Crowdfunding

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

What if you connected with people? Wouldn’t you be happy to talk with the people who care about you? Yes, why yes, you would.

You tried. That’s awesome. Now, I’m encouraging you to join me, as a fellow filmmaker with a Kickstarter that didn’t reach its goal, and try something else.

Filmmaker Carrie Prince dumps the idea of working towards an end goal, adopting the healthier process of working on projects that make you happy now.

Filmmaker Kate Barton talks biologically about the elongated pregnancy of her film, “Pumped & Dumped,” currently being crowdfunded on Seed&Spark.

Director Brandon Taylor on assembling the best crew. Together, he, Angelique Bucciero and Gabryal Rabinowitz are an unstoppable filmmaking force.

The Athena Film Festival was heartening for Seed&Spark founder Emily Best, who was, for once, surrounded by an ocean of female filmmakers.

Imran Siddiquee expresses the validating nature of crowdfunding and rallying an audience, particularly for people of color, who lack filmic representation.

Guest Blogger Nathan Williams steps out from behind the camera to shed light on what it’s like for an introvert to do something as spotlit as crowdfunding.