cult TV series Veronica Mars, was able to go to Kickstarter to raise $5 million for a Veronica Mars movie.
Their films are set for release this year and there’ll be a lot of interest in what they have done with their supporters’ money.
Australian-based Kickstarter projects have sought more modest amounts, with the most ambitious campaigns aiming for sums in the tens of thousands. A recent example is Out in the Line-up, a documentary about the taboo of homosexuality in surfing. Producer Thomas Castets says that the filmmakers went to Kickstarter seeking $30,000 to finish post-production. In December 2013, they reached their target, in a process that went fairly smoothly, he says, noting that it was helpful to be able to reach a target group, the online community gaysurfers.net. The film has its premiere in Sydney on February 28 during Mardi Gras, and will screen in Melbourne in March.
Juliette Binoche – whose films to be released in Australia this year will include Camille Claudel 1915 and Godzilla – is an actress with many strings to her bow. She paints regularly; her artwork was featured in Leos Carax’s 1991 film Les Amants du Pont Neuf, and she has exhibited portraits of directors she has worked with and characters she has played. In a new film, Words and Pictures, directed by Fred Schepisi, she plays a painter and art teacher with arthritis. As she did in Les Amants du Pont Neuf, she produced her character’s paintings. It wasn’t easy, she says, for all sorts of reasons, including time constraints. She started out figurative and ended up abstract. ”Me, Juliette, maybe I wouldn’t paint like this,” she says. ”But I had to be her. So you can say that it was an interpretation.” In fact, she adds, ”instead of putting it into the acting, I was putting it into the painting”.
Source: Sydney Herald
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Front Page, Industry News
Kickstarter enjoys a huge year financing film in 2013
Thursday January 02nd 2014Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website launched in 2009, is a source of finance for film projects of all kinds, and it had a pretty good 2013.
According to online news source Indiewire, 9516 film and video projects were launched last year through Kickstarter, with a total of $79,305,924 pledged.
In a Hollywood context, this is pretty small potatoes. Think of it as equal to the reported budget for Grown Ups 2, or half of Star Trek Into Darkness, or twice that of American Hustle.
There has been a certain amount of angst over the fact that high-profile filmmakers such as Spike Lee and Zach Braff have financed films this way, and that Rob Thomas, creator of the cult TV series Veronica Mars, was able to go to Kickstarter to raise $5 million for a Veronica Mars movie.
Their films are set for release this year and there’ll be a lot of interest in what they have done with their supporters’ money.
Australian-based Kickstarter projects have sought more modest amounts, with the most ambitious campaigns aiming for sums in the tens of thousands. A recent example is Out in the Line-up, a documentary about the taboo of homosexuality in surfing. Producer Thomas Castets says that the filmmakers went to Kickstarter seeking $30,000 to finish post-production. In December 2013, they reached their target, in a process that went fairly smoothly, he says, noting that it was helpful to be able to reach a target group, the online community gaysurfers.net. The film has its premiere in Sydney on February 28 during Mardi Gras, and will screen in Melbourne in March.
Juliette Binoche – whose films to be released in Australia this year will include Camille Claudel 1915 and Godzilla – is an actress with many strings to her bow. She paints regularly; her artwork was featured in Leos Carax’s 1991 film Les Amants du Pont Neuf, and she has exhibited portraits of directors she has worked with and characters she has played. In a new film, Words and Pictures, directed by Fred Schepisi, she plays a painter and art teacher with arthritis. As she did in Les Amants du Pont Neuf, she produced her character’s paintings. It wasn’t easy, she says, for all sorts of reasons, including time constraints. She started out figurative and ended up abstract. ”Me, Juliette, maybe I wouldn’t paint like this,” she says. ”But I had to be her. So you can say that it was an interpretation.” In fact, she adds, ”instead of putting it into the acting, I was putting it into the painting”.
Source: Sydney Herald
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