Posts by Seed&Spark

The 7 Things We Look for When We Review Crowdfunding Projects
Targeting and developing a relationship with your audience before you launch is essential to crowdfunding success, and email is still the most effective way in getting people to support your project.
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“You are the Cavalry”: Taking the Reins of Your Own Film Career
After being turned down by executives, filmmaker Franklin Killian decided to go about making his movie in 10 days with all practical lighting.
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Combating Islamophobia With Film
Guest Blogger Asad Kirmani is combating Islamophobia by making films that reclaim the narrative and present Muslims as what they are: human beings. Check out his new film, “Hijabi,” currently crowdfunding on Seed&Spark.
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Indie Line Producing 101—The Dos, the Don’ts and the Oh Hell Nos
Guest Blogger Meta Valentic just wrote the bottom line when it comes to indie line producing. It’s anything but straight.
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6 Ways a Good Crew Member Can Make a Great Director
Guest Blogger Jane Rose uses her experience of being on a film crew to inform her current bit as director of a segment in “The Moose Head on the Mantel.”
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Getting in Bed With a Film Distributor
Guest Blogger Mia Bruno covers all the bases about how to hook up and work with a film distributor who cares about you and your films interests.
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The Most Important Person on the Film Set Whom You Don’t Even Know About
Guest Blogger Emily Best reveals the most important person on your film set—if you have this type of producer, you’re film is more likely to make it.
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4 Tactics for Talking to Your Audience When You Run Out of Things to Say
Guest Blogger Chris Holland enlists these four tactics when trying to keep his audience entertained when the news is rather slow and boring.
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The Space You Make for Your Artistry Caitlin FitzGerald shares how she and a group of first-time female filmmakers made Like the Water on their own terms
Guest Blogger Caitlin FitzGerald shares: “I felt I had complete permission to do what I needed to do as an actor, to explore and create and get weird.”
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When Being an Animator Means Following Your Passion
Guest Blogger Eric T. Elder tells about being an animator, being something else, being bored, and now being invigorated.
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How to Stay Sane in the Midst of Filmmaking Chaos
Melissa Butler explains how to stay sane and healthy when making films, arguably the most chaotic of any artistic endeavor.
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How to Make Incredible Things
Producer Ashley Ellis tells her story of achieving balance in filmmaking and dealing with MS, and how with that balance, she can make incredible things.
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When Vulnerability Defines the Filmmaking Process How six first-time filmmakers made "Like the Water"
Director Caroline Von Kuhn writes passionately about how vulnerability and asking questions in the filmmaking process is the key to crystal clear creation.
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Who Has a Right to Write What
Melissa Jane Osborne comes to terms with what her role is when telling the story of Holocaust survivors as someone who isn’t Jewish.
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Note to Self: Better to Fail Than Do Nothing at All
Brandon Hall sits his Self down and gives it a talking to: It’s better to fail than do nothing. Of course, his stupid Self won’t always listen.
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Without Passion, Film Is Nothing
Gorman Bechard puts it all on the line: Passion is the key to filmmaking. We should tell the stories closest to our hearts.
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