Posts by Seed&Spark

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.

After being turned down by executives, filmmaker Franklin Killian decided to go about making his movie in 10 days with all practical lighting.

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.

Guest Blogger Meta Valentic just wrote the bottom line when it comes to indie line producing. It’s anything but straight.

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.”

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.

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.

Guest Blogger Chris Holland enlists these four tactics when trying to keep his audience entertained when the news is rather slow and boring.

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.”

Guest Blogger Eric T. Elder tells about being an animator, being something else, being bored, and now being invigorated.

Melissa Butler explains how to stay sane and healthy when making films, arguably the most chaotic of any artistic endeavor.

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.

Director Caroline Von Kuhn writes passionately about how vulnerability and asking questions in the filmmaking process is the key to crystal clear creation.

Melissa Jane Osborne comes to terms with what her role is when telling the story of Holocaust survivors as someone who isn’t Jewish.

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.

Gorman Bechard puts it all on the line: Passion is the key to filmmaking. We should tell the stories closest to our hearts.